G. David Felt

Very cool battery plant in Moses Lake Washington. Next-gen battery startup Sila breaks ground on Washington facility with $100M in DOE support – GeekWire

Cool next year models of Tahoe and Suburban. The Best Get Better: Meet Chevrolet’s New 2025 Tahoe and Suburban

Seems while American auto companies are now putting on hold plans to convert or build EV / Battery Plants, Hyundai is moving forward. Hyundai Motor Advances Electrification Vision with New EV–dedicated Plant in Ulsan, Building on Its Brand Heritage (hyundaimotorgroup.com) Hyundai Motor to halt Asan factory in S.Korea for EV factory construction | Reuters

Very cool Surreal, hope you can find the finished pictures as it would be great to see how it looked afterwards.

Celebrating tonight with the family and friends. Korean Bulgogi, side dishes and of course Soju Bombs. If you have never heard of a Korean Soju Bomb or Japanese Saki Bomb, they are pretty much the same thing, a 3:7 mixture or take one pint of Korean or Japanese beer, add a shot of Soju or Saki and pound it down while eating good food. How to Do a Soju Bomb: Best Way To Drink Soju Is In This Beer Cocktail - Thrillist @Drew Dowdell Have to laugh this morning at the ads as I have never seen one so big covering the whole webpage.

Another Interesting read: Report: EVs Less Likely to Catch Fire Than Gas-Powered Cars - Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) How electric vehicle tax credits will work in 2024, and a list of cars that qualify (msn.com)

This will be cool to see how long term these EVs stack up against each other. https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/our-long-term-chevy-blazer-ev-meets-its-biggest-competition.html

Good info For edge, chrome and Firefox I get a single pop-up ad when I go to a forum channel like Random or to the home page on my personal and work computer system. On my Samsung Ultra 22 phone both chrome and Samsung browser seem to allow multiple pop-up ads. Very weird, I keep it somewhat under control by using the chrome browser so I just get the single ad per forums channel.

This is a funny read. 10 Glaring Problems With Toyota No One Talks About (msn.com)

Agree that is pathetic. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!!

I will say that we still have a ways to go in working out the kinks, much like how the first decade of Tesla was nothing pretty for the S quality wise before things settled down to more fit-n-finish issues, but yes we still have plenty of quality issues to work out. I am hoping that the 3 month delay for Equinox EV was just not getting the battery plants online but also added QA testing of the EV as this needs to be a homerun hit for GM. I do feel that no matter the Legacy OEM, there is a ton of training to do from Sales to Service yet for EVs and sadly it does not help when you have a company like Ford that is only requiring Level 2 home charging chargers to be installed at dealerships. This is pathetic. GM if your top tier is requiring Level 3 charger on site, but middle and bottom tier are level 2. I feel all should be level 3 no matter what. I wonder if @Drew Dowdell sees the same large pop up when he uses the app on his phone. I stopped and went with just regular browser on my phone when away from the home. Far more usable than the app.

As expected Toyota grabbed headlines about a breakthrough solid state batteries, but clearly they have not invented them yet and even if they can actually deliver, it will be limited to 10,000 EVs globally by 2030. Guess they still think hydrogen is the way to go. ? https://electrek.co/2023/11/21/toyotas-long-range-solid-state-ev-batteries-limited/

I still get a single add popup on the page I leave open that I have to close. Do you get this? Example is if I click on the Cheers & Gears logo in the upper left corner to go to the home page, I get a single popup that I have to close before I can look at the home page.

OUCH, this hurts. CFPB Orders Toyota Motor Credit to Pay $60 Million for Illegal Lending and Credit Reporting Misconduct | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (consumerfinance.gov)

I have to laugh as I heard a couple of hard core centrist GOP that have stated the GOP party is now the Party of Tax, wife and business cheats. ?

Interesting read, very true that there is a lack of training for sales folks on how to sell EVs. https://www.businessinsider.com/car-dealers-love-electric-cars-just-dont-cant-convince-shoppers-2023-11

That is so awesome, so happy for you Robert.

