Detroit 2008 videos: Coskata, GM, Ford
The video above includes a chat with clean tech investor Vinod Khosla at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod Khosla has backed ethanol company Coskata, which announced a partnership with GM at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod says oil companies will get into the ethanol business because they are really energy companies.
GM CEO Rick Wagoner talks about Coskata in this video below the fold, also from the Detroit Auto Show. Rick says "we think the promise (of Coskata) is terrific." WARNING: The video below the fold includes Bob Lutz dancing.
In this video, Ford's American President, Mark Fields says Ford is making smaller cars. Mark says three years ago, 70 percent of Ford's sales were trucks and SUVs. At the end of 2007, though, crossovers and cars represent half of Ford's sales. The small cars Ford has at the Detroit Auto Show, Mark says, shows that Ford is moving in "a big way" towards smaller cars. Ford just needs to work on the "perception" of Ford as "truck heavy," concludes Mark.
[Source: Wall Street Journal, CNBC]
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