Back when it debuted in December, the new Routemaster bus, designed completely in the United Kingdom and touted as a “masterpiece of British engineering“, broke down on its maiden voyage because those Brit engineers forgot to put fuel in it. Now, just a couple of months after its debut, the bus is in the news [...]
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Remember that Masterpiece of British Engineering? It Broke Again
March 12th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured, Hybrids 
Tags: Boris Johnson, british engineering, Linux, London, Microsoft, New Bus for London, Olympic Games, Routemaster, Windows Me 
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My Kiss of Death Still Works – More Doom for Fisker
March 9th, 2012 Aaron Turpen I have bad Karma (ha) when it comes to choosing favorites. Every electric car or EV I’ve chosen as a favorite turns out to be a pile of crap and soon goes out of business. I first noticed this in July of 2010. At that point, I’d already doomed the Aptera to a dismal fate [...]
Posted in Featured, Hybrids Tags: Aptera, Automotive industry, Consumer Reports, electric car, Electric vehicle, Fisker, fisker brick, Fisker Karma, Karma Comments OffThe Rock Says This: Grow a Pair Before Driving a Hybrid
May 5th, 2011 Aaron Turpen from FutureCars In brief: Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson advises would-be Prius owners to “grow a pair” before getting into a hybrid car. The word Famous for his World Wrestling Entertainment stint as “The Rock” in the 1990s, Dwayne Johnson has been building a career as a Hollywood action star. During an interview for his latest film, Fast [...]
Porsche Taking Orders for the 918 Spyder PHEV
March 22nd, 2011 Aaron Turpen Looks like Porsche plans to build the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid that made the huge splash in Geneva. This killer car will be hugely expensive ($915,000EU with VAT, $845,000US) and only 918 of the cars will be made. With the kind of jang required to purchase one, I won’t hold my breath that they’ll all [...]
Toyota’s New Prius Models
January 14th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Toyota introduced a couple of new designs for the Prius family that it plans to bring to market in the next couple of years. One is a larger, roomier, more family-practical Prius called the Prius v (V for Vendetta Versatility) and the other is a smaller, sportier commuter called the Prius c (C for Compact). [...]
Posted in Hybrids Tags: NAIAS, North American International Auto Show, prius, Toyota Prius Comments OffNeil Young’s LincVolt to Make Rock Star Comeback
December 22nd, 2010 Aaron Turpen One of my favorite vehicles to follow for the past couple of years has been the LincVolt – Neil Young’s special project to take one of the world’s heaviest production cars (a 1958 Lincoln Continental) and turn it into a green cruiser running on biodiesel and electric motors. It’s cool, it’s beautiful, and it friggin [...]
