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In Flip-Flop, Mazda Commits to Hybrids

Mazda CEO Takashi Yamanouchi committed to producing hybrid gas-electric cars by 2015. Yamanouchi’s made the commitment at last week’s New York Auto Show, revealing the company’s change of direction on hybrids. In a series of prior statements—some only one week ago—Mazda executives had sworn off hybrids as too expensive and too limited for [...] [...]

Ford + EnerDel = Failure?

Where does your battery come from? In the future, the US might no longer suffer from foreign oil dependence, but there is every reason to believe that we’ll suffer from foreign battery dependence. Can the US auto industry survive and compete if it has to import cost-effective lithium batteries from Asia and Europe – areas that [...] [...]

Cap-and-trade or gas tax: Are we fooling ourselves?

Are both too offensive to Americans? Oil is trading around per barrel, yet supplies are building and there are oil tankers full of oil with no where to go. If oil prices were driven purely by the fundamentals, oil would probably be about bucks a barrel. And, until the US economy fully kicks back [...] [...]