When someone mentions Cuba, what do you think about? Classic, classic cars? Perhaps good cigars? Maybe you think of a famous baseball player. What about when somebody mentions North Korea? You think about those missile tests, maybe their notorious leader or his good friend, Dennis Rodman. (Laughter) One thing that likely doesn’t come to mind is a vision of a…
We’ve been waiting for this car for a long time. We’re in Opel’s central plant in Rüsselsheim. Hallo! Hallo. So that’s it, the Opel Ampera E. Made in the USA That’s not exactly true. It was developed in cooperation with our colleagues at Chevrolet. We were equal partners. There’s plenty of Opel DNA in there, as you’ll see for yourself!…
At the end of the first millennium, around 1000 AD, China was definitively the most powerful country in the world. More than a third of the world lived within its borders, it’s technology was the most advanced in existence, and its economy accounted for an astronomical 50% of the worlds GDP. The west paled in comparison to China, but eventually,…
Tonight I wanna come clean. Seriously, I wanna come clean. I don’t have a lot of vices. I don’t drink. I don’t JUUL, I don’t go to hookah lounges. I know I look like I do, but I don’t. But I am an addict. And I am addicted to Amazon. Which, I know, doesn’t sound crazy, as far as addictions…
Let’s face it: trains kinda suck in America. They’re slow, expensive, and just don’t exist in many parts of the country. The simple reason for this is because the US is so sparsely populated. Aside from here, here, and here, cities just aren’t close enough together to make train travel faster or cheaper than plane travel. When cities are within…
This is the symphony of the seas: an 1,188 feet long, 8,880 person, 18 deck, 7 neighborhood beast of a cruise ship that makes the Titanic look like a kayak. It cost $1.4 billion dollars but cruise ships only lasts about 25 years; 25 years of constant cleaning and maintenance, plus an enormous amount of food, fuel, fees and employees.…
Brendan: If you’ve seen any of our past videos, it’s no surprise that, here at PLANifax, we are big fans of active transportation. Megan: It’s a fun and healthy way of getting around. Brendan: Sure that’s nice and all, but here at PLANifax, we are all about that green. Megan: Like the environment? Brendan: No, like cold hard cash baby…
This is a Wendover Productions video made possible by Audible. So I recently went down the rabbit hole of looking at old flight schedules. Airlines used to publish these physical brochures with their fares and flight times, and when looking at this American Airlines one from 1967 I noticed something interesting. This flight between New York and LA was scheduled…
Hi, I’m Jack Plunkett. Today we’re going to talk about the transportation and supply chain industries. Now, we’re putting transportation and supply chain together in this regard because they’re so tightly interlinked. Transportation is either moving people, like in airlines, or it’s moving goods like freight. And the supply chain and the transportation sector have become so tightly intertwined that…
Hi, I’m Jack Plunkett. Today we’re going to talk about the global automobile industry. Now this is a huge industry with already one billion cars and light trucks on the road around the world, and the global industry selling between 80 and 100 million new cars and light trucks yearly. Now, like any other industry, what the auto industry would…