G. David Felt

WOW, the first of the Chinese auto companies are now exporting EVs to Norway. First 100 are on board heading to the country that leads the world in EV adoption. Xpeng has their sites set on also selling their EVs in the America's region, but for now is focusing on delivering quality auto's to Europe as well as China. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/xpengs-g3-electric-suv-is-on-its-way-to-norway/

Tesla is installing a 40 MWh battery system in Santa Barbra to increase GRID Resilience for the area which will reduce brown outs and outages as there is only a single supply route. The focus of California is to build in clean energy as a backup of renewable energy. Pictures of the install is on the link at the bottom. To quote: It is going to reinforce a weak point in the region’s electricity transmission system known as the Goleta Load Pocket (GLP). Coastal View reports: Clean Coalition, who has been backing the project and pushing it through approval, says that the VESR project is going to be a first step in creating a microgrid to protect the region from such outages. They wrote: They decided to go with Tesla’s latest utility-scale battery technology: the Tesla Megapack. VESR will consist of 15 Tesla Megapacks and the first 5 batteries are currently being deployed at the site. https://electrek.co/2020/10/26/tesla-megapacks-deployed-increase-grid-resilience-santa-barbara-county/ Very interesting read as the web site iseecars reviewed the start of widely available hybrids and what the longest owned versions where. No surprise to see Toyota at the top with #1,2 &3 spots covered by Toyota Highlander Hybrid 38%, Avalon Hybrid 36.5% and Camry Hybrid 34.6%. Toyota's Lexus ES 300h sedan and Prius were in the top 10 of the longest owned auto's. Low cost of ownership with reduced maintenance costs seems to make these auto's push the 10 year plus ownership. This I can see increasing the number of older auto's on the road as people upgrade less often. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130070_why-do-owners-of-toyota-hybrids-keep-their-vehicles-so-long

Freeze Dried ice cream

Am a dog lover, my sister is checking out the type of dog she wants to get. Spent the weekend with this labradoodle.

Awesome, young or older person who bought it? Happy it is going to a new home. A money pit gone!

Seems this 20 year old comes from money that daddy supplies.

Seen that with so many GM, Fords, FCA, etc. Democracy and freedom is the ability of choice. Buying American does NOT insure you get a quality product as American products of the 70s to 2000s has proven. Nationalist Propaganda does not insure quality. Taking accountability to read the owners manual, follow scheduled maintenance gets ya closer but even then does not insure quality. On another note, many of us can respect this man's welding project that my sister sent me today since she knows I grew up making models.

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Moose

Explain please, this seems crazy as I just got a few cartons of ice cream at my local Fred Meyers. EV in the ICE Thread! Tesla of China is recalling 30,000 plus Tesla S and X from 2013 to 2018 imported from California due to suspension issues. OUCH https://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-recall-30000-cars-china-over-suspension-defects-3068441

That just has all kinds of Stupid written all over it as there is no reason to stay that dated other than just plain laziness IMHO. Crazy how govs will waste money on archaic stuff.

Multi-Cultural people

Seattle School district a few years ago paid 3 men millions of dollars to come out of retirement to help get their data off a custom Cobol based scheduling system and onto a modern school scheduling system. Was crazy as they also just last year decommissioned their attendance system which was based on Digitals VMS system which I admit to having worked on. NERDS Rule!!!

Avoid Opera and Epic, seems to have way too much advertisements to help pay for their development. Safari is as far as I know a Mac only browser now. I agree with Robert, I use on both home and work systems the latest MSFT Edge browser, works way better than Firefox and chrome even though it is a chrome based browser.

Congrats Drew, Looking forward to pictures of your new baby for you two.

My Edge browser is saying we are secure.

In regard to me thinking positive that they will start in the $50K range, Gotta be positive on all new tech. Chevrolet version will probably be there since clearly Hummer is the Cadillac version of the trucks. Clarify? Ya mean how we can now do a 350V fast charge something that did not exist 100 years ago. Faster charging will come as battery tech continues to make jumps. I can also see just like ICE with a Jeep Wrangler having a couple of 5 gallon tanks full of petro. I can see replaceable battery packs eventually that are solid state you would have fully charged when you go off road to swap out to keep on wheeling, use, etc.

Electrified yes, but the battery tech with charging is only recent, not 100 years old. Yes we could go even older with supposed batteries found in Egypt. Yes Batteries have been around a long time too, human intelligence took time to grow to the point where we are now making huge gains in tech that will change our world for the better I believe. Yes your right, I was clearly looking at the Hummer EV3X that is 800 HP, 3 motors, etc.

Cannot live in the past prices though, everything has gotten more expensive as incomes have gone up. As such, prices will come down but after years of R&D on technology for this Hummer EV. They are doing a natural Business case of building the luxury rich persons version first and then we will see lower priced versions. I expect the Chevrolet Full Size EV truck that is also coming to be much cheaper and RWD as well as AWD to be in the price range most people expect.

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Detailed Media Releases on the Hummer EV https://media.gmc.com/media/us/en/gmc/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/oct/1021-hummer-edition-1-experience.html https://media.gmc.com/media/us/en/gmc/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/oct/1021-hummer-edition-1-off-road.html https://media.gmc.com/media/us/en/gmc/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/oct/1021-hummer-edition-1-performance.html https://media.gmc.com/media/us/en/gmc/hummer-ev.html

I think the Mini, Fiat and Smart failed as it did not give what people were really wanting. A micro sized Pickup hauls two people and a 6 ft bed would give them what they want. People want trucks and suvs in all sizes right now. @balthazar @riviera74 @A Horse With No Name @Robert Hall @ykX Guess everyone underestimated GM hitting a home run as in the first 10 minutes, the first year of Hummer EV pickup for 2021, the 2022 model year has sold out. You can get a reservation for 2023 model year. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-gmc-hummer-ev-truck-edition1-sold-out/ https://insideevs.com/news/450119/gmc-hummer-ev-edition-1-sold-out/ https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/gmc-hummer-ev-sold-out https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gmc-hummer-ev-sold-out-reservations-edition-1-production/

RIP to a nice little Hummer! As expected the Marauder does take some damage but survived the same explosion since it is military grade for IEDs. I am expecting the BOLT to drop in price for generation 2 as they bring out the Bolt Extended length to replace the current price point on the same platform.

I can also see them building a Micro Pickup EV for inner city use. I know way too many people that love living in the inner city, have little yards / gardens and want a mini or micro pickup for their home depot runs, etc. I can see a valid market for such a truck.

Mine is a White and Blue background that it changed too. Nice change.