G. David Felt

So true, but then working in a heavy area of English as a second language, I tend to not bother with the whole grammar / writing style thing. For me it was the points of what makes a coupe a coupe or not a coupe. Agree TOTALLY with you that what is small to me, My Trailblazer SS is probably huge to you.

I can totally understand having the CLI, that is what I love about Windows 10 in Developer mode, I have a pure clean Ubuntu system, makes it so easy to access our Isilon OneFS storage systems that we build and do anything I want from a development side and yet still have the windows side that works seamlessly with corp email, internal websites, etc. Best of both worlds for enterprise storage work. Before Dell bought us, Isilon allowed people to use whatever platform they were comfortable working on so we always had a huge mix of Windows, Apple and Linux laptops / desktop. Dell refuses to support rightly so any company other than Dell, so you have your choice of a corporate laptop / desktop with Windows or your flavor of Linux on it. Just a few Apple holdouts left and as those system die, they will be forced into the windows / Linux world and I suspect most will end up back on windows as the apple users are no Linux / Unix capable people. Mostly marketing types.

My friend I am the opposite, I avoid at all cost anything apple. The weirdest interface to me that makes no sense to me. Good thing we have windows and Linux. I always have options.

Please define slightly comfortable? To me in washington is upper 60's, lower 70's with 50% humidity no more. Just trying to figure out the meaning of this.

As a Premium subscriber I saw the same few quirks you see now. Yet over the weekend, I did a clean install of 64bit Win 10 and with this clean install all the formatting issues went away. My work laptop still shows the weird formatting quirks and I think that is because it was a win 7 upgraded to win 10. My gut tells me the software was probably never tested for QA on upgraded systems or older systems with lots of updates. Sucks on the weird quirks but then Drew rocks at how he has kept this site going and at a low cost to the members.

As far as I know and could find, the Envoy never got the SS motor. It would have been cool if Cady and Pontiac had gotten an version of the TB SS V8 6.0.

RIP Phoenix Postal worker who dies in truck delivering mail as morning temp hits 120 degrees. Thought those trucks would have AC. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-postal-worker-found-dead-in-california-after-delivering-mail-in-extreme-heat-family-says/ar-AAzQEMI?OCID=ansmsnnews11

The history on them is that they had the inline 6 and the 5.3L V8, but they built 117 special versions for 2008 before closing the assembly line and I think this is one of those special ones that got the TB SS 6.0 V8 as the TB SS finished out in 2009.

Very true, while coal burns hot and most goes up the flew with the heat / smoke, you do get a residue of black build up over time. My family in the 70's used to get coal from a little town here called Black Diamond that had the only working coal mine. Now shut down, but by the 80's Natural gas was a superior way to heat.

Cool, wish them all the best and hope they keep the quality up too as they grow.

Found this story on Jalopnik and thought we should have a lively debate on if this is accurate or not. https://jalopnik.com/screw-you-carmakers-you-dont-get-to-ruin-the-word-co-1827480939 To quote the story: The word “coupe” comes from the French word “couper,” which means “to cut” because a coupe was a sort of “cut down” version of a car: smaller, leaner, lighter, sportier, shorter, and, significantly, less doors. As in two where the non-coupe version of the car would have had four. Do you go with the change in definition of what a Coupe is or do you still agree that this is a true coupe?

Ug, More proof that Pruitt should be charged as a criminal for his clear disregard of health for American people. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1117628_pruitt-leaves-poison-pill-at-epa-for-glider-truck-emissions-rule This whole glider emissions rule stinks as for $225,000 a truck company bought the ability to spew toxic diesel substance into our air, water and land for pure profit of a select few. Pathetic. I hope somehow Pruitt is brought to justice for his crimes. When you have all modern Diesel truck makers saying NO to the gilder rule as well as so many other groups both inside the gov and outside the gov, how does a criminal leader push through allowing this polluting of trucks to happen.

Saw this at the local Red Robin, Thought someone was playing a joke on me and put a Buick front end on a Trailblazer. But upon closer look, it is a real Buick CXL that I had totally forgotten about. Sham that the owner is not taking care of it. Yet then it is from Ohio and a senior that clearly is having challenges driving. Wonder if due to the 6.0L tags if they added it or if this is a 2008 one of the 117 special editions they did before they stopped production. I cannot seem to find much info on the 117 2008 builds in regards to the engine choice. Weird.

