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The Tesla performance car was designed to be free of the constraints of mass production economies of scale and to appeal to the playboy environmentalist who wants to show off his concern for the environment while exhibiting his wealth. It was intended to be the green Ferarri. Yet the Tesla Company has...

It is an open secret in Detroit that nearly 90% of the bankruptcies of OEM auto-parts makers have been all or in great part due to rising prices of raw materials and energy, not just to labor or so-called legacy costs. American OEM auto-parts makers cannot compete with Chinese companies that did not...

Will lithium ion technology batteries ever be ready for vehicular use prime time? Does it really matter?

GM is thinking ahead about the marketing of its leading edge technology, Chevrolet Volt, all electric car. GM does not want a customer for this leading edge technology to even think that he must bear any of the burden, either cost or inconvenience, of its development. Therefore, GM will rent the...

It is often said that Japan lost World War II, because of poor (or no) long term planning. Be that as it may the Japanese OEM automotive industry has beaten up the American OEM automotive industry for exactly the opposite reason: Japanese companies have made long term plans and unexpected consequences...

Ford's "way forward" seems to be only a cost cutting regime. Ford chose to try to find or create a superstar CEO rather than remove all internal barriers to the development of competitive power trains and stylish cars. The 'way forward' may well be moving towards a solid wall of consumer indifference....

A political and technological tsunami is descending on the OEM American automotive industry. The new and now relatively small group of private owners of Chrysler are made up of individuals we used to call industrialists,  a word which was defined as hands-on manufacturing managers with superior,...

The popular media seems to like the idea of inevitable high tech progress so much that it has talked itself into ignoring the growing number of reports that the current technology of lithium-ion batteries has serious problems when any attempt is made to scale up these devices beyond AA or AAA size....

Is GM making the right bet by making a commitment to diesel engined cars, light trucks, and SUVs? Yes, it is. If so, why then did Roger Penske, currently America's largest builder of (Detroit) Diesel engines sell his share in a very good Italian diesel engine manufacturer to them?

Europeans have been choosing diesel engines over gasoline engines for their personal cars by a margin of 2 to 1 for years. As a result European car makers as well as Honda have emphasized the development of low emission high performance turbodiesel engines.  GM is the only OEM American...