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Way better looking than most of the current pathetic style at Chevrolet.

So then you admit that 50 years ago, what Mercedes built did not pay the bills and only cost them money! Got it!

Ya know you want a Camaro EUV as much as a Ford Mach-e.

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Kia update news: Back in January of this year, Kia announced that their first dedicated EV would be a Crossover like sedan. Now Kia is updating the information on their new EV Auto. It will now be a poster child of affordable but high speed charging as Kia like GM are both going to use the new industry standard 800V charging system which is what the Porsche Taycan uses. This means that the Kia will recharge it's 300 mile battery pack in 20 min or less depending on DC supply. Current 800V fast chargers can hit 250 kW charging for the 20 min recharge rate, as the newer spec DC fast chargers are installed these are 350 kW rated and that will cut in half to about 10 min charging for 300 miles. https://electrek.co/2020/05/13/kia-to-offer-crazy-fast-ev-charging-with-800v-battery-system/#more-133701

Seems the Camaro EV is a real thing if comments and pic are to be interpeted correctly from GM. They are fast tracking not only the Hummer EV and Cadillac EV but a 3rd not shown EV that did not make it to the EV day at GM. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128140_gm-has-fast-tracked-its-electric-vehicle-program-in-pandemic-slowdown

Wow, for the first time in 40 years people are seeing the Mountains, Himalayas and for many the first time they have ever seen mountains from the cities. Shows the Pandemic is cleaning up the planet air. https://electrek.co/2020/05/13/india-co2-emissions-drop-for-the-first-time-in-40-years/#more-133672 https://electrek.co/2020/04/11/climate-crisis-weekly-are-our-oceans-doomed-or-can-they-heal/ Some of the before and after pics are amazing. For those who are into electronics, this is an outstanding read on how Tesla went from basic Industrial standard semiconductors modules to semi-custom built units. The industry was used to building for long life in commercial applications of 600V, 1,200V and 1,700 volt applications with 3-phase motors for long life and not necessarily fast switching. This gets into the meat and potatoes of why Tesla has changed from their heavy duty design for the Tesla S and X to a semi-custom power module design for the Model 3 and Y inverter. The whole industry is changing and changing fast. Cool stuff on semi conductors if you interested. https://chargedevs.com/features/heres-why-tesla-transitioned-to-a-semi-custom-power-module-design-in-model-3-inverter/ Final good read is on the GM change to fast track the Hummer and Cadillac EV production. Love the updated comment from GM about the possible Electric Camaro. So while reveals have been delayed, production has not and GM says they are still on track to sell 1 million EVs per year Globally by 2025. The Camaro was NOT shown at EV day where no camera's or smartphones were allowed. They have fast-tracked a 3rd EV for production, many think this is a Camaro EV to compete against the Mach-e from Ford. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128140_gm-has-fast-tracked-its-electric-vehicle-program-in-pandemic-slowdown

Thought this was an outstanding write up on the tear down and how mostly Asian auto companies are buying the reports to compete. https://electrek.co/2020/05/08/teardown-guru-sandy-munro-sells-tesla-reports-to-mostly-asian-automakers/ https://sandymunro.net/ Munro YouTube channel on Tear downs. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj--iMtToRO_cGG_fpmP5XQ Crazy all his connections and links for info on his Tear Down and input about Tesla. PATREON GROUP: https://www.patreon.com/MunroLive MUNRO MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/munro-live-store SUPPORT MUNRO: https://munrolive.com/access-%2F-shop... MUNRO LIVE VIDEO CONTENT: https://munrolive.com/ MUNRO MAIN WEBSITE: https://leandesign.com/

Based on Nissan recent announcements about relying on Renault and the FCA chain for future EV auto's, one has to think that they are backing away from their research on tech like this. Sad.

I doubt MB built the first super car, the 1954 300SL was a cool car but not the first super car. Best car in the world in the 1960's being the 600 is again YOUR THOUGHT. Plenty of other superior auto's were built before then. Where are the links to back up your Fake Claims? Where are the professional statements that say there are the best, the first supercar, etc.? What do you call all those that built and raced auto's that were faster and better than the 300SL before it was created? Just lemmings as it is not a MB auto? Today, you DO NOT need 50 years to build a luxury brand when with computers, one can buy the competition models, tear them apart just like a couple companies do with Tesla and build and sell reports to the competition to build superior auto's. Genesis G80 will be superior to much of MB product line and people with an open mind and not hung up on a badge will sit in them and realize the value and quality and buy them over the Leasing monsters of Germany. You want respect @smk4565 then post your statements with clear facts and links to back them up by reputable sources of researched news. Stop being a lemming with Koolaid fake statements.

