There is a Real Reason for the RUST BELT in America and everywhere else and you probably don't want to see it, know it, admit it or believe it...

For all those business and management people around the world who may have a different understanding of the RUST BELT, please give us your ideas of what happened to our middle class, our manufacturing industries, our stagnant wages for the last 40 years and our low economic growth economy?

If you ask most people what happened in America and why we ended up with the RUST BELT, you would get a wide variety of answers and most would be only partially true.

Since I am a car guy, I will frame my answer in terms of automotive manufacturing but the answer will also apply to any and all types of manufacturing anywhere in the world. There is a herd mentality in business and it doesn't exactly serve the global public very well.

Big Auto, Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Government, Big Media and Big Money interests are entrenched and they don't want to give up or change their advantageous and special interest position of greed.Due to the above special interests; we have some really bad habits and if we don't change them, then we will be getting more of the same old, same old Rust Belt and CO2 problems.Unhealthy Environments are a major factor in millions of deaths worldwide..................Living or working in an unhealthy environment caused almost one-quarter of all deaths worldwide in 2012, says a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO).

In that year, an estimated 12.6 million people died due to human-caused environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposure, climate change and ultraviolet radiation.

Environmental hazards and risks wield "a devastating impact" on global health, the report said.

“A healthy environment underpins a healthy population,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, in a statement. “If countries do not take actions to make environments where people live and work healthy, millions will continue to become ill and die too young.”We want to be part of the global clean energy solution right now! What would happen if we subsidize clean green energy like we subsidize fossil fuels right now?

This is a call to action, above all do something positive now.

What would you be willing to do right now to solve the rust belt problem in America and elsewhere in the world ?

Now for the Answer.....You have heard of penny wise and pound foolish which in a large part of the answer but the simplest and unpleasant truth is because of the RUST BELT MENTALLY.

SHORT SIGHTED, SELF CENTERED GREED and STUCK on OVERALL STUPIDITY by BAD and INCOMPETENT and HEARTLESS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. There is a big difference between the lack of good management and the lack of good leadership.

A good manager wants to do things right. A good leader wants to do the right things. We needed more good leaders yesterday and today!

WE NEED LEADERS THAT PRODUCE & MANUFACTURE INNOVATIONS IN ESPECIALLY PRODUCTS AND ALSO SERVICES.

Remember that the 6 most expensive words in business are: "We've Always Done It That Way."

If you believe what you are being told by the American Automotive Companies that they have to move some or most car production offshore so they can compete and remain profitable, you are not seeing the real reasons. They use to be number one in the Automotive World and now they are number three.........WHY?

The number one prerequisite for high performance is courageous, relentless leadership. High performance is primarily a function of people and culture – not data and technology.  Mario Morino, Morino Institute.....Were are the right leaders today?

Simple vs Complex.... The more you know the better off you are....Forward Thinking and Don't be set in your single purpose more profits, more stylish, more luxury and more power ways is the global answer because it's NOT... is all about smart automotive INNOVATION at its best.....like Henry Ford did over 100 years ago in 1908......

and simple smart practical clean modular reliable and affordable mobility solutions work best for most people around the world.

Most of the time the entire global automotive industry is pushing the wrong over complicated cars and transportation solutions on you and your family for all the wrong reasons. They are only interested in capturing your emotions and having you spend more and more money in their direction...a good business model and plan for them but not for you and your family.

People vs Robots.....While most companies today want to replace workers with robots, we see a much better solution.

In some cases, were the health and safety of the worker is at risk then by all means use a robot.

If you are smart and prioritize your people/employees as your biggest, best and most valuable asset then you will appreciate all the many more force multipliers activities a person can do over a robot....People create more Profits and Good Will than Robots.

Savers vs Spenders....While most everyone will agree about the benefits of using lean manufacturing techniques and robots today and all the major savings that go along with their use in automotive manufacturing, there are more advantages is using and prioritizing People Over Profits as you will soon see.

While more companies try and benefit from the major savings of robots over people cost savings and using more and more robots they seem to blow and waste all of those saving in so many other ways in the manufacturing, management and brand marketing that there is no net general overall savings when all the other negative factors are considered in.

