Category: "2008 Detroit Auto Show"

From Los Alamos to GM’s fuel cells

General Motor’s fuel cell engineering team is led by Dr. J. Byron McCormick, currently executive director, GM Fuel Cell Activities.
McCormick took time to talk to me at the 2008 Detroit [...]

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Vic Doolan on the environment

Former BMW and Volvo executive, Vic Doolan, is now Fisker’s director of retail development, and a director of Blue Fire Ethanol Inc., a cellulosic ethanol group that will build a [...]

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Nissan Forum concept

From Nissan’s press release:
A Suite of Technological Innovations. Nissan North America’s advanced minivan design study, the Nissan FORUM Concept, offers an array of innovative family communications systems – [...]

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Bob Nardelli, CEO, Chrysler on Canada

Is Chrysler making money in Canada? Will the big incentives continue?
How competitive does Nardelli see Chrysler’s labor front?
Which types of vehicles are best suited for Canada’s marketplace?
How has the rise [...]

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Jaime Ardila, President, General Motors do Brasil

Jaime Ardila, President, Mercosur Operations, General Motors do Brasil, & former CFO for GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East (LAAM) talked to Lou Ann Hammond at the 2008 Detroit [...]

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Jim Press talks about Chrysler going green

This is part of a 30 minute interview with Jim Press, Chairman and Vice President of Chrysler. 
General Motors, Daimler & BMW had a working relationship, even sharing engineers, to create [...]

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Jim Press on the state of Chrysler

This is part of a 30 minute interview with Jim Press, Chairman and Vice President of Chrysler. 
Press talked about which products Chrysler would be getting rid of and whether he thought [...]

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Bob Nardelli, CEO, Chrysler

This is part of a 30-minute interview with Bob Nardelli, CEO, Chrysler Corporation. Nardelli talks about being part of Chrysler/Cerberus and whether he will continue to be CEO of Chrysler. [...]

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Alexander Gubsky, Vedomosti, The Russian Business Daily

Alexander Gubsky, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Vedomosti, The Russian Business Daily talked to Lou Ann Hammond at the 2008 Detroit auto show.
Gubsky talked about the price of gasoline in Russia and [...]

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Mike Yamashita, Executive Vice President, Nissan

Mike Yamashita, Executive Vice President, Nissan, talked to Lou Ann Hammond at the 2008 Detroit auto show.
Yamashita talked about Japanese standards of recyclability and the requirements set forth by [...]

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