>> yes themart car was intended to be an electric car but they cld never get the batty right, so aearnd a half ago i met with daimler and, working with them. i mean, we really tried hard to work with lot of dferent car companies. >> charlie: and what happened? >> well, i guess they think, they took the attitude of what is some ttle startup in silicon know that don't know or can do? >> charlie and what would u say them? >> well, we would sa drive our car and lookt our technology and, i d't know, it just never seemed to sort of sink in, but daler, daimler dÑi actually, so i went -- we went to stuttgart and went down th way to india, actually, and met with ctor, whoever was the head of r&we had a nversation a wh does it take to wor togeer and we would love to do something, we uld life to do something with an affordable mass mart car that we ouelves can't do right now because don't have the pital. >> ando iaid,ant, you knowwhat about an electric smart? becae the smart was alwa intended to be an ectric car. and wha what it would take forso workogether well if youould do a prototypehat woul