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Electric car maker Aptera closes its doors
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| 12/03/2011
| Dee-Ann Durbin
Posted on 12/05/2011 7:42:35 AM PST by Abathar
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""concentrated on building a four-door electric sedan that would get the equivalent of 190 miles per gallon of gas. By comparison, the electric Nissan Leaf is rated at 99 mpg.""Well, good luck with that...
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:42:41 AM PST
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Abathar
To: Abathar
![](http://blogs.cars.com/.a/6a00d83451b3c669e2015393ebbf43970b-pi)
This was their 3-wheeled prototype vehicle. They better put a red flag on the back of that thing, a biker could put his eye out.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:47:39 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Why didn’t they call it the “Sperm”?
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:50:20 AM PST
by
digger48
To: Abathar; martin_fierro
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla Motors Inc., for example, has racked up millions of dollars in losses as it prepares to bring its electric Model S sedan to market in mid-2012. The Tesla factory is right down I-880 from Solyndra.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:50:28 AM PST
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: Abathar
To: Abathar
The company was hoping to get a $150 million loan from the Department of Energy Correction. It was scheming to pilfer 150 million dollars from the American taxpayers.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:50:37 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Abathar
Speaking of the Leaf's range, one may wish to read this
article.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:51:00 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Abathar
They are selling something that nobody wants. Once the prospect of endless Obama money dried up all these “green” companies will be going away.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:51:28 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Texas Eagle
"Correction. It was scheming to pilfer 150 million dollars from the American taxpayers."Precisely.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:53:14 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Fuller Dymaxion Redux
Designer-genius R. Buckminster Fuller was one of the century's great nutjobs, a walking unorthodoxy who originally conceived of the Dymaxion as a flying automobile, or drivable plane, with jet engines and inflatable wings.
It would be one link in his vaguely totalitarian plan for the people to live in mass-produced houses deposited on the landscape by dirigibles.
Okayyyy...Deprived of wings, the Dymaxion was a three-wheel, ground-bound zeppelin, with a huge levered A-arm carrying the rear wheel, which swiveled like the tail wheel of an airplane. The first prototype had a wicked death wobble in the rear wheel.
The next two Dymaxions were bigger, heavier, and only marginally more drivable. The third car had a stabilizer fin on top, which did nothing to cure the Dymaxion's acute instability in crosswinds.
A fatal accident involving the car cause unknown doomed its public acceptance.
Though unworkable, this three-wheeled suppository was the boldest of a series of futuristic, rear-engined cars of the 1930s, including the Tatra, the Highway Aircraft Corporation's "Fascination" car and, everybody's favorite, the Nazi's KdF-wagen.
History Repeating
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:54:46 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(Cain....100% American, 100% Black and 100% for the Constitution...999 an added benefit.)
To: Abathar
Aptera few months,
Green always turns Brown.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:55:56 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: digger48
Not just the looks.....the taxpayers were going to get screwed.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:57:20 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: GonzoGOP
Once the prospect of endless Obama money dried up all these green companies will be going away. Yeah. and so will a lot of our "obamamoney".
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:58:35 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Abathar
But, but...........aren’t we supposed to be liberal? Aren’t we supposed to want clean green energy, and clean green cars? Isn’t Obama creating clean green jobs, by subsidizing clean green companies???????
Or look at another way, isn’t it evil capitalism which is causing this company to fail, and aren’t we supposed to hate evil capitalism? So aren’t we supposed to subsidize this company so they can give us what is good for us (tiny electric car) rather than a vehicle we really want???
Do they still have Trabants in the former East Germany? I wonder if those people loved that little proletarian car produced by their people’s republic??????????
To: Abathar
The classic Morgan three-wheeler is a much more handsome car than that pile of rubbish.
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posted on
12/05/2011 7:58:52 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Abathar; Texas Eagle
The problem is not that they wanted to steal, the problem is that they didn’t want to steal.
Had they requested a billion and kicked half of it back there would be no problem.
They were non union to boot
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:00:12 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: bert
Electric car maker Aptera closes its doors
Aptera, ha ha ha. It's wings have been clipped.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:03:39 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: GonzoGOP
Obama’s green jobs scam was just to get money in the pockets of his friends, remember all those green jobs speeches, scam , scam ,scam
To: Abathar
The company was hoping to get a $150 million loan from the Department of Energy but needed to raise matching funds, Wilbur saidWhew, the taxpayers squeaked past that one.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:10:17 AM PST
by
bgill
(The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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