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...been publicly dismissive of hybrid cars. In January, vice chairman Bob Lutz described hybrids as "an interesting curiosity" and said, "We will make some," but added that they didn't make much sense with gasoline at $1.50 per gal. Gas prices are up 30% since then, but GM officials insist their strategy has not changed. The focus is still on delivering hybrid versions of SUVs and pickups while devoting the bulk of GM's future-power-train research into a commercially viable hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicle, which the company says is on track for 2010. (Ford was slow, too, having...
Automakers have strong incentives not to ramp up hybrid production too quickly. Hybrids are technologically complex and costly and require the retraining of service technicians. Toyota and Honda insist they make money from each sale, but those profits are meager compared with what they earn from conventional cars and light trucks, especially their luxury brands. The Big Three--Ford, GM and Chrysler--are even more reliant on SUVs and big pickups for profits, and if hybrids eat into sales of conventional models, the industry would be maiming a critical cash cow. So while auto executives talk of a greener future...
...down, and that's something we haven't seen in quite a while," Girsky says. GM plans to temporarily halt assembly lines at an SUV plant near Oklahoma City, Okla., this week--one of the few times that rising SUV inventories have triggered such a closure. Nonetheless, GM officials insist the company is equipped to handle a spike in demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles. GM aims to build its hybrids on the same assembly lines as its standard light trucks, giving it more flexibility to change the production mix as buying patterns shift...
...couldn't help bristling at your report on the increase in elective caesarean births [April 19]. The privileged mothers-to-be who insist on being in charge of every aspect of their baby's birth are exceptionally arrogant. Here in Africa, for too many women, having a baby can still be a matter of life and death. WENDY TOERIEN Cape Town...
Kerry's aides insist that the Senator's Iraq reticence is merely an act of patriotic high-mindedness reflecting a desire to show support for the troops and to not "politicize" the issue. Oh, please. There are at least three strategic reasons for saying as little as possible right now. The first is Politics 101: There is nothing Kerry can say about Iraq that would have greater emotional impact than the photos from Abu Ghraib or that would point out the contradictions of Bush policy more vividly than the sight of a Baathist general taking control of Fallujah from nonvictorious...