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Has General Motors oversold itself, and the public, on the Chevrolet Volt lithium battery plug-in hybrid program? If so, why? And, also, if so, is GM going to wake up and cancel it before the program's cost escalate further?

There has been no speculation in palladium since late 2001 when its price collapsed. What then caused the NYMEX to suddenly raise the margins on palladium futures as if a wave of speculation were about to begin?

Lee Iacooca Restructured Chrysler just as he had restructured and saved Ford before that, and it worked for him and "the New Chrysler Corporation" again.  Juergen Schremp sang (to the melody from My Fair Lady)  "Why Can't A Chrysler Be More Like A Daimler" as he restructured the company...

The last time that gold reached an all time high price, prior to last week, was in 1980 when  its price reached $847 per troy ounce. Since then inflation has taken the 1980 dollar to $2.67 in 2008 dollars; this means that for gold to sell today at the same price it reached in 1980 it would have...

It is technologically pointless to wait for the advent of safe reliable lithium technology based batteries before ramping up the production of hybrid vehicles. The main issues holding back the production of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery powered, all electric, passenger and small cargo vehicles...

Is privately owned Chrysler acting out the role of champion for American OEM heavy industry in its battle with OEM automotive supplier, Plastech Engineering? Is Chrysler obligated to continue to do business, and lose money because of it,  with an insolvent supplier due to social and political...

SAFT is at it again. In 1996 the company had a lithium-ion battery production  plant in Connecticut. The batteries made there never caught the public's fancy, so around that time, 1996, SAFT sold the plant and its equipment to a Chinese battery maker and moved out of the US market back to France....

Minority business enterprise development was most 'successful,' in terms of volume of dollars generated,in the OEM American automotive industry. The big question always was: Did minority suppliers make money for themselves and save money for the OEM American automotive industry? There is no central...

A US Company called Project Better Place has figured out a 'better place' to try out a total solution to the implementation of a battery powered electric car strategy than the US, Israel. Renault-Nissan, which recognizes that no large industrial nation such as the US or France is small enough to test...

The Red Army, along with the Soviet Air Force and Fleet (Navy) controlled more destructive power than any other military machine in history, but this force was unable to give the (former) Soviet union control of the world, or even to preserve the Soviet union as a political structure. Today, a very...