Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Insurance Industry Cleans Up From Climate - YouTube
Greg Dalton and Professor Richard Muller discuss how the insurance industry stands to benefit or not from climate change.
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Fisker Recalls Karma; EV Maker Blasted by Rival Elon Musk | National Legal and Policy Center
[Musk] related what an auditor told him in 2008 about the costly problems he had with development and production of the Model S predecessor, the Roadster:

He said, ‘This is crazy, we’re going to be producing cars for twice as much as we’re selling them for. And by the way, a third of the car (it turned out to be two-thirds) doesn’t even work [laughs again], and even if we could make it, we shouldn’t make it. And we can’t make it. We had to do a massive redesign. We had to switch out the body supplier.

Those issues were probably not expressed when Tesla applied for its DOE loan shortly after President Obama was elected.

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