So why are their prices consistently going up each and every year and what is the answer?

The Automotive Companies are killing their markets, their local manufacturing, their customers and themselves with their higher and higher pricing strategy year after year. Sooner or later they will kill car ownership and then there will be ride/car sharing.

Makers vs Takers.....Some companies and entrepreneurs make great world class products by solving global mobility problems and by adding more and more value to their vehicles but unfortunately they are in the minority and the Takers are in the majority. The Takers are all the short sighted stock market speculators, investors, investment bankers, Venture Capitalists, M&A and fund managers that take profits without adding value.

Old school exploits people and new school exploits innovation but not just any innovation....simple, safe, practical, useful and affordable innovation for the global mass markets. Not high end Super Sport, Luxury or SUV Cars for the 2% rich...while ignoring the mass markets.

My interest is to partner with like-minded business and automotive people who want to accelerate more affordable EV ownership/benefits and create smarter sustainable automotive manufacturing jobs in Detroit, Michigan and elsewhere around the world.

Energy and Automotive Innovation need to move in the right direction....Simple, Safe, Practical, Useful and Affordable.

"Making it clean, affordable, and reliable will be essential for fighting poverty and climate change," according to Bill Gates.

Why can't we make cars affordable like we use to during the Golden Years of our American Auto Industry, from 1908 to 1974?

Why do the car companies keep pushing high and higher priced vehicles on us.... Because they can make more money by selling less vehicles and to cover all their out of control legacy costs.

Today, Most Everyone in the Automotive Manufacturing World is playing follow the leader and seems to be chasing and following Tesla's lead and trying to copy and compete on the super luxury, super sport and super SUV vehicle market which has never made a profit and has the highest costs and lowest productivity of any automotive manufacturer anywhere in the world.

Whether you need an SUV big enough for the whole family… a classy, luxury sedan… or a sporty two seat super car; Owning your dream car doesn’t have to break the bank but it definitely does and these cars cost way more than most people can ever afford.

In the car industry, for well over a century we have been so preoccupied by refining our car products and production processes that we really haven’t looked beyond the bling and asked ourselves whether this is really the answer to people’s needs. To a large extent we have ignored the difference between the car that people want and the car that people need.

Bad habits are hard to break especially when you combine it with bad automotive management. They have to pass on all of their looser brands, mistakes, recalls, lawsuits, fines, inefficiencies and top management greed onto their customers.

Your next financial crisis is in your driveway or you might want to think and do some things differently.

So why are their prices consistently going up each and every year and what is the answer?

It is the industry's purposeful intention to add as much technology, gadgets, style and options as possible so as to extract as much money and profits from the customers per vehicle as possible. Don't be fooled! The Answer is Simple.....KISS...Keep it Simple S#^*!+ for most global people that just want low prices.

Most of the time it's because people can't see simple, greatness, talent or opportunity until it is after the fact...... BUT WHY? Because....

Innovation drives economic growth. It boosts productivity, making it possible to create more wealth with less labor. When economies don’t innovate, the result is stagnation, inequality, and the whole horizon of hopelessness that has come to define the lives of most working people today.

At the root of the problem is the story we tell ourselves about innovation. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a lone genius disappears into a garage, preferably in Detroit, and emerges with an invention that changes the world. The engine of technological progress is the entrepreneur – the fast-moving, risk-loving, rule-breaking visionary in the mold of Nicola Tesla, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford.

This story has been so widely repeated as to become a cliché. It’s also inaccurate.

Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurs typically make terrible innovators. Left to its own devices, the private sector is far more likely to impede technological progress than to advance it.

That’s because real innovation is very expensive to produce: it involves pouring extravagant sums of money into research projects that may fail, or at the very least may never yield a commercially viable product. In other words, it requires a lot of risk – something that, myth making aside, capitalist firms have little appetite for.

But this creates a problem. Companies need breakthroughs to build businesses on, but they generally can’t – or won’t – fund the development of those breakthroughs themselves. So where does the money come from? The government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has shown, nearly every major innovation since World War II has required a massive push from the public sector, for an obvious reason: the public sector can afford to take risks that the private sector can’t.

