Politically inconvenient truth about low emission cars
Source: FT.com
Many years ago already, Honda showed an "LZE" car -- "less than zero emissions". When driving in Los Angeles, the car produced exhaust gas with less pollutants than there were in intake air! Manufacturers have decades of experience in fine-tuning internal combustion.
As everyone has probably heard by now, the American Auto Industry is in crisis mode, with millions of American jobs at risk, regardless of the cause of the meltdown.
With Saturn, G.M. Failed a Makeover
Source: The New York Times
General Motors has promised Congress that it can recreate itself as a different kind of car company — smaller, with a more cooperative relationship with its union, and a lineup of fuel-efficient cars to compete with the best of the foreign brands
BMW 3-Series Diesel to Get 36 mpg on the Highway
Source: autoweek.com
BMW on Tuesday released fuel-economy and pricing details for its upcoming diesel versions of the 3-series and X5. The diesels will be shown at the Los Angeles auto show next week, ahead of their launch in the U.S. market.
Fellow Americans we must stop investing in roads, highways and parking lots. The automobile must go the way of the horse as an antiquated way of getting around. Find a better way now, before desperation forces us to do so.
Some choice words for the beggars
Source: Politico
I think that the automobile industry needs to come up with a strategy to get themselves out of the gutter. Like the article states, they can't expect for the government to just give them $25 billion when they are not taking any real initiative to change.
Detroit's Luxury-Class Beggars
Source: New York Post
But you'd think the prospect of heading hat-in-hand to Washington would inspire a bit more, uh . . . humility. Instead, the Big Three gave taxpayers a valuable lesson in why a bailout might well be throwing good money after bad.
Satellite Radio Is Dead
Source: itmanagement.earthweb.com
Excerpt: I hate to say it, but somebody has to: Satellite radio will come crashing down to Earth within the next two years. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio is already living on borrowed time -- and borrowed money -- and simply will not and cannot survive.
What it Feels Like to Drive a Tesla Roadster
Source: Gizmodo
The Tesla dealership is quiet as a cage of sleeping panthers. A pack of the electric roadsters, in varying degrees of grey, are strewn across the show floor looking 120mph standing still.
It's Economy, Stupid, Not Ford And GM
Source: the IBD
In bankruptcy, a judge can modify a firm's labor contracts and debts. GM needs the benefits of bankruptcy without the uncertainties, but the political process — so far — disdains that desirable bargain.
No UAW Bailout
Source: the IBD
It's called bankruptcy, and it should not be written off as unthinkable.
Tonight on Chris Matthews Jeb Hensarling, Republican Representative from Texas, said that we should let the auto industry fail and that we should take the money that would be given to them and give it to start up small businesses.
Detroit Is Tanking, But Toyota's in Trouble, Too
Source: Wired News
Toyota's stock nosedived 17 percent last week -- its greatest decline in 18 years -- after the company announced it will see an operating profit of just $6.9 billion, a 73.6 percent decline over last year.
Calif. company developing flying car
Source: Times of the Internet
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A California company says it's working on a flying car that would lift drivers above idling rush-hour traffic with the flick of a switch.
Wis. man digs homemade car out of basement
Source: Times of the Internet
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin man who built a replica Lamborghini in his basement said he had to hire an excavator to dig the sports car out of his home.
Germans are developing 'cognitive' cars
Source: Times of the Internet
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- German engineers say they are developing a software program that will, for the first time, help several cars coordinate their movements to avoid an accident.