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7/8/2010 9:07:01 AM
Jul 08, 2010 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- TORONTO, Canada: In tracking the small cap stock universe for Wednesday, July 7th 2010, Ubika Research found that the top 10 gainers from each of the listed sectors performed as follows:
Metals & Mining stocks: + 31%
Gold stocks: + 25%
Oil & Gas stocks: +24%
Technology stocks: + 9%
Clean Tech stocks: + 7%.
The individual top small cap stock gainers were as follows:
• Metals & Mining: Klondike Silver Corp (TSX VENTURE:KS) with a 29% gain
• Junior Gold: Crescent Gold Ltd (TSX:CRA) with a 82% gain
• Oil & Gas: Curlew Lake Resources Inc (TSX VENTURE:CWQ) with a 89% gain
• Junior Tech: Mitec Telecom Inc (TSX:MTM) with a 17% gain
• Junior Clean Tech: Electrovaya Inc (TSX:EFL) with a 11% gain
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Bruce Coventry ideology



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7/13/2010 11:10:18 AM | | 32 reads | Post #28408950


Here is an example of the kind of thinking that will help Electrovaya in the potential ramp up if/when they land a major contract. Makes for an interesting read - if nothing else:

MagnumClub
10-17-2005, 10:32 AM
October 13, 2005
3-2-120=Savings




The new Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance plant that started production earlier this month is saving millions of dollars in labor and equipment costs by using an innovative work schedule called “3-2-120.”

GEMA is a joint venture between DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai and Mitsubishi producing a family of advanced four-cylinder engines.
Here are GEMA President Bruce Coventry’s observations on how 3-2-120 works and why it’s not only saving money, but improving productivity while giving our workers a lot more time off.

What Is it?: We work three crews on 2 shifts, 10 hours a day, 20 hours total productive time, and we work 120 hours a week with no overtime.

In a normal 5- day work week, 8 hours a day, normal or standard work would be 245 days a year. If you take 8 hours a day times 245, that’s 1,960 hours a year..

Our people work 196 days a year, 10 hours a day-- the exact same 1,960 hours. They do it in 49 less days.
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The Concept: What we did when we started the program was look for ways to make the facility more productive, and one of the first things we focused on was to make our time more productive.

We wanted to develop a schedule that was fair to our people but also provide an increase of productive time than we’d normally have.
We’re going to be applying one schedule across the entire facility (when the second plant opens next year). It’s appropriate to GEMA because it allows us to use fewer people in a very focused manufacturing environment. So what we end up with is a team of highly skilled individuals that are working a very flexible schedule but help us achieve our internal “4A” objective of any employee able to do any job anywhere in the plant at any time.
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Savings: It’s very dramatic. Compared to the existing 3-2-120 plan we have at another plant where we do pay overtime for Saturdays, there’s savings in the millions each year just in labor costs.

It’s a dramatic savings across the board at just one plant. You can imagine if we took it across the entire company.

One of the underlying strategies is once we take the equipment up and running at the start of a shift, it stays running for 20 hours a day, so we don’t start and stop for breaks like we do at many of the North American automotive facilities.

Productivity: Using the traditional schedule would have resulted in about 20 percent less capacity for us.
 
Jul 06, 2010 07:00 ET
Electrovaya Appoints Bruce Coventry, a Highly Accomplished Auto and Manufacturing Industry Executive, as VP of Operations



TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 6, 2010) - Electrovaya Inc. (TSX:EFL), developer and manufacturer of proprietary Lithium Ion SuperPolymer® battery systems, today announced the appointment of Bruce Coventry as Vice President of Operations. Bruce adds valuable experience to the management team as Electrovaya prepares to expand its manufacturing operations to take advantage of growing opportunities for its technology.

Mr. Coventry will lead the operations team in managing Electrovaya's production and manufacturing of the Company's Lithium Ion SuperPolymer® batteries, battery systems, and battery-related products for the clean transportation, smart grid power, consumer and healthcare markets. With over 25 years in operations management, Mr. Coventry has a demonstrated record of management and operational excellence combined with remarkable experience across the electric vehicle, energy, automotive and manufacturing industries.

Most recently, Mr. Coventry was President of the Power & Compression Group of Dresser Inc., a Texas-based provider of engineered infrastructure products for the global energy industry. Prior to this position, Mr. Coventry spent 15 years at Chrysler LLC, including Plant Manager, Kenosha Engine Plant, Vice-President and General Manager of Manufacturing Engine, Foundry and Axle Division and as CEO of Chrysler's Global Electric Motorcars LLC, an electric vehicle company. He also served as President of the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance (GEMA) where he managed the World Engine Production Plant Joint Venture between DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors and Hyundai Motors. This GEMA engine plant was named as the most productive engine plant in North America during his tenure, recognizing efficiency levels 31% greater than the leading competitor's most efficient plant.

