GLG News by Scrap Metal Experts

If a smart Texas teenager can assemble an electric car with a 40 mile range for under $10,000 cannot a larger corporation build a car with the same performance for use by High School and College students to go back and among school, home, and the job they'll need to pay for it? Why not build these just...

The quality of the passenger carrying motor vehicles offered for sale in the USA has improving dramatically during the 30 years since the, predominantly transplanted Japanese, competition forced the industry to address value rather than size and performance as the key to marketing. In...

Toyota has had tow pleasant surprises in the competition to lead the OEM automotive industry into the era of green cars: 1.) It has had no competition while it has established its bestselling Prius hybrid, and 2.) Its largest current competitor is probably bankrupt allowing Toyota to expand the Prius...

Toyota will have a limited production plug-in hybrid on the road probably as much as a year before GM's Volt. Toyota is test marketing a concept, the limited range, in full electric operation, commuter car.   Toyota thinks that this is a niche market, and will approach it with a modified version...

It will only take one public lithium battery operating failure or, worse, one fire to wipe out all of the green goodwill so far generated by the hype machine on behalf of the plug-in hybrid idea.

GM is a zombie company; it is dead and being kept on life support by a reckless and feckless government.

Last week I wrote here that the statements made by GM about the mode of operation of the shortly to be forthcoming Chevrolet Volt were nonsensical. GM said that the Volt would be an 'electric car,' but, based on the statements now made by GM spokesmen it could only be an electric car, which would have...

The management of GM, Ford, and Chrysler are individually and collectively the worst set of managers that any American owned and operated heavy industry has ever had. Until this group of managers is gone there is no hope for GM, Ford, or Chrysler. There is no value in lending or subsidizing this...

The Chevrolet Volt, if it is brought to market too early, will fail both in its intended use and in its operation. 

There are two non-silicon chemistries now being hyped as the bases for thin-film solar cells: 1. Cadmium telluride, and 2. Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Neither is practical at all.