John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com about Tesla doing well, CODA going bankrupt. Tesla announced offerings of 2,703,027 shares of common stock and $450 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2018 in concurrent underwritten registered public offerings. Musk owns over 26% of Tesla’s [...]
John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio show, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com about tesla talking to Google about autonomous vehicles, and Audi’s car commercial that star Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. Google was the first autonomous vehicle to get a license to drive their autonomous vehicles in Nevada, Audi was the [...]
Host John Batchelor talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about April automotive sales. It’s a mixed bag, according to Automotive News, sales didn’t quite making the 15 million SAAR that they have every other month this year, but there were some highlights. Pickups were the winner and they helped General Motors, Ford, and Dodge/Ram [...]
Host John Batchelor talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about the 2013 Shanghai auto show. Batchelor had heard that Great Wall Motors, the largest SUV maker in China, would be the first Chinese automaker to enter the United States in volume. The key word is in volume. BYD’s Chairman Wang says they will start [...]
Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, talked to John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio show and Gordon Chang, Forbes, about Chinese car sales, Japan in China and which car companies are thriving. In September, 2012, Hammond wrote in www.drivingthenation.com, “Chinese Automotive Monthly acknowledges that, “The Diaoyu island dispute between China and Japan, caused by [...]
If the pre-shows are indicative of what the show itself is going to be like, the New York auto show is going to be about luxury and fuel efficiency. The luxury groups are not going to die, as some had prophesized. What other place, but New York, to main line luxury into the hearts and [...]
From the John Batchelor radio show website: Thursday 14 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block A: LouAnn Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com, in re:TESLA Lays off 100 Workers Due to New York Times Article Cancellations … TESLA Lays off 100 Workers Due to NYT Article Cancellations? … no idea of the scope of the cancellations, judging by the [...]
It’s too bad that both The New York Times and Elon Musk, Co-founder and Owner of Tesla Motors, have lost sight of the story that was supposed to be written. One has to wonder how much of this Tempest in a Teapot is the new-fashioned click-through digital war this world has become. It was supposed [...]
I was at the 2013 Washington auto show and met some of the Robert Bosch LLC, Diesel Systems North American engineers. They showed me some of the new clean diesel projects they were working on. Bosch predicts there will 54 diesel vehicles available in the U.S. by 2017 in North America, including 22 new models [...]
Ford gave $500,000 to Smithsonian to finish the renovation of the Spark! lab and create three more Spark! Labs in the United States. Ford said that over the years Ford Motor Company has given $10,000,000 to the Smithsonian, all in the name of education. John Batchelor said that Ford’s stock is getting pummeled. Is that [...]
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