Conventional wisdom says that market forces foster innovation. In fact, it’s the government’s insulation from market forces that has historically made it such a successful innovator. It doesn’t have to compete, and it’s not at the mercy of investors demanding a share of its profits. It’s also far more generous with the fruits of its scientific labor: no private company would ever be so foolish as to constantly give away innovations it has generated at enormous expense for free, but this is exactly what the government does. The dynamic should be familiar from the financial crisis: the taxpayer absorbs the risk, and the investor reaps the reward.....but a small number of innovative entrepreneurs did it uniquely different, simply and smarter than everybody else in history.

Today that tradition lives on with the modern-day version of the Model T called Eco V. Eco V is 2 cars, 2 vans, 2 pickup trucks, 2 flatbed trucks and 2 detachable box trucks in both standard 11.5 feet length and extended 13.5 feet length.

 Eco V is in the same class as the two most successful cars in history, the Ford Model T and the VW Beetle and both were designed not for the high end market or wealthy customer but for the ordinary family or the low-end market customers.

One man and one car did it in Detroit in 1908 and another man and car did it in 1938 and put the world on wheels with his Model T & the VW Beetle. Today, one man and one car can do it again in 2017 with Eco V Electric and put the world on electric wheels with the Universal Car & Solar Power to Go.

 

We believe Eco V can and will win the race for the affordable and practical electric Green car/truck. EV’ s like Eco V can be very simple, safe, versatile and affordable. Perfect for fleets that just need to get their job done. Simple jobs need simple vehicles and our secret is simplicity.

 Less is More......Less price equals More sales......Henry Ford understood it better than anyone else in automotive history?

So what is the answer to today's Global Transportation Needs?

Henry Ford made a simple, practical, useful, affordable car for the masses while every one else was doing just the opposite. He dominated the automotive market with a 50% market share with his business model and the Model T. Ford's incredible manufacturing facilities and systems were efficient enough for them to still make an estimated $37 in profit for each Model T sold in 1923 and he sold many millions.

That is what I call pure genius and we definitely need more leaders like Henry Ford but where are now?

The people running his company today are not even close to the genius caliber or legacy that he left for the rest of us to follow. All they know how to do is to take their manufacturing to low cost labor markets like China, India and Mexico.

Whatever happened to Rule #1. If you sell it here, you make it here.

Today for example, Ford Motor Company make an estimated $8,000 to $15,000 profit on a Ford F 150 pickup truck or SUV. It's easy to see why they want to sell premium pickups and SUV' s and outsource most car production to low cost labor markets like what they are doing with the Ford Focus by moving all production to China.

Now lets look at the modern day version of the Model T & VW Beetle called Eco V for today's clean green mobility solution. Let's get practical with KISS. Not Google....Not Apple....Not Tesla....Not GM.... Not Ford, Etc...

Or you can choose a luxury Tesla Model S for well over $125,000.

• For the price of one premium luxury electric car like a Tesla Model S you could have a fleet of 12 Eco V Electric Cars or Trucks. One choice will cost you money and go down in value over time and the other choice will save you money and make you money over time. I guess that's why they call it a Smart Utility Vehicle.
• There are over one billion cars on the roads today with millions more added every year.................. and about 1% are EV' s…. this is a call to action to anyone who might care enough about seeing a better number and balance of EV' s being on the roads today. There is no better design and approach to a Green EV than Eco V Electric – Detroit’s most innovative EV. More affordable choices provide more global transportation solutions.
• Is not the same situation developing World over today? Most EV'S today are high priced that only the wealthy can afford them. They are loaded with all kinds of gadgets and tech, that few even understand. The 60% of the common men and women in US don't even know electric cars are available to buy! The EV market has loss the common folk! Sure, Big Auto does not really want EV' s because nobody is making money on them and they have gasoline in their blood. Dealers don't want them because there is no service required and other than styling and new expensive features being added, they should last a lot longer than the ICE they replaced.

•  The whole EV market is stalled because common people don't see a value proposition with them. ****this is a very important point! **** These expensive EV' s depreciate more in a year than a 20-year life Eco V! So, what does it take to start to open this mass EV Market?

