Comments on: A Green Auto Bailout Must Oust Execs

By: Ed.Dickau

Ed.Dickau — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:18:58 +0000

In Search Of The New “Holy Grail”: The SCEV “Self Charging Electric
Vehicle or (The Unplugged Self Charging Electric Fuel-less Zero
Emissions No Battery Exchange Electric Vehicle: (The Green Dream
Machine Electric Car)

http://theimpeachmenthearingroom.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-search-of-new-holy-grail-self.html

Despite what naysayers and nuts, foot draggers and perpetuators would
like to pass off as reasonable explanations for not changing anything
when it comes to building The “TRUE”SCEV “Self Charging Electric
Vehicle or ( The Unplugged Self Charging Electric Fuel-less Zero
Emissions No Battery Exchange Electric Vehicle) big enough, luxurious
enough and fast enough to satisfy the needs and desires of the most
crazed automobile addict are simply nonsense.

The challenges are not overwhelming; the science and technology is not
decades away. It is here now and if we decide, if we declare like
putting a man on the moon, that we are going to do it, and we put our
money where our mouths are we can have the dream Green Machine vehicle
on the road in 2010.

(The Green Electric Car)…

And then there will be the Green Truck, the Green Jet Aircraft, The
Green Train, and on and on. Then you can all come to Washington and
join me at the Smithsonian to look at a fascinating relic from out of
past… The Dead Internal Combustion Engine!

By: GM Says Volt Making Progress, Remains Committed Despite Crisis « Earth2Tech

GM Says Volt Making Progress, Remains Committed Despite Crisis « Earth2Tech — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:59:21 +0000

[...] Friday, commenters responded with skepticism to Lutz’s personal opinions on climate change. As we’ve said before, if the car companies are serious about retooling their image and producing more fuel-efficient [...]

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:36:33 +0000

In the case of the auto-makers’ bailout, it’s a relief to have a national issue that is so straightforward: American cars tend to suck therefore people are not buying them. If GM and Ford don’t want to go out of business, they should start making decent cars. To bail them out would be to reward their terrible manufacturing standards.

By: D Sakarya

D Sakarya — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:52:50 +0000

Perhaps Ford and Chrysler deserve a bailout, but GM absolutely deserves to be dismantled.

By: Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:07:09 +0000

The auto industry is in the position they find themselves due to greed. Selling suv’s is more profitable than fuel efficient vehicles. They sold us a bill of goods that has political, environmental and financial consequences that we will pay for in years to come.
Saving 3 million jobs is important. Let the oil industry bail out the big 3 they made the money from the auto manufacturers decision to sell us gas guzzlers.

By: Garry G

Garry G — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:13:01 +0000

Looking at all the Op-eds from Left/Right, I can't help but think that we are destined (in short term) to fall into the classic problem of fixes that fail. Trying to link money to improving the combustion engine seems wrong and that the industry must move beyond the manufacturing and sales paradigm of the combustion engine.

Hybrids should be avoided at all cost and our attention should be focused only on advanced energy storage systems (batteries, fuel cells and capacitors) that can change how we build cars. The industry needs leaner manufacturing, not the complexities of hybrids.

The Big 3 have too many factories, too many supply chain networks and have to stop only making money when they sell a new car. It’s time to leapfrog into electric motors powered by combination of batteries, fuel cells and capacitors. And leverage the coming convergence of the auto industry and utilities, and auto and IT industry around new revenue streams.

While Execs often dismiss new platforms and worry about being too early, recent bets on energy storage systems to be made in Asia suggest that we might be close to being too late. I would hope that US leadership recognizes the need to kill the combustion engine.

Thanks for the post!! Wonderful seeing this topic being flushed out across the blogosphere!

Some related articles that look at the globalization of electric vehicles:

http://www.theenergyroadmap.com/futureblogger /show/1272-the-future-of-the-us-auto-industry

Thanks!

Garry Golden Editor The Energy Roadmap.com

By: James Raider

James Raider — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:16:28 +0000

WHAT you implement and HOW you do it is critical.

Here is the type of plan Congress should consider >

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/11/solution-for-detroit-gm-friends.html

Trying something outside the box like this, is the only way to save the U.S. Auto Industry.

… it deserves saving.

By: Richard Leclair

Richard Leclair — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:58:44 +0000

This is a great opportunity to realign the auto industry on sustainable principles.
1) Nationalize temporarily (10 years) all the design functions of all the companies and get the best engineering minds together to design the best sustainable, fully recyclable zeron carbon transportation vehicles
2) leave the manufacturing to the current companies and keep only the management required for this function
4) invest only in companies that retool to build sustainable zero carbon vehicles
5) do not give millions to fired management – give them instead stock options based on the value of the whole industry in 10 years so that they have a vested interest in it’s success

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:52:52 +0000

That’s exactly what Detroit needs – required political litmus tests there executives. Bob Lutz is the driving force behind the Volt which has more potential to reduce green house gasses than any competing technology. How does it help to get rid of him just because he doesn’t believe in the party line. I think that has been tried in Russia and Germany, As I recall it didn’t work out well. Building innefficient cars was not smart, but it is not the main cause of Detroit’s financial problems, their problems stem from the huge expenses they incurred from the labor contracts they negotiated years ago.

By: Ed Wood

Ed Wood — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:52:00 +0000

All the auto execs should pay the price for their lack of imagination and stubborness in clinging to THEIR idea of what the industry should be and ignoring the Japanese competition. They took that route in the'70s and it almost killed them and they did not learn.

As a result the innovative part of the industry passed them by and now the taxpayers are expected to pick up the tab.

Only if these executive failures pay their share of the price.