All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

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...

The alliance of Freescale and Chery to develop MCU and chipset technology means tremendous potential for Freescale growth in Asia. Freescale's recent acquisition of SigmaTel could give Freescale an avenue to grow share of automotive multimedia and infotainment chipset applications. Freescale is well...

They may have been taken by surprise as they claim, but Ford had better put a game plan together quickly if they are to deal effectively with the latest bid by investor Kirk Kerkorian.

Toyota finds itself buffeted by a triple whammy of outside forces: An unraveling U.S. market, surging raw material costs and a Japanese yen that continues to rise in value against the dollar. 

On one hand, the automakers are trying to entice customers into their showrooms with gas price guarantees, rebates, and cash incentives, on the other hand, lenders are pulling back by tightening lending standards. Oh, and did we mention, bankruptcies are up 47 percent!

As I suggested in an article last week, Detroit is looking at gas as an incentive in place of cash in order to get sales moving.