Henry Ford made a simple, practical, useful, affordable car for the masses while every one else was doing just the opposite. Kind of like what they are doing today.

While a number of automotive companies are intent on making premium electric luxury cars and sport cars, we see a larger EV market opportunity.

We believe Eco V can and will win the race for the affordable and practical global Universal Green Car/Truck.

Eco V is not an electric show horse but instead a family of 10 smart electric work horses. Its designed for maximum interior room and to carry maximum weight for work and delivery jobs for individuals and fleet managers. It can do the work of a Ford F 150 Pickup Truck and carry 1500 lbs.

To the Contrary...What the Automotive World needs is Simply Smarter Mobility Solutions for Everyone. What about the other 98% of the automotive global market that can never afford these kind of Super Luxury and Sport Cars at their ridiculous prices.

Instead of appealing to the top 2% wealthy customers in the world today, why not try and provide a simple, practical, useful and affordable mobility solution for the global 98% of customers that can't afford the way over priced Cars of today.

Now, would you want to make a car for the 2% automotive market or would you want to make a car for the other 98% of the market?

There is no better 4 - wheel design and approach to a Green EV than Eco V Electric – Detroit’s most innovative Utility EV.

With Eco V, you get to choose your battery pack, price, range, speed, design and application. More choices provide more global transportation solutions.

 A common sense affordable green car/truck delivery solution for global transportation needs, starting at $11,999.

It will be produced in 5 different speeds for many different vehicle applications (25 mph, 30/35/42 mph, and 65 mph).

The real challenge is to make a sustainable and profitable EV with great all around general performance, appeal and extreme value for the global masses at the absolute lowest price. Eco V can do that and more.

 We offer our customers the most efficient EV in the world at 207 mpgge (miles per gallon gas equivalent) and transportation for 2 cents a mile or 0 cost with an optional solar car port, pad or tree.

EV’ s like Eco V can be very simple, practical, safe, useful, versatile, modular and affordable. Perfect for fleets that just need to get their job done. Simple jobs need simple vehicles and our secret is simplicity.

While a number of automotive companies are intent on making premium electric luxury cars, sport cars and single purpose cars, we see a larger EV market opportunity.

 We believe Eco V can and will win the race for the affordable and practical global Universal Green Car/Truck.

• Our vision is very disruptive to electric vehicle transportation today and very good for it! We see a new and emerging market for a basic do everything work horse family of vehicles. They are perfect for all kinds of tasks in cities and urban areas where over 80% of our population resides. Our initial starting point is exactly that, a starting point. We want to sell our product to city fleet managers whether they are writing parking tickets or they are delivering groceries from the neighborhood grocery store. They are perfect in retirement, resort and Master Planned communities as well as in today's modern family to run all sorts of errands close to home.
•  So where did our product come from? We started in Michigan, USA over 10 years ago building prototypes and showing them to our customers and letting them tell us what they wanted. We have a highly skilled team of experienced OEM people from all areas of automotive. We listened and translated those ideas into product attributes. After 4 generations of prototypes, we are there with an affordable ($11,999 MSRP), safe with crash testing and automotive ride, handling and braking, versatile with 8 family members and all are multi functional and designed to save you 70% or more in operating costs. They will pay you back in less than 1 year! Far better than where Ford started, but on the same path of disrupting automotive technolog.
• So for all you investors or people connected to investors who want to be partners with us as we disrupt everything you know about EV 's, give us a call and we will tell you more (313) 247 2541. 