"Bruce's ability in building and managing operations will be very valuable as Electrovaya grows," said Dr. Sankar DasGupta, Electrovaya's Chief Executive Officer. "I am also enthusiastic about Bruce's experience with creating a zero-emission compliance strategy, which is aligned with Electrovaya's NMP-free and emission-free production process. We welcome Bruce to the Electrovaya management team, and look forward to his contributions in helping Electrovaya through this exciting phase of growth and expansion."
 
Electric car agenda pushed by Obama

Dispatches White House officials to explore advancing clean energy

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | 2:17 PM ET Comments57Recommend26

The Associated Press


The White House plans to promote its work to develop electric cars this week, dispatching administration officials across the nation to discuss advanced batteries and new vehicles powered by electricity.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Dennis Hartman check out rechargeable car batteries during a tour of Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Holland, Mich., on Thursday for the groundbreaking of a Compact Power Inc. factory, which received $151 million from a federal stimulus program to open the $303-million plant. The factory is expected to manufacture lithium ion cells and employ about 450 people by 2013.
Pushing clean energy, Obama has vowed to bring one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to U.S. highways by 2015 and his administration has set aside billions of stimulus dollars to bolster U.S. battery manufacturers. The funding is aimed at creating a battery industry in the U.S. that can compete with Asian manufacturers and help the U.S. reduce its dependence on imported oil.
The administration will hold several events this week to emphasize new high-tech jobs spurred by electric vehicles, said a White House official. The official was not authorized to speak publicly before an official announcement.
Officials spread across U.S.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan will hold an event in New York with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday to promote charging stations for electric cars. On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will discuss propane vehicles in Richmond, Va., and Labour Secretary Hilda Solis will visit a battery plant in Charlotte, N.C.
On Friday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu will visit Delphi Automotive Systems in Kokomo, Ind. The company received an $89-million battery manufacturing grant to develop electronic components for vehicles.
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Detroit-Hamtramck plant manager Teri Quigley stands beside a Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle. GM announced it will invest $336 million in the Detroit plant to begin production of the Volt electric car, with extended-range capabilities, in 2010. (John F. Martin, GM/Associated Press)Other events are planned this week in Vermont, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The Obama administration has provided $2.4 billion in federal grants to develop next-generation electric vehicles and batteries. The government has estimated the stimulus funds could spur the production of 500,000 advanced batteries a year by late 2014.
A report to be released Thursday by the Energy Department will estimate that stimulus funding could bring down battery costs from $33,000 for a battery with a 100-mile range to $16,000 by the end of 2013, and $10,000 by the end of 2015. More than 20,000 electric vehicle charging stations will be available by 2012, compared with less than 500 before the stimulus program began, the report is expected to say.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/13/con-obama-electric.html#ixzz0tgLzj5ND
 
Improving Fuel Economy And Range

Chrysler LLC is focused on improving fuel efficiency across its vehicle lineup. We have been busy developing and implementing a series of major initiatives including a bigger push in hybrid technology to meet the needs of our consumers.

Recently Chrysler LLC, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and BMW joined forces to develop a full Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) system.

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) achieve significant gains in fuel efficiency by combining powertrain systems, typically an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. Batteries store energy captured during deceleration and braking. That energy is then used to drive the electric motor, reducing the work required by the gasoline or diesel engine. This hybrid represents a major automotive industry milestone due to the unprecedented fully integrated combination of electric motors with a fixed-gear transmission. As a result of its low- and high-speed Electric Continuously Variable Transmission (ECVT) modes, the system is commonly referred to as the two-mode hybrid.

However, this sophisticated fuel-saving system also incorporates four fixed-gear ratios for high efficiency and power-handling capabilities in a broad variety of vehicle applications. During the two ECVT modes and four fixed-gear operations, the hybrid system can use the electric motors for boosting and regenerative braking.

The first Chrysler LLC product to feature this technology is the 2009 Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, which could deliver around approximately a 50 percent improvement in city fuel economy and more than almost 35 percent improvement overall.(1)

http://www.chryslercanada.ca/en/technology.php



(1)Transport Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption may vary.
 
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Successful Kick-Off of DoEPHEV Project


•Management process established

•Virtual modeling and simulation of PHEV technology

•Designs and packaging completed for Development Vehicle Builds

•Built 12 PHEV Vehicles for vehicle validation and testing

•On track to meet program milestones and project deliverables
 
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