4 posts tagged “electric”

Of course the price of these will have to come down PLUS! our government will have to step up to the plate and provide a substantial tax credit. Otherwise.....wtf ! I don't think that the tax credit available for the current hybrids is sufficient enough to get less affluent drivers to buy these cars in the quantities needed to start making a difference on the pollution front. Burning a gallon of gasoline produces approximately 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air. 
Car companies will have to get these down into Central and South America and made very affordable. The people there have horrible respiratory problems due to the filthy diesel and gasoline exhaust fumes which are rarely filtered by the vehicles there.

I find it really funny however that GM makes or rather still stands behind the statement that they did not kill the electric car and that only 800 people were willing to lease the car. In fact during the short time on the road, GM would ONLY lease the car because it planned the car's demise with anti electric marketing and quick destruction of the vehicles upon the lease expiration.
 
GM only produced the EV1 because it was required by law and the State of California at that time. Note however how quickly this technology was made available and how still to this day, the fuel cell technology has many problems. Why not just drop the whole fuel cell idea and put that money into evolving the electric car?
 
GM is using its EV1 technology for the new Volt which it says it plans on premiering in November 2010. My BIG QUESTION is why so long? My own answer is because they want to engineer certain amounts of required dealer maintenance and parts into this next car so that it can profit on post sales where it could not with the EV1.

Meanwhile - Jill Banaszynski, Manager of Electric Vehicle Programs
General Motors Corp.says: "We didn't kill the electric car; electric vehicle technology is far from dead." Which goes to prove my points in previous articles on this subject.

My feeling as to why Toyota and other Japanese companies have such great cars is that they do not have a need for technological impediment or technological stagnation. The Japanese auto industry is not tied at the hip to big oil in the same way American auto companies are. BTW: Toyota is now the #1 auto maker or soon will break a new record on the history books. The Japanese learned quickly following the World War from American quality men W. Edward Deming and Joseph Juran. Deming encouraged the Japanese to adopt a systematic approach to problem solving, which later became known as the Deming or PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Action) cycle. He also pushed senior managers to become actively involved in their company's quality improvement programs. Joseph Juran focused on Quality Control as an integral part of management control in his lectures to the Japanese in the early 1950s. He believes that Quality does not happen by accident, it must be planned, and that Quality Planning is part of the trilogy of planning, control and improvement. He warns that there are no shortcuts to quality.

Here is a picture of the Toyota House of Quality.

Japanese high tech products are known to be longer to market than American goods. This is because of the goal of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost, Shortest Lead Time. Which results in little to no post sale issues where as in U.S. made vehicles for instance, there is usually a lot of money poured into their cars after purchase due to problems that were not taken care of before the time to market and before the sale. It is highly unfortunate that the U.S. as a whole has turned its face on quality. It is no wonder why we buy Japanese goods like we do. Now quality is spreading across Asia as more emerging markets are feeding a changing economy and public.

It is not that the United States is incapable of quality and technology when it comes to products like automobiles. But that it chooses not to evolve technology in the area of the automobile in order to remain entrenched in oil longer. Fortunately, this is beginning now to change. Question is, at what pace? We believe the U.S. will continue to kill its innovations as long as it continues to profit and depend on coal and oil for energy. Other countries will have to show us point blank in the face why we are wrong as a nation to continue down this path any further. We will have to be criticized and ridiculed by other peoples around the world. Our citizens will have to loose more of their homes, pay far higher prices for all its goods, and continue drinking toxic waters (the toxins that are not reported) and eating fattening, high caloric and sodium laced, nutrition-less processed foods.

Yum!

100% Efficient Water/Steam Generator

A Look Inside The Almost Fuel-less Boiler Pump

There is no energy crisis, just ignorance and a lack of proper leadership among countries, governments, companies, and people. The solution has been around but we have been blinded by politics. We have had propaganda of government and its big business puppeteers turn us into sheep. That same propaganda would have us believe that it just isn't possible to have clean and renewable energy today. Oh! but we have companies like Nanosolar, Energy Conversion Devices (ENER), and many others with individuals that see the need and are trying to fulfill it.

We have what we need to be oil / coal independent far sooner than we have been told. We have the ability to make a better life for ourselves and our children today and in the future. So cry out to your leaders, your representatives in every government in every country on the planet. Lets make this thing work and lets get on the ball already!

A Win-Win Solution

Thirty experts from the United Nations, engineering firms, environmental and electrical engineers gathered to discuss the social, political, environmental and economic benefits of the interconnection of electric power grids across borders with an emphasis on tapping remote renewable energy resources. Hosted by the Winnipeg HVDC Research Institute and Manitoba Hydro, these findings offer a strong case for accelerating the GENI Initiative between all nations as a win-win solution for everyone.