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(from The Beast)
Oh and for the record, GM destroyed all their 100% electric mass production vehicles in the desert and then sold their battery technology patents to Chevron. True story. Today's Prius' etc. have to use toxic heavy metal batteries because of GM selling their patents to an oil company.
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OrnthoronNow, THAT is fucked up.
joedirtTruth. Ten yrs ago they had better battery technology... sold to oil companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovonics
(And they can probably sue anyone who makes any large enough NiMH batteries to run a car).
kagenin says...If you act like a dodo, you deserve extinction.
Unfortunately, the biggest opponents to the bailouts are the Senators from Alabama, and its no coincidence that many foreign automakers have a presence there.
While I have nothing but sympathy for the auto workers - its not their fault they have idiots and assholes for employers - I think that America would be a lot better off if the Big 3 automakers face up to the fact that they've driven their companies into the ground.
We deserve better. We have the technology for better, more fuel-efficient cars. They've sat on it for years, and gave us a Hummer Truck instead. Fuck that noise. If they want a bailout, the oil companies have had record profits for the last few years. Let them bail out the auto makers.
bamdrewyeah... i'm with ya... gonna be a lot of michigan's losers coming down to my neck of the woods looking for work, though... and we ain't got it.
volumptuous>> ^joedirt:
Truth. Ten yrs ago they had better battery technology... sold to oil companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovonics
(And they can probably sue anyone who makes any large enough NiMH batteries to run a car).
"Who Killed The Electric Car" is an awesome, and dark, film.
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