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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
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These are not cars. They are clown cars. In order for these to sell they'll have to have mass appeal.
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
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Why is it I've never heard of these?
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
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This is a motorcycle, not a car.
In order for this to work you have to make a real car (not a clown car) that will have mass appeal. The only one on your list that comes close is Coda Automotive, and it seems they too are having huge problems bringing them to market. You bitched about Tesla who has over one thousand cars on the road and is bringing their second model line into production, and in the mean time Coda doesn't seem to have any cars on the road. At the very same time, the car retails for $37k and looks like a cheap compact car.
I mean seriously, compare the two:
Again, private industry isn't making it happen. We need these now, not ten years from now. In case you haven't noticed - And Brett, you should know this more than most because of your time in the Navy - a lot of the technology we have comes from the government, be it NASA, the military, or otherwise. We might as well invest directly into it.
But really, you need to stop bitching here. Permits for oil drilling are up, production is up, and dependency on foreign oil is down. In the mean time, the US government needs to invest into this technology.
You don't think Romney is going to do the same? That's all he's done his entire business history - borrow money to invest into other companies.