@Zane Wylder Nice Talent, wish I could draw. You have a great skill, reminds me of my son who does this for a living. Outstanding Talent Zane!

@ccap41 Check out this if your interested in just how much CNG powered Locomotives, Mining, Shipping, and more are being done with CNG / LNG. https://www.hhpsummit.com/market-segments/rail The Natural Gas for High Horsepower summit is really cool. One solution that has been shown off recently is using small MicroTurbines as generators in Hybrids. Very efficient, clean and less weight and room required than using traditional ICE generators.

Current Detroit Autoshow:

Today's modern trains that use CNG generators with electric motors are the most efficient economical form of transportation. My comment is on the outdated use of Coal.

I like what i am reading and would have to say that this could really reboot the show into one of the premier shows to attend along with all the other stuff in the area to go and do.

Cough Cough Cough, the smoke clogging killing the kids old America!

One has to wonder if they could do this in Japan, how many other auto's are improperly tested or rated elsewhere especially in 3rd world markets where bribes / pay offs are common to take advantage of the market.

@ocnblu This is for you!

Back in October 2017 Toshiba announced their new SCiB lithium-ion battery packs with 200 miles recharging in 6 mins and 400 miles in 12 minutes coming to an EV in 2019. Toshiba is on track to have their new auto battery packs in EVs starting in 2019. Toshiba has now moved forward with their 2nd generation SCiB battery pack using a new titanium niobium oxide composite anode TiNb2O7 (TNO) which allows Toshiba to go from a 177 Wh in their current producing SCiB batteries to a 350 Wh battery pack still charging to 90% in less than 6 minutes. The benefits of the TNO anode is that you get high-density, long life over a long cycle-life, and high volumetric capacity. What this means is Cobalt is gone, child labor is gone and we now have moved from a 200 mile battery back charging in 6 minutes to a 353 mile battery pack in 6 minutes in the same form factor as the current generation 1 SCiB battery. If you then use their double battery pack that is currently a 400 mile battery pack in 12 min of charging you have a 706 mile battery pack in the same small footprint charging up to 90% full in 12 min. The days of Asian countries shipping in oil to produce gas is coming to a close it would seem. The next 10-20 years are going to be evolutionary in the auto industry. Toshiba Press Release Green Car Congress story ScienceDirect Info

Gotta love EV owners plates:

This is great to see it racing around the track but it is funny that they try to hide what this EV is by putting fake exhaust tips on the back.

BYD has opened up the world's largest battery plant in the world with production at 24GWh of battery production and will ramp as demand needs to 60 GWh of production by 2020. The plant is the size of 140 football fields and is open in China's lithium rich province of Qinghai. This is BYD's 3rd battery plant and biggest to date but also could be the map for an equal size plant that they are looking to open in Europe to supply Europe's battery needs. BYD is backed by legendary investor Warren Buffett. Currently starting capacity of battery packs for the auto industry is that by 2019 they will be able to produce enough to support 1.2 million EVs. To quote the CEO of BYD: “Electrification is a done deal as several countries have announced a deadline for the sale of internal combustion engine cars to end. Electric vehicles are on the cusp of another boom,” said BYD President and Chairman Wang Chuanfu. Bloomberg reports BYD has immediately surpassed Tesla, yet Musk has responded that their Gigafactory will be producing 35GWh of battery packs by the end of 2018 and the second Gigafactory is being built in China for the local market. BYD has stated that this factory will reach 48 GWh of production by the end of 2019 with 60GWh of production in 2020 as markets demand. Another Chinese company CATL is building a 24 GWh battery factory to be completed in 2020 which will allow CATL to have 88 GWh of battery production by the end of 2020. The battle is on as the Chinese government has chosen to consolidate their bloated auto industry with a few established world leading auto component and automakers urging incentives to automakers to move forward sooner rather than later with higher density / longer range battery packs aiming to flip the auto industry in a 10yr time span to 100% electric from ICE. BYD News Release Bloomberg Story