" We are suffering the effects of the financial crisis", affirmed the spokesman of Opel, Andreas Kroemer. "The people are sticking to his money and does not arrange motorcars", he made sure.
The plant of Bochum of the company had already suspended his production last week and Kroemer indicated that the company was hoping to make 40.000 motorcars less than the planned ones initially this year.
The German unit of Ford informed that it will reduce his production and will dismiss 204 workers of half a day in his factory of Saarlouis, in the Occident of Germany, while the plant of the company in Cologne will continue his production without changes.
| Although he denies that Ford should have taken the decision |
| Mazda does not discard sale of actions |
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The sports van Mazda RX-8 is one of the most emblematic vehicles of the Japanese manufacturer, whose actions acquired by Ford would enter negotiation.
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The manufacturer Mazda denied on Saturday, the 12th that Ford Motor Co. should have taken the decision to sell his participation in the Japanese company, but it did not discard a possible negotiation.
Japanese press means informed that Ford was considering to sell his third part of Mazda Motor Corp., with head office in Hiroshima. The public televisora NHK TV, without quoting sources, pointed out that Ford would support part of his participation in Mazda and administrative ties.
" Nothing has been decided", said Mazda in a bulletin received Saturday for the AP. "Any important decision will be announced", he added.
The measurement, of happening, would be a symbolic regression for the American motorcars manufacturers in Japan. General Motors Corp sold in the recent years all his actions of Japanese manufacturers of vehicles.
On having sold actions of Mazda, manufacturer of the sports van RX-8 and of the convertible sports car Miata, it would supply of cash Ford in a moment in which it tries to give him a draft to his business.
Ford has fought with a drastic fall in the sale of cars in the United States, consuming almost 11.000 million dollars of his provision of cash in the last year.
The company with head office in Dearborn, Michigan, it informed his worst quarterly loss of the history in the second quarter: 8.700 million dollars.
It has been surmised that Ford might declare himself in bankruptcy, but the company has denied it. Ford's actions also have suffered, falling down at his level lowest in 25 years.
Ford formed a capital alliance with Mazda in 1979, taking a 25 per cent participation, which was increased to 33,4 per cent in 1996, what in Japan represents to have the control.
| Prototype Tesla Roadster surprises "the big ones" |
| The first sports electrical it is American |
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Visitors observe the impressive electrical prototype Tesla Roadster, during the recent International Lounge of Paris.
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The Californian signature Tesla Motors is one of the most promising companies of the sector self-propelled and it plans to throw next year the first electrical sports one of the American market. The Roadster, as one knows to the prototype, aspires to turn into a success between excited of the sports luxurious ones with ecological conscience and who, also, could pay out 100.000 dollars that the motorcar will cost.
In the list of clients names appear as that of George Clooney, the founders of Google – signature that, certainly, subsidizes the buy of hybrid vehicles to his personnel - and up to the governor of the state of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Tesla Roadster reaches a 125 miles speed per hour (201 kph) and allows to lead approximately 245 miles without recharging, 100 miles more than the missing person EV1 that General Motors threw in 1999.
New batteries
The principal innovation is that the Roadster works with batteries of ions of lithium similar to those of the portable computers and that, according to Tesla, they have more capacity of storage than the batteries of nickel of the hybrid vehicles of the market. In contrast to other motorcars manufacturers, Tesla concentrates on the production of the batteries and of the software for the sports one; everything else, from the brakes up to the belts, entrusts it to other signatures.
Tesla offers actions to his personnel and it was financed by contributions of private investors and signatures of risk capital.
This Californian signature is one of the most promising companies of the sector and the Roadster wants to turn into a success between excited to this type of vehicles that respect the environment.
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Tesla Roadster reaches a 125 miles speed per hour (201 kph) and allows to lead approximately 245 miles without recharging.
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Sale in bundles
The investments of companies of risk capital also are behind Project Better Place, an organization that aspires to revolutionize the car industry making interchangeable batteries for electrical vehicles.
Project Better Place wants to be something like operator of cellular telephony: the signature will sell or rent electrical motorcars in bundles that include monthly quotas and, also, it will produce a service stations network to change over the batteries.
The principal innovation is that these lithium batteries will be able to be extracted from the vehicle and changed into others, what will avoid to lose time in recharging and will allow to do more miles.
Subsidized vehicles
Shai Agassi, ex-manager of the manufacturer of software SAP and founder of the company, affirms that "the existing technology joined a model of suitable business and an infrastructure of scale they will allow a significant reduction of the emission of carbon". Agassi wants to be allied by the vehicles manufacturers and provide the batteries, so that the consumers could receive subsidized vehicles or, enclosed, free, how it happens in the sector of the mobile telephony.
For his part, Elon Musk, president of Tesla, has predicted that the following model of the manufacturer will go out to the market after this date and at a much more accessible price, 30.000 dollars, what would allow to reach "sales of more than 100.000 units".
Source: The World
