Author: Ersin Kara

Şirket, bir tür nükleer güçle çalışan otomobilin, 8 gramlık toryum ile 100 yıl çalışabileceğini öne sürdü.Atom enerjisi kaynağı olan toryum elementi; Çin, Avustralya, Hindistan ve Norveç’in yanı sıra Türkiye’de de bulunuyor.Toryumun, uranyumdan daha güvenli bir nükler yakıt maddesi olduğu ifade ediliyor. Source: 100 yıl yakıtı bitmeden çalışan otomobil üretildi | Ekvator Haber

Bursa’da yapılan “İlk 250 Büyük Firma Araştırması”, yabancı ortaklı ya da tamamı yabancı sermayeli şirketlerin kentin üretim, ihracat ve istihdamına etkisini ortaya koydu Araştırma kapsamında hazırlanan listedeki yabancı ortaklı ya da tamamı yabancı sermayeli 37 firma, 2014 yılı itibarıyla 250 firmanın toplam cirosunun yüzde 43,40’ını, ihracatının yüzde 72,16’sını, istihdamının da yüzde 25,54’ünü sağladı Source: “Otomotiv üssü”nü yabancı sermaye yatırımları sırtladı – Belge – Türkiye’nin Haber Sitesi

Bilim, Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanı Fikri Işık A Haber muhabiri Levent Eke’nin yerli otomobille ilgili sorularını cevapladı. A Haber canlı yayınına konuk olan Bakan Işık, yerli otomobilde birinci fazın tamamlandığını ve imzaların atıldığını söyledi. Bugün Başbakan Davutoğlu’nun ayrıntılarını açıklayacağı yerli otomobilin 4 farklı modelle üretileceğini kaydetti. Bir soru üzerine, yerli otomobili 2020’den önce yola çıkarmayı hedeflediklerini ve bunu, Türkiye açısından çok önemli gördüklerini dile getiren Işık, baştan beri odaklandıkları noktanın; geleceğin teknolojisi, dünyada rekabet avantajı elde edilebilecek ve menzili uzatılmış elektrikli araç modelini geliştirmek olduğunu söyledi. Işık, Türkiye’de yerli bir marka ile dünya yollarına çıkmayı amaçladıklarını ifade ederek, “Bununla ilgili bir yıllık süre içerisinde yoğun bir çalışma yaptık ve en son ‘birinci faz’ dediğimiz ‘asıl bu işe nereden başlayacağız, hangi bazdan başlayacağız’ noktasında 1’inci basamağı tamamladık şimdi onun imzasını attık, bugün detaylı açıklamayı Sayın Başbakanımız yapacak inşallah. Şimdi bu babayiğitlere çağrı için gerekli olan adımdı, şimdi asıl babayiğitlere çağrıyı bundan sonra yapacağız” diye konuştu. “Babayiğide gelin” demenin tek başına anlamlı bir şey olmadığına dikkati çeken Işık, söz konusu üretimin neden, nasıl ve hangi bilgi birikimiyle üretileceği ve Türkiye’nin birikimi ve güçlü rekabette yer alabilmek için neler yapılması gerektiği üzerinde çalışmalar yaptıklarını anlattı. Bakan Işık, birinci fazda bu içeriklerin üretildiğini söyledi. Işık, artık ellerinde somut bir durum olduğunu ifade ederek, “Bu somut duruma göre bundan sonra babayiğit çağrısına çıkacağız. Bütün Türkiye’deki özel sektöre, (Buyurun gelin birlikte çalışalım diyeceğiz)” ifadesini kullandı. “ARAZİ ARACI DA OLACAK” Bakan Işık, yerli otomobilin markasına ilişkin de bir marka çıkarılacaksa bu markanın, bir tek modelle yürütülemeyeceğini kaydetti. Hem segment farkı, hem model farkı, hem tip farklarını dikkate alan bir yaklaşım sergilediklerini dile getiren Işık, “Şu anda 4 farklı modelin üretimi noktasında altyapıyı hazırladık. Arazi aracı da olacak” dedi. Işık, makam araçlarının da yerli otomobil ile değiştirilmesi konusundaki bir soru üzerine şu değerlendirmeyi yaptı: “Ben Allah nasip eder de görevde olursam makam aracımı tabii ki değiştireceğim yani orada tereddüt yok, çünkü kendi ürettiğimiz araca kendimiz binmezsek o zaman kredi limiti açısından çok da olumlu bir durum olmaz. Sadece devlet için söylemiyorum, gidin Seul sokaklarına Güney Kore araçlarının dışında kolay kolay araç göremezsiniz işte belki Japonya biraz daha benziyor. Türkiye bugüne kadar çok fazla ertelediği projelerini hayata geçirmeye başlıyor. 71 yıl ertelenen milli uçak projesi hayata geçiyor, lansmanı yapıldı. 