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 [...]
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Tesla Model S to have optional throwback third row seating
January 11th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in EV Meme 
Tags: electric car, Electric vehicle, Elon Musk, Model, reverse seating, Station wagon, Tesla Model S, Tesla Motor, third row 
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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
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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