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@oldshurst442 @balthazar I still have my 1994 GMC SLE Suburban that I want to put an E-Crate AWD system into. The Escalade would also be another good one. Wife likes both Hummer by GMC and Rivian. I owe her a truck, so she is looking at both trucks. Who knows what she will end up with. For me, I know one of my full size SUVs will get converted and I will end up driving it. I like the idea of having a proper full size FRUNK that both the GMC and Caddy can offer me in a conversion.

Comparing would it not be better to do the Trax CUV to the Bolt CUV since they are within inches of each other for length, height and width?

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Interesting that rather than focus on building better products and delivering to the market products customers want they have resorted to suing and here we have Tesla expanding their lawsuit to now cover battery packs that Rivian is supposedly stealing for use in their own auto. Tesla claims Rivian is stealing ‘trade secrets’ about its ‘next-gen battery’ in expanding lawsuit (electrek.co) Original lawsuit was very vague that Tesla filed in 2020 about two employees that went to work for Rivian. Head of recruitment and head of their SuperCharger division. Rivian has since announced they will build out their own charging network around the world starting with North America first. Now Tesla has added 5 more people to the lawsuit that is filled in California and specifically stated that these individuals took trade secretes about their next-gen batteries that are coming. Honestly, Maybe Musk should be focused on Tesla rather than trying to move to Mars and set himself up as it's ruler.

Cool news, probably sad for fans depending on which side of the road your on. Jony Ive's who is responsible for much of the look on Apple Products has taken a new job with Ferrari to help them develop their first Electric auto and build their new electric auto portfolio to replace the ICE Ferrari portfolio. Seems the days of over rev'd Ferrari's is coming to an end. Ex-Apple Design Chief Helping Ferrari With First EV: Report (businessinsider.com)

Very cool that we are continually advancing battery technology as the charger tech is also moving forward pretty fast as we now have the newest chargers capable of sustained 360 kW of power recharging. Installation of these new units will begin in Europe now and available for purchase starting 2022 in the rest of the world. ABB launches the world’s fastest electric car charger EV Charging | Electric Vehicle Chargers | ABB Coming soon to a recharging station near you. Press release is that these chargers can recharge a 400 mile battery pack in 15 min. They also have a 4 charger cord unit that can sustain charging all four 400 mile battery pack auto's like a Rivian R1T in 15 min.

Both Then he found his Deity and was born again with a purpose. Course if his Deity existed, then why did it not fix his face? ?

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New EV's starting from $29K and top out at $39K. Seems a decent list to start with many more on the way. 10 Cheapest Electric Vehicles 2021 Mini Electric Hardtop 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2021 Nissan Leaf 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV 2021 Hyundai Ioniq 2021 Hyundai Kona 2021 Tesla Model 3 2021 Kia Niro EV 2021 Tesla Model Y 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 10 Cheapest Electric Cars - Autotrader Or buy online and ship in cheap EV's new off Alibaba site! Totally legal to buy starting new from $1,200 with some assembly required. Find electric car, Zero-Emission Utility Vehicles – Alibaba.com I will say reading this web site weekly for the strange new Electric auto of the week sold off Alibaba is pretty funny. Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Tiny One-Seater Electric Car - Electrek

? Used Nissan Leaf.

Have to say on a late Friday night that Bacon Armadillo Eggs sound really yummy right about now. Bacon Wrapped Armadillo Eggs Recipe - How to Make Bacon Wrapped Armadillo Eggs (delish.com) https://www.delish.com/71a42144-375b-4c91-a4b4-bc53df4e966c

Electric is for public charging stations only. DOH, I bet there is home fueling pods and should be included especially on a farm. Story stated major retail gas stations.

Got a busy work day, but will find one or two. I know I have seen them. After all, the only way a company gets better is taking the good with the bad and I believe RJ would want to hear the opportunities for improvement. He has taken extra time to ensure Rivian Auto's will be some of the best out there. Plus the customers will be customers and as I stated, I suspect we will see towards the end of this year plenty of YouTube posted customer reviews.

Yes, but we have seen plenty of OEM sponsored events with both good and bad reviews. I honestly expect some serious reviews by the end of the year after plenty of people have had their Rivian and had a chance to take it off road and through the snow.

