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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    @balthazar Thought you would find this interesting, EV conversion on a 1957 Ford Fairlane and how the company the paid for this made sure to keep the core of the auto intact. Conversion gave this classic 228 HP and 391 LB-FT of torque. A considerable improvement over the factory OEM Power train. http://www.thedrive.com/news/19540/if-electric-cars-are-the-future-what-about-our-classics At the end is an interesting EV conversion on a Jaguar E-Type
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    Very Cool info on this, I was wondering about it when I posted the pic above in the Buick Enspire thread. Thanks Bill,
  3. G. David Felt
    OUCH, OUCH, OUCH With that said, I can see the VW family of auto products making a fast change to EV to build a new auto image. Gas, Hybrid and EV is VW product family portfolio clearly. Diesel is dead with this company.
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    You are so right, The Drive credits him with moving Cadillac to NY. http://www.thedrive.com/news/20247/cadillac-ceo-johan-de-nysschen-steps-down They also blame him for being late to the game with having enough CUVs and cracking heads with Cadillac Dealerships who have been asking for more product of what the public wants to buy when MB has 7 CUVs and BMW has 6 and here you have Cadillac only now getting to 2. Sounds like the Dealership network had a hand in him being pushed out.
  5. G. David Felt
    XFC Reality - Xtreme Fast Charging Tesla is the current GOLD standard of EV auto charging. Their roughly 400 North American Charging stations handle 120-140 kWh charging that allows Tesla to brag about their 90 kWh battery packs recharging in 1hr compared to 10 hrs for a Nissan Leaf, 8hr for a Chevrolet Bolt if you home charge. Tesla's customers have had this perk and until now been able to brag about it. Tesla made sure they had this by using a proprietary plug that kept other EV auto's from using the Tesla Network. In comes IONITY, the European group consisting of Porsche, VW, BMW, Daimler and Ford. This is a 400 plus Xtreme Fast Charger network being built now in Europe. A 350 kWh network that covers from 200 to 920 volts at 350 Amps of charging that will allow EV Auto's to refill in 15 min or less. This allows EV auto's that need from 50 kWh to 350 kWh of capability to be handled by these new Liquid cooled Charging stations. The technological breakthrough is in the Charging cables that connect to your EV Auto. These are light, thin charge cables that remove the heat load by liquid cooling in high amperage use. These XFC system charge aproximately 20 miles of range per minute or 300 miles in 15 minutes. How Does This Benefit North America, Specifically the US? This is where the proprietary Nissans Charging (CHAdeMO) and Tesla interface are about to Lose the EV Charging race. The XFC interface uses the CCS (Combined Charging System) based on the J1772-2009 SAE standard. This has been adopted by pretty much every country in the world as the standard except China where they have this standard, Tesla and their own Chinese standard as the 3 plug types that have to be supported at this time. The US is expected to move forward with Nissan changing over in the near future. Porsche is installing 500 of their XFC chargers across the US at dealerships and various EVgo sites. There is also Electrify America, a subsidiary of VW and funded by the $2 Billion plus funding they have committed to for installing XFC charging across America in addition to all the EV charging infrastructure funding that was paid to each state in the settlements. From Level 2 to Level 4 (XFC) charging will get installed from inner city places to suburban and especially highway stops that can support long distance driving by EV auto's. The future is bright for the upcoming onslaught of EV auto's including the Electrify America's Chargers as shown below. The Drive Story SAE J1772 Org SAE J1772 Info
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    400,000 TDIs sitting on 37 lots. Cream will go back to VW dealers for resale, rest to be unloaded on the wholesale market. A company got the contract to drive each one every 30 days around a track, wash and keep them maintained till they are dealt with. Interesting full story here: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1116309_300k-bought-back-vw-diesels-are-decaying-in-37-lots-as-it-waits-for-what
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    Diminishing Returns and NOT the Global Standard to be in! Yes after the 90's the excitement and fun of watching the race went in the toilet. So true, could have been the end of the 90's in reality.
  8. G. David Felt
    Would agree with you!
  9. G. David Felt
    Would if I had any! Dell has us on lockdown for travel, so now everything is a Skype session with customers.
  10. G. David Felt
    It is? Where is their world best Full size and mid size Pickup Trucks? ? Right!
  11. G. David Felt
    I think @Drew Dowdell needs to attend the Chinese auto show and report to us about all the cool auto's!
  12. G. David Felt
    Looking at the Chinese Auto show picks from Bing, Amazing some of the Buicks they get to see that we never do. Anyone know what this Buick Concept was from China?
  13. G. David Felt
    Your welcome to the Manbot play toy! I will happily relieve you of the fembot! Yes very cool city, Futuristic and yet available to visit now as that is Dubai.
  14. G. David Felt
    Always amazes me how people cannot seem to park in the middle of the parking spot and end up on one side of the other right against other auto's. The one thing I did not like about all 2 door cars like this is how big the cars are for access to the back seat and the number of times people would open them and hit leaving a door ding in the auto next to it. Another reason for parking square in the middle of the spot for best available door opening room.
  15. G. David Felt
    They still are, I have new Michelin's on both my Trailblazer SS and Escalade ESV and they rock, handled snow better than any other tire.
  16. G. David Felt
    But in the past you have compared it to the slade based on cost.
  17. G. David Felt
    @Drew Dowdell Thank you for the clarification.
  18. G. David Felt
    Totally agree, TSA Pre and Global Entry are the only way to go for air travel. Found this cool story, did not know that Toyota was adding a Launch Gear to their CVTs. Seems a real gear is the only way to go from a dead stop but then CVT for top end. https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a19431445/toyota-cvt-with-1st-gear/
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    So playing with the configurator, I see no other seat options. The seats are all the same, you just choose the adjustment level with or without massage. Maybe I am missing something but there seems to only be one seat design in a 10 way / 24 way depending on trim and then the perfect seat with massage 30 way. @ccap41 & @Cubical-aka-Moltar I agree that more ability to get the perfect position is always wanted by everyone. For me it is the style of the seats the wife does not like. They only have that one seat design with the split leg section that she does not like. Happy wife happy life, so right now I have to wait for a better Slade especially since the Germans cannot seem to build a real full size luxury SUV. And the G-Wagon is NOT a Slad or Navi.
  20. G. David Felt
    Yes the % stake is not controlling but Toyota does seem to have some major muscle on what Subaru does with their product line. It would almost seem like the shares they do own are preferential stocks in the company.
  21. G. David Felt
    Too true that it is all relative, my wife loves our Escalade, showed her the new Navigator and she did not like the design of the seats as well as many other things. Might be a wife issue, but she does love the Escala. I am thinking that Lincoln might have gone too far with the split lower leg supports and the individual sections on the seat. Sometimes one could go too far with trying to have bleeding edge luxury it would seem.
  22. G. David Felt
    for both American and United. Two airlines I would not want anyone especially you Drew flying on. They suck as airlines go, is there not any other better options you have there? Sorry but bad experiences on both of them have soured me for life.
  23. G. David Felt
    Nice looking, but still not a Fan of the Predator Mouth Grill. They can call it a Spindle all they want, but clearly they watched the Predator movies!
  24. G. David Felt
    Who was it then?
  25. G. David Felt
    True, I am hoping that this new leader can and does actually get Cadillac moving forward with product and with what Cadillac is! Not try to imitate what others are.
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