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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Agree with this, right now VW name is MUD to most consumers and except for hard core fans, their current product line up is not winning any conquest buyers and they are currently I bet loosing existing ones over Dieselgate! Depending on what they do in the next 12-18 months, they just might need to replace the VW dealers as rebadged Skoda Dealers or at least add Skoda specific models to the VW dealers. Have both in the same place.
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    Gotta Love old Iron, found this story on a restored 1961 GMC Suburban that now has a Duramax Diesel in and it is totally a sweet ride. http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/1961-gmc-suburban-combines-the-best-of-both-worlds/ar-AAlgpDg?li=BBnb7Kz#image=AAlgzv7|1 Love restored old iron with new tech powertrains that make them way better than they used to be.
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    The VOLT is an awesome auto for those under 6' tall. For me at 6'6" tall I could not fit in the back seat and barely fold myself up into the front seat. Awesome auto for many people just not us big people. Have either of you played with the BOLT configurator on the web site? Lots of fun, Plus the BOLT owners manual is a blast to look through as it is well done, but I have to say the minimal maintenance schedule is something to love by anyone not wanting to deal with the maintenance of an ICE.
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    Hi CCAP, the link was in my original post here but I will also include it here. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-02/ford-open-to-making-deals-with-trump-on-keeping-jobs-ceo-says You can also go to bloomberg and they have the transcript online for the hearing impaired or at least they did the last time I was there. Enjoy, plenty of double speak and I stand by my take on the interview.
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    Interesting, I think the best combo will be the 2.0 Turbo and the Diesel. Wish they had a VOLT power train in this auto with AWD as that would just rock.
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    I will start off by saying I am thankful to my Family and friends for the support and friendship I have had this year. Especially as I joined the ranks of cancer survivors. So I am very happy to be here enjoying my passion for auto's, wine and life. I want to thank everyone at C&G from @Wings4Life & @FordCosworth who debate with me, to so many others all the way to our awesome writer @William Maley and our fearless leader @Drew Dowdell. Thank you for letting me be part of this Forum, being friends and departing your knowledge of the industry and take on things. Diversity is what gives us a rich full life and I am very happy to have had more than my fair share. I will be out celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary with my wife and kids from Dec 16th to Jan 1st. I will pop in from time to time, but wishing you all an outstanding holiday season and a amazing start to a new year full of exciting technology from our smartphones to our auto's. Thank you all for being a very important part of my life.
  7. G. David Felt
    Howdy fellow C&G forum members. This week with the debates in many different threads it got me to thinking and I decided why wait till 2017 when we are so close, I wanted to start this sooner rather than later. So please post what you are thankful for in regards to the forum, friends, enemy's family, life in general. Share good and bad of what has made you thankful for in 2016!
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    Happy Birthday
  9. G. David Felt
    https://my.chevrolet.com/content/dam/gmownercenter/gmna/dynamic/manuals/2017/Chevrolet/BOLT EV/Owner's Manual.pdf PDF file of the 2017 Chevy BOLT, Yes on page 322 it states: Like all batteries, the amount of energy that the high voltage “propulsion” battery can store will decrease with time and miles driven. Depending on use, the battery may degrade as little as 10% to as much as 40% of capacity over the warranty period. If there are questions pertaining to battery capacity, a dealer service technician could determine if the vehicle is within parameters. This is not different than any other auto with a battery even ICE. So no big deal. Yes ICE even loose HP / Torque over time depending on how well they are taken care of. Amazing how wide of range that can happen. Check out page 313 for Maintenance schedule. I would like to see any ICE that has that minimal maintenance.
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    So much to love about what is on the Holden web site including the Ute. https://www.holden.com.au/ Love. their recordings of the engine and the black edition.
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    @oldshurst442 The video of the bus and cars sliding down did catch the political hags off guard, no one bought the BS they shoveled and they were out the next election, the current idiots only thing they did right is properly prep now for these storms and we have not had issues like 2010. I hope all goes smoothly this week and wishing you the best for the winter too.
  12. G. David Felt
    Interesting as I honestly could not tell much from the pictures, so glad others can see details I missed. Thank you,
  13. G. David Felt
    Seattle is calling for 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow, Local Paper posted pictures and videos of what happened last time. Snow-ageddon and all forms of crazy will happen now with our hills. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/snow-wimps-when-snow-falls-in-seattle-it-gets-ugly/
  14. G. David Felt
    Cool, but are we really sure this is a Chevy and not a mule for some Buick or Cadillac?
