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Hybrid Cars

Assignment: Hybrid cars: government purchase of hybrid cars; should the federal government, like the state of California, take steps to encourage electric or hybrid cars? Discuss the pros and cons, including the cost of encouraging or not encouraging alternative vehicles, and reach a conclusion. Need company and industry information. (MGT 320, 28 January 2005)

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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases. For more information on the three dozen Foster business databases, click here. For more information on which of the three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here. For more information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here. For information about responsible database usage, click here.

Hoovers Online: Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Hoovers Online offers information about 14,000 public and private companies worldwide, with links to company homepages and annual reports, charts, company capsule, competitors, divisions, earnings, financials, Fortune and Forbes rankings, history, industry information, insider trading, mission statements, news links, press releases, officers, patents, products, SEC filings, splits, subsidiaries, etc.

See the company fact sheets and overviews for Ford Motor Company, Honda Motor Company and Toyota, manufacturers of hybrid automobiles. In addition, see the brief industry overview for Auto Manufacturing.

Euromonitor: This database provides global consumer market information, with demographics, trends and developments, market background, market sizes and forecasts, market shares, key players, and company profiles. This database provides over 1,800 reports with market data and detailed company profiles, including market shares, brand information, company strategy and SWOT analyses of the companies, for many countries. For eight major countries (Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States), in-depth industry information is also available.

Under Market, go to Automotives, to find Passenger Cars, ATVs, RVs and Pickups in the USA, dated October 2004, with references to hybrid vehicles.

Forrester Research: Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Forrester Research provides access to reports and briefings on the effects of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society, and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. To use this database, UW users must establish a personal account from a UW IP address. (Available from off-campus.)

A search for Hybrid Vehicles retrieved eleven reports.

Investext: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases. Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and industry research reports prepared by leading Wall Street firms, as well as regional and international brokerage and financial firms. All reports are in PDF format.

A keyword search for Hybrid Cars produced just one report; for Hybrid Car, also just one report (36 pages long); for Hybrid Vehicles, no reports.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: On the Foster homepage, under Business Databases. To find company information, go to Business and then to Company Financial where you can obtain financial and other data for companies. Information is available from twenty different sources (each of which must be searched separately). SEC filings, particularly company 10K annual reports, are a particularly rich source of company as well as industry information. Use your browser's Find command (or Control-F) to locate references to particular terms of interest in 10K filings such as trends, strategy, competitors, industry, etc.

Searching in SEC Filings and Reports for F, the ticker symbol for Ford, retrieved over 120 10-K reports (or parts of reports) for this company, back to 1987. A search in the December 2003 report for the term Hybrid retrieved just two references.

Statistical Universe: Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Statistical Universe is an index to statistical data in commercial, international and U.S. government publications. Try the Power Tables for quick access to tables of data in GIF format.

A keyword search for Hybrid produced over ninety tables, many about hybrid cars.

Value Line: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases. Stock information and advice on 1,700 companies, 90 industries, the stock markets and the economy; an online version of the print Value Line Investment Survey. To search for companies or industries, go to the left menu for Look Up Company or Look Up Industry.

Ford, Honda, and Toyota are included in this database, in the Auto & Truck industry.

Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, these Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. When using web resources, be sure to

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Ford Motor Company: Company websites often provide extensive amounts of corporate information including histories of the company, investor information such as annual reports and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, historical stock prices, executive biographies, company news and press releases, etc. Look for this information under headings for Investor Relations, About The Company, etc. See their Environmental Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Honda Motor Company: See their Hybrid Gasoline Electric section with information about their products in this area, a news archive, and more. Honda even has a hybrid snowblower.
Toyota Motor Corporation: See their information on their hybrid Prius.
The Alternative Fuels Data Center: This U.S. Department of Energy agency "is a vast collection of information on alternative fuels and the vehicles that use them. Alternative fuels described here are those defined by the Energy Policy Act of 1992, including biodiesel, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, and propane. This site has more than 3,000 documents in its database." See their Alternative Fuel Vehicles, State & Federal Incentives & Laws, and Education Resources, including Vehicle and Fuel Statistics. See also their National Renewable Energy Laboratory and its Hybrid Electric & Fuel Cell Vehicles program and information on Tax Incentives Available For Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
National Automobile Dealers Association: "The National Automobile Dealers Association, founded in 1917, represents more than 19,400 new car and truck dealers, both import and domestic, with more than 49,300 separate franchises. NADA membership is open to any new-automobile or new-truck dealership holding a new automobile or truck sales and service franchise." The Association "provides counsel on legal and regulatory matters, represents dealers on Capitol Hill, develops research data on the automobile industry, and operates training and service programs to improve dealership business operations, sales and service practices. It's the research and industry data that makes trade and industry associations such valuable sources for information. This site also offers a search engine. See the Media Center for NADA Data on the industry (most of which are in PDF format). See also the Data section.
Business Full Coverage (Yahoo! Daily News): Yahoo! Daily News for business includes Business Full Coverage webpages for four dozen important business topics of high interest, including many industries. These full coverage reports collect articles, webpages, and links to relevant organizations, audio, video, and recent news stories. See their Business Full Coverage for the Automotive Industry.
U.S. Office of Automotive Affairs: The mission of the U.S. Office of Automotive Affairs is to facilitate and expand global business opportunities for U.S. automotive vehicle and parts manufacturers. The office's client companies range from General Motors to large, medium and small automotive parts and accessory suppliers. The Office maintains close relationships with a wide variety of individual U.S. and foreign-based companies and their representative trade associations. This office is part of the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce. There is no search box at this site. See Automobile Industry Data, Quick Facts on the U.S. motor vehicle market, Import Requirements, and Industry Links.
Automotive Links: This site may offer the largest collection of automotive links on the web. See their links for Hybrid Powered Vehicles.
MarketResearch.Com: MarketResearch.Com provides one-stop access to over 50,000 market research reports from 350 firms on 650 industry topics. Viewing of abstracts of reports or tables of contents requires free registration. See their more than 500 reports for Microsoft Office, and over fifty reports for "Hybrid Cars."

Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.

International marketing data and statistics.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade, energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing information for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania; companion volume to European marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2003.

See Automotives on pages 592 to 606.

Statistical abstract of the United States.
Information about many industries as well as demographic information; check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2004-2005.

See table 1080 on page 691 for Alternative Fuel Vehicles.

European marketing data and statistics.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade, energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing information for European countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA1107 .E87 2003.

See Automotives on pages 386 to 399.

World development indicators.
This World Bank volume contains a large number of tables listing each country and key data about its people, environment, economy, markets, employment, poverty, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC59.15 .W656 2002.
Also available, in part, online at http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html.
See Motor Vehicles on page 3.12.
Encyclopedia of American industries.
This heavy two-volume set provides essays on over 1,000 industries, with manufacturing industries largely in volume one and service and other non-manufacturing industries in volume two, arranged by Standard Industrial Code, with an index at the back of volume two.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC102 .E53 2005.
See Motor Vehicles in volume one, on pages 1130 to 1137 (no references to hybrid vehicles, however).
Standard & Poor's industry surveys.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries with a focus on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for each industry. Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74.
See Autos and Auto Parts in volume one; see pages four and eighteen on hybrid vehicles (in the June 2004 edition).
Industry studies.
This excellent reference work provides essays, mostly by professors of economics, about 14 significant industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel, airline service, retail commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health insurance, motion pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and telecommunications.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.8 .I53 2002.
See the industry survey for Automobiles on pages 3 to 26.
Encyclopedia of global industries.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and development information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.
See Motor Vehicles, starting on page 1031, with references to hybrid cars on pages 1036 to 1037.
Encyclopedia of emerging industries.
Five page descriptions of over 100 new industries, with an industry snapshot, organization and structure, background and development, pioneers in the field, current conditions, industry leaders and references to further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E528 2001.
See Alternative Vehicle Fuels, on pages 37 to 44, and Fuel Cells, on pages 273 to 280.
A2C: the second automotive century.
This 74-page pamphlet, from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in three sections, examines the challenges and opportunities, new boundaries, strategic scenarios facing automobile companies worldwide, and forecasts for the industry and its key players into 2006. Unfortunately there is no index to the sections or to the report as a whole.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .A2 .A19 2000a.
Also available online, in PDF format.
No references to hybrid vehicles.
Ward's motor vehicle facts & figures.
This slim annual volume covers a multitude of facts about the U.S. auto industry with an emphasis on the U.S., Canadian and Mexican markets. There is an index but without any references to specific manufacturers.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U5 .M63a 2003.
No references to hybrid vehicles. Page 43 provides data on federal, state, county and municipal civilian government ownership of motor vehicles by state and for the nation (a total of over 3.7 million vehicles in 2001).
Ward's automotive yearbook.
The primary sourcebook for current information about all aspects of the automotive industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U5 .W3 2004.
See Ford on pages 20 to 21, and Toyota on pages 25 and 26, with references to the Prius.
Plunkett's automobile industry almanac.
This almanac offers information about major industry trends, industry statistics, industry information, major companies in the industry, with indexes by state, country, region, etc. The major part of each almanac provides one-page profiles of companies in the industry, with directory information, growth plans and special features, contacts, brief financials, brief salary and benefits data, and women officer-director and advancement information. Unfortunately, this almanac lacks a general index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U6 .P58 2003.
See Alternative Fuels, for references to hybrids, on pages 16 and 17.
Market share reporter.
Annual two-volume compilation of U.S. and world market share data for companies, products and services, arranged by SIC code, and with indexes by product, company and topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2005.
See Hybrid Vehicles in tables 1913 and 1914 on page 499 in volume one.

Foster Business Library Books:

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To identify relevant books, go to the

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Circulation status is indicated on the right of each online catalog record, on the right. Available indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated. You can have the Request/Place Hold feature to recall the book for your use.

If you don't find an adequate number of books, use the Search Summit button to repeat your search in the Summit, a combined catalog for more than thirty libraries in higher education in Washington and Oregon. Use the Request This Item feature to have books sent from any of those libraries, free, to the Foster Business Library for you to checkout.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A subject search for Hybrid Electric Cars retrieved just four records in the UW Libraries' collections, with none in the Foster Business Library. A similar search for the subject Automobiles, Electric produced over seventy records in the UW Libraries, with just one record in the Foster Business Library:

The electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age (Foster General Stacks, call number: TL220 .M6613 2004)

A subject search for Automobile Industry And Trade produced a list of over 1000 records, with the Foster Business Library having over 280 records.

Foster Business Library Corporate Annual Reports:

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection, click here. For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click here. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.

The collection includes annual reports for Ford, Honda, and Toyota, as well as other companies in the Automotive industry.

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical articles through its full text article databases such as: ABI/Inform Global, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business Databases.

Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server. The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.

ABI/Inform Global:
This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box. Click on all of the databases.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
A search in all databases for SUB(Hybrid Vehicles), produced over 1,600 articles, including over two dozen articles in scholarly journals, over 260 articles in magazines, over 600 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 600 articles in newspapers. A narrower search for SUB(Hybrid Vehicles) and Government produced over 100 articles; for SUB(Hybrid Vehicles) and SUB(Government Agencies), just eight articles; for SUB(Hybrid Vehicles) and SUB(Government Spending), just three articles.
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27 January 2005; updated 8 March 2005. Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, at stevens@u.washington.edu.