http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/ Engadget Comments for Tesla exec shuffle: Elon Musk appoints himself CEO, lays off staff http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/
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Tesla can't even build their own car. They had to go to Lotus for that.]]>Oct 15th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/
These seven years of greed and fraud are now going to kill the green startups. Great.

However, the Feds gave the auto companies 25 billion in loans a couple of weeks ago. That's called "socialism for the rich". "Picking the winner." The future will belong to those who already had money. Don't recall who said it, but the primary purpose of capitalism is to ensure that those who have all the money get to keep it.

So we get GM's version of an electric car. Probably built of 75,000 parts, costs 20K in maintenance over it's lifetime, and will rust out in less than seven years. And still uses gasoline.]]>Oct 15th 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/
Also, know that electric sports cars have a very limited market, as most automobile enthusiasts are more concerned with the visceral experience of driving a car, like the sounds it makes and the vibrations you get. Electric is just too quiet, and regular sports cars can be made as green as the electric car by switching to hydrogen for the existing engines.]]>Oct 15th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/Oct 15th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/tesla-exec-shuffle-elon-musk-appoints-himself-ceo-lays-off-sta/
You shouldn't hire people if you're going to lay them off. If you can't think what else to do with human capital you suck as a CEO.
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