Posts Tagged ‘China’
Friday, July 6th, 2012
I don’t know, which would you rather see when you look outside in the morning? Would you rather see freaky Blair Witch evidence or bunch of Falun Gong holding this pose?
Geary at Laguna:
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I could go either way.
But, attention cultists, achtung baby: Signals intelligence officers are inside this consulate, sniffing your cell phone data packets, so to speak. Like a giant Google Maps car.
So, Falun Gongers, take your cell phone batteries out of your mobiles, if you know what’s good for you, whenever you protest over there.
Just saying…
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Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Well, here it is, from the NYT’s Bradley Berman – it’s the big review of the little POS electric car that’s actually made in China but final-assembled in troubled Benicia, way out there in the eastern part of the North Bay.
Here’s your warning that things aren’t going so hot:
“The company even brought its chief executive from China. Coda hired Philip Murtaugh in 2011, a former top executive at the Chinese operations of General Motors and Chrysler. At the 2011 Los Angeles auto show, Mr. Murtaugh expressed concern over the reception for the car’s styling in the American market. First produced nearly about a decade ago, it gives the impression of a knockoff copy of a Y2K Nissan Sentra or Honda Civic. “The vehicle was chosen three years ago,” he told me. “I came in nine months ago. We couldn’t change it.”
So, the reason why your state-subsidized vehicle sucks is Somebody Else’s Problem?
And then there’s this, the primary selling feature in some of the Coda ads, the large trunk:
“Yes, the trunk is cavernous, but I would gladly give up three inches of trunk depth for more legroom in the back seat.”
(The reason why the trunk is so big is that the Coda Sedan is actually a two-decade-old Mitsubishi Carisma designed for the European market, which, at the time, was in need of a little car with a big-ass trunk. Things didn’t work out, so the factory was shipped to China. I’m srsly.)
OK. Moving on.
To this:
“…difficult to accept the shortcomings of the Coda at its current price, despite its ability to grant 100 miles on a single charge.”
Yep.
Here it is. Actually it looks more like a 1992 Honda Civic 4-door sedan with giant aftermarket wheels, to my eyes:
I’ve been telling you about this venture, this unholy alliance of Goldman Sachs execs (the people who brought us the failed WebVan, srsly, the same exact people), assorted federal government hangers-on (bureaucrats who know nothing about cars, electricity, or batteries or whatever), the People’s Republic of China, and other ne’er-do wells, for years now.
And then when the car comes out and its time for the Big Review from the sainted NYT (which had been pretty positive on this issue of this piece of junk), Coda Automotive gets a thumbs down.
Oh well.
That’s not much to show considering all the government subsidies this company is getting.
(And, mind you, this is after they lowered the MSRP down from the originally-planned $45,000(!), as I and host of others (the so-called haters) have been suggesting for a good long time.)
But at least twenty people in Benicia have jobs at the final assembly plant what are paying In-and-Out level wages….
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
First of all, MUNI* sucks, let’s just get that out of the way.
Second of all, look what happened when Shanghai Metro over there in the People’s Republic of China used its Tumblrish/Twtterish microblogging website to lecture women about how to dress, you know, to decrease the chances of getting groped and whatnot.
See? It’s all:
“乘坐地铁，穿成这样，不被骚扰，才怪。地铁狼较多，打不胜打，人狼大战，姑娘，请自重啊!”
Now it’s been a while since my days at Hereford, but I think that means:
“Subway, dressed like that, and not be harassed, strange. More subway wolf, playing numerous fight the war of crying wolf, girl, please behave!”
Get it? If you dress like a ho, you’ll get treated like one, by the subway wolves.
And here’s the photo that Shanghai’s subway agency grabbed to make its point:
But now there’s a quiet protest going on.
Like right here.
Like people are wearing burkas to say, “What do you want to do, impose Sharia Law?”
What a burn.
I’ll tell you, one thing the Red Chinese hate, just hate, is underground protest movements. They can’t abide.
Like remember this one from a few years ago? It seems that a group of people wanted to Stop the Killing in Tibet so they had this gal suspend herself from the Chinese Consulate right there at Geary and Laguna.
Thusly:
Man, the people inside the consulate went berserk over this one. They ended up going to the roof to cut her down. (Lucky for her she was just 15 feet above a balcony – if she had fallen to the sidewalk below, it could have been fatal.) And then they blocked the SFFD from taking her to SF General to get her leg injuries treated. (You know, back then, the PRC was kind of a pariah nation.)
