Posted on 05/10/2012 1:29:01 PM PDT by jazusamo
talk about bad karma.
Oh, heck. Now what brand of scissors do I buy?
I saw a dogma chasing a karma the other day.
Instant Karma’s gonna get you...
$100K electric vehicle being investigated after Sugar Land fire
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/10/100k-electric-vehicle-being-investigated-after-sugar-land-fire/
A $100,000 electric car is suspected in sparking a fire at a Sugar Land home last week, according to media reports.
Fort Bend County chief fire investigator Robert Baker told AutoWeek that a newly purchased Fisker Karma sparked a fire that quickly spread to the rest of the home.
“The Karma was the origin of the fire, but what exactly caused that we don’t know at this time,” Baker told the news outlet.
According to his lawyers, Jeremy Gutierrez said his two-week old Karma caught fire soon after he parked the luxury sedan at his home in Sugar Land. The car owner said he smelt rubber rubber before seeing flames coming from the vehicle. The fire spread from the car to the garage before damaging other parts of the home.
Gutierrez told the website that he was able to get his wife, mother and a child from their house. No one was injured in the blaze. Two other vehicles were destroyed by the fire and the home was damaged.
Since the fire, Johnson, Trent, West & Taylor law firm, which is representing the Gutierrez family, said the automaker has been swarming the garage as it investigates the reason for the blaze. The car, which uses a gasoline engine to recharge its lithium-ion battery, was not plugged in at the time.
According to the news story, Gutierrez has asked the automaker to end its probe immediately after the company said Tuesday that it “hadn’t ruled out fraud or malicious intent.”
Fisker spokesman Roger Ormisher said the car maker is still investigating the fire, but he said the initial investigation has shown that the electric vehicle technology isn’t the cause of the fire.
“The battery was still intact and still had a charge,” Ormisher said. “We are just waiting for the final report on the cause of the fire.”
Ormisher reiterated that the Karma was not plugged in at the time of the fire and no similar situation have been reported. He also cautioned that the investigation could take some time.
Fisker, which received a $529 million federal loan, has encountered a series of glitches and recalls. The most notable was the high-end sedan breaking down during a Consumer Report test.
In that case, the car was only a few days old and had less than 200 miles on its odometer.
So Jeremy Gutierrez, who is probably a liberal supporter of environmental causes, is finding out that he is disposable cannon fodder for a White House Ally. Depending on his job and employment status, he may also be told to take one for the team or bad things could happen.
I just saw one of them drive past while I was walking the dog a couple of hours ago. Silver and not on fire....yet. It was not going fast as the speed limit is 40 kph or about 25 mph.
Where have we heard the tactic of blaming the customer .... oh yeah ... the DNC.
The butterfly ballots in Florida, approved by the Florida DNC were too complicated for the stupid Florida voters to figure out.
The business model of Fisker, Tesla, Aperta, Solyndra and
many others seems to be to create a trendy “green” prototype and use that pretty thing to bilk investors, including the US Taxpayer, of start-up money.
Actually producing the proposed product is not part of the scheme, since producing actual products opens up all kinds of new problems that the company has no intention or ability to solve.
I know you are joking, but Fiskars is unrelated to Fisker.
Well don’t forget the rash of Prius “problems”, sometimes the customer really is a moron.
I have heard that some autos are even powered by highly flammable liquids.
Fisker and administration backers of green energy only see more people being turned off by EV’s and Fisker is already in trouble, this could push them over the edge.
You awful person. You beat me to that bad pun. I hate people who get in a bad pun before me. lol
And to top it all off the DIMWITS in the obama regime lent this company money which hired overseas employees. The absolute worse presidential administration in history.
While I agree with your general hypothesis, I don’t think Aptera ever got any gubment money.
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