GLG News by Mining Experts

The fact that Toyota's joint venture with Matsushita's Panasonic, which today manufactures all of the batteries used in the power train of the Toyota Prius, has gone ahead and planned a 50% expansion in output capacity  for its currently manufactured nickel metal hydride battery packs tells the...

Ford is working to bring its vehicle lines up to the technology achieved by the end of the twentieth century in power train engineering, while GM is today the twenty-first century leader. GM is even leaving Toyota in the dust, but not so far behind so as for Toyota to not be years ahead of Ford....

The eastern European market for cars and trucks is growing. Unlike the Chinese eastern Europeans have a long history of domestic heavy industry. China will never allow foreign car makers to control its domestic market. Eastern Europe is looking West, not East for its future.

Ford is trying to demonstrate that it has state-of-the-art engineering. In fact the idea of a hydrogen powered internal combustion engine shows that Ford engineering is moribund.

GM has introduced now introduced what might be termed the "second leg" of the Saturn Aura product line, the hybrid version. The Aura is the first car designed and available as both an internal combustion engine (ICE) powered and a hybrid-ICE powered vehicle. Both versions are getting rave reviews....

The lithium-ion battery has been rushed into mass production before it has been proven to be safe.   Chinese quality control, the subject of intense scrutiny lately, has clearly failed to insure the safety of small items powered by, apparently explosive, lithium-ion technology batteries. Isn't...

It has been reported on MSNBC that one of its employees had an iPhone fail practically out of the box. The failure seems to have been due to overheating of the device by its internal battery. That battery is the much hyped lithium-ion type. The same type that failed on laptop computers earlier this...

In cheapening the luxury Jaguar brand, paradoxically to give it a mass appeal, Ford engineering management ignored the practical consequences of their confused agenda. As a result Jaguars need very special attention to maintain their appearance. The kind of attention that a buyer of a Rolls Royce expects,...

Lithium ion battery technology cannot produce a storage cell that can be rapidly drained of high amperages of current and return to service. In order to start an internal combustion engine a battery must supply power (current and voltage maximums) to over come the inertia of the engines weight and resistance...

Chinese manufacturers of OEM Automotive components have today no cost of designing or developing their products. In addiiton they have no significant cost outlay to develop the manufacturing technology for their products. All of the above research and development costs have been borne by the OEM...