China has already stated 2040 is the final year for any new ICE auto's / trucks / buses to be sold. Many cities have already put in place earlier dates to stop the sale due to hazardous air quality. Same as Britain and France. Chin'a Chongqing Changan auto company has already stated with stock holder support for the stop of all sales of ICE auto's in 2025 as they will convert 100% to EV production by then. 2024 will be the end of manufacturing of ICE auto's with sales to end by Dec 31st 2025. https://www.wardsauto.com/chinas-chongqing-changan-halt-sales-ice-powered-cars-2025

Naw 50 years or less. People are already creatures of habit in regards to plugging in at home for recharge overnight. Prices are dropping on batteries and EV components in big ways. Europe and China have already committed to this change, the US due to failed leadership in many different departments will end up following along as auto companies are not going to continue ICE auto's for 150 years. 20 to 30 years at best if not less. EV assembly is much less complex than ICE, higher profits will come with less manufacturing costs. Just makes business sense. West coast is already well staged for EV support in charging, Chicago just implemented a required charging parking spots on all buildings https://chargedevs.com/newswire/chicago-to-require-evse-ready-parking-spaces/ GM is fast tracking building EVs and opening up the plant due to less labor required, greater spacing between workers, safer working for the workers. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128140_gm-has-fast-tracked-its-electric-vehicle-program-in-pandemic-slowdown Even reviews of PHEV show why moving away from ICE only auto's is a good thing. https://chargedevs.com/features/2020-lincoln-aviator-grand-touring-review-of-the-brands-first-plug-in-hybrid/ Electric Power Trains are far more efficient and getting better every day than ICE will ever be. Reduction in local pollution to air, ground, and home is better for humans. Yes I could go on, but I honestly think just like about 50 years to replace horses with ICE auto's, I see ICE being replaced by EVs in 50 but honestly less years. Future auto customization will be people taking their favorite old auto, removing the old ICE power train and converting to Electric.

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Ford Motor Company had a press release yesterday on the new Mach e and how it will be the first among Fords auto products where the auto will receive over the air updates and the system will get it's first update 6 months after deliveries begin as they keep the entire system fresh and continually improving much like Tesla has done for years. This should help to retain higher value as an auto no longer will be stagnant compared to newer auto year makes. Ford does say that you can schedule when your auto will take the update so that larger updates that might take a few minutes can do it while you sleep. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128123_2021-ford-mustang-mach-e-electric-suv-cues-a-shift-to-over-the-air-updates GM also has their new mega Gigabit system for the whole auto that will be receiving over the air updates. The future is finally coming here now. ? One does wonder how much band width data will be flying over our heads as the auto industry moves to this model. with hundreds of millions of auto's on the road and as they get replaced with modern ones, that bandwidth push of data will get bigger and bigger.

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So Tesla Sparse blah interior is the new ubber luxury standard of the world? ? My 2006 Platinum Escalade ESV is more luxurious than this!

Here is my thought on this too:

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GM has done this as I get emails all the time about my parents Cadillac's. Very weird, no matter what I do to correct this or them, it always gets merged back into my email address. Auto companies suck at keeping family members with same name separate for communications.

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I will say that it was weird when I started using it as I had to retrain my self from QWERTY. I could never see any benefit to Dvorak. But for what I do, the Maltron makes allot of sense.

California CARB has released their final draft of the Advanced Clean Trucks Standard and entered their 30 Day public comment period. Not going political on this or taking a side one way or another, but lets look at the facts of what California is proposing for Diesel from Semi trucks Class 8 all the way down to your Ford, GM and Ram pickup trucks. This policy would apply to manufactures that sell 500 or more trucks of any class a year in the state. So by 2035 here it is by the numbers. Class 8 or what is known as Semi Trucks 40% sold have to be Electric Medium Duty trucks, this is HD delivery trucks and vans 75% have to be electric Consumer trucks such as the F250 or Silverado 55% have to be electric CARB says that this new standard that could go into effect by end of 2020 would require that 4,000 of the estimated 75,000 new consumer truck sales would have to be electric by 2024 with 20% of the trucks on the road in California being electric by 2035. There are currently 27 companies in California that sell 70 models of electric trucks / buses. The Union of Concerned Scientists hailed this standard but said it does not go far enough and the reason for this is as follows: 28 million trucks / buses on the roads of America represent 10% of all vehicles on the road in America, but these trucks / buses contribute 28% of carbon emissions, 45% of Nitrous oxides and 57% of particulate matter pollution. Diesel being the most toxic fuel used in the transportation business. Interesting note about this is that China current emission standards and plan to go to an all electric auto economy by 2040 has fashioned it after CARB. China is watching CARB on this as the commercial truck / bus industry is the last sector to be updated with new regulations to push into the EV era. Now by the numbers and the fact that many companies are outside of the state of California and deliver or pickup in the state using trucks registered elsewhere will not force an all out transition from one fueled by Diesel to one powered by battery pack or Hydrogen. California Trucking Association is disheartened by this standard being pushed out at a time of a pandemic with businesses in survival mode and what many believe will end up being a generational recession that could last a decade to recover from. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/rulemaking/2019/advancedcleantrucks https://chargedevs.com/newswire/california-proposes-to-enact-zero-emission-mandate-for-commercial-vehicles/

Guess you have one of the standard qwerty keyboards compared to the various other types that most computer engineers use. Such as a Dvorak or Maltron Keyboard. Maltron, very common in my line of works has the OR next to each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Dvorak Just in case you want to see all the various layout types. Maltron Keyboard Dvorak Keybaord Industry most common keyboard, QWERTY

Thanks for pointing out my sausage fingered typing. LOL Fixed it. Yup a dead long gone oil company. FYI - Rockefeller family trust divested of all oil stocks in 2016 as they are focused on cleaner environmentally better ways of living life. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-family-is-exiting-the-oil-business/