Not every automaker CEO is down on his knees with cap in hand. Some of them are too proud to beg… and Taipan Daily won’t have to beg either with the right options strategy.

Not every auto manufacturer wants charity, you know.

While Detroit’s CEOs were up on Capitol Hill whining and begging like street junkies for a mere $25 billion to tide them over until spring, salesmen from Bentley, Lamborghini and Maserati were working the floor of the Los Angeles Auto Show like madmen in an attempt to stem their stateside sales losses.

Now don’t let their $500 suits and smooth manners fool you. These guys are hurting too. Lambo’s down 15% (pretty much a match to the whole biz’ 2008 decline). And Volkswagen AG’s Bentley (VLKAY) group has slipped a whopping 30%.

No Pain Here

Perhaps the folks who buy BMWs and Mercedes are up against it right now. But

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, EV Transportation Inc. is the parent company of EV Rental Cars, LLC. Founded in 1997, EV Rental Cars exclusively rents hybrid electric and low emissions vehicles. They are the first car rental company in the United States to rent only environmentally friendly vehicles to the public. The Company’s shares trade on the OTCBB.

Affiliated with Fox Rent-A-Car, EV’s fleet consists of more than 350 cars at seven locations throughout the United States. The Company’s airport locations include Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, California. They also have their site in Phoenix, Arizona. The company has the distinction of preventing more than 100 tons of air pollution and have passed to their customers over one million dollars in fuel cost savings. EV Rental Cars growth in recent years now has their yearly revenues close to four million dollars.

EV won an Automotive

Headquartered in Oakland, California, Zhone Technologies Inc. is a provider of advanced telecommunications equipment. They offer their customers a wide variety of access and transport networking solutions. These solutions enable services such as residential and commercial broadband, VoIP, IPTV, and Ethernet. Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, Zhone Technologies has over 700 customers on six continents. Senior executives of Ascend Communications founded Zhone Technologies Inc. in 1999 and the Company incorporated in Delaware in June of that year.

Zhone Technologies’ converged access platform improves network capabilities and reduces costs. Their platform allows operators to deploy premium services quickly on their existing copper and fiber infrastructure. It also provides operators a smooth path to an all Internet Protocol (IP) network. The Company achieves this with their MALC Broadband Loop Carrier. The MALC delivers voice, data, and video services over a pure packet access network. The MALC also gives carriers the flexibility to

Westport Innovations engages in the research, development, and marketing of high-performance engines and fuel systems. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, their engines use gaseous fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, and hydrogen-enriched compressed natural gas (HCNG). The company began in 1995 and is part of the Pollution and Treatment Controls Industry. They trade on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol (WPRT) and trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol (WPT.TO)

Westport’s engine technologies reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). They do all of this while preserving the power, torque, and fuel efficiency of diesel engines. The company’s experience and expertise is in helping commercial fleets and cities transition themselves from oil usage to natural gas usage. Along with their engine development knowledge and their work with gaseous fuels, they also provide fuel tanks and

The world of new-product technology development is a slow one that often needs a little bit of luck and patience to get over that last little hurdle. There are many ways to help make that luck, but none are more important than patience and diligence. The important aspect to consider is not moving too quickly with a product that is close but not quite there.

In many instances, companies focus on the version #1 introduction followed closely by a version #2, #3, and #4 to iron out the bugs in version #1. A solid new-product introduction, past the obvious and annoying tech introductions, is a product that has staying power right out of the box.

Octillion Corp., a technology incubator, works to facilitate commercialization of technology-related products. The company is currently focused on new solar energy conversion and alternative energy projects.

Past posts have highlighted Octillion Corp.’s unique development structure. This discussion