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Electric Car Maker Folds, Salinas (CA) Loses $500,000
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| July 18, 2011
| Amy Larson
Posted on 07/18/2011 3:14:37 PM PDT by keat
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To: keat
Don’t feel too harshly about Salinas and Green Motors. Obama fell for the same scam with our money and the Volt,only it hasn’t gone belly up yet——yet.
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posted on
07/18/2011 5:51:15 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
Would you really want to be caught dead in that thing crushed between two Caddilac Escalades.
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posted on
07/18/2011 5:58:08 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: keat
I don't see why it failed
Finally, a modern freeway commuter that knows this is the 21st century. The pure electric TRIAC proclaims to the world, "yes, I am going to give the world's progressive people a way to protect what they love; yes, I am going to run longer than the previous EVs; and yes, I am going to do it in a seriously handsome fashion." - http://www.greenvehicles.com/specs/triac_early_adopter_specs.html
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posted on
07/18/2011 5:58:39 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I see A/C is a $2500 option and for $3800 you can get a 288v performance package.
But eco-leather seats are standard, and of course, it has an iPod docking cradle.
84
posted on
07/18/2011 6:09:51 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: Oztrich Boy
If you have a rusting TRIAC sitting on concrete blocks, then you might be a greenneck.
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posted on
07/18/2011 6:23:33 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: keat
Any marketing that involves the word “green” or “smart”, I steer clear of!
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posted on
07/18/2011 6:35:41 PM PDT
by
MountainDad
(Support your local Militia)
To: keat
I guess with a bowl on top it (the trike not the fellow in the pic) could be used as a bird feeder.
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posted on
07/18/2011 6:39:25 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: keat
Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue said he was "surprised and disappointed" by the news. City officials were equally irked that Ryan notified them through an email that his company had crashed and burned. Someone who duped you out of that much money isn't man enough to face up to you, pal. Lesson learned?
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posted on
07/18/2011 6:43:23 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(In loving memory of Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865)
To: MountainDad
I do also... wise move... it screams leftist.
LLS
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posted on
07/18/2011 6:46:53 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
To: keat
Donohue said he will work with the state to try to get at least $240,000 back from the now-defunct company.Good luck with that, sucker.
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:22:44 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
To: LibLieSlayer
I never debated the rules of FR. Thanks for acknowledging that there ARE rules, even though violation is not enforced much. I'd like to think FReepers are smart enough to express themselves in standard English.
There are forums where that ability is clearly lacking. I don't want us to be like that.
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posted on
07/19/2011 3:52:00 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Abolish FReepathons. Be a monthly donor.)
To: don-o
I agree about decorum and the right time and place for passionate language. I never knew that Patton was kin to Washington... the King of France and England and kin to many members that signed the Magna Carta (1215)... that is some family tree... and he was a GREAT American General. You do not find out about this History many places today... but Free Republic is THE place so...
LLS
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posted on
07/19/2011 4:42:42 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
To: hinckley buzzard; All
Save for reading later. A related story that contains the seeds of this one:
Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
It is a very long article but well written and the illustrations are a gas (no pun intended). It was written in 2008 and gives a good overview of the electric car market, complete with con-artists and assorted dupes. It was available for reading by all the rubes who got taken in by this guy in Salinas.
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posted on
07/19/2011 10:50:18 AM PDT
by
keat
To: keat
This is like Twentieth Century Motors in Atlas Shrugged, except that , that company had been successful at one time
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posted on
07/19/2011 12:29:10 PM PDT
by
09Patriot
(your freedom to be you, includes my freedom to be from you.--Wilkow)
To: 09Patriot
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posted on
07/20/2011 2:01:20 PM PDT
by
keat
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