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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

GM's Volt Project Depends For Its Success On The Notoriously Secretive Asian Battery Industry, Which Will Not Make A Battery Outside of Their Asian Home Countries In Order To Maximize Competitive Advantage. How Then Can Rick Wagoner, Or His Successor, Know When Or If GM Will EVER Get A Working Battery System?

December 8, 2008

Analysis of:Short Supply: American-made Electric Car Batteries | www.evworld.com

General Motors has failed completely to support its local nickel metal hydride battery maker, COBASYS. Earlier this year when Chevron, one of the joint partners in (C) Chevron (O) Ovonic (BA) Battery (SYS) Systems said it would no longer fund the unbroken annual losses of COBASYS and that its partner, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc, was free to do so on its own, it looked as if COBASYS would soon be gone, since ECD admitted it did not have 88 million dollars to cover COBASYS' expected deficit for fiscal 2008-9. General Motors leaped into the fray and said that it would buy out Chevron and ECD's interest in COBASYS and that it, GM, would use the company ultimately as an intake center for lithium-ion batteries. This hasn't happened. COBASYS batteries for the 2007 model year of GM's hybrids were 100% recalled, so the idea of putting this failed company in charge of li-ion battery quality control seemed lame even to those who still believe GM's PR about the Chevrolet Volt.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Compact French Electric Vehicle Propulsion System Puts Any Size Vehicle, Large or Small, Within Reach And Could Make Battery-Type, or Batteries Themselves, Irrelevant

December 8, 2008

Analysis of:Revolutionary Wheel for Electric Cars Puts Guts Inside Wheel | gas2.org

One powered wheel and a battery of any type can make a motorbike, two powered wheels and a battery of any type can make a powered freight or passenger carrying cart, three or more powered wheels and a battery of any type can make a car, 8, or more, can make a truck, and with a third rail or an overhead wire connection 8 or more can make a bus, passenger carrying railcar, freight carrying railcar, subway car, etc.   The size of the wheel and of its contained motors can be increased to make long haul freight or passenger carrying vehicles.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

No Amount Of Taxpayer Hand-Outs Can Solve The Problems Of GM and Chrysler: Myopic Management. The Treasury Should Seize Control Not Cede It.

November 10, 2008

Analysis of:Automakers struggle to survive past mistakes | www.forbes.com

Three years ago a former Chairman of an American OEM automotive company told me  that the problem with GM, Ford, and Chrysler was that they all believed originally that the Japanese would never learn how to make cars that Americans would buy, and, then, after that turned out to be false they simply decided that there was nothing to be learned from the Japanese who must have been successful, they thought, simply by emulating them. These men, and they were and are all men, are myopic and incompetent. It is their fault as much as the fault of the monopolistic union that the domestic American OEM car companies and their supply base have failed. Let's please get rid of them immediately.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

General Motors, Thank Goodness, Is Not The Backbone Of American Manufacturing; It Is More Of A Still Curable Cancer.

November 10, 2008

Analysis of:Auto-Industry Crisis Tests Obama | online.wsj.com

The backbone of American manufacturing is made up of profitable, high-productivity companies in a variety of industries, which create or find a way to manufacture the latest and most relevant technologies for our health, safety, workplace productivity, or leisure. The backbone consists also of those companies whose workers income is directly related to their productivity and directly related to their employer's ability to mass produce innovative and important products. The backbone consists only of those companies that can give their workers benefits such as health care and pensions while the employer still makes a profit.   Those companies that create wealth are the backbone of American industry not those that destroy wealth.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

The Same Short Term Thinking That Got GM And Chrysler To Where They Are Is Now To Be Used To Reverse That Course. It Is A Disasterous Form Of Politics As Economics That Rahm Emanuel Is Pushing On An Economically Short-sighted New President

