Comments on: GM’s Decision to Build Electric Motors Could Shift Conversation on Future of American Manufacturing

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Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:35:17 +0000

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[...] platform based on scalable and modular components. (Read Open source hardware startups; GM’s Skateboard Chassis; Ford’s Global [...]

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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:30:43 +0000

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:32:03 +0000

[...] Profits (not technologies) are driving theses changes. The days of high profit margins based on building a huge metal car to be sold on a car lot to some yet to be determined buyer ended long ago. This model suffers from an inescapable problem of managing factory capacity utilization, and global competition. [Ford Skateboard chassis post; GM manufacturing post]. [...]

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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:25:10 +0000

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