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- Photos: OnStar EV Lab connects to Chevy Volt
- General Motors opens its OnStar EV Lab to provide online services and battery management tools to electric Chevy Volt drivers. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Battery, OnStar, Photograph, Engineering, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-10-19
- GM, eBay pull plug on online car sales experiment
- General Motors and eBay are reportedly ending their online sales partnership after the experiment didn't deliver car buyers to dealers and led to some confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, the seven-week eBay experiment for GM is ending. Why? The marketplace didn't move vehicles. ...
- Tags: Car, eBay Inc., General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What value research? In this case a cool billion dollars.
- Research at MIT led to the founding of A123 Systems. That company just went public to the tune of a billion bills. A123 Systems is in the rechargeable battery biz, a sweet spot these days. It was founded eight years ago with a $100,000 federal grant. My,...
- Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Rechargeable Battery, A123 Systems, A123Systems, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- They're still pushing hydrogen
- General Motors is heralding a milestone for their hydrogen-powered cars still in road testing. Under current political conditions the hydrogen fuel cell car looks almost perfect: it emits H20. No carbon, sulphur or nitrous emissions. It burns hydrogen which is almost infinitely available from hydrolysis. And that in...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- 230 MPG. 367 MPG. Pick a number and market it! Doubts are voiced.
- It all began this week when General Motors claimed a 230MPG rating for its still unreleased elecltric Volt. Then Nissan claimed a 367 MPG for its unreleased Leaf. And that car won't even have a gas tank! So are the auto makers basing their claims on the...
- Tags: Mile, General Motors Corp., Volt, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Electric vehicle grants
- The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...
- Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- It would HAVE to hit $20 a gallonbefore the current price of the Volt makes economic sense. But if they can shave that price down by $12k or so then it would make sense now. I'm personally routing for the latter to happen instead.At $20 a gallon the economy would...
- Tags: gallon, car, General Motors Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- GM's now saying the fuel efficiency for their plug-in volt will be the equivalent of 230 MPG in city driving. If the EPA concurs that would make the 2010 Volt the first mass-produced car to top the triple-digit MPG barrier. Volt. This preliminary 230...
- Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Chevy Volt: 230 mpg in city driving; Are you a buyer?
- The electric Chevrolet Volt is expected to get at least 230 miles per gallon in city driving. That adds up to about $2.75 for electricity per 100 miles. General Motors outlined the miles per gallon figures Tuesday. The Volt is expected to start...
- Tags: Mile, General Motors Corp., Chevrolet Volt, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Can eBay be your new car dealer and reduce GM's inventory?
- EBay's grand experiment with General Motors Co. could be a novel answer to making the auto industry's dealership networks more efficient. GM and eBay said Monday that they will kick off an effort to allow consumers to click and buy new cars from participating dealers in California....
- Tags: Car, eBay Inc., General Motors Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Reports: HP cutting more EDS salaries
- Updated: HP is reportedly cutting salaries of EDS workers again. It's the second round of salary cuts for EDS staffers since HP acquired the services giant. According to the Dallas Morning News and television reports, EDS workers have been notified that another round of pay cuts is...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Salary, Worker, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truth
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truthObviousMicrosoft reminds me is so many ways of General Motors of the 1970's. I suspect that the end result will be much the same. Companies, like countries and people have life cycles.Still not convinced about open sourceAs a consultant dealing with...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, people resource, Microsoft Corp., Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Brrrrm! Brrrrm! Brammo makes a little noise.
- American electric motorcycle maker, Brammo, has built in sound to its vehicle. The chips that manage the operation of this electric motorcycle will create sounds to let folks know you're there. There's a special sound for the acceleration from zero to 10 MPH. You can then customize your...
- Tags: Cycle, Motorcycle, Brammo, Enertia, Valence, Chasis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Engineering, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- News to know: AMD; Windows 7; Chrome OS; 'Slow IT'
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: AMD rounds out six-core Opteron lineup Joe McKendrick:Â In praise of 'slow IT' Mary Jo...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PecoBOO, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index
- The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...
- Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery
- Discussion threads 2009-07-10
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?
- The new General Motors exiting bankruptcy today is: 1) Leaner and getting ever more so. Another 6,000 jobs to go. 35% of current execs will go. They've already shed Opel and Pontiac, and that list of defunct or sold brands will grow. 2) Really publicly-owned now. ...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Academic Competition Leads the Way to a New Electric Car
- The University of Ontario Institute of Technology UOIT is one of 17 North American Universities participating in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year engineering competition established by the United States Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Laboratory. The challenge was to integrate an electric motor...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Siemens AG, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-07-01
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