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Couple Convicted Of Stealing GM Hybrid Tech

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by El Dobro, Nov 30, 2012.

  1. El Dobro

    El Dobro A Member

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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Reflecting on a decade of GM efforts starting from the EV-1, when I first heard about this:
    • GM has a hybrid secret worth stealing?
    • Did GM steal hybrid secrets from someone else?
    • Someone thought GM has a hybrid secret worth stealing?
      • Sounds more like an insanity defense.
    I shouldn't be so skeptical about GM but the only secrets I think GM might have would be:
    1. CARB policy changes in 2000
    2. Hydrogen fraud to kill Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles in 2001
    3. Talking points for hybrid skeptics
    4. Hybrid skeptic funding
    5. CNW Marketing 'research' data in 2006
    6. Rise and fall of the two-mode transmission 2007
    7. EPA mileage update in 2008
    8. Funding "Bell the Hybrid" lobby 2010
    Bob Wilson
     
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    The software source code for the embedded MCU's have value in that they describe how all the systems inter-operate but that's about all. I see no evidence that they had this data. Everything else could have been reverse engineered from the production Volt, press releases, and patent filings. Were there any actual buyers?
     
    #3 JamesBurke, Dec 1, 2012
  4. El Dobro

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    They were convicted and are awaiting sentencing, so something must have happened.
     
    #4 El Dobro, Dec 1, 2012
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    SlowTurd I LIKE PRIUS'S

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    execute them like the Rosenbergs
     
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    Ah, the good old days. :D
     
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    SlowTurd I LIKE PRIUS'S

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    well...i'm more mellow as i get older. usually i'd have them drawn and quartered with plow horses
     
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    They sold it before the volt was released. Industrial espionage is wrong even if they could copy it in other ways.

    Absolutely

    Really, I thought you would go old school and just shame them with tar and feathers. Me. If you get caught spying for a foreign country, you lose all your stuff and get deported plus some jail time. I don't think they would live as well in china.
     
    #8 austingreen, Dec 1, 2012
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    stealing is stealing, no matter what you steal... most crooks being caught are not smart :)
     
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    And now, they go to jail.
     
    #11 El Dobro, Dec 2, 2012
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    Can't wait to see the Chinese Volt when it comes out!! :D
     
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