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...The solution increasingly for some: flipping burgers in order to flip an asset later....
...DHybrid Inc also sold fuel systems to Florida rubbish collector Waste Pro and Pennsylvania trucking company Birkmire Transportation Solutions....
...Most popular Teslas, Chevy Bolts and Nissan Leafs all come with eight-year warranties on battery performance....
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...Outsourcing to cheaper manpower countries such as Vietnam is part of the solution, but moving up the value chain and boosting productivity gains is another part of the solution....
...Nearly two-thirds of UK robots are deployed in automotive manufacturing, compared with just 7 per cent in the chemicals industry....
...“We had a solution, but it was too expensive,” replied Klaus Bischoff, head of design at VW. “Then how can they do it?” Mr Winterkorn asked....
...“Shai kept signalling to the market that the solution was ready when it wasn’t,” a second former Better Place employee said....
...That is thanks to the high margins many enjoyed in the decades where they had a grip on classified and automotive advertising, Mr Mutter says....
...Manufacturers will have to provide long warranties on the batteries – or, like Better Place, retain ownership of the batteries themselves....
...Warranties: · Chrysler will continue to honor consumer warranties. Yesterday, the U.S....
...Power quality scores and reduced our warranty claims by 29 percent....
...He is currently chairman and chief executive of The Abraham Group, LLC...
...Safety-Kleen provides the automotive sector and general industry with solutions for component cleaning and degreasing, spraygun cleaning and hazardous waste management....
...As in the case of electric cars, some small companies outside the big automotive groups are driving innovation....
...Dieter Zetsche, chief executive, said his company was looking into “further strategic options with partners” aimed at finding “the best solution for both the Chrysler Group and DaimlerChrysler.”...
...It is a very German solution,” complains Pia Hellbach, a fund manager at Union Investment in Frankfurt, a shareholder in both Porsche and VW....
...But the portable devices could also contain the seeds of a solution....
...Suppliers are coming under intense pressure from carmakers to cut prices and assume more vehicle warranty costs....
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