Hell, I wouldn’t buy a horse drawn cart from him.

EPA 2010 regulations pretty much end the aftertreatment technology side of things. Once the tech is in place, all it’s going to take is tweaking in order to get any new regulations. It’s all software and downhill from here.

Who cares about $5/gallon diesel when you’re getting 60 MPG with a 1.4 liter diesel, with enough DPF and SCR exhaust aftertreatment to shoot puppies, kittens, and sunshine out the tailpipe.

There you go.

Daimler paid Cerberus to take Chrysler, demonstrating to the financial/credit market their willingness to do whatever it takes to re-focus.

Daimler has been rewarded with a sight bump in their credit rating. If Daimler is increasing R&D, then maybe they aren’t asleep at the switch.

What an expensive alarm clock.

But a dozen alarm clocks haven’t awakened GM…

Anyway, maybe the fact that the brilliant (NOT, well maybe concerning their own compensation they are) management at BMW is lowering their expenses, which will ultimately lead to a quality slump like the one Mercedes is still trying to crawl out of right now, is good news for Daimler’s credit rating.

More likely though, Chrysler is gone, so the company finally has some focus again.

Also, I think it is very wise of them to push for both Lion technology as well as hydrogen, because right now it’s really unclear what will have the future, unless of course your argument is that Daimler is able to singlehandedly influence that by persuing just one path. I’m guessing neither one will be succesful, certainly not Lion, hydrogen maybe…