Try this: VIN Decoder | NHTSA There are also various sites that charge but will search all federal, state, and county records for you. Some like this site charge just 1 dollar. Home - US Vehicle Reports (vehiclehistory.us.org) This is the search I did to find this information. How to tell the history of an auto by the vin - Search (bing.com)

GM has introduced China to the full size SUV and Truck world with a focus on the Chevrolet Silverado EV that has gathered much excitement and requests for order. The Durant Guild Expands Iconic Portfolio at 2023 China International Import Expo (gm.com.cn)

And here you are showing imho a very narrow view as this has nothing to do with focus on Tesla, it is a focus on the News Story that shows Tesla is not the Leader in the faster / best charging rate of an EV. You have ignored taking this out of context that the above statement was made against the news story. This is exactly what I posted: As such, if this was anyone else you would say that they are trolling the posted person. Is that what your doing, trolling me over the above statement, which imho you are taking out of context.

This will cause some to cry, but Porsche is prepping their plants to build Boxster and Macan EVs. Porsche upgrades Zuffenhausen production plant for the future - Porsche Newsroom Yes, I would agree that under the skin the bulk of the auto is probably identical. They can use much nicer materials on the inside, a different set of software for the EV system, etc. to make it stand out and with a different skin be able to charge more. I just feel the speed at which they charge the vehicle at any level should be the fastest available for that level and not have 3 different controllers. Why not save money, have a single fastest possible controller for all the EVs in all Product categories and focus on the things that can and do offer a large profit difference such as the interior materials, suspension, engine power, etc.

H'mmm No gotcha just reporting that while Tesla has shown to be reliable, they have been surpassed for charging by Hyundai and others. Just reporting, I put nothing into this other than that. But take it how you feel, no skin of my back my friend. Yes it was capable, but not at the full potential of what Level 3 is. I get it that many people will feel that you get what you pay for, those that pay more money for the top of the line Cadillac get the fast great experience and those that can only afford the Chevrolet have to wait much longer. This is one place that Tesla while having tested out as a slower but reliable charging experience has done right. All of their EVs get the same charging controller so the 3, Y, S and X all can quickly charge no matter the size of the battery. My point is that GM, Ford, VW should be taking that page from Tesla as Hyundai/Kia/Genesis has done and give the fastest charging experience to the customer. They can milk all they want for software and other EV features in the auto, but if you want to have people go WOW, I want that EV, then remove one item that the Press has hit on as a big negative, especially the crazy conservatives that feel EV should die. For GM, they should have embraced this from the start if they truly want to go all EV by 2035 or 2030 depending on the country. Remove the speed limits on Charging and give the best experience possible to the consumer for quick charging. IMHO Cadillac press release today: Cadillac Confirms the 2025 OPTIQ Possible Lucid Pickup Truck Seen In Clay Model Form (insideevs.com)

This is a good read on who leads in Charging speed and the results might surprise you. Tesla is NOT the leader. Edmunds EV Charging Test: How fast does each EV charge? | Edmunds I will say that GM and Ford are NOT doing the customers right by playing games with the charging controllers. Example of this is the Lyriq top of the line gets a 19.2kW controller compared to the entry level gets a 11.5kW controller which makes a big difference in how fast they charge. Blazer EV coming out only gets the 11.5kW controller. Current Chevrolet Bolt/EUV model only has a 11.5kW controller which was an upgrade for 2023 over the earlier version which was only 7.7kW. This game of slower charging on cheaper EVs over more expensive needs to stop as the charging speed is the biggest issue for buyers. I get it that the Bolt is on older technology, but the Ultium platform @ 800V can handle the speed and they should be making sure all the EVs can maximize the Level 1, 2 and 3 charging IMHO.

The videos of the Cyber truck having a hard time going up a dirt hill and the F150 Lighting going up a near identical one is too funny. The CEO of Ford is throwing shade at the Cybertruck's viral — and messy — attempt to drive up a dirt hill (msn.com)

Very interesting read, the beginning of the end of fossil fuel use. New IEA report shows major change in global energy industry: 'The beginning of the end' (thecooldown.com)