Greetings

Welcome to my first post on this blog.  As this is my first post, I'd like to provide you with some background on myself and my goals for my posts.  My bio is attached to this website, but I thought a little context might help.

My experience is as a consultant for over 20 years in the Automotive Practice of McKinsey & Company, although I have now struck out on my own.  As consultants, we provide the management of car companies, truck makers, parts suppliers, auto insurers, car dealers and more with advice on strategic decisions, and assistance in tactical implementation.  I'd work on up to 200 projects a year, which led to the development of a broad base of information and perspective on all the links in the incredibly complex automotive value chain.  Some might even call it an ecosystem...

As a result, I have some claim to the term "industry insider," and so that perspective will color my posts.  However, I would not be posting here if I did not want to evolve rather than simply perpetuate the industry's accepted wisdom.  I am sure the readers of this blog will let me know if my thinking gets a little too Neanderthal!

My goals for my posts do not include making grand pronouncements nor sweeping policy statements.  There's lots of that going on now in The Great Automotive Efficiency Debate, and I am sure I cannot productively add to it.  What I will try to do, weekly I hope, is comment on current developments in that debate, with an eye to offering data when it is germane, history when helpful, and linkages to other issues when relevant.  There's plenty of heat within the debate (I wish we could channel it to power cars, that alone might end the energy problem!): I'll try to shed some light. 

Gentlemen, start your (hopefully biofuel-powered and electric-motor hybridized) engines....

Comments

[Manu Sharma]

[strikeout] hopefully biofuel-powered and electric-motor hybridized [/strikeout]

Completely electric

[Ken Fry]

This seems like as good a place to post this as any: How about a blog topic for rule suggestions?

[David R. Reustle]

I am impressed that there is an X Prize for those who work in the transportation industry. I look forward to the up coming technologies that will change the face of cars , trucks and those who work on them.