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Opportunity in Chaos
Prices for raw materials have skyrocketed. Plastics, steel, aluminum, rubber – almost every possible ingredient in vehicles today has gone up by amounts never anticipated by even the brightest of analysts. The headlines capture and forecast existing economic challenges and strike fear with predictions of more disasters to come in financials, industrials, real estate, etc. We have no energy p...
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Keeping Me Up At Night
As the head of production and procurement at Carbon Motors, one of the earliest challenges I faced was to find a practical solution to the promise that we would deliver a patrol car ready to go to work the day it arrived at the customer agency. That meant no shop time at the agency or their up-fitters’ to match the color and exterior graphics exactly to the specification and design required by...
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What Time Is It?
When I joined Carbon Motors as head of product development, I knew I would draw on a number of assignments I’ve had – assignments that carried me to the four corners of the world at various points in my career. It’s not uncommon in the automotive industry to conduct business across certain boundaries, and on more than one occasion I have found myself managing teams in separate offices, across ...
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Do You Believe in American Ingenuity?
A century ago, we had hundreds of new American automakers on U.S. soil. Today we are down to three – barely! That is not OK.
The United States commercialized the worldwide, $3 trillion automotive industry. Don’t tell us that this same great nation is unwilling, or unable, to provide our law enforcement First Responders with the appropriate equipment they so desperately need. We have done...
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Location, Location, Location! Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
Where will Carbon Motors locate its headquarters, research & development, production center, sales, etc.? Now that the word is out that Carbon Motors will be unveiling the E7 demonstration vehicle to the nation sometime this year (cross fingers), we have been taking some interesting meetings. Given the $3 billion positive economic impact and 10,000 new direct and indirect American jobs that t...
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