The company said it injected $1 billion to "support its business in providing Didi drivers and the broader car-owner community with convenient, flexible, economical, and reliable one-stop auto services".
Although they can work well in limited circumstances, they do not appeal to the broad car-buying market.
After visiting the city's best spirits shop, Kratochvilovci, to track down a bottle of Hammer Head whiskey — the bizarre, pre-Velvet Revolution Czech single malt released a couple of years ago to rave reviews — you can step out into the broad, car-free street with impunity and admire the grand facades on either side.
After visiting the city's best spirits shop, Kratochvilovci, to track down a bottle of Hammer Head whiskey — the bizarre, pre-Velvet Revolution Czech single malt released a couple of years ago to rave reviews — you can step out into the broad, car-free street with impunity and admire the grand facades on either side.
Despite its willingness to peddle the Pacifica, DaimlerChrysler said it believed that the broader American car market would be less roiled by rebates and other sales promotions toward the end of 2003.
"We expect this to be reflected in the broader small/mid car market going forward," Johnson said.
"The point of it is a lot broader than cars.
In recent weeks, trade journals have reported that G.M. is cutting the number of models in a broad midsize car program; has dropped a plan to build a "world" van, which would have been assembled in G.M. plants abroad as well as domestically, and has suspended a program to bring out a line of Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird models with plastic outer bodies, code-named the GM-80 project.
Instead of focusing on a truly broad appeal car like the Volt, they've promised to have a commercial-use electric van on the road by 2010 and a small all-electric car on the road by 2011.
In Denmark, Dong Energy is deploying smart power grids -- and on the island of Bornholm, with 40,000 inhabitants, it is building a new plug-in network to understand the smart-grid implications of broad electric car adoption.
