G. David Felt

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First Major shipment of Rivian built Amazon Prime EV delivery vans are going out.

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Gotta have Bubble Bobble, that arcade game rocked!

Wishing everyone here on Cheers and Gears a HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!

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Wow, so someone BBQ a Predator favorite meal. Alien impregnator.

Please expand, never heard of a fish plate on a frame. Thank you,

This is a very cool story and proves that Tesla and their blathering CEO is idiots about the history of companies that already did cool things like the yoke on the Tesla S Plaid that came out on a Mercury 5 decades earlier. Mercury “Wrist-Twist” Steering Tried a Tesla Model S–Style Yoke in 1965 (motortrend.com) Plenty of reasons and more from better tech to less complexity and maintenance. Quieter, faster, better balanced with a lower center of gravity for a lifted SUV and a hug FRUNK! Plenty of reasons to ditch the old stuff for better newer stuff.

Maybe he can have it welded or cut, insert a sleeve on the inside and weld back together much like Toyota did with the FJ cruisers

I am more than happy to convert my 1994 Suburban to a BEV. Time to leave the smell and mess of ICE behind.

Since you guys started this discussion, I go by the numbers, so had to see what they were. If we go by the reports, then this is the list of longest lasting auto's going past 200,000 miles. Longest-Lasting Cars to Reach 200,000 Miles and Beyond - iSeeCars.com

Perfect reason to just update your existing auto you love with EV powertrain and avoid the government crap mandates.

This is a video of the north end Lite Rail overpass that is going in by my neighborhood. I am less than 1/2 mile away from this north. The lake seen is the local lake here in Mountlake Terrace. More pics here if your interested in what the area looks like and our lite rail that is going in. Fresh pics: Lynnwood Link rising along Interstate 5 | Sound Transit

Possibly 1 of 250 Tesla S Plaid has self destructed according to this story. All the details are not in yet, but it does seem based on visual info that this Tesla S that burned to the ground this week was 1 of 250 Plaid models delivered so far. 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid Fire (jalopnik.com)

In 2019, the European Union passed a law quietly that will have many shocked mad. Starting in 2022 across all European Countries, new auto's ICE, Hybrid, BEV, etc. must have speed limiters technology installed. This is a combination of GPS and local maps stating what the posted speed limit is so that the computer then will not let you go over the posted speed. Lucky as the story states, rare chance that speed limitation will come to North America for now. Are Speed Limiters Coming to American Cars? (thetruthaboutcars.com) According to this latest story, seems the chip shortage is adding another item no longer available on GM trucks/suvs, HD Radio. The Ongoing Chip Shortage Just Added HD Radio To Its List of Victims - GM-Trucks.com

For $11,850 US Dollars you too can have this 155 mile range sporty EV bike. Europe's newest long-range, low-cost electric motorcycle is production-ready and looks good - Electrek

Was gonna write this up, but just too much going on this week, so you can read all about it here at the press release: Nissan unveils EV36Zero – a £1bn Electric Vehicle Hub (nissannews.com) Short version, Nissan is killing off all ICE production in the UK. They are investing $1 billion euros in Sutherland UK to build a complete EV production facility with parts supporting vendors to build BEV for the UK and export to Europe. QUOTE Production in Sunderland will create 909 new jobs at the plant, and more than 4,500 in the UK supply chain, while safeguarding a further 75 R&D jobs. The transformational project takes the total capital investment by Nissan into the plant past £5bn, and also includes: R&D at Nissan’s European Technical Centre in Cranfield, Bedfordshire Support for UK suppliers to transition to electric vehicles Plant competitiveness and environmental improvements Skills development in the Nissan workforce for future technologies

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With our Heatwave this week Cora spent plenty of time on the cold wood floor napping.

@oldshurst442 Those are some weird looking auto's. I think I would rather have one of these:

Crazy their recall levels. 4 pages for 2020 alone Check for Recalls: Vehicle, Car Seat, Tire, Equipment | NHTSA This is a PDF that was filed on Toyota Recalls currently. RCMN-20V012-7781.pdf (nhtsa.gov) Out of curiosity, I looked up 2020 mercedes and the first two pages is recalls on their vans. Total Garbage, but then you have a total of 7 pages of recalls with the largest series being on the E-class and then the SUVs they make. Their numbers are like 10 times worse than Toyota.

You were really wanting this: Poor Mustang!

Me not like being a red state! What is this about again? ?