Lou Ann Hammond undefined: Good morning Warren and friends Today we have as a guest, Michael Austin, Vice President of BYD Co. BYD is around 25% owned by Chairman Chuan Fu Wang, and 9.9% owned by Warren Buffett’s Mid American Energy Holding Co. 50% of the stock holdings are US owned. BYD Co., a company [...]
Car companies make mistakes all the time: some on the hardware, some on the software and some on the design. The difference between an established company making a mistake and a start-up company making a mistake is the ability to bounce back financially. The issue of bankruptcy is not because the Fisker Karma is an [...]
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 [...]
Edward T. Welburn, General Motors’ Vice President of Global Design, oversees the design development of all of General Motor’s vehicles in production or concept. Welburn talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about the newest Eyes on Design award, the Cadillac ELR. What are some of the refinements that Cadillac has made on the ELR [...]
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 [...]
Washington, DC – In what will probably be his last auto show as the Secretary for the Department of Energy (DOE), Dr. Steven Chu started his 2013 Washington Auto Show speech with an amazing fact, “We (the United States) spend roughly $1 billion dollars a day on foreign oil.” Acting on behalf of the Obama [...]
BMW of North America’s President and CEO Ludwig Willisch talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about the BMW i concept cars. When will we finally see a production vehicle come out of all these i concept cars? Will it be a full EV, a plug-in, or an extended range, or all three. What will [...]
John Avlon, CNN, and Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, talk to John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio show. Ewanick is out It was quick and decisive, Joel Ewanick, 52, global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), General Motors was out. The only statement General Motors was making was, “Ewanick failed to meet the expectations the [...]
Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, talked to John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio show about energy costs per vehicle. Definitions: EV – Electric Vehicle, this vehicle will only run on electricity. The Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus, Tesla Roadster, CODA, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and are all cars with just electricity. PHEV – Plug-in Hybrid Electric [...]
Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, was on KCRA, an NBC affiliate in Sacramento, CA talking about alternative energy sources and how much they cost per mile. When people shop for a car they shop for functionality, what they need in a car. Some families need space for seven, some need room to carry their animals. [...]
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