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Buick! This is quoted for truth..... Last one for awhile....but I love this.

Me either, thru-out NJ and southern NY. Only have noticed a single out-of-order pump once every 5 or 7 years, it seems. It's more common I feel to see a pump that was obviously struck and inoperable, vs. just 'not working'. NJ is pretty on top of public stuff like this, in most cases. I believe they're near the top in road repair/maintenance per mile. Seems WA needs some infrastructure upgrades!

That's not a comparable situation because 1. the entire station is out of order and 2. you would see this on your app if this was a charging station so you wouldn't be wasting your time hopping from charger to charger trying to find a working one. The issue is the user doesn't know the station doesn't have 100% working chargers until you try them out.

We bought a 2008 Impala (Actually my youngest did) from a classic car dealer. They usually only sell classics, but they also dispose of cars for a lawyer who does a lot of probate work. Impala is immaculate, a thousand dollars of new Michelin tires on it. they had this beauty there, about the best preserved 60's car I ahve ever seen. not a stone chip in the paint, all original paint. Not for sale either. Later style wheels...added alter by owner, still in the original family. Special ordered from Pontiac as a 4 speed... Staying Busy indoors during the pandemic...I will post up some finished work at some point.

When Covid is over, Would like to sit down with Trinicriabob and talk about hsi European travels...

Everyone here at C and G when an EV discussion comes up, and we want to jump right in...

Yeah...yet another crazy leftist agenda asshole trying to make us buy EVs...

Was a 2nd sunny 45 degree day in a row, which in unusual for Cleveland in January. Supposed to rain turning to snow tomorrow, colder and snowier over the next week. Had 3 interviews this week, interesting doing them over Zoom and Teams. So far so good.. Work has been up and down this week, mostly quiet but a few meetings because the India team have a bunch of issues w/ an application that has been soft launched...not yet ready for go-live, still a number of issues I'm consulting on. When stuff isn't working, who do they turn to? In my free time, taking a bunch of courses through Linkedin Learning...refreshing myself on some old stuff and getting an overview of some new stuff..

RE the ‘62 Pontiac: I believe the 4-spd would be a RPO by that year- it came out in ‘60. Car may have well been ordered, but 4-cog should be RPO. 8-lugs came out for late ‘60, these look to have ‘63-64 center caps / trim rings.

Yeah it is. The live edge table I built. I am going to put simple modern steel chairs with it, and a simple modern light fixture. My next project is building a modern style table for behind the sofa. the shakerish table is going to be a desk upstairs. Not a very clean photo, Christmas dishes on the table....sorry. You can't really see it but solid piece of Ash, with a lot of natural figure.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And to kick off the 2020 - 2021 NHL season. My favorite top 5 retro reverse jerseys 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Easy today, the winter storm fried all the pumps at the Shell Station in my Neighborhood. All 12 pumps dead till further notice according to the sign. Yet when I ran to get the grocery shopping done for my senior parents at Fred Meyers which was out of power this morning also, the Tesla Super Charger station was fully functional this afternoon. Dead Gas station Working EV Station. Goes both ways I know. Still a factor as the pre-orders all came with 3yr free charging, which 3 years has not come up yet, so lots of peeps still using the free charging. Yes as of today, Tesla has no free charging on any model they sell. Yet as sales dip, Tesla seems to throw this out as an incentive. Research shows the cheapest charging is home charging even with the cost of a 220V charger.

A little late. But I got to post a tribute to the late Tommy Lasorda. From a Montreal point of view. He pitched for the Dodger's farm team, the Montreal Royals. (Brooklyn that is) https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/hab-at-heart-tommy-lasorda/c-886339 I saw this game live on TV. It was an epic game. Extra innings into the wee hours of the night. 19 or 20 some odd innings. And of course, the run in with the Philly Phanatic is just soooo...much more... RIP Tommy

Yup that is for sure the Rolls-Royce Cullinan. One of the Ugliest SUVs to have ever been made and way over rated for the money. Rolls-Royce Cullinan - Wikipedia

Do some pumps pump at(hypothetical numbers here) 100 gallons per minutes, 30 gallons per minute, 85 gallons per minute, and 15 gallons per minute? Apparently you having entire gas stations out of service is not "far ahead" of the rest of the country considering I have never stumbled upon such a scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maletsunyane_Falls A bit of dreaming.

@A Horse With No Name I started to follow this guy. Wife and I want to have him build us a custom square table for the kitchen that will have 3 chairs per side, total of 12 chairs. His work is amazing. Handcrafted Custom Woodwork | NW Custom Woodwork https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oo_0tBRn6/

The Jackson mart was still open for business with power. The pumps are down. This is a valid comparison as I have seen other gas stations that due to unknown reasons had no pumps working too and not weather related. Here be it gas or ev stations, they seem to be updated on apps that show what is functional and the few times I have seen state run chargers that did not work, they were clearly noted both physically on the charging port and in apps. Maybe just a difference between the west coast which is far ahead of the rest of the nation and Washington state that mandates having this info current on apps for users.

