That would be like allowing fire insurers to cut off coverage for houses once they catch on fire.
In both cases, the affected batteries can short-circuit, causing them to overheat, release smoke and potentially catch on fire.
And the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid has rebounded from the they-catch-on-fire debacle, with sales of 1, 462 in April.
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The petitions that catch fire on Change.org are almost always tied to human drama and not about tackling abstract challenges such as health care or immigration reform.
Chris Aram has designed a gadget that automates the boiling process on stovetops, ensuring pots never boil dry or catch fire.
Many of the other projects on show at the Faire were designed to catch the attention of children to fire an interest in electronics and home hacking.
And on top of that, if a building is burning they are liable to catch fire.
The Kindle Fire, while dilutive on a per unit basis, could help Amazon catch up to existing distributors of digital media, and may reinforce the advantage Amazon enjoys with Amazon Prime.
The company's ballyhooed bets on the new infrastructure paradigm -- MSN and NT -- have been slow to catch fire.
"For a fire to keep on burning late into the night, you need the logs to catch, and the world's economic firewood has long since been soaked by oversupply and feeble demand now exacerbated by a post-bubble psychology discouraging risk taking, " observes Gross, who still believes stocks are overvalued.
Concerns centre on the possibility that the fuel-filled pebbles could leak, or that the graphite pebbles might catch fire.
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The German manufacturer recently released a video of this self-parking wizardry -- you can catch it by following the Read link -- which shows a happy homeowner simply pushing a button on his keyfob to fire up the motor, retract the side-view mirrors, and send the car on a controlled journey to its home just inches from another luxury ride.
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