All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

If billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian didn't have enough takers on his offer to buy 20 million shares of Ford Motor Co. stock at $8.50 apiece, he might face a stampede now.

The ultra powerful Car Lobby get the consumers access to cheap and inefficient cars and still enjoys great subsidies from the US government. It's part of the American Dream to own a house and a car, but since the car is an immediate necessity (Commuting & Lack of good Public transport) it's almost...

GM doesn't seem to understand battery technologies at all. Toyota's supplier of nickel metal hydride batteries has so far delivered more than 1 1/2 million of them for the Toyota hybrid fleet. Cobasys a joint venture between Chevron and Ovonic Materials-a spinoff of Energy Conversion Devices, which...

Autmotive OEM's have saturated the US market, and now must ride out the economic downturn. The astute OEM's are right-sizing for the US market,and the wisest among them are using US capacity to support the explosive growth of sales in China, Russia, India, and Brasil. What should emerge are more...

While the Detroit Three struggle to stay afloat in the middle of the worst auto sales year in a decade, emerging markets such as China and Russia are booming. So much so that while Ford is closing plants in the U.S., it is building them in Russia. They are not alone.

Lithium cobalt oxide batteries in the sizes needed for laptop computers have been known to overheat and even burst into flame. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are known to develop internal high pressures. If the car companies are not going to tell us which technology they have chosen for lithium batteries...

The American OEM automotive industry bankrupted its supply base by demanding ever increasing price concessions while absconding with the uncapitalized value of its supply bases's technology and using the stolen technology to buy low labor costs from outsourced suppliers. GM led the parade of short sighted...

It is no surprise that Ford is cutting production at its Volvo Cars unit. However, there may be more at play here than just cutting costs. 

General Motors, battered for decades by hot-selling, stylish, dependable, vehicles from European, and Asian automakers, seemed to have the field to itself in the race to produce an electric vehicle. Now, it seems everyone want's to join the party. With its announcement last week that it expects...

The American OEM automotive industry has studiously ignored all of the market's warning signals and forced its supply base to absorb the raw material price increases stemming from huge Asian demand and a falling dollar. This was done out of fear of being priced out of their own domestic market as well...