  15. G. David Felt
    I updated my post above stating that I am clarifying this is my take on the stories. Yet if you watch the interview these are some of the very clear statements made by Ford CEO. This leave much to be wondered and I am seeing more and more stories along this same thought process from other news outlets. So one has to wonder ........... “Well when you look at the policy recommendations we support, obviously we will continue to advocate for currency manipulation rules, for free and fair trade; we’ll continue to support comprehensive tax reform — and to your point, we want to make sure that fuel economy regulations are aligned with market realities. “And I think we’ll engage as we always have done in very positive discussions with the administration and policymakers on what that means not only for our business, but importantly, what does it mean in terms of providing jobs and economic growth here in the United States?” “Well, I think — when we agreed to the one national standard back in 2011, one of the things we agreed to was a checkpoint in 2018 — what they call a midterm review. And listen, as a company, we want to make sure that our vehicles are as easy on the planet as possible. We want to have great fuel economy for our customers. But we also want to make sure that those regulations are aligned with how consumers are reacting to some of the new technologies and the new economic realities. And that’s the discussion we want to have, because we want to make sure our vehicles provide great customers satisfaction but customers can afford it and it can provide economic growth in the country.”
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    Stumbled across this story on the BBC that shows that 4 major cities will have a ban on all diesel auto's and Trucks by 2025. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38170794 Paris Mexico City Madrid Athens These four cities are implementing complete bans on Diesel to improve air quality. Campaigners are pushing to have London Diesel free also by 2025. Very interesting read, plus I see they are converting more roads into bicycle lanes only. Bummer but the future is an ICE free future for many cities
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    You watch the interview and interpret how you take it. Pretty much all the stories give a very mixed bag of how Ford with their Compliance EV's and Hybrids really would deal with moving tech forward. I am left with the impression that Ford would keep things static as long as they made profits and paid themselves well in comparison to moving forward with better propulsion systems. For you Wings we will have to almost always agree to disagree as you see Ford as perfect, I see a different side to Ford. These stories pretty much state that.
  18. G. David Felt
    AWD V6 AWD w/ V8 FCA giving us quality real products the customer wants
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    I loved their first commercial that shows it being all the other opels.
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    @William Maley Awesome, thank you, that helps clarify things greatly.
  21. G. David Felt
    Just found this new commercial for the European version of the Bolt Opel Ampera-e This is awesome, we need commercials like this here.
  22. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com 20 years from EV1 to Bolt EV Green Car Reports did an outstanding job on reviewing the last 20 years from the GM ev1 to the Chevy Bolt EV. This is a very solid read for anyone that is interested in knowing where we started and are at today with the EV. Good writeup and some very interesting news about the EV industry and reconfirmation of what is being done.
  23. G. David Felt
    Exactly, I am still on the Note 3 and was going to go to a Note 7 but have to wait for the Note 8 out April 11th 2017 in the US.
  24. G. David Felt
    My Condolences!
  25. G. David Felt
    Clarify, This is my take on reading the stories, watching the interviews and how I perceive Fords CEO take on this. Interesting is the recent interview by Ford CEO Mark Fields which clearly states that if possible they would have trump stop all efforts moving forward to make cleaner auto's as he says that with 55 models on the market, which is only 2.8% of the auto sales, there is no market for EV's or hybrids. Yet earlier in the year he contradicts himself and even admits that everything FORD has built to date is compliance EV's / hybrids. On top of this Ford CEO says no reason to not move production to other countries unless tax breaks are given to FORD. Trump has clearly now made us hostage to companies to move jobs out of country without tax breaks being given. Dec 2nd Bloomberg Story Pressure on auto companies without reducing EPA requirements for making auto's. Sees no market for EV's. Bloomberg Interview Where Ford CEO says he will work with Trump to reduce requirements by states and gov to allow making autos more profitable. Pretty much says no market for EV's / Hybrids. CleanTechnica Story where ford states that currently everything is compliance and by 2030 Ford is now reviewing on how to build real EV / Hybrid auto's. Rueters Small Car production moving to Mexico along with Compliance EV / hybrid auto production. Very interesting as this would tend to say that if they get money from the GOV, they will do all the right things in building EV / Hybrid auto's otherwise no need to build better auto's let us just build what we have. GM on the other hand clean sheet the BOLT and from what I have seen it will be a big success for them. Battery tech was always the thing holding back EV auto's. The future will go to those that embrace it.
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