Sentences with phrase «auto task force»

In response to an Obama Administration auto task force report, Plug In America on Tuesday proposed a plan to make GM's Chevy Volt and other plug - in cars more affordable, noting that most advanced new technologies are initially more costly.

President Barack Obama's auto task force last week said in an assessment of General Motors» viability that it was a full generation behind Toyota in «green powertrain development» and that «while the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline - fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable.»

Separately, the head of President Obama's auto task force, Ron Bloom, and GM Chairman Ed Whitacre said GM was on track for an IPO as early as 2010.

Other Republicans thinking about running are State Senator John DeFrancisco, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and Manhattan businessman Harry Wilson, who served on former President Barack Obama's auto task force.

Wilson — a Harvard MBA who helped restructure GM as a member of President Obama's auto task force — says that, in times like these, «we need new leaders who are willing to test the limits in defense of taxpayers.»

Naive, perhaps, but he's a really smart guy and he did volunteer for Obama's auto task force when most right wingers wanted to see it fail on general principle.

He touted Wilson's resume and crossover appeal, noting the candidate's stint on the Obama administration's auto task force — the only Republican member of the leadership team.

After his work on the Obama auto task force, he founded MAEVA Group, a corporate restructuring firm, in 2011.

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We are setting up a task force in every federal agency to identify and remove any regulation that undermines American auto production and any other kind of production, including the production of high - end, low - end, big, small, every form of automobile and truck.

Wilson was chosen by Democratic President Barack Obama to serve on his task force to save the American auto industry.

But study co-author Harry Wilson — a nationally renowned pension expert who served on President Obama's auto restructuring task force — said the IBO analysis under - reported the pension and health liabilities by $ 3,500 to $ 4,000 per student, or 24 to 27 percent.

Wilson, a Westchester County resident who has a resume longer than your arm (leader of the president's auto bailout task force among them), came within spitting distance of unseating Comptroller Tom DiNapoli last year.

Wilson has experience in turning around troubled companies and served on the task force created by Democratic President Barack Obama to save the auto industry following the economic downturn.

He left the firm to serve on President Obama's auto industry task force in February 2009, but quit after just four months on the job.

«Upstate New York is worse off now than it was in 2010, when Cuomo was elected, and the metropolitan area, while it has had a decent rebound, has performed under its potential,» said Wilson, who served on Obama's auto industry task force in 2009.

As he campaigns, Wilson, who served on President Barack Obama's auto industry task force, hammers away at the state's precarious fiscal situation and says the government must curtail spending.

The problem is auto maker executives have forgotten one key point along with the automotive task force that apparently never has understood: it is the dealers that own the dealerships.

DETROIT — A task force of auto - industry engineers has proposed redesigning some sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks so they inflict less damage on cars, as well as effectively making side air bags standard equipment on all vehicles.

In order to do monitor more closely the fraud in the auto insurance industry they announced they would form a task force dedicated to investigating and prosecuting serious auto fraud if they won the election.

This is done through our partnerships with the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association, Colorado Auto Theft Investigators and the Attorney General's Auto Theft Prosecution Initiative in addition to task forces across the state.

Colorado auto theft task forces, made up of regional law enforcement agencies, Colorado State Patrol and other motor vehicle safety and insurance partners, are a part of the CAAT coalition to decrease auto theft during this peak auto theft season.

This is in large part due to the CATPA funded multi-jurisdictional auto theft task forces operating across the state.