G. David Felt
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5 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:
Interestingly, the Norfolk Southern Railroad did an experiment with a battery powered locomotive with no regenerator. Performance hasn't been very good and it is mostly just a showpiece right now.
GE was working on a Hybrid Locomotive about 10 years ago, but nothing really came of it. Right now, locos just exhaust their regenerative braking out as heat. I wonder, as battery tech has improved over the last 10 years if someone will give it another go.
That would be cool to see if it makes sense for the trains now especially with the trains that are using LNG for the generators instead of diesel, Maybe time to rethink the Hybrid Train.
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G. David Felt
Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.comTesla first to 100kWh Battery
According Tesla today, they are now building the fastest 0-60 sedan in the world, beating out Porsche and Ferrari. Today people can now order the P100D with Ludicrous mode! This allows this 7 passenger sedan 5 adults / 2 kids to hit 60 in 2.5 seconds according to Tesla's own Blog. The Tesla X P100D can hit 60 in 2.9 seconds. The battery is 300 miles in Ludicrous mode and 315 miles in normal mode.
Tesla says all S and X orders not delivered can upgrade to the 100 battery pack for $10,000 and existing S and X can upgrade for $20,000 to the 100 battery pack. The higher upgrade fee on existing owners is due to disposal of the 90 battery pack.
Tesla goes on to also say that this helps fund development of the Tesla 3.
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^ +1 I am also ready for formal roof lines. The Coupe look on everything is so overdone!
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5 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:
Now that you "mention" it @dfelt, check out what everyone can do now. I do like the new logo that @Intrepidation made for us.
Was everyone else not able to see the new logo? I am so sorry, I thought when Intrepidation mentioned it that everyone could see it. Sorry guys.
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Great Point Drew, I wish more would understand the history and would respect the blades that they have had on the auto's.
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So Nikola has poked the Beast Musk, as he now is working on a Semi Solution. Interesting!
Makes one wonder just how long before cities require these trucks internally for local deliveries.
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Since we have many various thoughts on the design direction, I thought it might be nice to grab and compare the current products that are still with us and the evolution they have taken.
The one thing this does prove is that the headlights need to stay a vertical design. Yet we can find horizontal headlights in the past but we do not need to mimic BMW, MB or Audi. Cadillac needs to keep their own styling trend and Johan need to man up focus on the rich history of the Unique Cadillac rather than copying his German lovefest of Sausage!
Cadillac Escalade 1999 to 2016
SRX-XT Generations
SRX 2004 to 2009
SRX 2010 to 2016
2017 XT5
CTS Generations
Gen 2003-2007
Gen 2008 to 2013
Gen 2014 to 2016
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Yes, love the new Logo!
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expanded cars should be on hold as they do need to focus on making the product line right and tweaking existing auto's to be best in class.
I am also saying it here, If Johan does not see that the industry is changing and that the focus should be on plug-in Hybrids and EV's, they need to cut him loose and bring in a true visionary. Twin Turbo and V10/12 engines are a dying place that has limited future growth besides 1 to 2 generations out at most covering 4-8 years. I would question putting to many resources into old petro technology.
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Full details are interestings, 10K, 12K or 15K options and for $89 extra a month you can add AWD.
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Cool, I hope they finish it using a gas engine or better yet, CNG or Hydrogen maybe. But reality is a hybrid with gas engine short term solution as they need to move to pure EV.
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3 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:
Here is your view new content button on mobile.
I really like the new web site, so is the timeline look the new way unread forum posts will always show now in this version? Agree with others that I do like the new software, but have to get used to the changes also as I search for stuff.
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G. David Felt
Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer
www.CheersandGears.comWhat could the Tesla Truck look like?
Stories are flying all over the internet, many folks are just loving the Hyper chatter that Musk brings when he talks about something very cryptic. I went in search of what this truck was, could be and found nothing firm but plenty of pictures.
Clearly some are photoshops of old concepts especially the GMC truck, that I have always loved. Review them below including what Chris Doane has done and then sound off on what your thoughts are about an EV truck, style, etc.
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Weird, but edge on the same page looks fine, but Firefox also looks just like chrome.
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Hey Drew, I am thinking this is what you mean by formatting, but currently my Chrome browser looks like this:
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Interior is cool, not sure on some of the fine details they did, but hey, it is a concept. Exterior, Hate the coupe look. Been done to death. Rear Sucks, keep a more traditional vertical tail light. Front, over all fine but loose the horizontal head lights like everyone has mentioned and get to a vertical set, a true symbol of Cadillac.
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Awwww dang.. lolNot liking it in the least, ccap.
First thing I think of is the laundry list of random negatives one could them attach to a model with a derogatory intent.
2nd thing is sports teams.
Cadillac has half a century of foreign city names in their past, no real connection with American locations comes to mind other than a short-lived run with 'Park Avenue'.
