{"id":732683,"date":"2010-05-25T06:49:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=57489"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:49:23","slug":"bob-lutz-joins-transonic-combustion-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/732683","title":{"rendered":"Bob Lutz joins Transonic Combustion board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 573px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bob Lutz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bob_lutz_chevrolet_volt_wide_main_a.jpg?resize=563%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Lutz with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transonic Combustion, Inc., a fuel-injection systems startup, announced today that Bob Lutz has joined the company&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lutz brings to Transonic&#8217;s leadership team a legendary career in the global automotive industry, including senior leadership positions at four of the world&#8217;s leading automakers,&#8221; Transonic said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the foreseeable future, the internal combustion engine will remain the dominant propulsion system for automobiles,&#8221; Lutz said, &#8220;and there is still a lot of room to improve its efficiency. Customers and manufacturers want better fuel economy, lower emissions and a great vehicle experience all at an attractive price. Transonic&#8217;s new supercritical fuel injection technology can greatly improve engine efficiency and potentially become the new industry standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-57489\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lutz recently retired from his nine year position as vice chairman of General Motors. His resume also holds respectable titles including CEO of Exide Corp; a 12 year position with Chrysler where he was vice chairman, president, chief operation officer and executive vice president; 12 years with FoMoCo; and three years with BMW.<\/p>\n<p>Guess Lutz has no interest in retiring and resting&#8230; ever.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mFiFqBYPTTZa2Hj4UojrCUNqdu0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mFiFqBYPTTZa2Hj4UojrCUNqdu0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mFiFqBYPTTZa2Hj4UojrCUNqdu0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mFiFqBYPTTZa2Hj4UojrCUNqdu0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=52HTDQbIgwk:bRbTmnaMWtw:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Lutz with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt Transonic Combustion, Inc., a fuel-injection systems startup, announced today that Bob Lutz has joined the company&#8217;s board of directors. &#8220;Lutz brings to Transonic&#8217;s leadership team a legendary career in the global automotive industry, including senior leadership positions at four of the world&#8217;s leading automakers,&#8221; Transonic said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34Bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}