November 2013

Energy Futures

The challenge of "green" is aggregating small amounts of energy – ultimately days of sunlight per surface [1] – into amounts usea...

Ruggles – AFN – Dec 2013 The price of new vehicles has been rising at a steady rate despite record auto manufacturer profits. This has bee...

I found the NADA White Paper on Used Vehicle Depreciation (pdf) interesting. Key sections are: Why we’ve seen so much volatility in deprec...

ruggles: the following is a collection of notes and has not a published column. NADA recently published a long awaited white paper on incent...

David Ruggles I found this chart from Dealer Communications quite interesting. Business Insider notes the following on the topic: The auto ...

Mike Smitka In my Industrial Organization class we chatted about the logic of funding basic science in a world of which the US is an ever-sm...

Automotive News has a retrospective with brief quotes from various participants. Let me briefly mention three that I found thoughtful despi...

Here are assorted data for your perusal – unfortunately due to the government shutdown data releases are delayed or (for certain data) a mon...