I love the new new NSX, the styling buck shown at the Detroit Auto Show was stunning but all I can say about this commercial is … Leno … lame-O!
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Not allowing a condo resident to plug in an EV is just plain idiotic, especially if they are willing to pay for the juice. The only viable excuse for not permitting residents to charge would be if the wiring was not up to the task, but then it should just be upgraded.
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Can Condos Coexist With Electric Cars? Volt Owner To Be Cut Off
Ask any automaker, and they'll tell you they believe most early electric cars will be charged at night, in garages attached to private houses. That would seem to cut out residents of multiple dwelling…
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And if you can't make it to the "Green Hell" there is an orange one in MI Hell, MI
In album To hell and back (1 photo)
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Any driving enthusiast should make the pilgrimage to the Nurburgring while they still have open days when you can drive on the track.
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Now this is a funny ad! Still not crazy about the Camry, but I like the curtains and the baby
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Meh! What do you think?
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Yeah, we'll get right on that Neil!
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Neil Young sings BluRay blues, asks Bill Ford for help
As Ford's chairman, Bill Ford is used to famous people ringing him up to pitch ideas. So when one of his musical heroes came calling, Ford was happy to lend an ear.
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If you haven't already read the two pieces in the NY Times last week about Apple and its manufacturing operations in China you should.
One of the recurring reasons that Apple executives give for using Chinese manufacturing is speed and flexibility at the Chinese plants. They adamantly deny that it is about low wages and benefits paid to the hundreds of thousands of workers in those Foxconn factories. Unfortunately if you know anything about modern high-volume manufacturing this simply doesn't ring true.
The authors of the articles provide an anecdote about the weeks leading up to the launch of the original iPhone. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs had made a last minute decision to switch from a plastic to a glass screen. As the first glass panels were arriving at the factory in China, 8,000 employees were roused in the middle of the night from their dormatory, given a biscuit and a cup of tea and put to work. The only way to get the kind of instant flexibility to change direction in a manufacturing operation is to use masses of human labor to do the assembly.
This sort of work could definitely be done in the US and it could also be done by automation. However, in the US labor regulations would make it much more difficult to get people working multiple 12 hour shifts and living in dorms where they could be sent to the assembly line at the drop of a hat. Automation requires more effort to program for such drastic changes. Both are substantially more expensive than "disposable" Chinese laborers.
Apple simply could not get the sort of flexibility they like to tout if Chinese labor were not so cheap. It really does come down to money and nothing more and that's why Apple is sitting on a $100 billion cash horde.
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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class
Building Apple’s iPhone in the United States would demand much more than hiring Americans — it would require transforming the national and global economies.
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