G. David Felt

Interesting, 2026 will be one to watch to see just how the U.S. labor market does. I suspect we will see more contraction.

US on verge of unemployment surge that forces Fed to slash rates, Wall Street veteran says

Not surprised by this with Idiot47 tariff tax on Americans that sales have fallen off a cliff and with it made in Germany, not selling at all here. Plus the terrible range due to such a small battery pack.

VW’s $60K electric bus dead 12 months after US launch

Land of the Lost!

Here is the end of 2025, start of 2026 and while I am 5 month away from 2yrs of ownership, no maintenance, no repairs, no costs, just electric juice to the battery pack.

Miles driven in 19 months, 29,787 or averaging 1,568 miles a month.

Cost of Electricity for 2025 $753

Total cost of electricity since we bought our EV9 is $1,176

Parking Lots

4 hours ago, 67impss said:

Grand Torino 

Grand National

Grand Kids!

17 hours ago, smk4565 said:

Consider that in 2015 a 55 inch 4K TV was $1000 for the cheapest one out there, and like $2500 for a Sony or Samsung.  Now they are 1/3 that price.  

Laptop computers were $2000 25 years ago, now you can get them for $500.  The cost of this tech comes down over time and with economies of scale.

These EV's that are $40,000 today, will be $30,000 in 10 years, while today's $30,000 ICE cars will be $40,000 in 10 years.  Once they scale out the batteries and motors and they get super cheap, ICE won't be able to compete.  

Funny you mention TV's as I saw the Chinese Hisense TVs at Costco, 98" size for $1,299.99 or direct online their higher performance 98" TV for $1,899.99 compared to Samsung 98" instore for $1,799.99 or their mid-level performance version at $2,199.99 direct or top performance direct for $2,499.99. 

Now the review for Hisense is mixed compared to much better reviews for Samsung. Also, Korea has a much higher labor cost compared to China. 

Yet compared to the first flat panel TVs that were over $10,000 for a 40" TV two decades ago, the prices have come down crazy.

Gotta say that I am very much interested in one day upgrading to a wall TV.

Talk about crazy weather.

This car proves why American Auto Companies are DEAD MAN WALKING.

This is one SEXY EV.

Very interesting read and clearly Tesla is not up to par with the Chinese. Testing was done in Mongolia with -20 temps so the batteries took a major hit, Tesla was around low 30% range with a Tesla 3 RWD having 48% over their normal range where Chinese were around 50% over their normal range. Clearly, Tesla needs to update to at least 800V system and put some engineering into their battery packs. Sadly no Korean EVs were in the test mix. The Newest Mercedes CLA was and really took a hit for being the newest 800V system, sad that the battery system sucks so bad.

67 EVs Were Range-Tested In Sub-Zero Conditions. Here's Where The Teslas Ranked

Story is based on this posted YouTube video.

This cracks me up, so much great Karma to these crooks, amazing that one of them has a CyberTruck and was putting it in the frunk when it blew up.

Interesting read.

Rivian CEO: Apple CarPlay is never coming, and here’s why

Good to see this blow up in Idiot47s face and the lemmings he put in charge that have no clue what they are doing.

Trump administration suffers legal blow over CFPB funding

Really hope he has to sit in prison.

OUCH - I truly believe that the U.S. will be like China in 3 to 5 years and EREV will have a short life.
Everybody's Betting On Extended-Range EVs. This Could Make Them Obsolete Instead

Proof that what GM is doing here is bad for America, Death of manufacturing, the support of supply train and that Idiot47 has not understood or figured out. Tariff threats clearly are a FAILURE for America.

WOW, Boeing moving manufacturing to Canada. Hope this gives him a heart attack and goes 6 ft under.

WOW, Idiot47 world is collapsing and I hope he takes a dirt nap.

Further proof that Idiot47 is clueless in how to run a business let alone a country.

WOW, this is big and clearly Idiot47 and his administration have lost big time.

1 hour ago, oldshurst442 said:

Ford would be done faster than that.  Proof would be in Europe as Volkswagen Group is actually suffering economically as Chinese EVs have been dumped in that market.  

Analysts here and in Europe with biases against EVs continue to falsely blame a lack of interest for EVs and that VAG and Ford and everyone else that fails in selling EVs its because too much effort was made to sell EVs and there are no buyers for them.

I say its because Ford, VAG and all others' EV technology is lackluster and hence nobody TRUSTS VAG and Ford EVs enough to buy them.  

GM is mid pack when it comes to EV technology and hence mid pack when it comes to EV sales.  If GM is to survive a Chinese EV onslaught of dumping EVs in the North American market, GM NEEDS to ACCELERATE EV offerings not reduce them like Ford is doing.  

