Some Republican at the National Legal and Policy Center wrote a blog about how Chevy dealers are ripping off the taxpayer by buying and selling Volts to one another to gain the tax credit. They then lie to their customers that the credit is available and pocket the money themselves. Sound like something these price [...]
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Being Government Motors Means No Tax Bill
March 5th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen As if being bailed out by the federal government, pretending to pay it back, and effectively becoming Government Motors wasn’t enough.. now GM gets to avoid paying taxes too, thanks to it’s sweetheart bailout deal. Of course, since GM is Government Motors, I guess having government pay taxes to itself is kind of redundant. On [...]
Delphi Offering Sound Generators for EVs
February 17th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Delphi is putting “decades of vehicle alarm system experience” into sound generators for electric vehicles. Somehow, that’s supposed to make us trust their expertise or something. I’ve talked about EV noisemakers before. I even gave a top ten list of my favorite ideas for what the could sound like if they were going to be [...]
Government Motors Becomes Less So, Thanks to Bush
November 18th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, Government Motors (GM) has gone public, opening their sorry company up for public purchase through an initial public offering (IPO). This means that private investors can now buy into the government-owned company (owned by the U.S. government to the tune of 60%). This was a big deal in the automotive media and was supposedly [...]
Is Your EV Spying On You?
November 5th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Not to be left behind by every other new technology on the planet, from smart phones to the smart grid, electric vehicles are now also joining the “smart” revolution. As we all know, “smart” is a code word for “Big Brother.” Yep, your EV is going to spy on you. The next-generation of vehicle technology, [...]
California Turns to Bureaucrats to Make Energy Efficient Trucks
September 8th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Apparently unaware of the oxymoron created when using the term “bureaucrat” and “efficient” in the same sentence, California’s Energy Commission has dedicated a new facility in Pasadena, California as the home of the California Hybrid, Efficient and Advanced Truck Research Center (CalHEAT, how catchy) to conduct research into newer meeting-extension technologies, faster paper shuffling efforts, [...]
