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EVcast #215: The Future of the Automotive Industry

Thursday, April 9th 2009 @ 5:30 PM (1 ratings)    post viewed 2436 times

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Presentation at the NY Auto Show by Henrik Fisker of Fisker Automotive, Lou Rhodes of Chrysler's ENVI division, and Kevin Smith of Edmunds.com.

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Dag Johansen
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DagJohansen said on Thursday, April 9th 2009 @ 8:14 PM:

Kevin Smith!  Awesome! . . . Oh . . . of Edmonds.  Never mind.

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a guest said on Thursday, April 9th 2009 @ 10:57 PM:

Hi EVcast,

THanks for the good work you're doing. I
listened today but the audio is difficult to listen to.

John

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John Briggs
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JohnBriggs said on Thursday, April 9th 2009 @ 11:46 PM:

The Fisker is a little wide, in fast wider than all Lexus SUV's. and 4" wider than the roadster

Fisker Karma   Width 78.1 inches

Tesla Roadster Width  73.7 inches

Lexus GX470  74.0 inches

Lexus LX 570  77.6 inch

Lexus RX350  74.2 inch

Lexus RX400  72.6 inch

 

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Fredderick Miller
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RodMiller said on Friday, April 10th 2009 @ 2:20 AM:

You said the audio was good.  I was hoping to be able to hear the interview.  Why try to hook your laptop into the sound board.  Here is an interesting interview with the inventor of the Nimh battery.   He says the mistake of the patent owners was partnering with an oil company.   He says the next generation nimh would have taken the EV1 200 miles.  

Plug in American should force the DOE buy the Nimh patent rights from Chevron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh4KuCVlF14

Fred

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Rick Covert
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RickCovert said on Friday, April 10th 2009 @ 2:10 PM:

Fred,

That will happen when Chevron-Texaco is in as dire straights as GM is but for now they aren't receiving any bail-out money so the government doesn't have any leverage.

In 2014 the NiMh patent expires and Panasonic can go full steam ahead and sell its NiMhs to anyone it likes.

Rick, from the oil capitol of the world, Houston, TX. Smile

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Fredderick Miller
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RodMiller said on Saturday, April 11th 2009 @ 9:24 PM:

Can't congress declare that the patent is in the country's strategic best interest and then make the technology available.  I think they have done this with drug patents by making them generic.

Private right versus public right understood, but we need to secure our energy indp. before the sunni and shia conflict makes it a maker of survival.

Fred

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