1961 yılında ‘Devrim’ otomobili ile ilgili süreçten tam 54 yıl sonra inşallah yerli otomobilin de startı veriliyor. Türkiye daha önce pek çok defa yakaladığı fırsatları maalesef hoyratça tepmişti. Şimdi Türkiye artık bu alanlarda tekrar var olmanın gayretini gösteriyor.” “BİR AYDA 50-100 LİRA ARASINDA ŞARJ ÜCRETİYLE İHTİYAÇLAR GİDERİLEBİLECEK” Menzili uzatılmış elektrikli araçlar üzerinde çalıştıklarını da anlatan Işık, yapılan istatistiklerin insanların şehir içinde günde 25 kilometre yol yaptığını gösterdiğini, insanların, bu araçla günde 80-100 kilometre yol yapabileceğini ifade etti. Işık, şehir dışına çıkmadığı sürece bir ayda 50-100 lira arasında şarj ücretiyle ihtiyaçların giderilebileceğine dikkati çekerek, sözlerini şöyle bitirdi: “Şehir dışına çıkma ihtiyacı oldu, 80 kilometre güvenle gittikten sonra batarya zayıflamaya başladığı zaman, yani şarj azalmaya başladığı zaman bu defa arkadaki jeneratör devreye girecek ve hem elektrik motorlarını besleyecek hem de bataryaları şarj edecek ve benzinin, mazotun, LPG’nin olduğu her yere insanımız güvenle gidebilecek. Bu durumda da bugün ekonomik olarak gördüğümüz araçların bile en iyisinin yaklaşık yüzde 40’ı kadar tasarruf imkanı olacak. Tüketicinin kullanırken kazandığı cebinden daha az yakıt harcadığı, daha basit ama daha iyi bir teknolojiyle seyahat ettiği bir araç olacak. Buradaki asıl hedefimizde bunu yaparken sadece yakıt ekonomisine odaklanmak değil, aynı zamanda güvenlik konfor ve kaliteye de odaklanmak. Şu anda bütün çalışmamız da o noktada. Bir araç yapacağız ama bu aracı insanlar sadece Türk malı olduğu için almayacaklar. Aynı zamanda kaliteli olacak, aynı zamanda konforlu olduğu için, aynı zamanda da güvenli olduğu için dayanıklı olduğu için alacaklar. Bunun gayreti içerisindeyiz.”                 Kaynak: A Haber

DETROIT — Mexico has become the most-attractive place in North America to build auto factories, a shift that has siphoned jobs from the U.S. and Canada while also helping to keep car and truck prices in check for consumers. In the past two years, eight automakers have opened or announced plants or expansions in Mexico. Earlier this month, Toyota announced a plant in Guanajuato that will build the popular Corolla — work now done in Canada — while Ford unveiled plans for Mexican engine and transmission factories. Honda opened a plant last year in Celaya, Guanajuato, that builds the Fit subcompact and HR-V crossover. The $800 million assembly plant is Honda’s eighth in North America, adding to capacity that includes two plants in central Ohio. Low labor costs and fewer tariffs are the swing factors for automakers looking at Mexico. A worker there costs automakers an average of $8 an hour, including wages and benefits. That compares with $58 in the U.S. for General Motors and $38 at Volkswagen’s factory in Tennessee, the lowest hourly cost in the U.S., according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry research group in Ann Arbor, Mich. German autoworkers cost about $52 an hour. Mexico also trumps the U.S. on free trade. It has agreements with 45 countries, meaning low tariffs for exporting globally. That, along with low labor costs, persuaded Audi to build an SUV factory in the state of Puebla. The German automaker will save $6,000 per vehicle in tariffs when it ships a Q5 to Europe compared with building the same vehicle in the U.S., said Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research. Audi also sells the Q5 in the U.S., where tariffs on vehicles built in Mexico were dropped under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The cost savings also should let automakers add expensive fuel-saving features to meet stricter U.S. government mileage requirements without raising prices. Two-thirds of autos made in Mexico are sold in the U.S. While Mexico’s auto industry booms and workers welcome the above-average wages, they are speaking out more loudly about working conditions. Mexican auto production more than doubled in the past 10 years. The consulting firm IHS Automotive expects it to rise an additional 50 percent, to nearly 5 million vehicles by 2022. U.S. production is expected to increase only 3 percent, to 12.2 million vehicles in 2022. Automakers have 18 factories in Mexico, many of them built in the past 10 years. In four years, five more are to be built, moving the country from seventh to fifth in production. The shift means that jobs that could have gone to the U.S. or