GM engineer "reverse engineering" another company's battery technology.
Now that President Obama has written out a big, fat check to General Motors and put a 31-year old crony with no business experience in charge of it, you’re probably wondering what they’re doing with the money.
The answer, according to Wired, is stealing the best ideas from tax paying entrepreneurs.
GM invested $25 million in the 33,000-square-foot Global Battery Systems Lab to develop and test the drivetrains underpinning the Chevrolet Volt and other hybrid, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The automaker believes the facility, at its sprawling Warren Technical Center campus outside Detroit, Michigan, will help make it a market leader in battery and EV technology.
So far, so good. But here’s where it gets a little iffy:
The lab also features a thermal shaker table for testing the structural integrity of each pack and a battery tear-down workshop for failure analysis and reverse-engineering competitors’ batteries.
Please allow us to translate: We gave GM billions of dollars so they could rip off good ideas from the entrepreneurs and companies who helped contributed to their bail out.
Perfect. Just friggin’ perfect.
Source: Wired via PlanetGore
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They’re only learning what the government teaches them. Steal from others.
Good old American ingenuity has been replaced with reverse engineering? What the hell is this anymore, China?!
I can see how this is going to play out in the future and the future I see does not involve me driving a GM product.
Not that surprising.. industrial espionage is a big problem in the world.
If you want moral teachings and action visit a nunnery, if you want human nature at its very worse, visit Capital Hill.
And I am not too sure about the nunnery!
Obama won, he can do no wrong, none of his minions can do any wrong.
John Galt anyone? We are getting closer everyday.