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Toyota has clearly decided not to wait around any longer for a safe, reliable, cost effective lithium battery for its next generation hybrids. Toyota also continues to rely on 125 year old lead acid battery technology for starting its hybrid cars, and safe reliable proven in mass production nickel metal...

The misleading title of this source article should be rewritten for clarity as "Lithium batteries downplayed for use anytime soon by Toyota.

Did Ford outsource the computer sorting of the ages and names of who should receive the letter it sent out to all of its retirees announcing a cut in health benefits? If it did doesn't this tell us a lot about the quality of IT outsourcing vendors chosen by Ford? If it didn't should some very careless...

Many current fuels and clean sources for power generation provide non-firm supplies. Coal remains the cheapest most cheaply and easily stored power generation fuel, and therefore must remain in the fuel misx of most generators.

The US business media are biased in favor of Toyota today, only because of a clever stratagem, the introduction of the Prius hybrid into the US market, in 1999. This bias has lately begun to backfire as introspection proves that the truth is the opposite of what even the Wall Street Journal, not to...

The CITIC tiger is far the stronger of the two, so why does it wish to hunt with the weak Bear Stearns? The answer may be that CITIC will control any joint ventures between the two.

The most recent uncoerced, by government, attempt to build and market an all-electric battery powered car was GM's EV1 in the mid to late 1990s. GM decided that the EV1 was a failure due to limited range  and performance, for its size, and withdrew it. Before GM could, if it even wanted to,...

Globally thaere is great demand for power generation equipment and skills for construction, testing and operation of new plant. Plant owners who delay orders or have consent delays imposed upon then risk joining the queue for key components and skills for manufacture and commissioning of new plant.

There is today, in 2007, simply not enough producing capacity for iron ore, globally, to allow the Chinese steel industry leverage in resisting price increases.

A late writer for London's Economist, Fred Hirsch, coined the term "positional goods" to define the buying habits of those we now call the ultrarich, the inhabitants of Richistan. The most important attribute of a positional good is that only a very few, ultimately, hopefully, just one, can...