Saw brand new Escalade in grey. I have to say I really think it doesn't look proportioned right in the front. Not a fan.

I like them all!!! ?

This song is playing recently on a TV commercial . Dont remember which product (or service) this song is helping to peddle. These past few days it has been on my mind and I was going through the lyrics... On the wrong side of history is where we are at right about now. What a reversal of what this song is trying to say... How the phoque did we get here this way since 1991? I certainly did not see this coming...

I dont know where to post this... Ill post this here https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-new-car-price-2020/ Average new car price in the US is now @ 40 thousand US dollars. Something to think about.

I went to the post office today. In the parking lot exit, a burgundy late(r) model Mercury Grand Marquis was in front of me. It was spotless and there was a beige baseball cap on its rear shelf. It was a tall senior gentleman who had also been inside the post office. Ahead of him was an older BMW where the driver was being overly cautious to go out into the traffic of a major 4-lane road. The Grand Marquis driver began to honk in repetition. The Grand Marquis driver finally got into traffic and chose the right lane. As someone slowed down to turn into a gas station about a block further down, he started repeatedly honking at that person, too. This guy was slightly dysregulated. I pondered the beige baseball cap on his rear shelf. Oh, yeah ... I forgot where I was going. Nice 4.6 liter SOHC V8!

Plenty of times for me. Just two months ago to the place I go gas up. The problem is that...there is no problem when a pump at a gas station goes poo poo. There usually is another gas station right across the street with full functioning gas pumps. with the continual poo pooing of EVs. Trying to find the most trivial thing thinking that will deter what is the inevitable.

But they don't need the Tesla home charger- they can "charge it overnight and be full in the morning" out of a 110 outlet (don't all Teslas come with the adapter for that?). And they'll be "charging it every night to be topped off the next day". Or so I've been assured here. But for some reason, on New Year's Day [almost everyone is off work / stores are mostly all closed], 7 local people (at the moment I spun by), were sitting at a Supercharger station for who knows what multiples of a half hour, getting kWs at double the rate as at home. I just don't get it. Yeah- it a micro sample but I'm trying to make sense of it. If it was evening hours, sure; you drove around during the day, your place of employment has no chargers, you sit at the Station for an hour to get ready for tomorrow. But on a day no one has to be anywhere... why get up, get dressed and drive to a commercial parking lot to pay double rates? - - - - - Yes, sometimes gas pumps are out-of-order; they are electrical/hydraulic/mechanical devices. But when many charging locations have 2 outlets, and one is busted AND you have to wait an hour for the guy at the other one to go... it's a far different scenario. At least by me, most gas stations have on the order of a dozen pumps, not 2, and fueling only takes a few minutes.

You know I respect your opinion but you are seriously reaching here. Just because someone has a Tesla or EV doesn't mean they have home charger. You are also using a very small sample here ("there were seven Teslas...") to make your case but unless you actually ask those very owners A.) "Do you have a home charger for your EV" followed by B.) "Why are you charging here if you have a home charger", then you don't have a clue what or why. You're just grasping at straws for whatever reason. Sorry, but it just doesn't hold water IMO. Good thing gas stations always have perfectly functioning pumps that are never "out of order". Oh wait. Point being, sometimes $h! happens.

The "crazy" formula was grade-school straight forward : cost per mile. And the piece I quoted literally was 'real world'. - - - - - New Year's Day there were SEVEN Teslas at the Supercharger station across the road from me, with another pulled off to the side. Around 9AM. Saying 'most people charge at home' may not be accurate... because at that date & time, the station should've been completely empty. If most people charge at home, why the fenzied push to build more & more Supercharger stations? Doesn't everybody have an electrified home?

Greek town, Detroit, 1970

To go with those issues, they had a heck of a time both finding a charger that is working AND getting charged at a decent rate. Yes, the chargers are "rated" for 150 and 250kwh but neither were charging anywhere close to that.

I may have posted this before, but every time I hear this song I think about crusing around in an early 60's Impala. Enjoy...I love her voice.

One can love both vintage and modern iron....I love the old 65 Galaxy 500...one of my favorite 60's car designs. 427 Powered 65 Galaxy...

This makes infintie sense, and is one reason I honestly went from hating Ford to loving them. They went from trying to be everything to everyone and for everyone to being their own honest self. Proud to be a Ford owner. Also, the ten speed tranny that was slightly notchy and awkward when i got the ragner is now buttery smooth. I am loving this trukc more every day. It ranks up there with my 55 Chevy, 66 Mustang Fastback, 2002 Maxda Miata, and 2015 Diesel Jetta as one of the top five favorite vehicles (out of about 30!) that I have owned. Word association.... I love really small cars, cool advert. Of all of the vintage pics you have posted, this is one of my favorite.

