Somebody please chop the first 30 seconds off the video. Also, ye with sports cars, please hang up and drive, especially if you are hammering the throttle in a neighborhood.
@jshmn: And please switch your phone away from that oh-so-irritating default AT&T ringtone. I use that as an alarm clock tone when I want to wake up really fast.
At the rate the government will be taking control of American car companies there will be no need for risk takers like Musk. Some of us will be lucky to have a golf cart.
Gm actually developed an electric car some years ago called the EVO,apparently those who got to try one out loved it,but it got killed off ,seemingly much to GM's frustration!...I've been told there is a movie about it called who killed the electric car!
I watched this interview last night I don't consider this a puff piece because it's a talk show, not a political squawk fest. Also it's clear Letterman owns a Tesla and wanted to make the point that if the Big 3 really tried to nurture this tech a decade ago instead of constantly challenging CAFE increases while pumping out temporarily profitable big dumb trucky SUVs they wouldn't be near dead now...and he's right.
@General Halfshaftery: I've read stuff from the great oil embargos and gas crisis of the 70s that all of this stuff...solar power, wind power, electric cars was hyped back then and it was NOT just because of oil prices...people were talking greenhouse effect AND saying the polar icecaps would melt someday and no one paid ANY attention. No one. It just led to Reaganomics and the "me" consumer years of the 80s and 90s. No one cared about the effect on the planet and very few believed that such a thing as "melting polar icecaps" was even possible.
Letterman is justifiably outraged but he did have a platform all these years and didn't use it until now. And that makes me outraged.
From all available evidence, I have a sneaking suspicion that it doesn't take a very powerful induction coil to spark Herr Muschkkk's outrage. And as everyone knows, giggling is permissible in any reporter who has naturally curly hair, and dimples. As for the NY Times; "It was the best of Times, it was the worst of Times...", as is generally the case. Only with notably less of the former, and more of the latter these days.
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It just led to Reaganomics and the "me" consumer years of the 80s and 90s. No one cared about the effect on the planet and very few believed that such a thing as "melting polar icecaps" was even possible.
Letterman is justifiably outraged but he did have a platform all these years and didn't use it until now. And that makes me outraged.
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I don't care what his stated intentions are either, his practices show his true intent, which is to milk this for all it is worth.
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Which one do I want to poke with a stick more? All of them? Ok then.