Anywho, my point is that the Chinese Communist Party can’t abide** protest, even little ones about proper dress codes, so it will be interesting to see what happens when Democracy finally finds its way to China. Perhaps the CCP would end up the winner in a fair election. Who knows.
But little things, like “underground” performance art protests, have a tendency to turn into bigger things.
Sometimes.
We’ll see.
*I mean I don’t think you should ever broach the topic of the SFMTAMUNIDPT without saying up front that MUNI sucks, that MUNI has lots and lots of room for improvement. This kind of constructive criticism displays the fact that you don’t think that MUNI is the Best Darn Agency in the World or something like that. So you could say, “Of course MUNI sucks, but I think that we should keep on building that horrible Central Subway.” That would be interesting, huh? That would show at least that you acknowledge reality and also that you feel that paying the Feds back their $200,000,000 or so would be a burden on the City and County. And then somebody else might counter with, “Yeah, we should make a deal with the Feds not to spend good money after bad - maybe let’s just forget the whole thing and let’s not require repayment of the money back to the US Treasury. That would be a win-win for San Francisco and all the taxpayers of America.” Or something like that. Now you’re on the trolley!
**Hey, now let’s hear from Mayor Ed Lee “advisor” / Chinese Consulate “advisor” Chinatown “Power Broker” Rose Pak, you know, from back in the day, after she descended from her taxpayer-financed, below-market condo penthouse in District Six:
“When asked what message she would like to convey to the Chinese government, Pak said, ‘On what moral ground do we have as United States citizens lecturing what China should do when our own President would drum up falsehoods and bomb Iraq back to the stone-age, killing several hundred thousand innocent Iraqis. Look at all the problems in the world, (they) are all created by Western countries with their phony-baloney moral standards,’ Pak added.”
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
Nope!
Not at all.
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Oh well.
Tags: 100% foreign steel, bay bridge, China, chinese, communist party, construction, flag, made in america, Oakland, prc, red, should be made in america, shouldbemadeinamerica, shouldbemadeinamerica.com, star, stars, U.S., union, unions, United States, usa, website, yellow
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
It’s the minivan of bikes:
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Anyway, count this as an actual sighting in the wild – usually I only see these rigs at the uber-expensive MyDutchBike sto on Market Street.
Ah let’s see here:
“Gone were last year’s cheap chinese cargo bikes, so at least no one got turned-off to cargo bikes this year…”
And there’s this:
“To sum it up, whatever “metal” the Chinese use to build their bikes out of is soft, weak, and full of impurities.”
(Hey do you know why Euros spend so much on bikes in Europe? Maybe it’s the 50% tariff on the Made-in-China competition…)
But maybe you’re a San Francisco millionaire with a garage, so here’s the spiel:
“We ship our Dutch bike, Dutch bikes, Dutch bicycles and Dutch city bikes FULLY assembled nation and worldwide. We sell utility bicycles from Amsterdam and other cities in Europe like Oma bikes, also known as Omafiets, or Oma fiets, Omafiet, Abuela, abuelas, GrannyBike or Granny bike and Grandma bicycles,Abuela bikes, Amsterdam Bike. Opa bikes also known as Opafiets, Opa fiets, Opafiet and Grandpa bike, both comfortable, stylish straight up riding position bikes that will last for decades. Check out our Fr8 bikes, or freight bike, gorgeous in everyway and extremely strong for real-life situations like school, shopping, commuting and errands around town, designed by Henry Cutler. Also from Workcycles are the Secret Service or SecretService bikes and are made with Azor frames hand build in Amsterdam. Also seen on the streets in The Netherlands or Holland is the Bakfiets, or Bak fiets, Bakfiets.nl, Cargobike, Cargo bicycle, longjohn, long john bikes, boxbike and box bike. We have them in several colors all with Shimano Nexus 3 and 8-speed hubs. We now carry the fabulous Retrovelo, some say Retro velo or Retrovello, bikes. Retrovelo bicycle unites functionality, city chic and the individualism of its rider. With models like Paul, Paula, Klaus, Klara, Otto Solo/Duo in fantastic colors. These balloon racers or ballon racers are designed by Frank Patitz in Leipzig Germany. We also sell other european bikes or euro utility bikes or Danish bikes from Denmark and Germany. We also carry Velorbis or Danish bikes. Not to mention Pashleys which are English bikes like the Guv’nor. We also have accessories like Yakkay helmets and Yakkay covers and Clarijs and Basil panniers Po Campo and Nutcase helmets and finally Carrie Swedish bicycle baskets. Don’t forget to check out our Umberto Dei bicycles from Italy too! Please visit our shop if you’re in the neighborhood. Our address is 575 Market Street, San Francisco California USA. Did you know that the following cities have the highest percentage of bicycle commuters in the U.S.A? Minneapolis MN, Sacramento CA, Portland OR, Tucson AZ, Fresno CA, Tampa FL, San Francisco CA, Oakland CA, Mesa AZ, Anaheim CA, Boston MA, Washington DC, Seattle WA, Albuquerque NM, New Orleans LA, Oklahoma City OK, Phoenix AZ, St. Paul MN, Long Beach CA, Santa Ana CA, Los Angeles CA, Honolulu HI, Denver CO, Chicago IL, Pittsburgh PA, San Diego CA, San Jose CA, New York City NY, Houston TX, Raleigh NC, Milwaukee WI, St. Louis MO, Cincinnati OH, Riverside CA and Columbus OH, in that order. You landed on the My Dutch Bike website, which is the same as MyDutchBike and MyDutchBike.com.We are open to the public. Public may also make an appointment if not able to make our normal store hours. Please visit our website for hours.”
