I’m all packed and ready to go. On Sunday I’ll leave for Japan. During my two week stay I’ll spend about one week in Tokyo and travel to Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Fukuoka, Kamakura and Yokohama in my second week.
Ever since I was young I’ve had a strong interest in Japanese culture. Next to Japan’s [...]
Shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plans to introduce new fuel efficiency standards in the United States (->>> Obama ends the dominance of gas guzzlers on U.S. streets), the German luxury carmaker Daimler and the Californian electric-car maker Tesla Motors deepened their partnership. German Daimler AG acquried an almost 10% stake in the [...]
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These are likely the final days of GM as we know it today. Immense structural changes are going on in the global auto industry right now (the fundamental transition of the auto industry , Auto Industry in Transition II , Auto industry in transition III), mergers, acquisitions are changing the game for the remaining competitors while others [...]
I highly recommend you to read the article “The Other GM” by TIME’s Bill Powell:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1896626,00.html
The article outlines an interesting scenario in which Shanghai GM might produce Chevys and Buicks in China at a tenth of the labor costs as in Detroit but at the same quality and export them to the United States to compete against [...]
