Posts Tagged ‘inefficiencies’
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Efficiency is a large stumbling block if you're looking for a way to replace gasoline. It's pretty hard to better such an exceptional fuel, and several alternatives show promise but are nagged by inefficiencies or cost, and usually both. Nanotech to the rescue; it may soon be possible to produce you......
Tags: alkaline cells, alternative, alternative fuels, anode, Automotive design, battery, catalytic action, cathode, efficiency, electric, energy density, fairy dust, fuel cell, fuel cells, FuelCell, green, home electrolysis, hydrogen, inefficiencies, kevin maloney, nanotechnology, nimh batteries, platinum, power gain, precious metals, president kevin, prius, quantumsphere, reactive nature, stumbling block, Tesla, tesla roadster, traditional materials
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
With the charge that "today's dealer/factory model is a supremely inefficient system," Brandweek's Steve Miller has put together a 6-page report called "A Whole Lot of Questions" that wonders what would happen if the entire brick-and-mortar, kick-the-tires-and-sign-here institution were done away wi......
Tags: amount of time, billion dollars, bottom dwellers, brandweek, brick and mortar, car buyer, car dealerships, car salesmen, dealer experience, dealers, dealerships, efficient system, factory model, franchise laws, franchises, gallup polls, inefficiencies, inefficient system, mindsets, multiplicity, steve miller, telemarketers, three decades, whole lot
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
The Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, NJ is one of them new-fangled parking garages that eschews the inefficiencies of gates and ramps in favor of a robotic store-and-retrieval system. These facilities are wonders to behold in person and usually loved by their patrons, except when someone turns it of......
Tags: cars, city of hoboken, contract, expire, few days, gates, Hoboken, hoboken nj, inefficiencies, parking garage, parking garages, ParkingGarage, patrons, police escort, ramps, retrieval system, Robotic Parking, robotic parking garage, RoboticParking, software license, software licensing, SoftwareLicensing, street garage, traps
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Another indication of the complexity of the globalized auto industry came Monday with the news that Volkswagen is considering moving Passat production for the North American market to its facility in Mexico.The reason for the move is currency issues, specifically a declining U.S. dollar and a strong......
Tags: assembly plant, auto industry, company move, complexity, currency issues, exchange rate, german trade, inefficiencies, mexico, money, nafta, north american market, passat, passats, plant exchange, plants, restructuring, reuters, trade unions, volkswagen, volkswagen mexico, volkswagen union, vw mexico, vw restructuring, vw union, western germany
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