GLG News by Mining Experts

Each time that first American and then European politicians succumb to pressure from small well organized pressure groups for social 'action,' they pass the costs of such action onto large, usually publicly owned, businesses, and usually also, specifically, exempt small, usually privately...

If you 'cannot' simply swap out the nickel metal hydride battery pack of an existing hybrid vehicle for one of the 'new' lithium technology battery packs 'when 'they become 'available' in 'about 3 to 5 years' then the hybrid car is a very strange machine.

The lead-acid battery was mass produced for more than twenty-five years, before it was ever used in a car. The lithium technology battery has been in development for mobile applications for nearly fifty years. The nickel metal hydride battery has been mass produced for fifteen years, and has been used...

As the American dollar declines in value against the currencies of China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Europe it becomes much cheaper for those countries and/or their businesses to invest in the American domestic mining industry; to manufacture in the US using domestic American raw materials...

The very well compensated, well dressed, and well fed long serving executives of General Motors and Ford are lamenting at the North American (so-called) International Auto Show, in the economically and physically devastated (former and fading) Motor City of Detroit, that they are worried about the consumer...

The Toyota Prius has turned out to be an exceptionally long lived reliable car. Why is this a problem?

The public money so far spent on constructing a hydrogen fuel distribution infrastructure in California has been wasted. In fact it has resulted in fewer hydrogen fueling stations now than there were just two years ago.

Chrysler now has multiple deals to sell cars and trucks designed and manufactured by other OEM automotive companies. None of these deals required its own in-house, fading, engineering or design skills, and so none of them added to Chrysler's American costs.

The automotive press is confused or just technologically illiterate. It should not be relied upon for analysis or technology. It is OK for reporting the results of test drives and repeating what public relations flacks tell it.

If General Motors plan to sell 75% of its cars and trucks outside of the US comes true it will no longer be either the largest American OEM domestic seller of cars and trucks, nor even an American company any longer, because in order to remain an American company it must repatriate accurately and truly...