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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Electric vehicle’
My Kiss of Death Still Works – More Doom for Fisker
March 9th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Featured, Hybrids 
Tags: Aptera, Automotive industry, Consumer Reports, electric car, Electric vehicle, Fisker, fisker brick, Fisker Karma, Karma 
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Think Goes Bust, More Government Money Wasted
February 8th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Indiana bet big on becoming the mecca of electric vehicle production in the U.S. The state and several counties and cities within it spent millions in incentives to get electric car makers, manufacturers, etc. into the state. One of those was Think, a Norwegian company with a long, rocky history of financial woes, that hoped [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured Tags: $73 million, City car, electric car, Electric vehicle, Elkhart, Indiana, Indiana Elkhart, joe biden, norwegian, think city 1 Comment »Tesla Model S to have optional throwback third row seating
January 11th, 2012 Aaron Turpen by Aaron Turpen, TorqueNews Remember when you were a kid riding in the back of your family station wagon, facing the wrong way and making faces at the cars behind you? Well, engineers at Tesla Motors do and they’ve thrown in an optional third row of rear-facing kiddie seats in the Model S. Read more [...]
Posted in EV Meme Tags: electric car, Electric vehicle, Elon Musk, Model, reverse seating, Station wagon, Tesla Model S, Tesla Motor, third row Comments Off
CRK Electric Urban Showermat Lookalike Concept – With Solar!
December 30th, 2011 Aaron Turpen 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 [...]
Suzuki Q – Yet Antoher Lame EV Concept
December 14th, 2011 Aaron Turpen For some reason, the Q from Suzuki is getting a lot of buzz in the alternative automotive press. I’m not sure why. It could be because it’s a whacky throwback to early ugly, unsellable EV designs or it could be because it was really the only standout whacky, unmarketable design at Tokyo this year. Since [...]
Posted in Electrics, Featured Tags: Electric vehicle, q, Suzuki, Tokyo, Tokyo Motor Show Comments OffAptera Vaguely Announces “2.0″
November 9th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Aptera, whose struggles have become more than legendary in electric car circles, but have actually become a new cliche for “EV that never was”, has apparently hired a web design company to come in and tear up their website. It’s now featuring some lame blocked design with each block set up to be linking to [...]
Posted in Car Company Tags: Aptera, Automotive X Prize, Electric vehicle, Fisker Automotive, Solyndra, United States Department of Energy Comments Off