• Risk: Low My team is made up of all experienced OEM people with over 300 years of knowledge, skills and experiences in all areas of automotive. My company is going to start small and grow. We are a niche manufacturer with plan to sell 30,000 units/yr. ($500 million in sales with 9% ROS). We are asset adverse and 80% of the parts are proven, current technology, high volume parts from automotive and industrial suppliers using existing tooling and we use contract engineering and manufacturing.  My company does not make any parts and we use a contract assembler with their own plant that we share. 
• Today, our company is 100% owned by Environmental Transportation Solutions and we are debt free. We have equity today worth over $15 million with about 10% private investment. 90% is considered good will because we have leveraged others and ourselves to do much of the work without having to pay cash for it. The investment we need to get started in 9 months is very small, $16 million, followed by an optional $12 million line-of-credit or which we should be able to get from a bank. Once we are funded, we can project delivery dates for advanced orders, which has been a requirement of our customers. 
• The market research done in 7 States using our prototype with both fleet and private users suggests that the Low Speed Vehicle market in US is very under developed since enhanced golf carts are not what people really want. They want a smallish car that is affordable, safe with crash testing, versatile and can save them a lot of money. Eco V does all of that and more. We believe that the potential in the fleet market is 200,000 units per year and in the private use market 500,000 units per year. 700,000 units is equal to over $10.5 billion in sales! By starting small greatly reduce the risk for everyone. Today, we don’t have any direct competitors with a product with Eco V attributes.
• Reward: Big. Our projections say that we can buy out our investors in year 5 of production for 3 to 5x their initial investment. This is over a 20% ROI. But they can retain their equity and get dividend payouts as an alternative. After we reach 30,000 units per year we will either sell the company or increase investment to move into a bigger facility and grow our business to 100,000 units per year. With production in place we have the opportunity to license our technology and see Eco V like products be built around the World with royalties coming in. We are already talking to people in China, India and West Africa about doing CKD (Complete Knock Down Assembly) to Africa.

EV’ s like Eco V can be very simple, practical, safe, useful, modular, versatile and affordable. Perfect for fleets that just need to get their job done. Simple jobs need simple vehicles and our secret is simplicity.

Detroit Automotive Leadership. https://youtu.be/o5iel1QgAfk

Nobody's more Innovative. https://youtu.be/wvCjuQC31Ac

Eco V 00Z. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDKuuouqQ0

If you partner up with Eco V today, you could make a lot of Green.

This family of 10 Smart Utility Vehicles is not designed to look pretty but instead to work hard and make a lot of money for fleet managers, individuals and investors all around the world.

Eco V bridges the gap between low speed and high speed better than any other EV design. We would like to share our Eco V and technology with the right partner/company and provide more practical and affordable global mobility solutions for the global masses. We are looking for a good fit and long term trustworthy partner where everyone wins…… especially the customers.

•  Opportunities: Large. Much of this is outlined above. We need a little amount money to develop our Lithium-ion battery module option which will allow our customers to decide how much range they want. Anywhere from 25-40 miles all the way up to 320 miles per charge. And our battery will be a life of the vehicle battery lasting up to 20 years. Nobody really has this today. It will be the best all around value in the EV market today for the lowest price just like Henry Ford did in 1908.

• With the additional range, we open several markets we have not yet quantified. Inner city taxi cab fleets and city/urban area package delivery. We have developed a removable box option for Eco V delivery services. We thought the USPS would be interested but they did not want to talk to a start-up about anything. The idea being to use 2 – ? day crews to be loading their box while the other box is out delivering and then switch boxes and keep on delivering. This would also work well for grocery stores and drug stores and other big box stores in and around population centers. This Big Opportunity is the rare opportunity to repeat what Henry Ford did over a 100 years ago and that is to totally disrupt the transportation model today and provide an electric vehicle everyone can afford and go after the global mass market which no existing car company can do but us.

One man and one car did it in 1908 and 1938....and one man and one car can do it again in 2017 with a little help from you and a car like Eco V Electric. If you can find a better Global Green Car/Truck then Buy It and if you can't then help Eco V.

Let's partner up for 1908/1938 all over again. The Right Question Is Would You......rather be selling thousands of cars like Tesla or like Henry Ford and VW selling 20 to 60 million plus cars to average customers? The smart formula is simple....keep moving the price down and move the value up and your sales will go up in large numbers just like Henry Ford did over a hundred years ago.

Calling on all social entrepreneurs; we need your help to get Eco V Electric into production because Eco V is the Green Car Detroit needs to manufacture for global markets. Stand up and do something for American Automotive Innovation and your community as well. Together we can make a better Universal Green Car. If interested contact: [email protected]