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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Perfect for you and your mate to go driving down the coast with the top down!
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    True, but at least it would allow you to use other chargers. I figure give it time and like Tesla is doing in China, they will eventually either drop their proprietary plug or add the CCS one to the auto's.
  3. G. David Felt
    Yup Tesla sells that adapter. Makes a wonderful gift for the Tesla owner on the go! https://shop.tesla.com/us/en/product/vehicle-accessories/sae-j1772-charging-adapter.html
  4. G. David Felt
    Yup, since Tesla says their $35,000 Model 3 has to be sold for $75,000 in China due to Tariffs, I figure I would play on that with the Buick coming here and we just double the price.
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    Some cool news of the Day! Hennesy is building a 1000HP Gladiator with the Hellcat Engine - https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1123320_jeep-gladiator-based-2020-hennessey-maximus-1000-revealed-with-1000-horsepower Long Shot EV maker Byton has finished crash testing and cold weather testing in inner Mongolia and is now doing heat testing and is on target to begin mass production later this year with sales to start in China, mid 2020 in America and late 2020 in Europe. Funny the jabs they take at Tesla in the story below. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123276_byton-readies-for-china-production-of-45k-us-bound-electric-suv Interesting read on VW's battery battle it is having with it's suppliers. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123294_50-billion-vw-battery-plan-could-need-revamp-after-samsung-cuts-back Final interesting story is that Chevron and EVGo has signed an agreement and opened their first Gas / Charge station for public use of high speed charging with both Nissan funky connector and the industry standard CCS plug. As EVGo builds out charging at California Chevron stations, Chevron will monitor and could possibly as early as late 2020 make it a national contract to add Charging to the thousands of gas stations Chevron operates in North America. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123206_want-to-charge-up-evgo-builds-chargers-at-chevron-gas-stations
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    Nissan does not own the batteries. Owners can go to 3rd party garages to have the batteries replaced, but it does take a special lift to support, unbolt and drop the battery pack down. Nissan is building much like Tesla and GM Wall power packs with the old batteries since they can still handle a charge, usually 70 to 80% of the cells work. As such you get a storage device for solar or wind power generation. Nissan is looking at both commercial and residential aspects of reusing the old batteries rather than just recycling them. GM does this with the VOLT batteries as does Tesla.
  7. G. David Felt
    Interesting read, but the Data collected so far is showing that the batteries in a Nissan Leaf should last 22 years and then 2nd life in energy storage past that. Nissan is exploring other options of profit generation once the batteries need to come out of the auto's. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/nissan-leaf-batteries-should-last-22-years/
  8. G. David Felt
    Seems Nissan has officially blessed this merger! https://www.autonews.com/automakers-suppliers/nissan-sees-no-major-downside-fca-renault-merger
  9. G. David Felt
    $30,000 CUV with Tariffs special price of $59,999 Be interesting to see how this plays out versus building it locally here in an under utilized factory. ?
  10. G. David Felt
    Here is a Cutlass for you for sale: https://cars.trovit.com/listing/1972-oldsmobile-cutlass.U1v1z1h1MI1v1D Or you can go the 442 route: https://cars.trovit.com/listing/1968-oldsmobile-442.1NE1iVvg1HJ
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    Good Read: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/more-than-30-years-of-us-trade-with-china-in-one-chart/ This also was a very interesting read: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/will-dysfunctional-politics-finally-end-the-american-century/
  13. G. David Felt
    That is a 2012 data very old/out of date. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6 Here is the current info from the actual GOV:
  14. G. David Felt
    Seems Tesla original founder is back at it to create solid state AI /ML battery packs for the EV industry. Tesla founder launches new electric car battery startup and there’s a twist http://flip.it/bWjvCN
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    Based on all the interviews with Marry Barra and her focus on EV's is to keep things static with tweak updates till the EV products hit the showroom. Very clear that their focus is on AWD / RWD / FWD EVs I think. https://thenewswheel.com/gm-predicts-ev-profitability-will-happen-within-the-next-decade/
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    Yes there has been a trade war going on for a long time, but the tariffs on electric cars jumped up big time. Before Trumps Trade war, the Tariff was 10% on importing an Electric car, after trump announced tariffs of 25% on Chinese goods, China then went 100% tariff on select items of which Tesla was one of them causing the auto to double in cost according to Bloomberg story on past and current trade war.
  17. G. David Felt
    Got it, is there no Tundra equal that Toyota sells globally? Did not realize the Hilux was smaller than the Tacoma.
  18. G. David Felt
    Cheaper to build FWD or more profitable as they save money due to being focused on EVs is my guess!
  19. G. David Felt
    It is in YOUR FAILURE to accept change of Habits. You so want static life that you FAIL to see progress. The early 1900's was not Electrics time due to the lack of proper battery storage. We have that now and constant improvements, so changing the habit to plug in at night so you start each day off full on a 300 mile battery pack is just a change of habit without the petro smell, toxic absorption into the hands, under ground storage, distribution, etc. While I also see their approach to shield themselves from the cost and always potential immediate loss of money as a public trading company where you have to bow to the shareholders, this is smart business sense. As the XFC charging infrastructure grows and as we move away from the Li Ion batteries to Solid State such as Toshiba is building and is going into Nissan and Mitsubishi auto's, we will see this change over much faster than you or others will expect. Most woman and a large amount of men would love to not have to go to the gas station or deal with the maintenance of the current Auto's that go on sale. This is why the 100,000 mile tune up and service became the new norm. Electrics with their minimal service will change this again for humans that do not want to be bothered with service of the ICE variety.
  20. G. David Felt
    Room to improve? YES How much Toyota is willing to change from their ultra conservative approach to building cars? Not so sure! Always easy to put a new wrapper on the dull candy.
  21. G. David Felt
    You are right on all the points of Tesla Failure except the last one which is what the discussion is about. The fact that Trumps Trade war is the reason a $35,000 car imported into China has a starting price tag of $75,000 The Trump Trade War is hurting business ability to sell into China for American Businesses.
  22. G. David Felt
    So true, but would Leaking Electrons be more or less dangerous than leaking petro? ? We know leaking electrons around leaking petro is very bad. BIG BADDA BOOM!
  23. G. David Felt
    I thought unlike the American brands that dominate the US, Toyota Trucks seem to dominate the Global market, so could this not just be a global platform that will replace trucks everywhere and finally the US will get the same Truck that has dominated the rest of the planet meaning Ford, GM & RAM you have been put on Notice? ?
  24. G. David Felt
    Interesting read on why Dyson will beat Tesla in the electric car war! Can The Dyson Vacuum Cleaner Guy Build A Better Electric Car Than Tesla's Elon Musk? http://flip.it/mdE6P5
  25. G. David Felt
    Thank you, Fixed that! I agree, need a class in leaking ignitions!
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