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Auto Industry Business Model Needs a Major Overhaul
Research Recap submits: The challenges facing the automotive industry will require a major change in the business model, which is unlikely to arise without government intervention, according to Oxford Analytica. General Motors’ GM announcement that it is collaborating with more than 30 electric utilities in the United...
When Truckers Can't Afford Trucks What do They Buy?
Compete submits: It’s not any real news that full-size pickup trucks are taking a beating in today’s economy. With gas prices over $4 per gallon and the housing market still in a funk, pickup sales are getting worse with each passing month. Here at Compete we’ve been studying the...
Heck Freezes Over: Honda Trims New Pilot, Odyssey
This isn't as big a deal as Ford postponing the all-new F-Series pickup (which I characterized earlier as "hell freezing over"), or Chrysler cutting back its new minivans, but Honda confirmed this week it's cutting back slightly on production of its all-new 2009 Honda Pilot SUV, and the Honda Odyssey...
The US Auto Crisis
Gino Lattarulo submits: American auto manufacturers are in a world of hurt. I am talking about a beating of epic proportions. Is this the result of a sluggish economy and awful fuel prices? Well, yes of course it is; but only to a point. Let's face it, American manufacturers...
Who Will Crack the CIGS Nut in Thin Film?
I've been saying for a while, that with enough money, someone is bound to crack the CIGS nut in thin film, and deliver the cleantech sector another First Solar FSLR like renaissance for the always around the corner technology.That's not because it's easy, or even because it's a good idea...
SUV Makers Feel the Heat of Higher Oil Prices
Salman Khan submits: The Sport Utility Vehicle has been an American icon ever since it was born into mass popularity during the days of World War II when the American Willys Jeep was introduced in the US car market. Vehicle buyers were drawn to their large cabins, higher ride height,...
Is There Any Hope for the Big Three Auto Makers?
Charles Morand AltEnergyStocks submits: Two related pieces of news on Monday, one that was the day's headline and the other that drew a little less attention. First, the big news: auto makers, especially US-based ones, got hammered by their product mixes. As expected, Americans are...
Raw Data Report: Cars
TickerMine submits: Each day, Wall Street is flooded with stock research offering a multitude of conflicting investment opinions. As such, TickerMine is not in the business of providing more opinions. We believe that accurate raw data points can be used to gain insight in to the stock...
Is Anything Worth Owning in the Auto Industry?
Chris Krasowski submits: In short, with high Oil prices and report after report from the big automakers cutting production, the answer's a resounding No! There's simply nothing compelling out there valuation wise in the Automotive space. Ford F? Virtually slashing it's popular truck line in half with...
Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook
Phil Davis submits: So many cheap stocks in such a horrible market! It is very tempting to hit the buy button. We’ve been waiting to deploy some more cash since Thursday the 12th, when I thought 12,000 made a good bottom, but this morning it looks like we...
Reasons to Love 3-Digit Oil
Marc Courtenay submits: We recently had the displeasure of having to driving around the freeways of southern California. Some of the more congested ones like the 405 and the 101 have 6 or 8 lanes of traffic, and at rush hour they are all clogged with mostly single-driver cars. ...
Real Prices for New Cars Keep Going Down
Mark J. Perry submits: Thanks to an anonymous comment for the link to this Dept. of Energy website with data on the Average Price of a New Car from 1970 to 2006, in both current and constant dollars. The chart above shows the real, inflation-adjusted average price of a...
A Closer Look at the Impact of Higher Gasoline Prices on Driving
Menzie Chinn submits: There's been a lot of discussion recently about the effects of high gasoline prices on the quantity demanded of gasoline, as well driving behavior (Jim Hamilton, Jim Hamilton, CR, CR, Paul Krugman). David Austin, whose work I have cited often on this blog, gave a fascinating...
Hybrid Cars: It Finally Makes Economic Sense to Buy One
Zubin Jelveh submits: Almost. According to a study by Edmunds.com cited in the WSJ, at current fuel prices, it would take 3.5 years for the costs of owning a Toyota TM Prius, the most fuel-efficient car out there, to equal that of owning the similar but gas-guzzling Camry. That's...
How Gas Price is Affecting Pickup Trucks
Well we all know the rise in gas prices is not new news. The price per barrel of crude oil is the leading story in virtually every daily publication. $120, $125, $130, $136 a record are all numbers we are unfortunately far too familiar with these days. With these prices...
PJO Offers a Fundamental Approach to Japan - Can It Recover?
Don Dion submits: Japan?s Nikkei Stock Average, one of the country?s key benchmark indices, rose 2.3% last week, finishing May with a 3.5% gain. Since March 17, the index is up 22%. Still, the index remains down 6.3% year to date, compared to a...
Electric Cars for 2010: Shift from Foreign Oil to Riding on Local Renewable Energy
John Addison submits: With oil prices rocketing past $130 per barrel, a growing number of vehicle makers are planning to offer electric vehicles by 2010. Zero gasoline will be used. Over 40,000 electric vehicles [EV] are currently used in the United States. Most are used in fleet applications, from...
May Auto Sales: What Went Wrong for the Automakers?
David Silver submits: During market hours on June 3, the U.S. automakers reported auto sales for the month of May. And the results were dismal. This shouldn't come as any great surprise as the reasons for the sharp declines have been all over the newscasts, newspapers, and websites around the...
Hybrid Buyers are Liars?
Hybrid Buyers are Liars?HybridsI bought a Honda Civic Hybrid precisely because it looks like a normal car. I support the idea that a hybrid engine is just another technological upgrade that should come standard in all cars, like a catalytic converter or fuel-injection system. So it's not fair to lump...
Does Detroit Matter?
I'm in Detroit this week, so let me pose the question to my readers, who appear to be very sharp and technology-oriented: does the survival of an American-owned auto industry matter to the American economy and its technology sector? I think many of you will answer "no."...
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