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Ballard Power Systems was originally a battery company; it made lithium technology batteries for military power storage applications. Ford Motor Company was the first large industrial company to mass produce a car intended for middle income customers. Ballard knows very little about the design, power...

The Ford Motor Company hardly sells any hybrid vehicles.   Ford Europe has announced that they will not even offer hybrids there. Is there then any reason to continue to sell hybrids in America? I think the answer is no.

General Motors' corporate managers have for decades adopted a business model based on a shortsighted belief in mainly short term solutions to long term problems; this managerial class, which is typical of most large American corporations, and universal within the American OEM automotive industry, assumes...

No aluminum producer yet has successfully managed to vertically integrate the production of its total needs for electric power into its process, because it turned out not to be possible to control its access to the coal, oil, or gas fuel for a dedicated electric power plant, or even if it...

BHP Billiton is geographically the closest supplier to China of iron ore. BHP wants the 2008 price for its iron ore to be indexed to the Cinese spot market. Who would benefit most from this "first step,' perhaps, towards an exchange traded iron ore contract? I think not.

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...

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.