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Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes
An anonymous reader sends us to a profile in CNNMoney.com on a Norwegian car company that is building a compact, plug-in electric car, the Think City, that will go on sale in Europe early next year. It could hit US markets in 2009. The CEO is working with Silicon Valley VCs and with Google, Tesla Motors, PG&E, and Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. Plans are to sell the car only on the Web. No dealers, cheap manufacturing plants, and a battery pack that you lease, not buy — there's potential here for shaking up the auto industry the way Dell did PCs.
He is trying to fit a compact stirling engine in.
So your comment was rather superfluous, except for the 'I' part. Which we are not interested in.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
despite being broad daylight, a straight road with great visibility
If so, how come you didn't see him?
As a cyclist you presumably feel vulnerable but instead of treating other road users with respect, you bumble around like you own the road then play the righteous victim after the accidents you cause.
When cycling, I've turned my head to make a lane change, expecting the closest car to be 50' behind me, but was surprised when one was right at my rear wheel.
That's why you're supposed to look before you manouvre. You should not be darting out into the road while a car is trying to pass you. Think we should all wait behind you? Pay some road tax. Damn cyclists.
Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes... just like the last 200 small electronic cars that ushered in big changes.
Seriously, though, nobody's going to take you seriously if you can't use the car to haul groceries. If your car doesn't have at least the utility of a Toyota Echo, then just give up now.
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Have you noticed how poorly the average (American at least, I've not driven elsewhere - yet) driver drives? Cell phones, makeup, the $7 starbucks coffee "drink", etc. They can barely handle 2 dimensions where motion in one is in a constant direction. Handle 3 dimensions? No way....
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
There are also "Smart Cars" in Europe. They were originally intended for seniors who weren't licensed to drive more powerful cars and just wanted to make travel across town rather than across the country roads. Now many other people wanted to use them for traveling between villages because of their high mileage/gallon rate, so they're a bit of a hazard as they tend to appear out of nowhere from behind other vehicles.
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