The scary thing about Indonesia, not to mention China and India, is that at the margin development is
very car intensive.
Not exact matches
The crankshaft of an engine is what converts the up and down motion of the pistons into a rotation which can be transferred to the wheels, replacing a crankshaft is a big job as the entire engine must be removed from the
car and stripped down to get to it, which is
very labor
intensive, it can often be cheaper to buy a used engine which is working and fitting that instead.
Sports
cars, such as the Chevrolet Corvette, often have bodies made of exotic materials, such as fiberglass or aluminum, making them
very difficult and labor -
intensive to repair properly.
So if you thought, for example, about a
very revved up,
intensive effort to work on the electrification of the vehicle fleet and the production of electric
cars in the United States, it could be a
very good thing for our auto business, for creating jobs, for manufacturing in Ohio and Michigan, for example — all things that could be quite appealing in many ways and could also have a big impact on greenhouse gases, even though it's not kind of presented as that — as the — that's not — it's not framed in that sense.
Because of the credit crunch, capital is harder to come by, and
car companies are
very capital -
intensive...
• Better technologies, not necessarily as expensive as many think, since Asians have not yet dug holes as Americans have with a
very car -
intensive world.
They do, however, remind us of a
very important fact: all
cars — electric or not — are still a resource
intensive, and relatively inefficient, way of moving people around.