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I read the comments. Ill add some of them as my own in my own words as I agree with those comments. I do agree with the technology, as harsh as it may come for some older drivers to hear the truth about their possible fallen driving abilities and eye sight and coordination and decision making/perceptions etc... But...this technology could ALSO be used to determine how mature young drivers are. How responsible 30-40-50 and 60 year old drivers are. Driving is a privilege. NOT a right. If this technology could PROPERLY determine if older drivers could be safe and continue to drive, then THIS technology could ALSO be used to determine EVERYBODY ELSE IN ANY age group to determine if these drivers are mature, responsible and not delinquents to be able to drive RESPONSIBLY and safely. Therefore I am ALL for it. IF...this technology will be used for everybody. NOT just for old fogeys. BUT...this technology better NOT be nefarious in ANY way... If it could be used nefariously...then PHOQUE OFF with this shyte!!!

America has lost the plot. We could make fun of European cars. Europeans. Chinese cars. Chinese. ALL. WE. WANT. But, look at the video. FORGET the narrative on the video. JUST LOOK WITH YOUR OWN EYES AND MAKE YOUR OWN ASSUMPTIONS... 38 000 US dollars (for the Euro market. I doubt it could be that cheap in the US but THIS is what we need for the US and Canada). 3100 lbs. 150 HP. 250 mile range. 40 kw/h and 52 kw/h batter. 2023 Chevrolet Bolt 30 000 US dollars. 3500 lbs. 200 HP. 259 mile range. 65 KW/h battery (not the ultium battery) The thing is...AMERICA HAD THIS VERY THING WAAAAAAY BEFORE!!!! BECAUSE of mis and dis information, America is waaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind the 8 ball now. Stupid stupid stupid... Fun fun fun little Renault is all I know. And no...with 250 mile range and at 3100 lbs, there is noooooo need for a bigger, heavier battery. Better charging infrastructure yes. But all this time rubbing our ass cheeks doing nothing, cars like the Bolt or Renault 5 EV could NEVER be given a chance in the US. (mis and dis information). So whine and complain about how cars are expensive and boring but be happy to buy uber expensive EVs. SUV EVs at that. PS: it seems that in Europe, EVERYONE wants the Renault 5 EV. Chinese EVs? Well yes. But...we got are OWN fun and capable EVs. What about YOU U.S.? 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs so we dont flood the market and destroy GM, Ford and Chryco. But we get to buy more than 40 000 dollars for heavy Blazers, and Mustang Mach E. There is the Equinox EV. But boring as phoque CUV...

That road leads to what was Expo 67. The French pavillion is on the lower island too. Now its the Montreal Casino. And the Montreal casino is on the F1 Grand Prix circuit. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. La Ronde is Montreal's amusement park. Its on the upper island. The upper Island is called Ile Sainte Helene. The American pavilion is there too, Im not mistake. Now its some sort of observatory. It also houses a fort. As you may or may not know, Montreal was a citadel. And so was that island. The island was expanded artificially. Made larger to accomodate Expo 67 and the Summer Olympics in 1976. It was enlarged by the dirt and rocks and earth when Montreal dug up their city for their Metro (subway) system. The Jacques Cartier Bridge connects Montreal to Ile Sainte Helene (where La Ronde is)and Montreal's South Shore where you could access the Casino, F1 circuit and Habitat 67. Pont Victoria could access (small bridge though) Habitat 67 and the Casino from the other side. Ile Sainte Helene (the upper larger islande) and Ile Notre Dame (the smaller lower island) were summer olympic venues for the rowing and canoe/kayak competitions.

