Fisker no more?

I have nothing to add except that I thought I spotted a Fisker Karma last friday on Route 66 in Northern Va.

As I got closer, I saw that it was a Tesla Model S. I wasn't even sure those actually existed. It was a really nice looking car.

of course I realize now they really dont look that similar, just that my inital thought was, "oh its one of dem 'lectric sedans"

I saw a model S today. It looked remarkably like a normal, nice car. I wouldn't mind one with the bigger motor if only I had some spare cash.

Also +1 on the repave the roads thing. If I'm not mistaken, though, thats more state/city level except for the interstates, right? In that case, I'm doomed here in Boston. I heard from a guy who works for the transit system that the really old abandoned tunnels under the city are actually safer than the new, in use ones, since people back then were less likely to cut corners and make a crappy, unsafe tunnel. I bet road/bridge infrastructure would seem slightly more important just prior to impact than whether your car is electric or gas.

In reply to Rufledt: Our interstates are a berkeleying washboarded joke of a highway........they need redone in a bad way, but alas, no funding from the fed level.

I saw a Model S last night for the first time, one tailed me for a while on Route 1 in NH. Took me a while to realize what it was, it had some fairly distinctive LED headlights but the morst remarkable thing about it was how unremarkable it was. It sort of looked like any other $60k-ish premium sedan. Nice, but it still blends in. Which is probably why it will be the first actually successful mass market electric car. My first thought when I saw it was "nice car, what is that", not "look at this goofball over here".

Vigo wrote:

Politics aside, I'd just like to know when the government will quit gambling with other peoples' money.

Do you, per chance, keep your money at a bank, good sir? Just sayin'

Actually very little of my money is tied up in banks, why? Not sure what this has to do with blowing countless millions of taxpayer dollars on alternative energy and me not liking it!

Oh, i was just thinking about the relative amounts that we/us/everyone have lost to the various institutions that gamble with other people's money.

Like, when the government gambles with other people's money by throwing it at banks which were gambling with other people's money so poorly that they wrecked the world economy. I guess we double-lose in that case. But i think in dollar terms one side of that is still a much larger 'bad actor' than the other.

Also, depending on how well it goes in their trial cases unfolding currently, banks might start taking a page from government and decide to take 10% off the top as thanks for propping up their smoke and mirrors show by letting them gamble with your money.

BUT SOLYNDRA/FISKER! Right. Prioritization?