Canada went south. The number of automaking jobs in Mexico has risen 38 percent since 2008, from 490,000 to 675,000 last year, according to government and industry statistics. During the same period, U.S. auto-manufacturing employment grew 15 percent, to nearly 903,000. Toyota’s new plant will create 2,000 jobs, while Ford’s $2.5 billion investment will add 3,800. For Mexican workers, the plants “originally appear like marvelous places because you can earn a salary in exchange for good work,” said Huberto Juarez, a professor at the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Development at the Autonomous University of Puebla. Some Japanese automakers start workers in Mexico at 90 to 150 pesos per day, or $6 to $10, Juarez said. Others, such as Volkswagen, have paid more than double that. Juarez said Mexico’s automaking wages now are lower than pay in China but higher than Mexico’s minimum of $4.50 per day. There is pressure to improve working conditions at Mexican factories. This month, three former Mazda-factory workers publicly complained of injuries and of being worked longer than legally allowed. Even so, Juarez said, workers probably will stay put. “The big threat is always going to be unemployment. That’s why they stay. Because you leave there, and where are you going to go?” Initially, automakers with Mexican factories faced quality problems due to an unskilled workforce. But companies with longtime factories in Mexico, such as Ford and Nissan, have resolved those issues, according to McAlinden. Despite shipping costs, it’s still cheaper to build autos for the U.S. market in Mexico, he said. A U.S.-built Chevrolet Sonic subcompact costs about $700 more to make than a comparable Mexican-built Ford Fiesta, McAlinden said. That’s even with a labor agreement at the Sonic factory in Michigan that allows 40 percent of the workers to be paid less than longtime union employees. The United Auto Workers complain that companies building in Mexico are taking advantage of “ slavelike” wages. “American manufacturing workers could have had good-paying jobs that respect basic human dignity,” UAW President Dennis Williams said. Still, the auto industry’s investments aren’t limited to Mexico. Automakers poured $46 billion into improving U.S. factories from 2010 to 2014. Automakers’ employment in the U.S. grew 37 percent during that time. Ford pointed out that 80 percent of its annual North American investments are in the U.S., where spending “will continue at about the same sizable level.” Auto buyers should see benefits from lower costs in Mexico. U.S. government fuel-economy requirements call for raising the gas mileage of the new-auto fleet to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The technologies needed, including turbocharged engines and multispeed transmissions, are costly. And with gasoline at more than $2.50 per gallon, buyers don’t want to pay extra. McAlinden said moving engine and transmission production to Mexico makes sense. “There’s no room for labor costs,” he said. Dispatch Reporter Dan Gearino contributed to this story.           source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/04/30/mexico-luring-new-auto-plants.html

Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan on Wednesday unveiled a plan to allow auto insurance companies to sell Detroiters lower-cost policies with a maximum of $275,000 in medical coverage for auto-related injuries. Duggan’s long-anticipated proposed legislation, which he said would knock $1,000 off motorists’ annual bills next year if passed, would provide $25,000 in base benefits for personal-injury protection and another $250,000 for catastrophic care for disabling injuries from in auto accidents. “We have worked at this every single day for the last year,” Duggan told a packed community meeting at Little Rock Baptist Church on Woodward. “This is the most complicated thing I’ve dealt with in my life.” The mayor’s “D-Insurance” plan, to be sponsored by state Sen. Virgil Smith, has been among Duggan’s priorities for Detroit and fulfills a campaign