General Motors ate it own child, the very successful electric cars, the EVA-1 and -2. GM also first suppressed a revolutionary battery, then sold the rights to Chevron which killed it. Let's not reward GM's capacity to defraud America on the electric car issue. Kill the proposed Bush Bail out of GM and Chrysler. We have better plans for Chrysler. THREADS
LEAD-IN ARTICLES
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| Schultz, Jack | REORGANIZE GM | Imagine that you had a company that sold the same products all over the world with the same management, labor and dealer network. What if your international operations were making $1.5 billion/year but your USA operations were losing over twice that at $3.3 billion? And, your international competitors were growing sales, making money and continuing to build new plants in the USA, even as you were shuttering plants and firing employees? You wouldn't be able to blame the government for fuel or safety standards since those same competitors have to abide by the same rules that you do. Nor could you look to market share, as your domestic business has a very healthy 22% share compared to only 7% to 17% in your major international markets. Wouldn't you want to try to find the one major factor that differentiates you from your very successful competitors? Wouldn't you want to change it, if you did find it? |
| Miller, Jim | STOP THE GM-CHRYSLER SERIAL ECONOMIC RAPE OF AMERICA - PART I
--GM ate it own child and spit-out a most efficient battery. | General Motors ate it own child, the very successful electric cars, the EVA-1 and -2. GM also first suppressed a revolutionary battery, then sold the rights to Chevron which killed it. Let's not reward GM's capacity to defraud America on the electric car issue. Kill the proposed Bush Bail out of GM and Chrysler. We have better plans for Chrysler. |
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| STOP THE GM-CHYSLER SERIAL ECONOMIC RAPE OF AMERICA -- PART II
--Chrysler should be reinvented as Chrysler Electric Auto Company |
Problem
GM wants the U. S. Treasury to fund its take-over of Chrysler. We have better plans for Chrysler. How should be make it happen?
There is a perfectly sensible alternative which will not cost the Feds any net loss and probably gain it a profit. Here it is:
- Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to purchase the controlling interest in Chrysler. Currently, Cerberus owns 80.1% for which it paid 7.1 billion to Daimler which had previously paid 36 billion and retains 19.1% interest. If Cerberus refuses to sell at 7.5 billion or less, then no help is offered the GM-Chrysler deal. Chrysler, even with 9 billion in cash, will continue to hemorrhage cash, shed jobs and close plants. You can count on CEO Bob Nardelli to wreck Chrysler.
- Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to change the name to Chrysler Electric Auto Company and loan CEAC up to 100 billion to retool as a manufacturer of both pure plug-in and plug-in hybrid vehicles. CEAC should have only three models: a high-end luxury SUV, a mid-sized sedan and a very small, two passenger local transportation car. The later one would be a plug-in only while the other two are plug-in hybrids.
- This retooling includes the manufacture of kits which can be sold to folks who will use the kits to convert their Chrysler vehicle to a plug-in hybrid.
FOR THE REST OF THE STORY,GO TO:
http://chyslerelectricautocompany.wetpaint.com/page/STOP+THE+GM-CHRYSLER+ECONOMIC+RAPE+OF+AMERICA+-+PART+II |
| MILLER, JIM | THE BIOVOLT TRUCK AND THE SLIDING PISTON GENERATOR
 | Piston power: In an unconventional engine design, a rod with a piston at either end shuttles between two combustion chambers. Magnets at the center of the rod move past metal coils (orange) to create an electrical current.
