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Durant and Louis Chevrolet. Durant had been involved in the buggy business and by 1890 was producing about 50,000 horse-drawn vehicles a year with Durant-Dort Carriage Company. His first venture into automobiles was becoming manager of Buick bringing their sales from 34 cars in 1904 to the #1 automobile in sales in 1908. In 1908 he started General Motors, buying up multiple companies until he overextended and was taken over by the banks. In 1909 William Durant asked Louis Chevrolet a famous race car

regulation, in the United States, stemmed from the Clean Air Act of 1970. The act instituted the first federal standards for air quality and enabled these standards to be enforced. It also authorized federal and state regulations to limit emissions from stationary, or industrial, sources and mobile sources like automobiles. Specifically, its goal for automobiles was to reduce pollution and health problems caused by vehicles and by gasoline use. Catalytic converters, which convert would-be toxic emissions

defines this beginning as “Fordism”: Henry Ford’s revolutionary mass-production processes for manufacturing automobiles stands as an almost universal symbol for modern industrial capitalism. Both its hitherto unimagined material productivity and its similarly unprecedented impoverishment of the human spirit are simultaneously captured by the contradictory image of the automobile assembly line. Along such lines and in other mechanized processes pioneered by Ford, degraded and dehumanized workers

Globalization has had a dramatic impact on is the automobile industry. The dynamics of the automobile industry has expanded largely from a domestic industry to a completely global industry in which multiple companies have multiple manufacturing plants in different countries. The automobile industry has been so globalized that now companies export automobiles that are not domestically created. To understand the impact of globalization on the automobile industry we must first examine all aspects of the

of dependence on foreign countries for oil and the tight control that these exercise on the energy policies and economics of America. Many of these instances include: the oil embargos of the 1970s, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. Since the 1970s, one solution offered to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign countries for oil has been opening up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Proponents say that drilling

Mitsubishi has risen to become a leading automobile company in India through the promotion of their brand cars like the Mitsubishi Cedia and Mitsubishi Lancer, and other SUVs that use diesel like the Montero and Pajero, and have made into the Indian car market having carved a niche for them. For

Invention of the Automobile In the beginning, man’s only form of transportation was his own feet. Later, to comfort his journey on foot, was the invention of footwear. Through envy of the speed of other animals he would learn to tame these animals. People who live in the desert ride atop camels. The people who live in the frigid climates travel by dogs. Some people from places like India ride elephants. But the must widely used form of transportation by animal power was by horse. Man would

The Decline and Collapse Of General Motors ntroduction General Motors (GM), who once dominated the automobile industry, has now plummeted, almost to the point of extinction. Throughout the 1940’s to the 1970’s General Motors (GM) had dominated the automobile industry. By the 1980’s, GM was suddenly facing a shift in the economy and consumer demands. GM’s Earlier Successes In the 1950’s, GM agreed to pay their workers well, by signing groundbreaking long-term employment union contracts which

renowned as the top selling automobile in the world due to its low price and great performance. Whether you like fast car or a car for the family, Nissan’s cars exceed at whatever the people need. The company, Nissan Motor Co., create with the world economy and the high demand for more fuel efficient cars. With a wide range of cars from family size cars such as Nissan Pathfinder to a stylist sporty car such as the Nissan 370z, Nissan Motor develop all kind of automobile that will fit anyone style

industry also encompasses many global automobile and auto parts manufacturers across the country. Production rise and fall over the past decade has dropped the American Automobile Industry into the number two spot in the global market just behind China. The Big Three,comprised of General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and FCA US(formally known as Chrysler), were the primary owners of most of the manufacturing facilities in the United States. Competition in the automobile industry is hard to distinguish