And here’s something else, on the topic of some customer-dude’s opinion of Shimano roller brakes:
“Here’s the e-mail response to this review I received from Josh, the mechanic at My Dutch Bike:
“im glad you have all the time in the world to write BULLSHIT.
you are an idiot. I have what is called real world experience,
something you know nothing of.
get a life, you are not welcome in my company.
I’m sure youve heard this before.
I know much more than you and always will
you dont know how to read
call shimano and talk to them
i know you havent
give it up
you fucking looser”
And that’s enough for me from MDB.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
One thing that me and our local real estate cabal agree upon is the sanctity of Broadway as a neighborhood dividing line on the east si-iiiide of San Francisco.
So I’ll admit that any area above B’Way isn’t a part of Chinatown. Fine.
But, you know, Chinese/Asian businesses started a foothold in North Beach proper, above B’Way, back in the day and certain people didn’t like it, not one bit.
So, these Italian light pole flags started going up a few decades ago as a response to the encroachment, the Asian Invasion. Take a look below.
Now I’ll tell you, one person who didn’t cotton to these flags was furniture store owner Ed Yee. You see, he preferred American flags. Read all about his campaign against colori italiani in this bit by Ilene Lelchuk from all the way back in aught-two. Ed’s windmill-tilting even made the Fox News back then.
But, after some blowback from people like Louis Calabro of the “European American Issues Forum“ the City Family came down on Ed so his campaign to put up American flags on the Italian poles ended.
Count them, go ahead. These things are all over the place:
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Oh well.
Back in the 1800′s, people in North Beach would throw rocks at Chinese and Chinese Americans who ventured north of Broadway. You know, to send a message about who belongs where.
These days, we “defend” the Italian-ness, the whiteness of North Beach in a different way.
O.K. fine.
But I don’t approve.
We ought to take all these stickers down.
In closing:
“It’s a visual and therefore a visceral betrayal. Stop it!”
John Malkovich, Transformers III: Dark of the Moon
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Ah, let’s check in with Goldman Sachs-backed CODA AUTOMOTIVE.
1. OK, has the Wikipedia entry been scrubbed of any negative information? You, Gentle Reader, make the call. (The context is that the battery capacity and range claims made these past months and years aren’t coming true but there’s no mention of these things in Wiki, oh well. Wiki’s good for Coda though, cause their people can just pop on in and change things to erase history.)
2. Hey, how’s that Music Man act going over in Ohio, Coda? Not good, it seems. Coda, you’re the worst company ever.
3. But now come the long-promised “green jobs” to the North Bay region of the Bay Area. What was the promise, that there’d be 50 to start and 200 soon thereafter? Well, take a look at the help wanted pages, below. A couple-dozen people slapping a direct-from-China battery into a direct-from-China car does not an American car factory make, right people?
Anywho, Gentle Reader, if you want to get up to speed on the crappiest, broken-promisest electric car company in the world, click here and keep reading.
Oh, but what’s this, it’s a non-crappy electric car what’s cheaper than anything from Coda. It’s a Nissan Leaf, which the Coda people have been criticizing for years. Oh well. Anyway, adorable, non?
