En passant, on NPR today - comments on the Tesla, intimations that "he's" behind the Docu-Movie, Who Killed the Electric Car? {aside from thermodynamics and the use of fossil fuels to recharge yada cf. 'hydrogen-as-panacea' for similar problems in cognition, when a whole culture has never heard of F=MA.)
Mention of \ufffdber-geek David Brin (?) and others, as having been among the many waiting.. for someone to do their homework --> right on through marketing to a tested group of likely purchasers / getting the logistics for support Right, etc. Possibly some links there would cover what I heard.
Was paying only 75% attention - realizing that I ain't never gonna be buying so expensive a toy, aimed squarely at the BigRebated-5% (those who are, currently engaged in seeking their Alt Summer Homes via the Bush-RepoMatic windfall - perhaps keeping that Real Estate bubble inflated for a few more quarters /months?)
But then.. GM actually *crushing* all those EV-1s -!- now THERE is a classic intermixing of Dilbertian PHB Repo-Neoconism, wrapped in the triumph of Marketing over substance. And all from the imagination that: you Can kill the Memory.
Do all Bizness grads flunk Psych 101?
..thought it was mainly the CIEIOs who never felt the need to learn anything about the marks.