Image via Wikipedia A friend sent me a link to read an essay titled “Accelerating electrification of transportation with more government dollars or a super-light electrical vehicle strategy“. It’s an “alternative” plan to the Electric Drive Transportation Association’s “Driving Forward” government beg-a-thon document. Sadly, the proponents of electric vehicles, including many of those building them, [...]
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Bureaucrats Gone Wild: Tesla Fined for Clean Air Act Non-Compliance
August 30th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen Add this one to the “Bureaucrats Gone Wild” file. Apparently Tesla Motors, which makes an all-electric (meaning it has a battery and motors, no engine at all and thus no fuel burning) car, is in violation of California’s Clean Air Act because they never submitted their emissions-free car to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) [...]
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Tags: Battery electric vehicle, bureaucrats gone wild, California Air Resources Board, Clean Air Act, Electric vehicle, Tesla Motors 
Comments OffToyota Buys 2 Teslas for $25M
July 12th, 2010 Aaron Turpen When Tesla Motors went public earlier this month, Toyota purchased $50 million in new stocks from the company. That was part of a deal agreed to before the IPO. Tesla then turned around and gave $42 million back to Toyota to buy the NUMMI plant in which the electric car company plans to build it’s [...]
Posted in Electrics Tags: all electric car, Battery electric vehicle, electric car manufacturer, Electric vehicle, Model S, NUMMI, Tesla Motors, toyota, Toyota Prius, Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Comments Off
