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A US Company called Project Better Place has figured out a 'better place' to try out a total solution to the implementation of a battery powered electric car strategy than the US, Israel. Renault-Nissan, which recognizes that no large industrial nation such as the US or France is small enough to test...

The Red Army, along with the Soviet Air Force and Fleet (Navy) controlled more destructive power than any other military machine in history, but this force was unable to give the (former) Soviet union control of the world, or even to preserve the Soviet union as a political structure. Today, a very...

Each time that first American and then European politicians succumb to pressure from small well organized pressure groups for social 'action,' they pass the costs of such action onto large, usually publicly owned, businesses, and usually also, specifically, exempt small, usually privately...

If you 'cannot' simply swap out the nickel metal hydride battery pack of an existing hybrid vehicle for one of the 'new' lithium technology battery packs 'when 'they become 'available' in 'about 3 to 5 years' then the hybrid car is a very strange machine.

The lead-acid battery was mass produced for more than twenty-five years, before it was ever used in a car. The lithium technology battery has been in development for mobile applications for nearly fifty years. The nickel metal hydride battery has been mass produced for fifteen years, and has been used...

As the American dollar declines in value against the currencies of China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Europe it becomes much cheaper for those countries and/or their businesses to invest in the American domestic mining industry; to manufacture in the US using domestic American raw materials...

The very well compensated, well dressed, and well fed long serving executives of General Motors and Ford are lamenting at the North American (so-called) International Auto Show, in the economically and physically devastated (former and fading) Motor City of Detroit, that they are worried about the consumer...

The Toyota Prius has turned out to be an exceptionally long lived reliable car. Why is this a problem?

The public money so far spent on constructing a hydrogen fuel distribution infrastructure in California has been wasted. In fact it has resulted in fewer hydrogen fueling stations now than there were just two years ago.

Chrysler now has multiple deals to sell cars and trucks designed and manufactured by other OEM automotive companies. None of these deals required its own in-house, fading, engineering or design skills, and so none of them added to Chrysler's American costs.