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    Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid

    BYD Wants To Put Its Battery In Your Electric Dodge
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    You know, at some point BYD is going to build something awesome... you just know it's going to happen. Almost all of the truly great cars have been the result of one person's (or a small group's) vision and belief in what they're doing.


    This guy's got that.

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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    I thought this was gonna be another carpocalypse article in which dishonoured Chinese auto exec drinks auto fluid to kill himself.


    But no, if anyone wanted to commit suicide in China, they'd drink milk.

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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Lead joke? Check.

    Melamine joke? Check.

    Crash test rating? Check.


    These comments are a given on any China-related article. Sigh.

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    04/13/09

    @Analyst: Not to mention when the name is question is Wang.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    He was raised on melamine formula, so battery juice is nothing.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    That guy is a badass. Besides, that stuff can't be any worse than Maotai:



    The liquor so badass, they sell it in gasoline cans!

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    04/13/09

    @bzr is shocked that Chrylser is still alive, there must be ...: I suddenly want some Chinese liquor very badly.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    I hear that the Chinese consider it to be an aphrodisiac.
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    04/13/09

    @Graverobber: It's eeeeelectric!
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Take that Bob Lutz!


    I say we nominate this man "Maximum" Wang Chan-Fu. It even SOUNDS sexier!

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    04/13/09

    @Tylinol: Maximum Wang? Oh yeah.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    So first you drink some battery fluid, plug a cord to your ass and you´re ready to go. The engineers at BYD told me that soon there is no need for the cord and a special adaptor will be mounted in the drivers seat.
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    04/13/09

    @Baron BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ von Kurbelwelle und Pleuelstange: That sounds a bit painful.
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: Sounds a bit like "IT" from southpark -


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    04/13/09

    @Jakuub: Haha. That was a great episode.
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th:

    No, really, do you guys like fishsticks?


    South Park FTW.

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    04/13/09

    @Mobius_1: Yes, I love putting them in my mouth.
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: But I'm not a gay fish, dammit! I'm a GENIUS!
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Toxicity of battery fluid is a non-issue. They are marketing a non-performative characteristic of their new batter tech because they think it can give them a competitive advantage. What would be significant are things like energy density, charging and recovery rates, cost of production, recycling of materials at end of production and end of life cycle.


    Perhaps our gimlet eyed jalop-writerers could focus on that a bit?

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    04/13/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Energy density and charging have been covered previously, production cost= it is china, recycling= not just the responsibility of the producer, but also of the consumer.

    Although they still have to go a long long way, China is investing huge amounts in environmental programs, much more than any other country.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    What a badass. I love it when people actually give a shit with what they're doing in the world. Couldn't you see Henry Ford sitting down with a nice glass of battery fluid after his daily exercise of beating orphans with shipping crates made specifically out of the right kind of wood so that when they've been emptied of their contents he may use their pliable material to inflict worlds of hurt on the young and parent-less?
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    I bet it tastes like sweet n' sour pork. Mmmmm, gonna grab me some chinese tonight. (Food, chinese food)
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    04/13/09

    @I have a cat that can beat me up:


    I'm going to grab some Chinese tonight.


    (Not food, not Chinese food)

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    04/13/09

    @I have a cat that can beat me up: Finally got tired of dealing with that fuckin' cat, eh?


    /sorry

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    04/13/09

    @Steve Neill: Does your girlfriend know the way you talk on here?
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Pfft. I put Tricholorethylene on my cereal and mix Dowtherm J in my coffee to get the day started.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    I wanna party with that dude. Everybody Wang Chaun tonight.
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    04/13/09

    @Alfisted: Came here hoping to make that joke, leaving disappointed.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Potable battery fluid would be perfect for post-apocalyptic survival vehicles. When your hybrid/electric Unimog finally runs out of power and your stranded in the desert somewhere, you can drink the fluid from the batteries to stay alive. And probably get a wicked case of the runs.
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    04/13/09

    @combat chuck: That settles it. I'm inventing a battery which runs on alcohol. Don't ask me how, I am not drunk enough yet to answer.
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: Some catalyzing fuel cells can run on methanol, but you don't want to drink that stuff.
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    04/13/09

    @Monsieur Discontinuité Jean Baptiste Marie de Hydropneumati...: Yeah, methanol desn't taste that good. A little too spicy for my tastes.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Chinese Automaker CEO Drinks Battery Fluid
    Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on battery juice, laid back with my mind on the environment and the environment on my mind...
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: Awesome.
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    04/13/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: Nice!
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