GLG News by Mining Experts

The battery pack in a hybrid vehicle takes the place of a high performance engine in the economic valuation of the vehicle's depreciation. Additionally the battery pack will bring with it a disposal charge as well as a true amortization charge based on its remaining life. No one has yet taken this...

If the details that have so far leaked out about the UAW's (pattern) agreement with GM then Ron Gettelfinger, the UAW CEO, may have well sold out his 'membership' in the long term for a handful of silver now. It will be, of course, the retirees who must pay for this mistake, if mistake it is, not the...

General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all made the same mistake in 1997: They failed to see any consequences for themselves from a Japanese carmaker's introduction of a new power train technology especially since it was based entirely on American technology. The then Big Three decided that Toyota...

Coal is the backbone of American Energy. However, due to the abundance and ease of use, alternative and more efficient uses of coal have not been commercially exploited to extract the full potential of coal. Any resurgence of coal has a direct effect on the U.S. economy in the increased demand for new...

Russian steel makers are rapidly expanding their production facilities in the US. One example is Severstal's takeover and revival of Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Michigan. This mill originally built and operated by Henry Ford became moribund by the 1990s. It was then taken over by a Japanese steelmaker,...

Chinese battery makers specializing in nickel metal hydride batteries for power driven small bicycle type, and industrial 'fork lift' type, vehicles have lately been consolidating. China is the world's predominant source of the rare earth metals needed to make the nickel metal hydride battery. China...

GM has the largest staff and the largest research facilities on earth dedicated to hybrid and electric car development. Is this just to make or give an impression of progress? If not, is GM now so far ahead that its r&d and its test vehicles already set the standards, which the rest of the global...

Rhodium metal, critical to the operation of automotive exhaust emission control, is becoming scarce. A rhodium metal catalyst is the easiest, most economical, and most effective way to reduce the nitrogen oxides (acid rain formers) produced in ordinary internal combustion engine operations...

The gap between basic and applied science is nowhere more apparent than in this story. Ultracapacitors have for years been the military's dream, and perhaps are a reality in laser weapons and particle beam weapons, but at what cost?

It would seem to be that there is a cornucopia of lithium-ion battery technologies now being investigated, and it is only the choice of one or two of them from the variety that now needs to be accomplished for car makers to live happily ever after. Is this true?