GM CEO Mary Barra is going to need all her corporate Houdini skills to escape culpability for her multi-billion dollars ‘driverless’ taxi Cruise disaster.
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Rebecca Tinucci: Tesla’s Unsung Charging Hero
The media mistakenly believes that Tesla is a one-person Elon Musk show. Meet the woman without whom Tesla wouldn’t have achieved its considerable success in recent years.
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone AI Warning
Some thoughts on Rod Serling’s prescient warning about AI nearly 60 years ago; the shamelessness of Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Andreessen; and Elon Musk’s disdain for homeless persons.
Elon Musk’s A-Team Leadership Genius
Tesla’s most recent app update and the storm we recently experienced in Los Angeles drove home Elon Musk’s undeniable leadership brilliance.
Carlos Tavares’ Inspiring Stellantis Leadership
The media isn’t fond of Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares because he says demand for EVs are artificially driven by government mandates and subsidies and complying with those mandates could lead to a shortage of raw materials necessary to produce enough battery driven vehicles.
Nevertheless, Stellantis has ambitious EV plans for the U.S. market, including launching a truck with 500 miles of range that could prove a competitive threat to GM’s and Ford’s lucrative truck businesses.
Unlike the CEOs of GM and Ford, Tavares has demonstrated he knows how to execute.
Hollywood’s CEO Pay Awakening
Some thoughts on the less than Six Degrees of Separation between Hollywood’s striking workers and the workers at GM’s Ohio electric battery plant.
Joe Biden’s Colossal Electric Vehicles Debacle
If Americans understood the billions of their taxpayer dollars the Biden Administration is squandering pursuing its failed EV policies, they might finally demand the competent political and corporate leadership that’s so desperately needed. The linked story is my attempt to generate some necessary collective anger.
When AI + DEI = BS
Do the names Ilit Raz, Abraham Shafi, Charlie Javice, and Crystal Huang mean anything to you? If they don’t you are blissfully unaware of some alleged fraud that has been revealed in the upstart tech industry by millennial CEOs who were backed by respected names in the VC industry.
Sam Bankman-Fried was possibly just the tip of the iceberg.
Travelers Beware! Hertz Will Put You in an EV
Surveys show that most Americans are becoming increasingly leery of electric vehicles, but there’s a high likelihood that travelers renting from Hertz this summer will be given one.
Says a writer for The Atlantic who experienced the switcheroo: “(EVs) are great, potentially planet-saving machines, but the ordeal made me want to wage a slash-and-burn campaign against all of them.”
Why Ford and GM Won’t Survive the EV World
I’ve long been someone who viewed the world differently, but never have I been so out of step with conventional wisdom than with my critical view that China has put America’s political and automotive leadership to shame.