I actually thought I had a good idea goin for them. I didn't think about the sports teams. I just thought it was good because it was 100% American and had some actual value behind it other than a random name or just another old name being reused.
I don't care that they've had foreign names, bring $h! back to AMERICA! Why NOT bring names back to America? Is there any other form of naming that could/would represent America?
Gotta pass on the city naming thing, after all we are trying to build and sell a global brand. We need more global planet wide names.What I personally think would be GREAT for Cadillac to do is use iconic United States cities or landmarks for their cars.
New York
LA(Los Angeles)
Chicago
Detroit
Dallas
Houston
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
St. Louis
Atlanta
You could add historically significant towns/locations like Gettysburg or Normandy(I know it isn't a US location but it is very historically significant to our country). There are probably a dozen other huge major battle ground with historical significance that could be used.
I just think it would be an awesome way to keep it American, make it's name mean something, and it isn't an alphanumeric jumble that a lot of non-car people don't understand at all.
Course I am sure ganges in various cities would love it.
You can see it now, I drive a Cadillac Dallas North Side Edition!
Rollin Rollin dang.. lol
Why does it have to be global names just because the brand is global? It's an American iconic brand.
I mean if that is the case we could go with globally powerful cities but that just seems awkward..
Ohhhh well, just an idea that I thought was actually awesome. Apparently not so much.. lol
Howe about the 7 wonders of the world labels? We could cover some awesome places with proper names that would be global and let the auto's speak their American roots as is.
Come up with a series of Cars, SUVs and Trucks based on Iconic places around the world.
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Ehh, The northy Neighbors are not Polite? H'mmmm
We'll what do you expect from a crazy social country, not like they have Trump to deal with or Hilly! The US ultimate Dumb N Dumber. Such a sad state of our political affairs. 
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What I personally think would be GREAT for Cadillac to do is use iconic United States cities or landmarks for their cars.
New York
LA(Los Angeles)
Chicago
Detroit
Dallas
Houston
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
St. Louis
Atlanta
You could add historically significant towns/locations like Gettysburg or Normandy(I know it isn't a US location but it is very historically significant to our country). There are probably a dozen other huge major battle ground with historical significance that could be used.
I just think it would be an awesome way to keep it American, make it's name mean something, and it isn't an alphanumeric jumble that a lot of non-car people don't understand at all.
Gotta pass on the city naming thing, after all we are trying to build and sell a global brand. We need more global planet wide names.
Course I am sure ganges in various cities would love it.
You can see it now, I drive a Cadillac Dallas North Side Edition!
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OMG YOU ARE SO PLIABLE. My tongue was SO far into my cheek on that one. How are those yoga classes going? I want to find a naked yoga class near me. Non co-ed.
Yup you just want a Sausage Fest!
Bratwurst, Ballpark, Kosher, etc... To be honest.
I like my sausages THICK.
Minimum 1 foot long....
For me its Costco's Kirkland sausages....
Just in case you missed on the homo-erotic sexual undertones because TV Screen...
Here is another:
Its hard to stay excited with all this "start/stop" technology to save a few bucks on fuel when its such a small advantage.
We'll at least you went Kosher!, After all Hebrew Nation makes Kirkland Signature Beef Dinner Franks!
I do agree, sucks to have to start n stop. Rather just rev the V8 to the finish line and win like all American Pushrods do!
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OMG YOU ARE SO PLIABLE. My tongue was SO far into my cheek on that one. How are those yoga classes going? I want to find a naked yoga class near me. Non co-ed.
Yup you just want a Sausage Fest!
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That image does look like a Cadillac logo on the front. This would have made an awesome halo sports car for Cadillac.
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Very Cool, too bad this did not happen sooner. I agree sell it as a Cadillac.
Love the Story in the AU web site.
More images at the story online.
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Yeah I am still not big on turbo engines over the long haul, but then I tend to be not about the long haul when it comes to vehicles.
'00 GTI 1.8t, traded at about 30k miles
'12 Cruze 1.4t, traded at about 6k miles
'13 Beetle 2.0 TDi, traded at about 32k miles
You've also said you are leery of turbos.
Not on reliability. They have their place and purpose. What I'm leary of is some rather dubious fuel economy advantage claims certain manufacturers make over larger displacement non-turbo engines. I have no qualms with a turbo engine in of itself, but I remain unconvinced that it is inherently superior to an engine of larger cylinder count and/or displacement in terms of fuel economy.
I totally agree with you on this point!
To bring it back to the topic.... if stop/start were an issue, we'd have been hearing widespread reports about it since it came out on the Malibu hybrid in 2008, or any of the eAssist cars, or the Honda IMA.
And when you look into it.... it's virtually nothing. More people have their driver's door handle break on a Malibu than have problems with start/stop.
Would love to hear from people who live in hilly areas like San Francisco, Seattle, etc. Would be interesting to hear how the start / stop works on the hills and if there is more roll back or not?
Rollin 
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