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Blog Entries about "automotive market research"
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New thoughts on re-manufacturing?
Recently we had an invitation to visit the China International Remanufacturing Forum to be held in April in Hangzhou, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai. The seminars available over the two-day conference emphasise China’s leading role in automotive parts remanufacturing and include reviews of European market demand for remanufactured parts.
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All right on the night?
Before our latest report on electric vehicles (EVs) was released in January, it fell to me to proof read all 282 pages. Although proof reading is a very detailed activity, you don’t lose sight of the big picture and the picture is very ‘big’ for EVs.
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Electric vehicles: Are we serious?
In November I visited the inaugural ‘eco2’ transport show at London’s Earls Court, where I found the hall on the third and final day sadly empty of visitors. Soon after our visit to Earls Court, Bosch released its research report ‘Bosch: Driving Green Britain’.
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EVs: The challenges ahead for retailers
Auto Retail Network (www.auto-retail.com) published a feature by Trend Tracker's Toby Procter in the January 2011 issue of Auto Retail Bulletin, on the likely impacts of EVs on franchised dealers charged with selling and fixing them. You can see the article here, with the publisher's kind permission.
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Subsidy junkies or realists?
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche was reported by Bloomberg to have said on 11 November at a corporate CSR event in Stuttgart that “Governments should offer consumers financial incentives to buy electric vehicles to help offset the extra cost for manufacturers to build the cars.”
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EVs: When to turn off the subsidy tap?
Over the past century the use of cars has evolved to create an emergent organism which has oil in its bloodstream, and the auto industry at its heart, the supply chain, distribution channels and aftermarket as limbs. Its tentacles reach along the roads which control where we go and where and how we live, into the banks that finance the cars, and the governments that tax them and finance the infrastructure they need.
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Could GE help EVs bust out of the green niche?
GE-WHIZ! GE has confirmed that it will buy 25,000 EVs by 2015 for its own fleet and through its Capital Fleet Services business – the biggest-ever single EV order. Could the global elec-tech. and asset finance giant bring profits for EV suppliers within sight?
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The remarkable resilience of retailers
At least some of Trend Tracker’s analysts, myself included, have shown a glass-half-empty attitude towards the standard-model new car franchise system, as some of our past white papers have attested. But we have to admit that earlier reports of its impending demise were more than a little premature. The system isn’t bust yet, indeed it survived the 2008 recession rather better than many might have expected.