Before the popularization of interchangeable parts, automotive manufacturing involved more skill and [less!] precision. Standardizing screws and parts allowed unskilled workers to produce large numbers…
Less Parts, More Problems?
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Month: April 2017
With a rapidly increasing population of 1.2 billion people, India is closing in on the Chinese in terms of population and is becoming one of…
China Moves to be a Production Leader
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China has announced that it plans to become a global leader in automobile production within the next ten years. Currently, the country is the…
Auto Markets Throughout the World.
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The largest auto market in the World is Asia with 47,878,892 vehicles produced in 2015. This total increased by 7.8% in 2016 to 51,521,214 vehicles…
Automotive Industry Brand Leaders
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The automotive industry has long been associated with “the big three” but over the past half century that term has taken on new meaning. The…
In September of 2015, Volkswagen disclosed that they had been intentionally cheating on diesel emissions tests for at least six years by installing secret software in 580,000…
Nobody lives here
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Tesla: First the Cash, Then the Crash
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Tesla recently (briefly) surpassed both Ford and General Motors in market capitalization. My own prognosis for Tesla’s longer-run prospects aside, once the Model 3 launches…
Annual redesign was a Faustian bargain
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Here is the canonical Prisoners Dilemma setup. If GM and Ford don’t engage in annual model changes, neither has an advantage in the market place…