GLG News by Mining Experts

The largest Japanese companies are influential politically within Japan to a degree that American companies of similar size can only dream of. Lobbying on behalf of Japan's interests is always about these companies. The informed section of the American press usually refers to this arrangement as Japan,...

Will it be economical for the other "American" car makers, those which used to be called transplants, to engineer a flex fuel powerplant just for the US market?It will cost a lot of money, andIt will take time to engineer and to specify and qualify new components made from different materials in expensive...

BMW has chosen exactly the right path to take with regard to global warming. It can convert its product line's high quality engines to operate on (greenhouse gas) emission free hydrogen right now.BMW is also working with GM and DCX (DaimlerChrysler) on a hybrid powerplant for large consumer vehicles,...

Honda, without an in-house developed hybrid or lithium-ion technology has demonstrated by its number one position on the list of green carmakers, by overall emissions, its mastery of the technology of making the most efficient, liquid petroleum fueled, internal combustion engines in the world.Toyota...

It took very little foresight to see that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), would divide along conservative-liberal-libertarian lines on the issue of whether or not the EPA had the legal "obligation" to regulate "tailpipe" emissions of greenhouse gases.This issue is now fully politicized....

The world's newest and, perhaps, largest ever markets for motor vehicles, China and India, are beginning to be supplied with a new generation of small, inexpensive, cars.Vehicles of such size use internal combustion engines that can be made efficient enough and durable enough so as not...

With volume production and sales as the target no one would be foolish enough to enter the domestic Indian OEM automotive market with anything other than an entry level car.For India, entry level, means a very low priced vehicle that is simple to repair and durable.The truly global and cosmopolitan...

The CEOs of the Detroit Three have only one thing in common, a need to reduce political pressure from the federal government to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in any way possible and/or to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.The political leadership of the US uses mandatory fuel efficiency standards...

German auto industry latecomers to the hybrid agenda wanted to buy components from Toyota to save development time.Toyota said that they only sell complete hybrid power train systems.The Japanese stuck to their guns, because they decided that ego and pride, not business sense, were driving the German...

Ford has been outsourcing the design and loading of emissions control devices, catalytic converters and now diesel particulate filters, for years solely to save money.The dramatically difficult and relatively new regulations on diesel particulate emission have caused jury-rigged expensive designs...