Oh, back to Coda now.
Here’s your peek into the what’s going on in Benicia.
TTFN.
“Job Description
A full-time position is available, with immediate effect, for a Production Manager.
ABOUT CODA AUTOMOTIVE:
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, CODA Holdings is a leading developer of advanced Lithium-ion power battery systems comprised of three key divisions: CODA Automotive, CODA EV Propulsion Systems and CODA Energy. Together with its JV partners, CODA is working to reduce dependence on oil and leading the way to a cleaner future through its electric vehicles and stationary energy storage products. With segment leading range, the CODA vehicle is a zero emission four-door, five-passenger sedan with a full-size trunk that is designed to meet American drivers’ daily transportation needs. For more information on the CODA, visit www.codaautomotive.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION: The Production Manager will be located in Benicia, CA. and will manage the final assembly process. The position will be responsible for managing a dynamic repair process that in NOT paced by a conveyor line.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Inventory control – Manage & replenish all planned components and supporting repair parts
• Develop Process Sheets for Assembly Processes and Repair processes
• Communicate and elevate quality issues to China Assembly, Engineering, Supply Chain and the field service organizations
• React quickly to Field Service Customer issues and institute immediate countermeasures
• Oversee the Contract Assembler Financial invoices and verify correct charges
• Proactively work with the Contract Assembler to continuously improve quality, velocity of units through the process and reduce the total costs
• Supervise 2 Salary employees and indirectly manage 20 contract assemblers
• Manage Vehicle inventory and the process flow
• Contribute, Lead and instigate team problem solving at all levels
• Constant training for all team members to ensure assembly and repair proficiency
Challenge Contract assembly company for continuous improvement in Quality, Through-put and Cost reduction.
Desired Skills & Experience
• Bachelors Degree: Technical or Business, preferred
• Automotive Floor leadership experience. required
• Strong leadership skills
• Dynamic and engaging communication style
• Manages ambiguity well – must be able to find a process in an asynchronous flow
• Excellent Problem Solver
• Strong Financial Acumen
• Experienced trainer of teams
• Lean manufacturing and team style of manufacturing processes and culture
TO APPLY:
Please submit your cover letter with salary requirements and resume via our corporate website.
Kindly respect our recruitment process and do not use any other method to apply. Thank you in advance for your attention to this important detail. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for preliminary interviews.
Job Location: Los Angeles, California
Company URL: http://www.CODAautomotive.com
CODA Automotive is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
The policy and practice of CODA Automotive require that entry into employment and progression within employment will be determined only by personal merit and the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each particular job. Subject to statutory provisions, no applicant or member of staff will be treated less favorably than another because of his or her gender, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, religion or belief, racial group, age or disability. In all cases, ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.
TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:
CODA Automotive does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, CODA Automotive employees, or any other company location. CODA Automotive is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Company Description
Coda Automotive is a manufacturer and distributor of all-electric, zero-emissions cars and battery transportation systems. Formed under the stewardship of entrepreneur Miles Rubin (known for his marketing and sales of neighborhood electric fleet vehicles under the Miles Electric Vehicles brand) in 2009, Coda engineers, brands, markets and distributes electric vehicles. The company’s manufacturing partnership strategy allows Coda to avoid the traditionally capital-intensive nature of the automobile business. Coda Automotive’s first vehicle, highway commuter sedan, is now being delivered to California consumers.”
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Take a look at Civic Center Mike’s shot of City Hall from the other day.
Wow:
Via Civic Center Mike – click to expand
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, China, chinese, City Hall, civic center, cult, falun gong, religion, San Francisco
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
The writer of this article seems to have learned about the crappy CODA company solely from one press conference put on by said crappy CODA company. Is that how journalists roll these days?
Off we go:
“The latest entrant in California’s increasingly crowded market for electric cars is a small, unassuming sedan that rolled off an assembly line in Benicia on Monday morning.”
YEAH, I’SPOSE. OF COURSE “UNASSUMING” IS CODE TELLING US THE CODA SEDAN IS A POS, WHICH IT IS. BUT “ASSEMBLY LINE?” SORRY, NO. IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT A “FINAL ASSEMBLY” LINE, WELL, THAT MIGHT BE O.K., BUT THE REAL ASSEMBLY LINE FOR THE CODA SEDAN IS IN CHINA. YOU SEE, ACTUAL ASSEMBLY LINES HAVE STUFF INSIDE OF THEM. YOU CAN’T CALL AN UNSKILLED WORKER FROM BENICIA PUTTING A CHINESE BATTERY INTO A CHINESE CAR “ASSEMBLY.” SORRY. MINUS ONE FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.
