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Martin Eberhard's blog gets redacted, he drinks the Volt Kool-Aid {Autoblog Green}
Jan 20th 2008 12:27AM So you have time to post on blogs, but no time to give interviews to newspaper reporters? (for positive stories that is; the negative ones abound) GM has marketed the Volt, which can't be sold in large number until 2011. They even ran seriously expensive ads with money they don't have during the World Series.
Seriously, do you not believe that the Tesla brand has been damaged by the recent actions of new management and the Bentley driving big man that owns you? And that the former endless flurries of goodwill on the part of the press toward your company has dried up only because you have no time? (with your "head down" doing feverish fracture mechanics engineering calculations on the transmission, no doubt). Come on, man.
Martin Eberhard's blog gets redacted, he drinks the Volt Kool-Aid {Autoblog Green}
Jan 19th 2008 3:09AM Tesla sure has changed a lot since Martin left and Mr. Creepsoid initiated a mass firing. The Roadster is a nice car, but as far as I'm concerned their mission now seems to be pump and dump after IPO. Unfortunately for them, nobody is buying the pump anymore.
Guess who made $1,252 a second, every second last year? {Autoblog Green}
Feb 1st 2007 4:27PM Actually, I'm surprised you have missed this:
“we know enough now — or, society knows enough now — that the risk [of global warming] is serious and action should be taken.”---Exxon Mobile, January 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16593606/
California more worried about carbon than gasoline demand {Autoblog Green}
Jan 26th 2007 7:44PM Remember, "as goes California, so goes the country (eventually)." Politicians are a renewable resource, too.
Energy secretary sees need to import ethanol to meet Pres. Bush's goals {Autoblog Green}
Jan 26th 2007 2:05PM Sugar based ethanol is very superior to corn, so the import tarrifs should be reduced. All barriers to clean energy should broken down to achieve maximum diversity and stability from market forces.
Interview with Michael Brylawski of RMI part three - Hypercars and Vehicle To Grid theory {Autoblog Green}
Jan 26th 2007 11:49AM I would generally not let my car battery pack, worth thousands of dollars, to serve the grid and potentially severely shorten its life so someone can run his air conditioner at peak demand time. Anything for a price, but I'd have to analyze the deal very carefully. Most likely it would serve the interests of the energy company and not myself.
Singer KT Tunstall wants celebrities to make it "very uncool to drive an SUV" {Autoblog Green}
Jan 18th 2007 10:17PM It's not all about you, babe.
Tesla's Martin Eberhard wraps up the Detroit Auto Show {Autoblog Green}
Jan 18th 2007 12:27PM Martin seemed a little catty about his future competetitors in his latest writeup. For aspects that are different, he criticizes for not being as good or as pure. For aspects that are similar he criticizes for being unoriginal. Not unlike Steve Jobs taking digs at Bill Gates in his early days.
Critics say fuel-efficient cars could hurt Virginia's road-building efforts {Autoblog Green}
Jan 17th 2007 5:23PM Massachusettes and other states have tolls on freeway exits. If they want to be "fair" that's the way to do it. There should be one incentive for burning less petroleum-derived fuels. And a separate one for spending less time on the road. It's actually a good point. As the future becomes more fuel source diverse and efficient, we'll all still want smooth and uncongested roads to drive on.
Raise the Federal gas tax to fund hydrogen research. Good idea or bad idea? {Autoblog Green}
Jan 17th 2007 4:40PM By the way, Tim. Here's a speech by former CIA director James Woolsey, who seems to be the brainchild behind setamaericafree.org and the legislation being Drive Act proposed and that Bush is expected to support. By the way, Plugin America (of Who Killed the Electric Car) is affiliated with setamericafree.org.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7NBpTRsNo
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZr2FpyfKE
It seems more than a coincidence that the announcement of the GM Volt seemed to almost perfectly dovetail with what they and the legislation is proposing. I think they all talk. It's also interesting to note that Woolsey criticizes hydrogen as an experiment we don't have to time for. Solutions are needed NOW.