Chevrolet needs a family of Bolt EVs to do battle with the cheap Chinese stuff.  An idea that GM has tossed around. I am not sure if Mary Barra is continuing on with that path though. 

Chevrolet does offer 2 EV family SUVs as of now. Might be enough.  

The Buick EVs WILL have to make it from China to here. With the tariffs, Buick might have to build them back in the usa.  That would be a win win for the usa. Just as trump intended. 

Ford is doomed if they do not follow through with their recent EV platform strategy.  In less than 20 years with tariffs on and less than a decade with no tariffs... 

EVs are the future whether americans want to admit it or not.  I really do not care if americans believe that to be true or not.  

Doom and gloom is around the corner for americans on many levels.  How much doom and gloom?  It all depends on how much more bullshyte americans are willing to ignore and live with.  It all depends also with how much bullshyte trump and his enablers are willing to impose on the usa. 

One MAJOR point that everyone ignores is that American Auto Companies are not only behind the technology, but they for the most part also only produced a few to compete with Tesla and Tesla is OLD TECH!!!

Any Auto Company that is still 400V only is out of date. 800V is becoming old now that Chinese is pushing 1000V and 1,200V EV platforms to push for the 5 min recharge to 80%.

Korea is the only auto company out of China that seems to be competing, but even then, I wonder. By 2030 we will see who really will survive in the 21st century and American Auto companies I do not have much hope for.

There is an interesting observation of history right now. The 1920's moving into the 1930's hell of America is very much like the 2010's and the current 2020's with bling on autos and yet we are hitting old money versus new money and the incompetence of the 1% with the Idiot47 administration mirrors the hell we went through in the 1930's. America is screwed for the next 50 to 70 years and even then, I doubt we will ever be the global leader that we were up till Idiot45 and 47 took office with his stupid IQ of 79 and clearly no ability to lead, only corruption and a puppet of Russia.

Kia is on a hot streak, taking over times square for the New Year Count Down.

KIA AMERICA CELEBRATES THE ALL-NEW 2027 TELLURIDE WITH NEW YEAR’S EVE TIMES SQUARE TAKEOVER

College graduates are asking Dude where is my Job as Growth goes up, jobs go down.

The weakest labor market since 2011 has BofA asking, 'Dude, where’s my job?'

Too funny

The IRS released new tax brackets for 2026. Some Americans will save thousands while others won't be so lucky
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/irs-released-tax-brackets-2026-121500860.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/15k-budget-ev-reliability-better-than-ice/

Interesting read, seems ford is looking for another cheap way to make money without actually investing in engineering.

Ford gave up on beating China on batteries and cut a deal instead

Ford clearly is giving up on EVs as it looks to commercial battery packs for storage to make money. They are giving up on being a leader in the Auto sector. Wonder how Henry Ford would have felt about this, also it does rais the question, how long till Ford as an Auto company is dead. Trucks, a few SUVs and falling farther behind in all auto fronts tells me Ford is not a stock work investing in.

Interesting read.

We're on the eve of Trump's final reckoning | Opinion

Interesting aero car for sure. Wonder how much of the tech and lessons learned actually make it into a real auto.

Renault’s 626-mile EV proves bigger batteries were never the answer

Idiot47 is clueless to reality about todays costs.

Trump says tariffs made America 'rich, strong, powerful and safe,' but leaders across the US say households are struggling. Here’s what the data shows

Sad that corruption is the new norm now in DC.

State Dept. 'not functioning' as staffers get sidelined for warning Trump is breaking law

5 hours ago, smk4565 said:

Ford (and everyone else) went into EV's because they saw Tesla's $1.5 trillion market cap, and the investors were like "what the hell Jim, why does Ford have a $50 billion market cap while this start up that sells 1 million cars a year is worth 30 times more?  We want return on our investment!"

Ford could see F150 sales double and my guess is their market cap would move from $53 billion to $55 billion.  If you aren't on the cutting edge of technology it will be too easy for others to just eliminate you.  Ford gave up on sedans because they couldn't compete with the Asians, gave up on the Ecosport, the Escape ended production this month also, because they admit they can't compete in those segments.

Ford is going to be pickups, commercial vans, and Bronco.  Would be really easy to the Chinese to copy pickups and vans and come in at a much lower price and wipe out those pick up and van sales.  

Yes, Ford pathetic quality control and small thinking has hurt the company, not helped it. Rather than step up their game to compete, they want easy money with minimal effort. At this point, Ford has done nothing over the last 5 to 6 decades that makes me care anymore.

GM will not support AA/CP and would rather take your personal data and sell it for profit to 3rd party companies.

As such, GM and Ford might just end up being out of business by 2050 if China gets into the U.S. market.