GLG News by Mining Experts

The announcement by GM at the Geneva Motor Show that it will be offering for sale, next year, a high end SUV with a lithium iron phosphate battery equipped two mode hybrid power train followed the announcement the day before by Daimler of a high end Mercedes S-class hybrid to be introduced next...

Any new battery technology for use in a passenger or freight carrying vehicle will start out as very, very, expensive; its cost of development and prototype production will have to recovered somehow in the selling price of the cars. Assuming even that Daimler corporation has in hand, or is extremely...

James Carville famously said of political campaign issues, "It's the economy, stupid!" For OEM heavy manufacturing, "It's the raw materials availability, stupid!"

The once every 7 years or so platinum group metals, PGMs, shortage panic is off and running. The producers and trading companies are also panicked. Costs of producing new platinum are skyrocketing and the producers and traders know that this will ignite a new emphasis on replacing PGMs with much...

Chrysler has informed its American document management contractors that it will be consolidating its Michigan operations into one location, it's Auburn Hills, Michigan, headquarters complex dominated by the 12 story building with the Pentastar symbol on its top front face and once upon a time called...

The global production of the semi-metal tellurium is less than 100 tons per year. The use of tellurium in thin-film solar cells is dissipative. It is most efficiently used in combination with the element cadmium. Cadmium is very toxic, and tellurium is also toxic although it may be less toxic than ...

China's dominance in the producton of rare earth metals gives it the ability to blackmail Toyota, which has so far refused to make some hybrid components in China for reasons of competitive advantage. GM has already thrown in the towel on this issue by making all of the components for its Chinese Buick...

The waste production of nuclear power plants is a function both of the frequency of removing waste products and of refueling. Many reactors currently in use and with many years of operation remaining could be retrofitted to utilize thorium in place of much of or all of their uranium. This would eliminate...

Is there one single common thread that weaves its way through the abysmal performance of the American OEM automotive industry in the twenty-first century? Yes, there is. It is ego and hubris, which manifests itself in a total lack of long term planning to manage the risks of things not going as the...

Last year two people moved out of Michigan for good for every one who settled in Michigan from another state or country. General Motors lost and wrote off a combined 37 billion dollars in 2007; the largest corporate loss in American history. Michigan has the highest official unemployment rate, nearly...