http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/#comment-847350 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:42:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=527512#comment-847350 Tragic that this company had to go public to get capital to support the government loans while it was still an early stage venture. No such thing these days as patient venture capital. The IPO document had more pages of risk factors than even Facebook. Take a look at this piece written in 2009: http://bit.ly/LZBYKW .

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/#comment-846984 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:48:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=527512#comment-846984 Controlled by the Oil Cartels , again.
They don’t like giving up the gas guzzling carburetor.
Why else would the manufactures hold back on electric vehicles ?

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/#comment-846982 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:42:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=527512#comment-846982 You have to love that business model. Sibling “news” outlets where one targets far right wingers, and the other targets insane right wing nut-jobs (while making the first outlet look almost unbiased). News Corp does that with other “news” media siblings around the world. Apparently, it works.
In any case, you have to pay to read the original content, which I’m sure is biased and misleading, as is the line that you quoted:
>> Halfway to a six-year goal of producing one million
>> electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, auto makers are
>> barely at 50,000 cars
So what does that mean? Am I suppose to think that if 50K vehicles were produced in the first 3 years that only 100K will be produced after 6 years? And 667K after 40 years? This type of rational is easy to feed to simplistic minds which are comfortable with “linear” thinking.. and not so much with “exponential” growth, and the complexities of terra-forming an entire industry starting with the creation of new technologies.
(Btw, I can send you links to articles I’ve read in the non-opinion sections of the wsj that deny climate change).

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/#comment-846427 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:33:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=527512#comment-846427 @alf, The WSJ and the WSJ opinion pages are very different. The WSJ article I quoted is solid reporting.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/31/electric-car-battery-makers-hit-the-skids/#comment-846409 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:06:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=527512#comment-846409 Quoting the WSJ… seriously? Next you can write an article that denies climate change..

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