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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Motor Authority reporting with Spy Shots that the 2019 Prius V will become a CUV https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1028603_2019-toyota-prius-v-spy-shots#image=100628976 Seems Spy shots in Europe show the next Prius to be a CUV, dropping the van look as it goes muscles with a CUV high seating position look. Very interesting, be more interesting to see how they keep the mpg.
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com West Coast Electric Highway Expands to 7 States for Fast Charging Arizona is the latest state to join the newest 7 member states that will expand the original West Coast Electric Highway system. Originally Washington, Oregon and California got together to build the West Coast Electric Highway at a cost of $257 million dollars to the taxpayers. This enabled anyone with an electric vehicle to drive from Vancouver BC to Baha California on I-5 in an electric vehicle. Since then, these states have expanded their EV chargers across state highways giving greater range to anyone driving an electric auto around. Since then more states have assessed the future and decided on joining this to cover a larger interstate electric highway system. At the beginning of this year Colorado, Nevada and Utah said they would build out over the next 24 months a 2,000 mile electric interstate charging system of fast chargers. This summer say Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming join effective October 4th 2017 and here the week of October 20th 2017 we see Arizona join to grow the electric highway to over 5,000 miles of interstate that will have fast charging available by the end of 2019. This on top of the thousands of miles of the original electric highway is growing exponentially the change that is coming to EV auto's. All of these states are looking at investing their VW settlement funds into the electric highway initiative. Colorado alone says their $68.7 million dollar payout by VW will enable them to cover the whole state with Level 3 fast chargers leaving room for the extreme fast chargers to be installed by others who are willing to pay for an even faster recharge of their battery packs. The fast charging stations will cost between $150,000 and $200,000 per station installed all over the state. At the high end, this would mean Colorado alone will install 343 fast charging stations across the state. Colorado Governor has also announced a $5,000 tax credit for new EV auto purchases on top of the Federal tax credit of up to $7,500. This means buyers can get a credit of $12,500 against the purchase of an EV auto. The political representatives for these states point to announcements from General Motors of 20 electric auto's by 2023, Ford with 13 electric auto's by 2020, Mercedes-Benz with announcing an electric or plug in hybrid for each model in it's family by 2022. Denver Post Green Car Report
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    This totally makes sense considering the instant torque and superior power a Hybrid Powertrain can deliver in a sports car.
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    Tesla cuts Tesla 3 parts delivery 40% starting in December 2017. According to a story that has broke on another site, it would appear that instead of taking delivery of enough parts per week to build 5,000 Tesla 3 cars per week in December, Tesla has cut that rate by 40% which indicates 3,000 per week by the end of Dec. This also has a ripple affect as it pushes out their delivery of reaching 10,000 Tesla 3 cars per week in the early part of 2018. They story goes on to say that Tesla will not start taking delivery of parts in 10,000 lot shipments till May or June at the earliest. This would indicate that If they are only building about 3,000 a week in the first half of 2018 ramping up to 10,000 by end of June for the rest of 2018, Tesla will deliver about 78,000 to 100,000 model 3 cars in the first 6 months of 2018 and then about 260,000 in the second half of 2018 hitting a possible 360,000 Tesla 3's for 2018 if no more issues happen and they resolve the battery building problems at the Giga Factory. Tesla 3 parts reduction story
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com DOE $15 Million Investment into US XFC Infrastructure The Department of Energy has announced funding opportunity number DE-FOA-0001808 for building XFC (Extreme Fast Charging) across the United States. The floor is $500,000 with a maximum single payout of $5,000,000 as the DOE works to achieve a reduction of 2.5 billion gallons per year of petroleum by 2020. The focus of this grant system is to encourage and fun development of the new XFC charging system and batteries that would allow mass adoption of EV auto's. The focus is to decrease charging times while maintaining currents of less than 400 kWh and assure battery state charge increases by 50%. Battery cells are to be capable of 500 cycles or more of charging with less than a 20% fade in energy capacity consisting of a 10 Min charge to full. Toshiba has accomplished this and this funding is to encourage others to enter the battery and charging race to supply infrastructure and batteries for a cleaner, quieter city and road. Currently most level 3 DC chargers in the US excluding Tesla only put out 50kWh of power, where in Europe they put out 100 kWh. Porsche installed their new 350 kWh chargers as they started to build their e-Mission car. Since then Europe has settled on a 360kWh XFC charging system that will fully charge a 400 mile range battery in about 15 min. Since investment costs are high, the DOE felt it needed to put out this $15 million dollar program to drive investments and research into better batteries and chargers. DOE by setting a Spec ceiling of 400 kWh is looking to help support the current standard of CCS which is used by all of Germany, most of Europe and the US. CHAdeMO is a spec using in Japan and the US only by Nissan. DOE Grant Site
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    Gotta Love Crazy Halloween 2017 in Tokyo! To get everyone into the Spirit, Tokyo Xmas 2016 Crazy Fun!
