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Which clunkers for which new cars?

The hyrbids are not the most popular cars among those trading in their old vehicles to take advantage of the cash for clunkers. The average MPG improvement for the new car buyers is about 9. More than fifty percent better than many of the old cars to be...

Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Hyrbid, Edmunds, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-07

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Carwatchers watching Tokyo

Arguably the Tokyo Auto Show is now more important than the one that opens the calendar year in Detroit. And the show in Tokyo opens officially on October 21, so that means all the competitors are busy seeding the blogosphere with their hints and leaks and hype. There...

Tags: Mitsubishi Corp., Subaru, Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Plug-in, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Cash for clunkers: top sellers, lead junkers

Here's the score on America's cash for clunkers. Top sellers: 1) Toyota Corolla 2) Honda Civic 30 Toyota Camry. The hyrbid Prius was only 7th. Top-selling US-owned brand: Forde Focus at #4. On the dump-this-car end, Ford scored big. Three of the four...

Tags: Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Branding, Manufacturing, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Detroit's shrunken three looking better, but...

One of the most crucial ranking in the auto industry has been released. The bottom of the bottom line: Chrysler, Ford and GM are making better cars now, but still not the best. Most improved brand: Suzuki. That's the heartless conclusion from J.D. Power and Associates. The five...

Tags: Car, General Motors Corp., Chevy, Volt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?

One environmental organization thinks it could be the rare earth elements needed to make high tech devices from batteries to LEDs. From MRI scanners to catalytic converters. Here's NRDC's look at the source of these materials and the environmental cost of exploiting them. Bet you can guess...

Tags: China, Earth, Oil, Scanners, Engineering, Hardware, Peripherals, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Hybrids to increase market share, but...

Big money on Wall Street is betting hybrid autos will become a bigger part of the mass market this decade, but will remain a minority privilege for those who don't need a price-tag bargain. That's the conclusion of a study just out from J.P. Morgan. By the year...

Tags: Car, Japan, Hybrid, Toyota Prius, Morgan, Price Margin, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

U.S. battery company tries to power up

We all know Micihigan leads the country in unemployment and in dinosaur car companies. Amidst the nostalgia for days go by, some entrepreneurs are pushing for a re-birth. An Ann Arbor start-up is wanting to a big in the world of batteries. Sakti3 has backing...

Tags: Battery, Department Of Energy, Sakti3, Sakti, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Ford's Fusion claims world efficiency record.

Ford Fusion HYbrid, courtresy: Ford Motor. A Ford Fusion Hyrbid, unmodified and right off the showroom floor, has been driven nearly 1500 miles on a single tank of gas. That's 81.5 MPG. The Fusion ran nearly three days with a team of highly-trained drivers using every...

Tags: Ford Motor Co., Productivity, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Never has an un-launched car carried such a heavy load

Insight. Courtesy Honda. General Motors just reached a point where he didn't have to ask for another government bail-out...right away. But the biggest question in GM's future may still be the Volt. Will it give GM a jolt? Help it charge into the future?...

Tags: Car, General Motors Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-14

New Toyota hybrid promised

Despite the current global slump in care sales, Toyota expects to have a future. To that end there are reports in Japan that the car maker's planning a new hyrbid model that will sell for 20% less than the Prius. That would put the base price of this...

Tags: Toyota Motor Corp., Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-13

News to know: AOL layoffs, SAP layoffs, Cox Cable, DTV bill, Dell

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 Sam Diaz: AOL to layoff 700, consolidate groups Andrew Nusca: AOL lays off 700 due to ad meltdown...

Tags: Layoff, Dell Computer Corp., America Online Inc., Cox Cable, SAP AG, Digital Television, Sam Diaz, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Blog posts 2009-01-29

What’s it take to build a new hyrbid car? Try 119 new patents.

What’s it take to build a new hyrbid car? Try 119 new patents.Amazing screenshot. I'm impressed with that screen shot from the Fusion. I'm also amazed to hear how great Ford is doing on the hybrid technology front. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do along the lines...

Tags: GM Volt, car

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

What's it take to build a new hyrbid car? Try 119 new patents.

Here's the Fusion instructional screen. Provided by Ford Motor. Ford's America's only carmaker NOT to need a federal bailout. And today the company's proudly releasing some patent info on the 2010 Ford Fusion hybrid. Like it has 119 patents inside. And Ford just...

Tags: Car, Patent, Ford Motor Co., Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Time for us drivers to plug in?

Automakers, both foreign and domestic, both Detroitish and Japanese, are hoping we American drivers will be electrified. At least they hope we'll go for electrified cars. One MSM story today wonders ig continued low gasoline prices will kill public appetite for hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles for months,...

Tags: Car, Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-11

Can U.S. close the battery gap?

Not made in America. How many tech devices are designed in Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle or some other American tech center, manufactured elsewhere? From chips to iPods, we've gotten used to it. Now a consortium of lingering manufacturers in the U.S. want the feds to help them get...

Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Imara, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-18

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the FirstSugarCRMI work for a SugarCRM customisation and integration house (http://www.thesugarrefinery.com) so know a thing or two about SugarCRM.Just wanted to say that your article is probably one of the best written, most accurate, most informative and most...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM, CRM 2009, SugarCRM, Microsoft Corp., Companies

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Wavering on waves in Northern California

We are stuyding it. That's Pacific Gas & Electric's firm decision on trying to capture wave energy to generate electricity, or maybe not. Using a grant from the State of California, the utility, based in San Francisco, will study the feasability of an offshore warm energy farm...

Tags: Energy, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Car Wars in Detroit

The electric Fisker, photo courtesy of CNET. The world's two biggest auto makers are taking their fight to new territory. Toyota today announced it will make a plug-in hyrbid. This car would run on gasoline or you could plug it in to recharge...

Tags: Car, Plug-in, Ford Motor Co., Fisker, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Your overseas job: China or India?

If you're an American technie and you expect to be working overseas in the next few years, there are several reasons to think you are far more likely to be in China than India. Just today General Motors said it would build an R and D center in...

Tags: China, Job, Nokia Corp., General Motors Corp., Research & Development, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-29