29 Replies to ““None of this shit ends up on Youtube””

  1. Was there a reason the company couldn’t ‘dispose’ of their fibreglass shell ‘resources’ to an engineering or technical school?

  2. @Red Jeff: usually it has to do with the intellectual property rights. The company may have folded but somebody still owns the rights to the R&D that was done, and giving away the prototypes is almost as good as giving away the schematics.

  4. What a darned shame,another vehicle that was going to save the planet has bitten the dust.
    And somewhere another polar bear has drowned.

  5. I don’t think the car would survive a wayward shopping cart in a windstorm at the Costco parking lot!

  6. I like how the article called it, a sperm.
    I guess it ‘plugs’ into the charger as one does fertilizing an egg.
    Erg, the optics are getting to me.

  8. Funny. With all the reasons cited for the closure,they forgot the most important one,how much money the taxpayer is out and how much the company execs pocketed themselves! (Yeah,I know that’s 2,but math is hard!!)

  9. Wouldn’t mind having something like that as a novelty. Looks like a fun toy. As for replacing my vehicle with it… back to the drawing board.

  10. “The market got skittish, and it got skittish just at the moment we needed it most.”
    Gee, I didn’t even know that skittish was a synonym of “not stupid”.

  11. “Gee, I didn’t even know that skittish was a synonym of “not stupid”.
    Posted by: ∞² at December 8, 2011 4:37 PM”
    Amen to that…..

  12. Simple like nature is simple. If you can’t feed yourself, at some point in time you starve to death.
    The company couldn’t feed itself and when it was weaned of the Gov’t teat, it died. Not to hard to understand.
    mike

  13. anybody considered the long term maintenance costs of gasoline powered cars?
    they have all of these:
    emissions system
    exhaust system
    transmission
    fuel system
    cooling system
    do electric cars have these? no.
    ergo, long term savings vastly reduced. but that is blasphemy here….

  14. histrybuff, electric cars don’t have transmissions?
    Gee, I wonder how they transmit the revolutions in the motor to the drive wheels?
    There has to be a power train with a transmission, yes?
    What I always, historically speaking, had a problem with in the vehicles that I’ve owned was the electrical system.
    Very costly and time consuming to fix, too.
    Someone said that electric cars are ‘coal powered’, on another thread.
    LOL, too true.

  16. histry
    Ok, sure, in a perfect world, you have a good point. But please tell us knuckledraggers then, if these cars are so great, why are they an epic fail? The Sperm, Leaf, and Volt just aren’t grabbing the buying publics attention.
    Epic fail.

  17. “anybody considered the long term maintenance costs of gasoline powered cars?
    they have all of these:
    emissions system
    exhaust system
    transmission
    fuel system
    cooling system
    do electric cars have these? no. “ -histrybuff(oon)?
    No, but coal, gas and oil fired power plants do, and they’re not exactly refurbishable for $319.95 and a call to your local service station either.

  18. Electric cars charged from the unified North American electrical grid actually increase toxic pollution by increasing the amount of dirty coal burned to charge them. Electric cars are just another example of greenwashed idiots not thinking things through.

  19. riddle me this histrybuff:
    what is another thing gas powered cars produce that electric cars don’t?
    Heat. something everyone driving a vehicle up here in the great white north will need until May. hard to do when your electric cars have no cooling system.
    but i’m sure if you already thought of that.

  20. Every time I call one of these electric cars “coal powered”, there are always people who look bewildered. Once I explain myself, they usually get it. I work with a guy who drives a GM 4×4 hybrid. It sure makes some strange noises in cold weather. I don’t think his gas mileage is very good right now.
    On the subject of fuel economy, it hasn’t really improved much, in 20 years. Diesels have actually gotten worse. One problem is, safety features make vehicles heavier. Another problem, too much power. When an engine has 300 HP, it’s going to burn more fuel. Lighter vehicles, smaller engines, along with high tech will solve a lot of problems. The european model is a bad one. Those pisspot cars will not survive in Canada. That’s why they haven’t tried to sell them here for many years.

  21. I’m crying for all those poor chiropractors that will not be checking the backs of the owners of this vehicle?
    Also whimpering about how discombobulated this comment looks, oh well long day.

  22. It is heart-warming to see a bunch of rent-seekers fall short. But how did this happen? This is Obama’s America after all. And it was exactly the sort of enterprise that would attract Barry and his bags of borrowed money.

  24. Yet another in an endless series of weird-looking electric cars that nobody but a flamboyant exhibitionist anxious to wear his “green” heart on his sleeve would buy.
    Earth to electric-car promoters: “build an electric car that looks perfectly ordinary, is comfortable, and gets 60 miles reliably on a charge, and you may sell a few to people who can use a second car for short-range commutes.”
    But that’s not really the name of the game, is it?

  25. There are places where electric cars can make sense, like the US sun-belt where the car charges directly from the incident solar energy.
    If people there want electric cars I don’t have a problem with that.

  27. “Internal combustion vs spontaneous combustion.
    Choices … choices.
    Posted by: ∞² at December 8, 2011 11:31 PM”
    Bwahahahahahaha…thanks infinity squared. i love a great laugh before bedtime!!!

  28. Coach – don’t forget all of the emissions requirements that have been tagged onto newer vehicles. Each of them requires some power (even if only heat, or stronger blowing of exhaust because of constrictions or lengthening of the exhaust system).
    I’m just glad that the electrically based systems are phasing themselves out before too many primary responders got shocked to death.

  29. Yeah them windmills are high maintainence…always were…we didn’t abandon wind-mills when AC showed up because we ran outa wind anymore than we left the stone age because we ran outa rocks.
    Electric cars are insane when you consider the physics….and as Oz noted most of our maintainence concerns with modern autos are electrical. Engines and transmissions not so much. Electric cars still have brake, suspension and body maintainence issues…that don’t go away.
    As far as the criticism of these tiny cars lack of protection in potential colisions….I don’t consider that a factor…but then I ride a motorcycle. The micro cars…eg the tiny Mercedes marketed in China….being able to get outa the rain etc is a bonus…
    Considerations such as getting through snow the same…T’other day, I experimented riding the bike across my snow covered lawn,very cautiously…I had to pick the sucker up 3 times before I gave up and took it to firm traction—using the tractor…
    A gas or diesel golf cart with a windshield and a heater sounds very practical…
    As far as crash resistant cars…wanna play chicken with me and my tractor? Get real!

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