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    Japan EDC Ultra 2017 Totally funny what people wear and especially the ladies and not understanding the english on their shirts.
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    Seems Reuters Story is reporting the the core of the Tesla 3 bottleneck is battery production issues where they have not fully automated the building of the batteries and some implication that maybe some engine work too since both the Engines and batteries are assembled at the GigaFactory. Dawned on me that this is pretty much all of the greater Seattle Area as to why so many auto's here are AWD. You are always going up or down some place around here. Hills are murder on a snowy day.
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    That is a Sexy ride. I agree why not the 6.2L supercharged as a last Hurrah to ICE auto's. Course if they do this with the 5.3L for Chevy, maybe a 6.2L version for GMC. Full size Syclone would be cool!
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    27K Used - 2010 Challenger SRT8 with 16K miles. AutoTrader Link 27K New - 2017 Jeep Compass TrailHawk AutoTrader Link 34K Used - 2017 Jeep GC TrailHawk AutoTrader Link 34K New - 2017 Silverado Ralley 1 Crewcab edition AutoTrader Link
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    We'll this is a no brainer, how can one expect a person to take over control of an auto when they have not been paying attention the whole time to what is going on around them. Common sense or a lack of one at Waymo. Crazy Alphabet / Google Peeps.
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    Being this is a Kia thread, how about some history here. 1957 K360 Tri-cycle Kia Heritage through the years.
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    Very nice and lots of potential. Course in my modern way of thinking my friend, I would be looking at making this a sleeper EV. In Wheel hub motors behind those rims for AWD with a proper battery pack and then other than room for any other needed things like a heater or AC, make the front into a frunk. Then cruise around blowing away newer cars and trucks.
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    A Lemming Surf company who slaves under so called franchise sales of Fiat aka FCA auto company? Talking about the owner here of the dealership you work for.
  15. G. David Felt
    Maybe the New XPeng RWD EV CUV?
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    KIA = Kill It Again!
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    So that Means Pontiac was like 20 years ahead of time with the Aztek!
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    @oldshurst442 Truly EXCITEMENT!!!
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    Awesome price for a crate motor and the engine kit especially when you compare it to the GM performance crate motors. Would be nice if they did a complete powertrain setup like GM so you have a properly matched Transmission.
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    So you both do not think that countries bigger than us, Russia and China could benefit by having full size pickups available and before some Chinese company starts to build them?
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    @Drew Dowdell Awesome Thank you for clearing that up as the web site is not clear and the forums seems to be unclear also about the 6 spd. Even Jeeps descriptions tends to imply cvt. Great to know they totally dumped the cvt crap tranny's.
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    Update, found more info, seems they are almost identical but the 9 spd is a true gear transmission as the builder offers these pics. ZF (spd Transmission
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    Interesting as I discovered playing with the configurator. If you are FWD on the Compass you get their so called 6 speed CVT transmission. If you go 4x4, you get the choice of a manual or 9 speed transmission. Weird Part is their 9 speed appears to be the same picture as the 6 speed cvt. Their web site does not seem to really state that the 9 spd is a true gear transmission, but it could be with the new tech in packaging. Have to dig into this more as I always thought the 9 spd was a true gear transmission.
  24. G. David Felt
    Awesome Post @balthazar Very cool to know they had these 100 years ago. The rest of the world tech is finally catching up.
  25. G. David Felt
    Totally agree with this move, GM, Ford and RAM should have been doing this years ago.
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