promise to craft the strategy. The policy gives Detroiters an option that he said would cut auto rates 25 percent to 33 percent. “I want you to have a choice. That’s all I’m saying,” the mayor told the crowd while explaining the proposal. “If this doesn’t work, I don’t have another solution. We’ve got to get this through.” Duggan said he’s been pitching his plan to the Republican speaker of the House and Gov. Rick Snyder is “largely on board.” They are now working on the Senate, he said. The mayor said they will work to get Smith’s bill passed this year. Detroiters spend, on average, $3,400 annually on insurance some of the highest auto insurance premiums in the country. Suburban drivers in Michigan average $1,700. Duggan said Wednesday his own rates doubled from $3,000 to $6,000 when he moved to the city from the suburbs. More than 50 percent of Detroit drivers are uninsured, he said. The result is they are “left vulnerable.” Under Duggan’s plan, when motorists hit the $275,000 cap, they would have to get additional coverage from health insurance plans. The draft bill also allows insurers to set up limited-provider networks for nonemergency treatment, such as physical rehabilitation or occupational therapy. The proposal, which would need approval of the state Legislature, is a departure from Michigan’s decades-old unlimited medical benefits for drivers who sustain life-altering injuries in crashes. Insurers often blame a lack of cost controls in auto accident medical care for Michigan’s above average insurance rates. Also, Smith said he will be holding a committee hearing and substitute in Duggan’s language in place of the language in his existing bill. Tahjma Vaughn said she and her husband pay $460 a month for basic no-fault coverage for their two vehicles. The 22-year-old said the costs doubled when she moved to the city from Troy last year. “We were struggling. I was in tears trying to find out how we were going to pay for insurance,” she said. Vaughn said she was glad to hear that the mayor has a strategy, adding that many on her block can’t afford car insurance. “I want to try to look into this,” she said. “Hopefully help my neighbors and people in our area.” If the bill goes through, Duggan said the city will select at least two companies to offer D-Insurance through competitive bidding. In recent months, Duggan said he’s been working with AAA Michigan to evaluate why city residents were paying higher premiums. The reason, Duggan has said, has less to do with thefts or accidents and more for medical follow-up care. Before becoming mayor last year, Duggan was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center. In November, the City Council unanimously supported a $75,000 contract with an actuarial firm to study the feasibility of creating a city-sponsored insurance company. Reforming the state’s auto no-fault law has been a priority for Snyder, who has said he’s working with Duggan on legislation to bring rate relief to Detroit residents. Duggan’s efforts to lower auto insurance rates in Detroit comes as the state House is preparing to vote as early as this week on a controversial bill to curtail medical costs for auto insurers and provide motorists with up to $100 per vehicle annual rate reduction for two years. Last week, Smith proposed a bill that would lower the city’s high auto insurance rates by letting insurers sell basic auto coverage in Detroit with just $50,000 in medical coverage. Smith said his focus will now be on introducing Duggan’s insurance plan. “I know we can get this done,” Smith said at Wednesday’s meeting. Smith has said if city residents are willing to forgo unlimited lifetime medical benefits for auto accidents, it could drive down the cost of insuring vehicles in the city. Drivers in Detroit’s 48227 ZIP code pay the highest auto insurance premiums in the country for a 2014 Honda Accord at $5,109 per year, 130 percent more than the statewide average for that particular vehicle, according to a January study of average rates by CarInsurance.com.             Source: The Detroit News