Here's another article that seems to show that the much-touted EV fueling savings either have major caveats... or don't exist. This is not the first time these hard data examinations have dispelled the common breezy press release narrative. https://autos.yahoo.com/tesla-model-3-proves-evs-202600251.html Seems that if you use a Tesla Supercharger regularly, you not only are paying the equivalent kw of $8.75/gal of gas, but your fuel cost per mile is on par with a BMW M340 with a 382-HP 6-cylinder getting 26 MPG. - - - - - MB's uses 3 separate screens behind one plane, it's not a true full-width screen. The different shapes/sizes/positioning of the screens also looks pretty haphazard. They stretched it to go around the HVA/C vents to make it look a lot bigger than it actually is... which also makes it look a lot more bland. Could use some subtle framing...

More news of the Auto Industry changes happening as CES 2021 Virtual Show kicks off this week. GM has anounced a new startup called Bright Drop that will have an Electric pallet system and Electric Cargo Van with first deliveries of the EV Van going to FedEx this fall in the US. GM reveals an electric van, launches a new business for electric cargo delivery (greencarreports.com) This is followed up by Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV Teaser with built in 3.5 kW Generator for powering all kinds of stuff. More pictures at the link below. First Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV teasers reveal concept car looks, generator capability - Roadshow (cnet.com) Further proof that GM is coming out with even more EV fun is the Video talking about their future EV plans and in the background of a wide variety of EVs is what looks like a C8 inspired CUV. Check out the story for the video and more pictures. Is This Proof Chevy's Working on a Corvette Electric SUV? (motortrend.com) Did GM Just Show Off a Chevy Corvette SUV at CES? | The Drive

CES 2021, GM teases New Bolt EUV with SuperCruiser video. New Bolt and Bolt EUV will come out February 2021. Chevrolet Shares Preview of 2022 Bolt EUV Steering Wheel Bolt-EUV-SuperCruise.mp4

I Powered My House with the Ford F-150 Hybrid I Powered My House with the Ford F-150 Hybrid (caranddriver.com) Pretty cool. Worked well.

In the 90's it was a crap shoot on Software with no standards to security, quality, etc. Today, software changes cannot be allowed to break the tree when you check in your fix or new feature. If you break it, you better be ready to explain why and dish out the donuts. Before the pandemic, if you broke the software check-in tree, you had to bring donuts for everyone in the building. In the case of my Isilon team in Seattle, that was 1,200 donuts. OUCH As such, Microsoft and Apple both instituted around 2005 SDL or Security Development Lifecycle. This brought a ton of reliability and improvements to software development. The last decade has seen a big improvement from storage to smartphones in the way software is developed. Most people do not know this, but the FORD Sync system is a Secured Kernel of NT from Microsoft.

The planned obsolescence in software FAR outstrips anything automakers have done... but watch them ante’ up soon.

Can it be All of the Above? It probably is all of these.

Getting it right is HARD, especially when it comes to software. Good thing Cadillac actually hired somebody to ditch CUE 1.0 for a much better one.

CUE is currently on version 22.10 and can be done over the air if you have the WiFi setup or the dealer can install the latest version and it works great compared to the buggy early issues. Current CUE with Alexa is very cool to use and very simple. IMHO, It really depends on which model of which german auto company you have and how much cutting edge tech you have. MB as well as BMW have a long record of buggy new tech worst than the Americans. Japanese and Korean seem to be far more reliable, but that can also be due to using much less tech. The EV world is gonna be interesting to see.

Well, it has to take a manufacture to step up to have a business plan that sells EVs to the masses. I guess THAT business plan is frowned upon just yet. The Ford Mach-E is not quite in that price range. But its the right type and size of EV to BE sold to the masses at an affordable price to BE successful in the market place. About the Nio. Its a sedan. In an SUV/CUV world, even it it were priced at a theoretical price of 38K, I dont think it sell well. The Model 3 sells well. Its a Telsa. Tesla is God right about now... Nothing they do could do no wrong in the market place. Well, the Cybertruck may fail. it has ALL the ugly ingredients that logic states it will fail. But then again. Its Tesla. Tesla is God right about now. Tesla is shredding all previous rules and creating their own...

^ And the above is exactly why I continually say that all the OEM mouthpieces, Gov't schlubs and industry analysts are dead wrong to state that EVs will be even 50% of the market by 2030, and all (domestic) "IC ban by 2030" will fall.

These two prices is their Launch Edition prices. Basic prices have not changed. Base R1T starts at $67,500 Base R1S starts at $70,000 still.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-narrowly-misses-goal-of-100000-electric-vehicles-on-the-road-1.5856007 Since the Quebec government's big push of promoting EVs in 2012, 92 000 new EVs have been sold. The target was 100 000. Narrowly missing the target. Still a success though and more and more Quebecois are accepting an all EV future. And a little tidbit of info and concerns for EVs from a Quebec perspective. Same ones we have been discussing here at CheersandGears.