WOW, all the years I have been here and this is the first time seeing this thread, love the history info here. Very cool. Thanks @balthazar for adding details to the history.

Another Review and another win for Rivian.

Appreciate your response and view on this and I do agree with you that the Voltic 2.0 system was awesome and should have gone into a compact CUV and Compact truck as a logic solution for the now time. GM should have been working on this and brought it out when the 2.0 system was released. Yet, while some places are slow to react, there are many places that are investing and yes the West Coast is ahead of the U.S., but over all the East Coast is catching up and so is the mid-west. Yes you have the following sources to easily find charge places making a cross country trip doable for those that want to do road trips, sadly many humans want to fly there faster and just drive local, so the cross country excuse against BEVs does not hold water any longer. Find an EV Charging Station Near You | EV Fast Charging Stations Map (evgo.com) Find every public charging station for electric cars | ChargeHub PlugShare - EV Charging Station Map - Find a place to charge your car! Tesla Superchargers map: September 2021 | finder.com ChargePoint public-charging (ford.com) EV Charging Accessibility | General Motors (gm.com) Locate a public EV charger | Electrify America I am sure there are even more options to help one find a charger, but then we have the U.S. map too. Alternative Fuels Data Center: Maps and Data - Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Ports by State (energy.gov) Alternative Fuels Data Center: Alternative Fueling Station Locator (energy.gov) This is the current Electric map: One cannot say they cannot find a place to recharge even at home. Yet 50,477 electric stations are open. Here is the current all alternative fuels as comparison at 57,641 electric is winning. According to this story there are only 115,500 gas stations in the U.S. and an interesting read. How Many Gas Stations Are In U.S.? How Many Will There Be In 10 Years? - MarketWatch By 2030 they are projecting the number of gas stations to be cut in half. I can attest that I see fewer and fewer gas stations around western washington.

Sure Cash for ICE and recycle them all with a decent incentive. KKB value on your auto and off to the shredder!

I think due to the Pandemic and inflation as companies hate to roll back prices, gov hates to give up tax collection, I have to wonder if the new starting price on cars is not high $20's to low $30's. Sad for sure, but I have seen bump in prices, but many things are staying at a much higher price and we are seeing limits on how much one can buy now again. ?

