re: #227 lawhawk

Dim Jim:

Ooh, another electric car company went bust.

Does Dim Jim know how many car companies have gone bust? I doubt he’d be able to count that high - even after taking off his socks.

This is just a partial list of major car companies that have stuck around for a couple of years (another list that includes failed car companies).

There are tons of conventionally powered car companies that didn’t make it in the past couple of years. Saturn. Hummer, Pontiac, Saab, plus older companies like Studebaker, Edsel, DeSoto, Willys, AMC, etc.

Some of them got tons of government money over time - like government contracts or other direct aid, tax breaks, etc.

Not every new company will last, and not every electric startup will succeed, but some might - Tesla appears to have found its footing and is making a profit (along with one of the best tested cars in Consumer Reports history).

en.wikipedia.org