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Lead Acid Battery Electric Vehicles
1,670 wordsThe technology of electric vehicles has been around since the turn of the nineteenth century but faded as the gasoline powered engine took the spotlight. Now the future of electric vehicles is very bright. Their impacts are very significant ranging from economic, to new technology that can be applied elsewhere, to most importantly, the environment. Ford and GM, through its Saturn plant, have already begun production on their own version of the electric vehicle and have made them available to the...
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Internal Combustion Engine Twenty Five Years
1,716 words... can be made to fit these smaller cars making them inaccessible to some cars and trucks, safety will increase because of the maneuverability and low speed of the NEV and because of their small size there will be more space available to be put to other uses. These NEV's will lead to non-industrial neighborhoods. Neighborhoods will keep the industrial world and all of its problems out by making the roads smaller so they handle only NEV traffic. Households will tend to "run" less and instead of ...
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Operating Profit Four Cylinder
1,963 wordsAUBURN HILLS -- After being on death's door in the early ' 90 s, Volkswagen is back in peak form with U. S. sales breaking records month after month. And the German-based automaker is promising more of the same going forward. It is hoping to boost sales with the introduction of turbocharged versions of its high-volume Jetta and Golf models. "The question now is how high is up, " says David Huyett, VW of America's marketing director. Last year, VW sales topped 315, 000, up 44 percent from 1998. T...
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Merrill Lynch Auto Makers
1,904 words... year. At $ 45, VW stock is about where it was in the spring of 1997. Rolf Drees, a financial analyst at Germany's third-largest fund, Union Investment, which owns a 1 % stake in VW, says the return on VW stock in the three years to the end of 2000 was an average annual 5. 2 %, using dividends plus the change in the stock price. That's just a third of the 15. 3 % return on the blue-chip DAX index over the same period. HARD SLOG. A swift boost to the stock is a hard feat to pull off. The gover...
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Asia Pacific Region Auto Makers
1,552 words... year, more than three-quarters of its entire fleet of cars, trucks, minivans and sport utility vehicles. Satellite radio, offered by XM and its rival Sirius, offers coast-to-coast listening of mostly commercial-free programmes with a sound quality claimed to be superior to FM. The fledgling services are, however, about to face new competition from digital radio broadcasting which gives car buyers yet another in-car entertainment choice. Service Innovation The competition among auto industry ...
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Vertical Integration Auto Makers
1,801 words... survive and to gain a competitive advantage in the industry. The second innovative technique was the progressive specialization of labor and the separation of skilled and unskilled tasks, which turned vehicle assembly into a deskilled and highly routine work. It also created a hierarchical industrial structure where managers specified the tasks of workers. In order to avoid disruptions of any kind, a system of open shop-floor (where workers were simply interchangeable parts of the production...
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Miles Per Gallon Four Wheel Drive
3,060 wordsConcept Cars: Automobiles for the Future No one knows where automobiles are going but concept cars provide us with a small window to look into their future. Different automakers use concept cars in various ways and they all devote a lot of time and money toward developing their cars of the future. The first thing an automaker does is decide what kind of market (what age group, what style of driving) it should target to gain the most customers. For instance, Ford builds mainly vehicles which targ...
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Auto Makers Korean Economy
3,090 wordsINTRODUCTION On 20 October 1998, Korea and the U. S. reached an agreement on auto trade after the tediously long time, almost 1 year. The negotiation had been a matter of concern and interest in both countries especially in Korea because it would bring great impacts on auto industry. Korean economy has heavily depended on auto export and on American market. Therefore, everyone worried that conflicts on negotiation table led to sanction on auto export of Korea. Additionally, domestic auto market ...
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