November 10, 2008

Analysis of:Emanuel Urges Aid for Auto Industry | www.nytimes.com

Short term planning, or no planning at all, got the American owned and operated OEM Automotive industry into the predicament it is in today. Not only are the current managers of these companies not 'car-guys' they are also not manufacturing engineering or quality management 'guys.' You cannot decide to change over a vehicle line, and then change it again during the changeover, without risking total failure of both the car and its maker Designs need to be finalized, technologies need to be chosen, and supply contracts need to be put in final form years before 'new' cars can hit the road. The GM, Chrysler, and Ford managers have been playing politics for so long that they can no longer build cars without political content that may be impossible using technologies that are unproven and even untested. This is politically motivated BS of the type that drives the 'promise' to achieve lofty goals simply by spending huge amounts of public money with no real plan!

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Isn't The American OEM Automotive Industry A Subprime Lender? Didn't The US Government Learn Antthing About High Risk Lending Yet?

November 7, 2008

Analysis of:Automakers and Union Seek Help From Pelosi | www.nytimes.com

It is incredible that anyone would consider financing the further operations of the American OEM automotive industry without insisting first that its current management be replaced as a precondition. The enabling legislation creating the facility to lend taxpayer originated funds include the following regulations that the Department of Energy is to follow: "before it can lend money, the Energy Department must conclude that the borrower has assets that exceed its liabilities, and is likely to be able to repay the principal and interest."

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Native Canadians Tiring Of North American Politics Reach Out To China For Infrastructure Development To be Paid For With Natural Resources

November 6, 2008

Analysis of:Aboriginal chiefs pitch business deals to China | www.canada.com

The North American civil rights movement has assured native Americans of their property rights and their sovereignty over the natural resources on their lands. American environmentalism has at the same time made sure that every conceivable roadblock is put in place to prevent the development of those natural resources. Canadian native Americans have now decided to stop going hat in hand to Ottawa to beg for development and are asking Chinese investors to build roads and powerplants on their land and to be paid from the harvest of the wood on their lands and the metals and minerals to be found there. Native Americans have been bought off with casino licenses that get them roads only to the door of the casino. How long will it take them to emulate their Canadian relatives?  

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Notwithstanding The Self-Serving "John Snow- Job" It's Not The American OEM Automotive Industry That is Failing It's The American Owned and Operated OEM Automotive Industry That Has Already Failed Miserably.

November 6, 2008

Analysis of:Cerberus chief: Country can't let automakers fail | www.forbes.com

It seems that because he is too big for his own failure not to be noticed  on Wall Street and at his alma mater's plush New York City 'club" John Snow is blathering about how he sees a 'bailout' of his Chrysler deal as a mandatory step that the US Treasury must take. Of course, it was his own miscalculation that brought Chrysler to this point; the exhausted car company should have failed 10 years ago when it was eviscerated of ideas by the very arrogant Juergen Schremp then the CEO of Daimler. The last solely Chrysler designed cars to go into production without input from Daimler were the PT-Cruiser and the 300. They were also the most successful of Chrysler's offerings in the DaimlerChrysler period.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

What Iceberg's Tip Is Emphasized By The Short Range Of The Chevrolet Volt?

November 5, 2008

Analysis of:Chevy Volt Inspires a New Language | wheels.blogs.nytimes.com

General Motor's admits that "The Volt...has a range of 40 miles (when all power equipment has been turned off, including air conditioner, stereo and headlights),...."   General Motors apparently suffers from "We will build it, and they will buy it syndrome." Who now needs a short range, environmentally touchy, expensive small car for running around the empty subdivision or going to the empty mall or to the nearby unemployment office?

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Will Technologies Critically Dependent On "Minor Metals" Survive The Current Cull Of Junior Miners?

November 4, 2008

Analysis of:"Darwinian culling" in junior mining sector | network.nationalpost.com

The rush to analogy by the mainstream media has recently brought us such oversimplifications as the comparison of modern America to ancient Rome and of Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy, but the MSM may be on to something with a description of the disappearance of interest by investors in thinly capitalized junior (exploration oriented) mining companies as a Darwinian "culling, a destruction of the weakest."

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