Credit: Peter Van Blarigan, Sandia National Laboratory | | The Sliding piston genset could be used in the BioVolt Truck to generate electricity to recharge the batteries should they run low on energy. Instead of the large, expensive reciprocating internal combustion engine running the generator as described below, the produce syngas can be factionalized into many different gases (depending on the feedstock) into propane, butane, pentane and ethanol. The proper gas can be compressed and stored behind the cab of the truck and fed to the electric generator as needed. This would greatly reduce the cost of manufacture and greatly lighten the weight of the truck, thus making the combination much more efficient and cheaper to build and operate. There would be little maintenance involved in this electric generator. |
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| Portable Charger Powered by Kinetic Motion Will Be Released Next Year
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/25/portable-charger-powered-by-kinetic-motion-will-be-released-next-year | While the portable charger will be M2E’s only commercially available product in the near future, the company plans has more plans for their kinetic technology in the pipeline, including a centralized battery pack for military units and power for peripheral systems of hybrid cars. On a larger scale, M2E hopes to use kinetic energy to enhance wind, hydropower, and tidal power efficiency. Not bad for a company that came out of stealth mode less than a year ago. |
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| CHYSLER SHUTS DOWN HYRID PRODUCTION
[Again, proof of the need to get rid of the current management and turn Chrysler into an electric car company.] | In a sign of these strange economic times, Chrysler LLC is simultaneously preparing to launch its first hybrid vehicles and to shut down their production. As reported in this newsletter, back in June the company hyped the price benefits and performance achievements of its new hybrids, the 2009 Dodge Durango HEMI Hybrid and the 2009 Chrysler Aspen HEMI Hybrid, which were to be delivered to showrooms in August. That never happened, but on October 16, Chrysler released the official fuel economy numbers for the two hybrids: 20 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 22 mpg on the highway, which are best-in-class fuel economy ratings for full-size sport utility vehicles. At that time, Chrysler said the hybrids would arrive in showrooms "later this year," and the company included a photo of the Chrysler Aspen Hybrid "after production at the Newark Assembly Plant" (note that the company dropped the "HEMI" from the name). A week later, Chrysler announced that it will close the Newark Assembly Plant in Newark, Delaware, at the end of this year, a move that will bring an end to the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen in all their forms, including the new hybrids. See the Chrysler press releases on its hybrid launch and plant shutdown. |
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VIDEO CLIPS AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS
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| PBS/FRONTLINE NEWS VIDO CLIPS: HEAT | CHAPTER
- WATCHING THE WORLD CHANGE: Disappearing glaciers, rising sea levels, expanding deserts -- the world is changing faster, more dramatically than ever was anticipated. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/1.html
- FOSSIL FUELS, THE ENGINE OF OUR LIVES: America's growth, consumption has produced record CO2 levels; India, China are right behind with oil, coal, natural gas demand. Is the planet doomed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/2.html
- TEN YEARS TO REVERSE COURSE: With the IPCC issuing ever more urgent reports on climate change, there's a growing momentum in the U.S and the world for real change. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/3.html
- AMERICA'S ADDITION TO COAL: We get 52 percent of our electricity from coal-fired plants. They emit 2 billion tons of CO2 a year. Can clean coal technology be developed -- and in time? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/4.html
- Cars: 2nd Largest Source of Carbon Emissions -- CAFE standards; For years, those who pushed for fuel-efficient/zero-emission vehicles have found themselves on a collision course with Detroit and Washington. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/5.html
- BIG OIL: Oil profits soared in '07, but none of the companies are investing in alternatives in a meaningful way. It's all going toward finding more oil/natural gas http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/6.html
- TWO INSTRUCTIVE LESSONS FROM THE PAST; While gov't must lean on business to tackle climate change, recall what happened with Clinton-Detroit's new car project, and corn-based ethanol. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/7.html
- CARBON-FREE POWER: Europe's way ahead and getting gov't support. But T. Boone Pickens is betting on wind and Washington's support. And nuclear's getting a fresh look. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/8.html
- WILL AMERICA SUMMON THE POLITICAL WILL? Congress fails to pass the landmark bill that would have regulated carbon emissions. Can Americans and the next president reverse course? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/9.html
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| PEAK MOMENTS TV
|  What if you could make a call at any time on your cell phone and have a vehicle come to you within minutes, take you to your local destination, and cost about as much as a bus ride? Allen Hancock’s notion of demand-responsive transit fills the gap between the private automobile and public transit. Rather than fixed routes and schedules, smaller vehicles guided by intelligent software with gps (geographic positioning system), circulate to where riders are and want to go. Flexible, efficient, low-cost, it uses existing vehicles and roads. Where’s the town that will implement this exciting pilot project?http://www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/?p=258 |
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