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Toyota moves engineering center to TX
Source: Toyota Closing Kentucky Engineering Center | TheDetroitBureau.com
The company informed Kentucky officials of its plans to close its Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing facility in Erlanger, Kentucky, which is just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, by the end of 2017.
The move will affect 648 employees, the company notes, with layoffs starting the first week of January and running through the end of 2018. The company’s technical headquarters, the Erlanger facility opened in 1996.
Moving the engineers away from the Camry manufacturing plant is not something I would encourage. I've noticed in GE and Boeing that the further manufacturing and engineering are apart, there is tendency for small problems to become bigger, longer lasting, and more expensive to fix. Ultimately the product suffers but there is a strange, divergent feedback mechanism.
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What Drives Us Podcast - #209 New Car Fart Smell - What Drives Us
Mark First Bolt deliveries Russell Why the Verge is useless Lots of caveats and backpedaling but yes, someday, car ownership will not be as it is now Speaking of which, Yuko car sharing I’m sick to smart death of teaser campaigns and (not so) clever marketing, dial back the static, educate me Tony Neat Tesla […]
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Bolt the cannibal
Source: 1st Chevy Bolt Deliveries Have Begun In California! | CleanTechnica
Autoblog provides more: “The 3 new Bolt owners are a retiree from Fremont who’d previously driven a Chevrolet Spark EV; a software developer in Castro Valley who ditched his BMW i3; and a real estate broker from Portola Valley who turned in his Toyota Prius.”
I'm impressed ... NOT!
Bob Wilson
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