Be it grid storage, computers, cell phones and especially electric vehicles, a safe, long-lasting, and energy-dense battery in a smaller form factor is what every company is looking for in selling their products today. ICE or internal combustion engine vehicles have dominated the last 100 years, but the next 100 years seems to be looking at a major change and while ICE auto's will be with us for some time, technology is going to change the way humans get around in the 21st century. Let's start with a little background information on battery format. You have your Cylindrical size cells that is used by Tesla and a few other companies in the auto industry around the world. There is then the Prismatic cell format which has been used by Toshiba for their SCiB cells that are also being used by various auto companies and the last is Polymer a pouch size cell that is being used in the auto industry such as GM with their Ultium battery packs. There are pros and cons to all formats depending on the company you talk too. Here we are not going to get into this area except to say that their is various weight with each type of format and of course the denser you can get the battery cell with long-life and safety while in a smaller format, the more flexible the design of an auto has. The solid-state break through comes via a partnership of LG Energy Solutions and University of California Dan Diego. Working together the engineers have created a new type of battery that combines two promising sub-fields into a single battery. The two areas are as follows, the solid state battery, being no liquid inside the battery and the anode which in traditional Lithium batteries is made of metallic lithium. Here the anode is made of 100% silicon. As such you have a solid state silicon battery cell. The research has shown that this design allows for a very safe, long-lasting and energy-dense cell. The applications of which can be applied to storage for the electrical grid to electric vehicles and so much more where battery technology is used. From left to right in the picture above: 1) The all solid-state battery consists of a cathode composite layer, a sulfide solid electrolyte layer, and a carbon free micro-silicon anode. 2) Before charging, discrete micro-scale Silicon particles make up the energy dense anode. During battery charging, positive Lithium ions move from the cathode to the anode, and a stable 2D interface is formed. 3) As more Lithium ions move into the anode, it reacts with micro-Silicon to form interconnected Lithium-Silicon alloy (Li-Si) particles. The reaction continues to propagate throughout the electrode. 4) The reaction causes expansion and densification of the micro-Silicon particles, forming a dense Li-Si alloy electrode. The mechanical properties of the Li-Si alloy and the solid electrolyte have a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and contact along the 2D interfacial plane. This battery technology was published in the Journal Science nanoengineers from University of California San Diego in collaboration with researchers at LG Energy Solutions made this breakthrough possible. To quote the published report: The development of silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries has been largely impeded by poor interfacial stability against liquid electrolytes. Here, we enabled the stable operation of a 99.9 weight % microsilicon anode by using the interface passivating properties of sulfide solid electrolytes. Bulk and surface characterization, and quantification of interfacial components, showed that such an approach eliminates continuous interfacial growth and irreversible lithium losses. Microsilicon full cells were assembled and found to achieve high areal current density, wide operating temperature range, and high areal loadings for the different cells. The promising performance can be attributed to both the desirable interfacial property between microsilicon and sulfide electrolytes and the distinctive chemomechanical behavior of the lithium-silicon alloy. Silicon anode in traditional lithium batteries while safer have till now received much less attention due to the lower capacity these batteries hold. Yet solid-state has become a game changer with considerable increases in performance across a wide range of temperatures and excellent cycle life in full cell use. What does one gain in going with this design? Currently a silicon anode in a solid-state battery is 10 times greater in energy density over a commercial lithium ion battery used in a BEV that is on the market. To quote the lead author on the paper, Darren H. S. Tan PhD in chemical engineering, "With this battery configuration, we are opening a new territory for solid-state batteries using alloy anodes such as silicon". Solid-state next generation batteries currently have had restrictions on charge rates and temperature during charging. The silicon anode overcomes these limitations, allows faster charging rates at room temperature while maintaining high energy density. The laboratory testing delivered 500 charge and discharge cycles with 80% capacity retention at room temperature, which represents exciting progress for both the silicon anode and solid state battery technologies. To understand why this is such an important breakthrough keep this in mind, silicon offers great storage capacity, 10 times greater than graphite. Lithium-ion batteries with silicon added to the anode mix increased energy density, but suffered from real-world performance issues; the number of times the battery can be charged and discharged while maintaining performance is not acceptable. This problem is caused by the interaction of the silicon anodes and the liquid electrolytes it is paired with. This get complicated by the large volume of expansion of silicon particles during the charge and discharge cycle resulting in severe capacity losses over time. Per the UC San Diego team, by eliminating the carbon and binders and going with an all-silicon anode using micro-silicon a much less processed and less expensive material over nano-silicon which has been used in the past they were able to reduce cost. They then addressed the root problem being the liquid electrolyte that causes instability. Here they used a sulfide-based electrolyte which showed this solid electrolyte to be extremely stable with the all-silicon anodes. This creative out-of-the-box thinking has allowed them to have this breakthrough and will continue to support their research as they move forward on taking this to commercial productivity. This dual approach to battery design has removed the challenges that come with organic liquid electrolyte as they went with a solid electrolyte. It also allowed them to get ride of unwanted side reactions by removing the carbon on the anode with solid electrolyte, thus avoiding continuous capacity loss that typically occurs with liquid-base electrolytes. This two-part move has allowed the researchers to reap the full benefits of low cost, dense or high energy and the properties of silicon being environmentally benign. To quote LG Energy President and Chief Procurement officer Myung-hwan Kim; “With the latest finding, LG Energy Solution is much closer to realizing all-solid-state battery techniques, which would greatly diversify our battery product lineup.” As the solid state battery race moves forward, LG will be bringing this to commercial market selling these batteries via their various partners such as a potential new battery design via GM's Ultium system News Room ｜ LG Energy Solution (lgensol.com) A New Solid-state Battery Surprises the Researchers Who Created It (ucsd.edu) Carbon-free high-loading silicon anodes enabled by sulfide solid electrolytes (science.org) New all-solid-state battery is safe, long-lasting, and energy-dense - Inceptive Mind New all-solid-state battery holds promise for grid storage and EVs (newatlas.com) A New Solid State Battery Surprises The Researchers who Created it, all-Silicon Anode - LG Energy Solution - Batteries News View full article

Maybe not in your life time is what your saying? I honestly think we will see low end EVs by 2030 for everyone if not sooner.