Posted on 06/09/2010 10:35:26 PM PDT by anymouse
“Ahhh... now we see the cost of peace for the Obama Admin to get off Toyota’s back.”
brilliant observation. Any doubt will be removed when they are forced to rehire UAW workers laid off by the NUMMI venture.
SpaceX is a good company producing results and products. Tesla appears to be a huge scam. The electric car is barely more realistic now than it was in the 80’s, especially high end ones for millionaires. Now that the economy’s finished for awhile, they should shut down Tesla, sell anything they can from it, and put everything into SpaceX.
Yep and Tesla understood how and why his various devices worked. Tesla was way, way ahead of his time and rarely ever gets the credit he deserves. I watched Empire of the Air a few nights ago, the Ken Burns movie about radio pioneers. I was stunned to see them give Lee De Forest ANY credit for inventing radio. Tesla won a patent dispute in the 1940's showing clearly it was him, not De Forest, who had discovered electromagnetic wave propagation, but Tesla's name was never mentioned once in Burns' film. De Forest was a con man, not an engineer. Lee De Forest, in one of his many patent suits, was put on the witness stand to testify about his supposed invention of the vacuum tube. In three and one half hours he could not explain how it worked. I can explain how a vacuum tube works to a five year old in less than one minute......
He-He! Old Willie is getting quite a reputation around here, isn't he?
Just to help this guy out, I forwarded him some emails I got from Nigeria.
Musk should divorce his wife, sell his stock in Tesla, and then focus solely on SpaceX.
That's an unfair statement. I know a few good jokes.
“I would not go so far as to say there will never be viable electrics”
There are....in their niche. I’m not trying to be cute, but a golf cart is an example. Never very far from a charging station, a defined, understood transport requirement that doesn’t vary much, and never so far away that you can’t walk back to where you started.
Mass market electric cars will fail because they do not meet the “golf cart” test - so there will be a risk of exceeding the operational capabilities at all times.
He-He! Old Willie is getting quite a reputation around here, isn't he?Back stabbing cowards alert.
Life is short and cheap on the Internet range. Few survive.
Back stabbing cowards alert.
Thank-you for the heads-up, lewis.
Excuse me, but where is the "backstabbing", cowboy?
I've confronted Willie on numerous occasions over his ridiculous mass transit schemes he posts here with cold hard FACTS to which he can only reply with his own even more ridiculous opinions. If there's a coward here, partner, it's you!
Creep.
Excuse me, but where is the "backstabbing", cowboy?
"backstabbing" may not be the correct terminology,
but talking about me on a thread on which I am not a participant is a breach of forum etiquette.
“I’m thinking many of the densely populated Asian cities would work for the electrics. “
And in fact in China they use electric powered bicycles quite a bit. It passes the “golfcart” criteria....you can pedal home if you need to.
As far as talking about you, that's a bit of a stretch, don't you think? I commented on another persons comment about you. Remember that "reputation" I said you were developing? I was not the originator and my comments were not derogatory in any way. I merely said you were developing quite a reputation here. I've had far worse comments with totally false accusations made about me on threads where I was not a participant and I could not care less because I know exactly who and what I am. Perhaps the reason you are so sensitive to it is insecurity on your part? If you're trolling for an apology, forget it. You ain't gonna get one.....
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