DOE Cutting Hydrodgen Car Funding Obama's Department Of Energy Secretray Stephen Chu announced that the DOE is cutting funds for research into hydrogen powered cars. Fro...
Republicans and Hybrids Over at the WSJ, the question is asked, " Where are the Republican hybrid buyers ?". The answer, is that most people (not just Rep...
GM Mega-Dilution GM has filed a paper ( here ) with the SEC, "PRE 14C" which lays out a plan to dilute its common stock, by issuing new shares to t...
Cash For Clunkers Compromise The House Energy Committee has released a compromise "Cash For Clunkers" plan, which is quite different than the two previous comp...
John Kerry Introduces Quiet Car Ban John Kerry and Arlen Spector have introduced Senate bill S.841, the "Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009". This legislation...
Lutz Smacks Letterman In a blog post titled " Stupid Human Tricks ", Bob Lutz smacks down David Letterman for being uninformed about the Chevrolet Volt,...
The Chrysler Filing You can read the actual text of Chrysler's bankruptcy filing on the WSJ web site, here. There's also a long (117p) affidavit here....
Fiat ecoDrive Fiat has an interesting gadget called ecoDrive. This is a free software program which analyzes your driving habits and makes suggestions ho...
Waiting For The Aftershocks... Now, we wait to see what happens to the supplier base. With GM and Chrysler both shutting down for at least two months, if not longer, anal...
GMAC and Chrysler-Fiat Mashup One of the more interesting details about today's announcement by Obama about Chrysler's chapter 11 filing was the deal with GMAC to...
Reminder: Get Out Of Demand Notes Update : I have attracted some hostile comments. To clarify my position: No one who has a low tolerance for risk should be in GMAC Demand N...
politics Comparing The Cash For Clunkers Bills There are two competing "cash for clunkers" bills in the House. One is more left-leaning, HR520, and the other is more populist, ...