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At Witz' End: Other Views on Detroit 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

"I hope GM goes bankrupt," said the young California man in the Japanese restaurant. Really? Why? "Because I hate the UAW," he responded, ignorantly equating America's largest automaker to its most powerful union. I guess, like so many Americans, he was unaware, or didn't care, that hundreds of ...

At Witz' End: What Auto CEOs Should Have Said 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Shouldn't those auto/government hearings have been reversed? Did it occur to anyone else that those oh-so-painful auto CEO/government hearings should have been the other way around? Instead of the heads of America's three remaining automakers groveling, begging and enduring live public floggings ...

At Witz' End: GM EV1 - The Real Story, Q&A III 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Editor's Note: If you missed Gary's previous articles on the history of GM's EV1, please start here. This post is the third of three posts where he answers reader questions that the EV1 series raised. Part I is here and Part II is here. Once again, questions may have been edited for space. Honest ...

At Witz' End: GM EV1 - The Real Story, Q&A II 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Editor's Note: If you missed Gary's previous articles on the history of GM's EV1, please start here. This post is the second of three posts where he answers reader questions that the EV1 series raised. Part I is here and Part III will run tomorrow. Gary's promised to move on to current and relevant ...

At Witz' End: GM EV1 - The Real Story, Q&A 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

People are most critical of the things they least understand. – Paul W. Spoor, Bits & Pieces, September 2008. Why is it so important to some to cast GM as a villain? To believe that the only reason we don't have affordable, practical pure-electric vehicles today is that GM doesn't want us ...

At Witz' End: GM EV1 - The Real Story, Part IV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

NOTE: If you missed them, please start by reading parts one, two and three in Gary's EV1 series. What was learned, and is being applied today "As has been stated in comments [to the] previous two posts by Mr. Witzenburg, there are several things which just don't add up, and make him look like a ...

At Witz' End: GM EV1 - The Real Story, Part III 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

NOTE: If you missed them, you can read parts one and two. High tech development, market launch and retreat Because its 1,175-pound pack of 27 advanced lead-acid (PbA) batteries - 26 propulsion, one for accessories - held a mere half-gallon of gasoline-equivalent energy, the production EV1 would have ...

At Witz' End - EV1 - The Real Story, Part II 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Note: read part one of this story here. Pause and rebirth I joined the GM EV effort in April, 1991 and began pulling together a small team of test and development engineers and technicians at GM's Proving Grounds near Milford, MI. One vivid early memory was driving the Impact concept car down a ...

At Witz End - GM's EV1, the True Story, part I 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Triumph of technology set the stage for the future Our gift is a world of opportunity. To leave it a better place than we found it is our greatest gift to the next generation. – Ken Baker, GM Electric Vehicles "Since when does being an auto engineer makes you smarter than scientists ...

At Witz' End - Global Warming Pro 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There are cogent arguments on both sides If you read my first ABG column a few weeks ago, you know that I'm no believer in human-caused global warming. My logical, data-driven engineering mind can't wrap around the idea that the 4% of CO2 created by all of the planet's human activity (96% is ...

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