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Wow! this is a huge change for +Tony Posawatz and for +Fisker Automotive  2

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Wow! this is a huge change for +Tony Posawatz and for +Fisker Automotive 

Unlike former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda who has left Fisker, Tony is intimately familiar with what it takes to develop cars like the Karma and Atlantic. From 2006 until 6 weeks ago, Tony was the vehicle line director on the +Chevrolet Volt and he is already familiar with Fisker's battery supplier +A123 Systems.

Along with LG Chem which eventually won the Volt battery supply contract, A123 was the other company that got a development contract for the Volt. A123 has had a number of issues on the Karma since it launched including a major recall because of a manufacturing defect.

Ensuring battery reliability is just one of the tasks that Tony will face at Fisker. The Karma has experienced a wide array of quality problems including at least two fires. Fisker will have to fix what are probably an array of engineering deficiencies on the Karma at the same it tries to develop the next model, the Atlantic. 

All I can say is best of luck Tony! It was fun working with you!

Volt Executive Tony Posawatz Is New CEO Of Fisker Automotive
In an unexpected announcement, struggling startup electric-car maker Fisker Automotive has named Tony Posawatz its new CEO and President. He replaces Tom LaSorda, himself appointed CEO only in late Fe…

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A nice concise piece on staying focused

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This is what worked for Apple and is currently working for +Ford Motor Company. Steve Jobs paired down Apple's product line to relatively few excellent products instead of a wide array of overlapping, redundant and uninteresting products.

Ford has done the same under Alan Mulally and the results are showing now.

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Interesting read of the day. 

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable ph…

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The only thing I would change about this car is using the Mustang SVO nose instead… 12

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The only thing I would change about this car is using the Mustang SVO nose instead with a 5.0-liter Coyote V8 crate motor. Obviously a manual transmission is a must.

Wall Photos | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post…

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The Autoextremist Peter De Lorenzo tears into +General Motors CEO Dan Akerson in…

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The Autoextremist Peter De Lorenzo tears into +General Motors CEO Dan Akerson in his inimitable fashion. Thoughts?

THE AUTOEXTREMIST – Rants – Autoextremist.com ~ the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high octane truth…
August 15, 2012 Mr. Akerson, your fifteen minutes are up. By Peter M. De Lorenzo (Post…

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Julie were sitting on the deck this evening and noticed swarms of these little bugs…

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Julie were sitting on the deck this evening and noticed swarms of these little bugs flying around the yard. A few minutes later as I was walking across the yard I noticed several of these bugs hanging in mid-air. A closer look revealed a spider web hanging from a single strand of silk spanning about 9-10 feet between one of the trees and the side of the garage.

There were at least half a dozen of the bugs that had been trapped including this one hanging by a single wing.

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The supposed benefits of trickle down economics where the highest marginal tax rates… 4

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The supposed benefits of trickle down economics where the highest marginal tax rates are slashed with the expectation that the wealthy will use that extra money in the bank to reinvest and create more jobs are purely theoretical. All the empirical evidence that has come from periods when the top tax rates have been lowered show the exact opposite.  Their is no positive correlation between income tax rates and job creation and in fact the periods of highest job growth have come when the top tax rate was upwards of 40%.

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Obligatory chart of tax rates on the rich versus job growth. The empirical effects of "trickle down" economy.


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