Yes. Cite du Havre in Montreal. And of course it still exists today. The colour photos I posted were from google and I gather they are recent photos at that. The official name of this project is Habitat 67. https://www.habitat67.com/en/ That is a link to tour the site. I think there are a couple appartements that are vacant just for people to see how they are but the vacancy rate is zero. People live there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67 Google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/Habitat+67/@45.4998316,-73.5462876,1221m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x4cc91af0fd0507f5:0x54874884e30cae4a!8m2!3d45.4998316!4d-73.5437127!16zL20vMDFmXzAy?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D google street view https://www.google.com/maps/place/Habitat+67/@45.5000697,-73.5443526,3a,90y,79.32h,88.58t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sOe96tj2ad1LD5yn4aw5L_A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.4249972270624056%26panoid%3DOe96tj2ad1LD5yn4aw5L_A%26yaw%3D79.31851360322453!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x4cc91af0fd0507f5:0x54874884e30cae4a!8m2!3d45.4998316!4d-73.5437127!16zL20vMDFmXzAy?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Stellantis gives us a muscle car EV. Its huge. Its heavy. And for an EV not very fast either. And fast gotta be a criteria BECAUSE muscle car. Not very good. Its OK but not where its gotta be. It had to convince people that EVs can be muscle cars. Tall order when a Hellcat is the ULTIMATE muscle car. Plus, the US populace is a mixed bag of schizophrenic meth addicts strung out on gasoline and false thoughts of being un-patriotic. Like teenagers trying to find themselves who they are. As if a phoquing gasoline powered car really defines ones culture... As if V8 powered cars are solely American... As if Benjamin Franklin wasnt American (you know...lightning and an umbrella or something like that) and Nicola Tesla didnt have ANY connections to America either...) Mis and dis information DOOMED the Charger Daytona EV even BEFORE it became a thing. Maybe Stellantis should have given us a small, Bolt competitor named the Dart, instead of making the Dart what they actually made it into, give Bolt a run for its money, force GM NOT to cancel the Bolt in the first place, but force GM to replace it IMMEDIATETLY with an Ultium battery upgrade 2 years ago, sell as many units for both OEMs and drive the fear into Chinese OEMs from EVER selling in the North American market. Or at least delay it for maybe another 5 years or so. Of course mis and dis information should not have existed in the US in the first phoquing place. And an EV Dart along the likeness of a Bolt and maybe masculine cuteness if you will (Dodge...) and beat Renault to the punch in Europe. Its not as if there wasnt any market value in Europe either. VW was doing its EV thing in Europe with the Greek isle thing and other projects. And let us not forget the Nissan Leaf. Forcing Nissan to vastly improve upon its Leaf and be better than the Bolt. Heck, the Leaf was on par or better than the Bolt. Then Kia with their offerings too. There should not have been any fear for Chinese EVs in 2025... Its not as if the world was not screaming for a small affordable yet capable EV at that time. Tesla was being called out on it. The Model 3 was a runaway success. A competitor to the Model 3 was deemed necessary. And quite honestly, NOTHING from ANY WESTERN manufacturer to this day has an honest answer to the Model 3. But a western OEM did have a small EV that could have defined what a small EV could do. And THAT would be GM with the Bolt. But mis and dis information let Chinese OEMs take over in that market niche. Ya'll been duped by a whole lotta grifters imho.

Why was the Bolt canceled in the first place? Why did GM re-direct its plans when they got backlash 2 years ago when they canceled the Bolt? Where is Ford in this category? Where is Chrysler? Chrysler is Stellantis... Stellantis has French OEMs, you know, Citroen and Peugeot. Renault is a DIRECT competitor to Stellantis in France. What you gave me as a response are non-American OEMs... GM had this very vehicle in the Bolt 1.0 5 years ago... They canceled it, got backlash and brought it back. But its still in hiatus waiting for it. And its not as if GM had a flop on their hands with the Bolt 1.0... In the USA, mis and dis information rules the news. I wrote about this when it first came to light. From 2020. 5 years ago. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130195_vw-project-to-transition-greek-model-island-to-electric-vehicles-renewable-power update from 2021 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagen-delivers-electric-cars-help-greek-island-go-green-2021-06-02/ update from 2022 https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a39784275/vw-astypalea-greek-island-electric-cars/ https://evannex.com/blogs/news/the-greek-island-of-astypalea-becomes-a-test-bed-for-the-volkswagen-group-s-evs?srsltid=AfmBOoo2KSjf8VkGvTEjxZT1pRK8h9BJn4tm55DvCKyys73C5C71p1cO https://www.carscoops.com/2022/04/volkswagen-delivers-first-privately-owned-evs-to-its-greenified-greek-island/ and update from 2023 https://www.electrive.com/2023/06/14/vw-transforms-greek-island-into-mobility-and-green-energy-showcase/ We are now closing in on 2026. I was not taken seriously when I first wrote about this in 2020 or 2021. But what has our society in North American done in those 5 years regarding EVs? We continue on playing with ourselves with mis and dis information. Keep in mind this is on a small Greek island. Greece aint exactly an economic powerhouse. But there was a vision. VW too had a vision. Plus this was a launch pad for VW to see how the tech would function on a larger scale. Including their EV tech. The Bolt 1.0 with older battery tech mind you, is VERY competitive to this DAY with these present day offerings. All you got from my opinion is too try to get a gotcha moment instead of actually think about what was really said. What I was actually opining about. The US HAD this thing in the bag. There was no need to fear China and Chinese EV start ups. There was no need for 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs BECAUSE GM HAD the tech to overcome ANY Chinese EV onslaught. GM also had the production and sales to offset any price wars. If the populace wasnt duped into thinking that EVS = bad and un-American. Then there was Tesla... The LEADER... Too bad divisive political bullshyte got in the way. Too bad mis and dis information got in the way for greed and ignorance. Too bad hatred and racism and fascism got in the way as well. Did you get your gotcha moment?

There is also a Kona Electric(261 miles range) and Niro EV(253 miles range) that start at 33k and 39k, respectively.

The Bolt is coming back... https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65035801/2027-chevy-bolt-ev-production-start-next-year/ Also, there's bee a Leaf available for over a decade now and an all new one coming this year. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65075812/2026-nissan-leaf-revealed/

I love 1967, the year I was born. So, this being from the 67 Expo in Canada, does this stacks housing still exist in Cité du Havre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada? I could not find any data on if they still exist today?

I looooove stuff like this! I wish I had a model of every car I've owned.