I personally jump for joy whenever I get another press release or email telling me about the latest in electric concept cars. Concept cars in general fall into two categories: the “This One Might Get Made” and the “Looks Good On the Auto Show Floor, But Never Gonna See Production”. You can usually tell the [...]
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Tesla Confirms Model S Price Tags – No, You Can’t Afford One
December 27th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen Remember how Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk said that the company was looking forward from the uber-expensive, electrified Lotus that is the Roadster towards a future with a more affordable, family-style sedan? This was to answer critics of the company’s low volume and high price tag on said Roadster as to the company’s true future. [...]
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Tags: electric car, Elon Musk, lotus, Model S, Roadster, Tesla Motors, Tesla Roadster 
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Aptera Finally Gives Up
December 8th, 2011 Aaron Turpen I have now been personally responsible for the death of a car company. My journalistic powers of death and destruction have now been verified. I promise to use them wisely and only for things like personal gain and other laudable goals. Lucky for the automotive industry as a whole that I have no inclination towards [...]
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GM Puts Chevy Plate On WTF Pod Car
October 15th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Government Motors has shown off its version of what future “commuting” will look like in their pea pod concept. Not content with that, the company decided that in order to ramp up the marketing, they needed to re-badge the EN-V Pod Car concept with a Chevrolet bowtie and send out another press release in hopes [...]
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Mitsubishi Once Again #FAILs With the i-MiEV
October 13th, 2011 Aaron Turpen When the Mitsubishi i was first introduced back in 2003 as a concept car, it was a gasoline-powered “smart car.” Since then, it’s gone through some revisions and made a huge splash a couple of years ago as an all-electric renamed the i-MiEV. The company then totally failed to capitalize on that marketing and instead [...]
Posted in Electrics, Featured Tags: electric car, Electric vehicle, MIEV, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi i MiEV, nissan leaf Comments OffRenault FRENDZY – It’s What Happens When Pretention Gets the Better of a Car Company
July 23rd, 2011 Aaron Turpen Renault has announced the “new” FRENDZY electric car. It’s basically their Kangoo ZE with a different body design. Ya, their names are stupid – don’t blame them, they’re French. Get this, though.. the company redesigns one of their products to basically create a new version of it that is, frankly, a lot more versatile in [...]
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