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Reinventing the Car

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Larry Burns, GM Veep talks about the future of personal transportation and hydrogen.

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Tags: Automobiles · Chevrolet · general motors · green things · hydrogen

Car Companies their own Worst Enemy

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

It is not often you get to see Fortune 500 CEOs admitting to mea culpas. Granted Nardelli is only a new car person (from Home Depot), however it was most telling that:
“The mistake Chrysler probably made during that period is that we were responding to the customer who wanted bigger, more expansive, higher horsepower vehicles [...]

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General Tsao’s Motors

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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The popular Chinese Buick
A considerable amount of trees (and bytes for that matter) have been soaked up debating the merits of an automobile bailout. From what I have read there has been an almost unanimous animosity towards the US automobile industry and the executives in particular. The only defense I [...]

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Tags: Autos · Cadillac · Chevrolet · Chevy Volt · Kiwi Stuff

Things that Make You Go Duh!

November 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

GM has confirmed that it intends to release the first mass produced electric car (since the EV) in 2010. Based on the Volt platform it will be a short range (40mile) commuter vehicle with a small gasoline engine on board to extend its range:
The duh moment:
“We have since realized that letting Toyota gain that [...]

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