Secrets to Ford Motor Company Lay Offs
Ford is laying off some 30,000 people in the next five years and this will cause quite a problematic situation for many regions in the United States where factories will be closed and once high paying jobs provided for a vibrant economy. If you are wondering why this is occurring it has to do with increases in market share of the Japanese AutoMakers, over productive robotic factories and a series of poor choices by Ford. How so you ask?
Well here is an interesting article from 2002: Electric cars hits the skid at Ford.
http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=401/
You see, it appears instead of the hydrogen cell technology, Ford choose to stay with its former strategy, which has not completely run its course. Instead of innovating and moving forward it choose to stay with their top selling gasoline models which use more fuel than the competing models.
Are the US Automakers going to repeat the Deming Years? When the Honda Car stole the show and caused havoc with Detroit? Are we going to be running more Hybrid electric cars in he future? Using more ethanol? What does all this mean?
Having studied the pros and cons of electric vehicles over other new technologies it is interesting to see the technologies used in the various hybrid models. In North and South Dakota, Nebraska and CA, they want ethanol. Even giving away a free piece of pecan pie if you fill up in ND. Then there is the problem of the pollution in the plants making the ethanol, which might merely re-divert some pollution.
Then there are fights over that and where all the old batteries will go filled with H2SO4 will go after electric cars hit the junkyard. Still others think that Hydrogen cars could blow up like Hiroshima, not likely? There are many new studies and thoughts on the on this matter and there are the pure-ists who say electric is the only answer and in looking at the technology it is pretty cool stuff indeed. What is the government saying?
So many things have been changing in the automotive world these days. But one thing is certain. Ford Motor Company is paying now for their failure to anticipate the market and spend money to move to position them selves to take advantages of these changes. Think on this in 2006.
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