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I am making this post after receiving a private (off-the-cuff) email with wording that questions if I know the (above) post was OT, that it must have been a slow news day to post that, (+more) ... For those that do not know me, and what I have been doing since 1990, I would ask that before you let yourself whip out a message that reads snarky (then why-else would you send it?), that for a period in evdl's early history, I was evdl's system administrator, and worded some of Clyde Visser's evdl charter, that today's version was drawn from (its kind of like asking one of the U.S. Constitution Founding Fathers if they knew that they were in conflict with it ... ). Of course I am open to feedback, (caveat: sometimes I, like most humans, need my reins drawn to keep me in alignment with evdl.org member's interests ... etc.). But those that actually read the entire (top) news item post would have seen that their company also touts its UTV EV. So, the post did have an actual EV in it. Members that remember what has been discussed with great member interest in the past ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=mining+truck (which are just huge he-trucks), where no-one seemed to care (at the time) that it was OT. So, there must be some value to member's in those discussions (hopefully focusing on the non-OT bits). Also, since I have been doing this a long-long time, take a few steps back from your haste to judge, and consider there must be a method-to-Bruce's-madness(?!?) ... I see a lot of 'stuff', so there must have been a reason to post the (top) item. Could it be that I was having a 'slow news day'. Sure ... as I have stated in the past http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-status-EV-news-drought-We-ve-been-spoiled-tp4680916.html by comparison, there is a massive slow-down of EV developments as we near elections (which are also OT on the evdl.org) ... But I won't be at anything like at the point of news-thirst to be sucking on the slimy insides of the rain barrel for just something or anything to post (I do not do all this work for free just to stroke my ego). I have seen so many so called EV-news media outlets that do resort to that. If I feel items I find have no merit being posted, I would not post them to the evdl.org until I had something worthy. Note that, what may seem uninteresting to you, will be to someone else, even though it isn't a 'hot topic'. We have to keep our EV-news addiction on a short leash to keep our perspective (and prevent releasing your inner snark) ... http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/19/study-internet-addicts-suffer-withdrawal-symptoms-like-drug-users/ I had the same views as Peri posted http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-Nikola-Motor-Announces-2000HP-Semi-trailer-Truck-he-Tractor-tp4682022p4682023.html something is not right with this (top) news item (aka it smells wrong) ... So, why did I post about the (top) he-semi-truck-tractor news item? [soapbox mode on] My biggest reason for posting the (top) item, was to point out how many Tesla parasites there are ... feeding off of Tesla's achievements. Since, I sieve though many-many news items multiple times everyday, I always see other non-Tesla items/products being referenced to as being as good as or competing with a Tesla ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken all the way to the other side as a 'Tesla-killer', etc. (theirs is so-good it will blow Tesla-away ...). Musk is no slouch. He chose that company name likely for several reasons. Other companies have tried to imitate their success ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_Future Faraday Future which BTW is still making a whole lot of inve$tment trolling noise, with still nothing to show of it all (hence why I haven't posted much on them). But the (top) news item shows that company is blatantly exploiting what Tesla Motors has built up, and their he-truck product is not even an EV. Their main media-blitz push is their semi he-tractor leveraging off-of Tesla's name, calling it an Electric (when it is not), trolling for inve$tment money, (+more). All of this is so confusing for the public to fathom (which makes more work for EVangels to gently un- fathom them). One could say parasites are just part of the business-game ... http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-huge-companies-apple-are-actually-parasites-americas-tech-industry But they water-down the honest efforts of the serious, real EV companies (something we just do not need, ever). I won't say this is a Koch Bros effort http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Koch-Brothers-Multimillion-Dollar-War-on-EVs-tp4680590.html but it is subversive enough to be akin to theirs (I see a lot of negative EV news items that look like they were Koch funded). But like any parasite, their removal (discrediting by providing EV knowledge, making the public aware of what they are doing, etc.), has to be done right ... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/science/the-claim-remove-a-tick-from-your-skin-by-burning-it.html?_r=0 [/soapbox mode off] For EVLN EV-newswire">EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Tesla-wannabe-ticks-and-other-parasites-tp4682025.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
