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Thales, Edison, Siemens, Hertz, Westinghouse, Thomson, Ferraris, Maxwell, Bell were already taken. They needed to go into first names now I guess :)

• thevibesman 10y ago
  How about Bowie Motor Company?[1] Turns out bowiemotors.com is already taken[2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_6SQKuTHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_6SQKuTHk [2]: Yes, I tried to register it ;) (EDIT: Foot-note formatting)
• falloutx 10y ago
  Heisenberg
  • return0 10y ago
    I 'm not sure uncertainty is something you want to attribute to a car.
    • nealabq 10y ago
      How about Pauli. Principled and exclusive.
      • return0 10y ago
        Anything quantum is weird and smells of dead cat. Let's stick to sparkles and metal.
        • asimuvPR 10y ago
          I loved this comment so much that I almost wrote about loving it in another dimension.
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• pilsetnieks 10y ago
  "Topsy" is taken (by Apple, of all things) but "Topsy the elephant" might be available.
  • blowski 10y ago
    Topsy was an analytics service that Apple bought and then shuttered - http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579234450633315742 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048548045792344...
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• TwiztidK 10y ago
  Heaviside would've been decent, especially for a truck and ATV company.
  • daveguy 10y ago
    Heaviside would be a very negative connotation for trucks and ATVs. Most people would think heavy-side or top-heavy, which is the opposite of what you want a truck to be, and not Heaviside the engineer who lent his name to the punniest function in mathematics.
    • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
      Heavi might work if it isn't already a TM.
    • Avshalom 10y ago
      Or they might think heavy-industry or heavy-duty, which would be a good/neutral connotation. ...and heavy has stopped looking like a real word now.
      • robin_reala 10y ago
        Semantic satiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
        • gcatlin 10y ago
          Interesting page! It links to what is now my new favorite wiki page name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
          • robin_reala 10y ago
            You might also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_... then.
• mindcrime 10y ago
  How about Steinmetz[1]? Is that being used for anything? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
  • OliverJones 10y ago
    GE might have an interest in Mr. Steinmetz's name. Still, not as derivative as using Tesla's name.
    • mindcrime 10y ago
      Hmm... I wonder if there's any legal principle by which GE would have any legal claim to a trademark based on the word Steinmetz. A quick USPTO search only turns up 3 Steinmetz related trademarks and none appear to be associated with GE. One is a lawyer who's last name is Steinmetz. The others are random stuff. shrug
• hyperpallium 10y ago
  Funfact: Edison developed electric trucks
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• allworknoplay 10y ago
  How about Curie or Lovelace
  • noir_lord 10y ago
    Hopper would be better IMO.
  • agumonkey 10y ago
    Digital jewelry ?
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• api_or_ipa 10y ago
  And evidently Faraday is taken by Faraday Future automotive company.
• OliverJones 10y ago
  Big over the road trucks are all about energy. How about Carnot Watt Joule Gibbs Boltzmann Eisenhower pushed through the interstate highway system.
• zodPod 10y ago
  Or, they could come up with a unique name. lol I don't understand why the trendy thing is naming things poorly. We just had this popup here the other day with the "Hydrogen" project which the guy used without research and it turned out that it was already used by someone else. Could've named these After himself or anything. What happened to trying to come up with clever unique names?
• thebigspacefuck 10y ago
  Ohm?