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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Agree that I would not waste money on the tech either, but it is understandable as GM and Honda have teamed up to spend 85 million on the tech in support of the EPA and US Military that is funding the research. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gm-honda-hydrogen-fuel-cell-manufacturing-push/ I would say that the bulk of GM's announcement is really focused on EV and they will keep a few hundred peeps working by spending the tax dollars from the two gov agencies to show what can be done. This DOES NOT mean it is economically feasible.
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    Remember, GM had many drag racing groups using the Quad 4 in a dual Turbo setup getting 1200hp. But I agree, I think the 3 was to be a 2 which makes way more sense. Not true, the Pentastar has become very reliable and in the V6 with 8 spd tranny config, seems to be doing very well across all models that the powertrain is installed in.
  3. G. David Felt
    Nothing like 18 cylinder power baby!
  4. G. David Felt
    Cool tech, yet with that said, Hydrogen is an Energy looser as it takes more energy to produce hydrogen fuel than other solutions. I can see a CNG generator to produce kWh of juice for a pure EV platform. To me that would be more realistic I think. Be interesting to see what they want to really use this for besides the stated uses above. I will say that the Medical Unit and the Container hauler in a shipping yard are very cool autonomous uses of this tech.
  5. G. David Felt
    Page from the Germans, BMW to be exact with greatly underrating their motors.
  6. G. David Felt
    This auto has been a very cool ride for a long time. This car also has auto open and close doors so the rear passengers do not have to touch a thing other than enter and sit down, buckle up. Very cool luxury auto that I think Toyota should have in their Lexus Stable for the US market. I would take this over the German S class. A very Stately looking ride!
  7. G. David Felt
    I have stated it before and will state it again, we are living in interesting times. The EV Auto's are at the stage of ICE auto's at the start of the 1900's. As such the auto show circuit will be very interesting to see and watch over the next 3-5 years.
  8. G. David Felt
    Interesting the chart they filed
  9. G. David Felt
    Agreed the combo has been very nice in my son's GC. It seems to be pretty solid engine/transmission combo.
  10. G. David Felt
    Yea, I saw they were online, I figure like CompUSA they became an online only company as I know their parent company Tandy died a while back.
  11. G. David Felt
    Yup, I figure looking at the doc it is the motor from the Alfa and the v6 is the Pentastar, my take on looking at the details what is available.
  12. G. David Felt
    I thought the Rat Shack was a dead company? They are gone from Washington state, had a huge going out of business sale a year ago and Rat Shack exists no more. Did not find them in Oregon or California either. Do they still exist?
  13. G. David Felt
    Talk about an overworked expected to have a short life 4 banger. V6 would be the better motor for long ownership. Course with the amount of lease deals FCA is doing on Jeep, I bet more and more will go with the T4 cause after 36K miles who cares who has to deal with an overworked motor. I hope they look at doing a Hybrid. Diesel or gas motor with electric assist would be kick ass. Land Rover is doing it, no reason for the US brands not too.
  14. G. David Felt
    Interesting that on their web page they say the Tesla 3 has FM radio and internet streaming. https://www.tesla.com/model3 Yet the forums currently as stated here FM radio is not active yet and neither it would seem is the internet streaming options. Since there is also no BlueTooth connectivity, you have the built in WiFi and LTE connections as the only way to use your own device. Even though the auto has multiple USB ports, I do not find in the spec info that the speaker system can use it to play songs off a USB thumb drive. The more I read on the Tesla 3 and how little it has to offer for the cost, the more the BOLT is a superior EV. It would appear that using your WiFi connected Smartphone is the option to listen to music in this minimalist overpriced EV.
  15. G. David Felt
    Part of the love of our site is to always have a little fun, sarcasm and challenge what everyone says. You should know this by now.
  16. G. David Felt
    Total Asian Love from MT just like Consumer Rejection. My son's Jeep Patriot Trail rated edition with the CVT did pretty good off road and even then they ended up dumping the CVT in the final years of production for a traditional transmission. Makes one really wonder about the engineering of the CVT which is a integral part of the awd / 4x4 system.
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    The stations that have them here also have mini grocery stores / food courts with free WiFi, people stop, plug in and get a bit to eat, use the bathroom and get online to do who knows what, then out after they have charged for a while and off they go down the road. Cost seems to be running between 20 to 35 cents per kWh compared to home charging at 6 cents per kWh. Over all still much cheaper than petrol prices.
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    Exxon Mobil, BP, Royal Dutch, Shell have all invested in Charging companies that make the equipment. On top of this, All have announced they are starting to install fast chargers at gas stations. Shell is farther along than most but here is their fast charger station. As I have said over and over, the West coast if much farther along than the rest of North America, yet just like the early 1900's where cars were being sold before gas stations were everywhere and before big profits could be made, Companies have to start somewhere.
  19. G. David Felt
    Hello Bloomberg, this is the chicken or egg issue of chargers and auto choices. With Choices sales and profits will come. Trust me it will!
  20. G. David Felt
    Yea, probably not good to do alpha production on your customers. Talk to GM if you want to know how to produce a EV auto properly.
  21. G. David Felt
    Green Auto Sales Up Gotta love it when you can find stories of research that shows the growth of the GREEN AUTO movement. Autoblog just posted their review of the September numbers and I just love this section from the story: "GM once again was buoyed by demand for the Chevrolet Bolt EV, which resulted in 2,632 units sold. That more than offset the 28 percent decline in Chevy Volt extended-range plug-in sales. Overall, GM green-car sales jumped 56 percent from a year earlier." So the highlight numbers are as follows: Hybrids / Plug-ins up 8% from a year earlier at 44,000 units. Plug-in sales were robust advancing 18% from a year ago at 14,500 units. Ford saw a 24% increase in Green Auto Sales over last year. Honda saw a 89% increase in Green Auto Sales over last year. BMW saw a 3% increase in i auto sales Toyota saw a 3% decline Nissan saw a 20% decline as people held off for Leaf 2.0 First 9 months of 2017 saw 354,000 units sold or 8.6% increase in sales over last year. 122,000 units or 31% of that was Plug-ins.
  22. G. David Felt
    So wonder if it gets a throw back to the traditional Cherokee front end or more of the GC edition. Be interesting.
  23. G. David Felt
    Close that plant and just continue to ramp up Mexico and US production.
  24. G. David Felt
    Agree with @ccap41 that while I over all like the new Terrain, the headlights are off putting. I just do not dig the lower line of the headlight assembly system.
  25. G. David Felt
    I certainly hope so as in-wheel hub motors with torque vectoring would make a bad ass awd EV. I can totally see this for an Escalade.
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