General Motors has released another conceptual take on the ENV, calling it the ENV 2.0. The first time we saw the EN-V was in 2010 when GM partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway (ya, the scooter people) to release this idea. At that time, I compared these to Roomba vacuums. They had [...]
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GM Roomba WTF Redux
April 25th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Electrics, Featured 
Tags: chevrolet, China, general motors, Government of the People's Republic of China, Jiao, Roomba, SAIC, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation 
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Volt vs Prius – A Tale of Government Handouts
February 15th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Today on TorqueNews, I wrote an article debunking the lame comparison people like to make between electric vehicles and personal computers. Basically, the comparison is useless for one big reason: the PC didn’t get piles of government money to promote its development, it depended almost entirely on market forces and real-world needs. But wait? Does [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured Tags: chevrolet volt, general motors, Honda Insight, prius, toyota, Toyota Prius, Ultra Low Emission Vehicle, Volt 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Car Company, Featured Tags: chevrolet, electric car, general motors, government motors, WTF 1 Comment »How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company Tags: Bankruptcy, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, Cruze, general motors, United Auto Workers, United States Comments OffVolt Tax Credit Scam?
June 7th, 2011 Aaron Turpen 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 [...]
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 [...]