THIS AMPARTS BUILDING IN THE NORTH BAY IS EXACTLY WHAT AN ASSEMBLY LINE _DOESN’T_ LOOK LIKE:
The Coda sedan, the first car from a Southern California startup, seats five, can drive up to 125 miles on a charge and has taken two years longer to reach the market than its makers initially planned.
UH, THE EPA SAYS 88 MILES FOR THE RANGE. SORRY. MINUS TWO FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. WHAT JOURNALIST WOULD PREFER TO USE A MADE-UP, INFLATED RANGE NUMBER FROM A SACK OF SHIT EX GOLDMAN SACHS EXECUTIVE (WHO MADE HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS FROM BS INVESTMENTS SUCH AS WEBVAN AND SUCH?) OVER THE FRESH NEWS COMING OUT OF THE EPA?
Designed in Southern California, the Coda sedan is largely built in China, with final assembly taking place in Benicia.
NOW YOU’RE ON THE TROLLEY! FINALLY WE AGREE ON SOMETHING. EXCEPT THIS CAR WAS DESIGNED IN EUROPE ABOUT TWO DECADES AGO, AND IN CHINA MORE RECENTLY.
The engine comes from a company in Colorado.
THE “ENGINE?“ UH, CODA SEDANS DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE ENGINES. THAT’S KIND OF THE POINT. IF YOU MEAN “MOTOR,” THEN SAY MOTOR. MINUS THREE FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.
“You can pretty much count on a good, honest 90 to 110 miles, depending on the way you drive,” O’Dell said.
GOOD? HONEST? THERE’S NOTHING GOOD OR HONEST ABOUT CODA.
“There’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s just that considering the cars in the market today, there’s nothing exciting about it.”
NO, IT’S A BIG POS. CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS HERE. PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY ADVERTISED BATTERY CAPACITY WENT DOWN WITHOUT CODA MENTIONING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHY THE CODA SEDAN IS SO INEFFICIENT, SO POORLY DESIGNED.
It is, however, exciting to Benicia officials. Coda in 2010 reached a deal with a company called Amports, one of North America’s largest auto processors, to perform final assembly for the Coda sedan, and Amports already had a facility in Benicia. The city has easy access to the Port of Oakland, where the partially assembled Coda sedans are shipped from China.
HOW MANY PERSON-YEARS OF JOBS WILL CODA PAY FOR IN BENICIA? 100? 200?
The city, home to one of the Bay Area’s major oil refineries, has been trying to attract green businesses and jobs, said Mayor Elizabeth Patterson. Only 20 people work at the Amports facility now, she said, but that number could expand to 200 by the end of the year.
SURE. AND THE RANGE OF YOUR CODA SEDAN COULD EXPAND TO 200 MILES BY THE END OF THE YEAR. SURE. MAYBE. OH, BUT IRL, CODA WILL NEVER EMPLOY 200 PEOPLE IN BENICIA, CA. SORRY.
All right, that’s it for the Chronicle. Now, here’s a realistic assessment:
“As an unknown brand with an unproven car with a dull design, Coda faces more than its share of challenges in the emerging electric car marketplace. Unfortunately, the low and confusing numbers from the EPA don’t make life any easier for Coda, or for that matter, the entire growing field of EVs.”
Tags: 2012, battery, bay area, benicia, ca, california, China, chinese, coda, David Baker, DAVID R BAKER, electric, ev, SAN FRACISCO CHRONICLE, San Francisco, sedan
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
So the range of the 2013 2012 (they’ve had issues, certainly) CODA Automotive Sedan turns out to be 88 miles.
O.K.
But how efficient is it compared to a modern car, I don’t know, maybe something like the Nissan Leaf?
The first stat here is for MPGe – the Leaf does about 35% better on that score. And the second stat is for kilowatt-hours/100 miles – the lower the better on this one, so of course the CODA Sedan is higher.
Now the people at CODA have been trying to get the cost down from $45k for a while now so the Sedan is coming out with a lower price, but both varieties of Coda’s cars are still more expensive than a thoroughly modern vehicle from a manufacturer what knows what it’s doing like, I don’t know, the Leaf and Nissan?
CODA Automotive is like WebVan and Solyndra combined.
Oh well.
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