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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Yea the stupid french always want to buck the trend, but then who am I to really say when the stupid americans still want to hold onto the standard system when Metric is so superior and everything for the most part has already changed over. Just image how much easier it would be for everyone if everyone did metric and they taught metric worldwide. This just makes so much more sense.
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    Just realized, Toyota's Performance line is a turd. Wow, no wonder they want a new performance line.
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    +1 So True!
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    Big truck payments, $335 That is a small auto payment compared to what we see advertised out there. I see coworkers who bitch about their truck payments in the mid 500 to 600 range. There is also the jones jones competitors who drive luxury auto's with $1K a month auto payment. Now if you are only making 35-45K a year, then I agree, that is a large chunk of your monthly take home and the gas mileage is not great if you have to drive a long distance. Hope you find the right solution Ocnblu as I know you love your truck. Wishing you all the best.
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    These are NOT a pure EV Semi Solution, but a hybrid. Clearly if you knew EV technology you would never say this would not gain traction. Unlike petrol engines and the multitude of transmission shifts especially on grade where they take forever to gain speed, EV is 100% Torque from zero, much easier to get up to speed. As proven in the train industry, electric motors on the wheels with a generator is superior to the current diesel motor powertrains. This solution is a fast fill LNG or Liquid Natural Gas so you are not having to charge long term these trucks, plus they do a fast charge so the battery pack is capable of being fully charged in the regulated down time that the driver must sleep. Yet with the LNG generator, these new Hybrid trucks have 1200 mile range so they are more than able to cover the 16hr days a truck drive puts in before regulated sleep time / down time. Future is HYBRID for Semis and unlike stuck on a turnpike during a storm, accident whatever, they can easily not spew any emissions at all. Eventually this is a logical step in the direction of pure EV semis which is a ways off.
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    While I would not say 60,000 is a low volume production, when looked at the 6 Billion humans, then yes low production. Be interesting to see what they come up with.
  7. G. David Felt
    This should be expected that all of Nissan platforms will end up rebadged as Mitsu's. Greatly reduce cost across the board for both companies.
  8. G. David Felt
    Very cool looking. Thanks,
  9. G. David Felt
    I totally agree, I still think there is consolidation needed in the auto market and Chrysler has had a good run, but I believe it can quietly go into the history books.
  10. G. David Felt
    Frisky, I love the refinement you did to this posting. So I come in at $54,060 for my awd XT5 with the plum interior!
  11. G. David Felt
    Nice going on where they could have stole the styling from!
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    I am VERY happy that we have TESLA. Do I believe it will stay independant? No, but if it was not for Tesla, then we would not have the BOLT, Leaf, etc. Someone had to finally kick the bully's, aka the biggest auto companies in the nuts to finally move off petro. BOLT, Tesla 3 I say YES!
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    I see allot of complimentary coping to older Fords from the plastic looks cheap interior to the exterior nose. Over all not bad, but not a home run. I expect some based on heavy discounts to buy it, but over all a failuer out of the gate. Nissan just needs to forget the full size truck market. Not their game ever or now.
  14. G. David Felt
    Interesting, still do not like the Thor hammer headlights.
  15. G. David Felt
    Awesome, sweet that Camaro has outgunned Porsche.
  16. G. David Felt
    That would make a very cool update to Optimus!
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    This is what I believe will also push for VOLT type powertrains as more electric motors get built and for those that do not need the long range, then pure EV as 200+ miles will cover the commuter car with errands being run before, during or after work. Petro powered only auto's are on their way out over the next 10-15 years. All depends on how well the BOLT and Ioniq do along with the updated Leaf.
  18. G. David Felt
    Yup, the Japan consolidation is just beginning. I suspect over the next 18-24 months we will see more of these deals and the top three will end up being Toyota, Nissan and Honda with the rest of the name plates being under these three.
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    How so? Even Paccar the owner of Peterbilt and Kenworth have concept trucks looking like this with a single access door running on CNG, LNG or Bio Diesel. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to apply what the Trains are powered by, electric motors with LNG generator. The CEO is a tree hugger and wanted a fun outdoor UTV that did not pollute, so now we see their drawing of their green UTV. Personally I really like these new aero Semi's.
  20. G. David Felt
    +1 to Drew for pointing out an overlooked truth about Tesla. Not your Grandfather's Car Company is it!
  21. G. David Felt
    These are some freakin cool sounds.
  22. G. David Felt
    -1, Sorry Thed, but I am NOT Impressed with that Tinny rattle of sound. It starts off nice with a deep tone and then goes high pitch tin can rattle that is not impressive. Plus to have to rev so high and hard to make it go is also not impressive. I will take a Torquey 4 banger over the out of date, green house gas producing oil consuming rotary every day. This is a decent sounding engine.
  23. G. David Felt
    Do not need the old Cadillac to make America Great Again. America is Great and Technology and innovation is what is driving this along with a division called Cadillac that builds fun to drive auto's that equal and beat much of the Euro and Asian rim auto's. Better yet is that GM is a green company compared to MB and their green house gas producing products. EPA even shows they are!
  24. G. David Felt
    One of the two links provided said it was not in production yet, still building the site unless this is outdated info, but even then, they should be able to ramp better than if the building part is done. Scroll way down towards the bottom and there is a little more info on the Gigafactory. It's pretty amazing how large it will be and how small what IS there really is in comparison. "Twenty-five miles east of downtown Reno, Nevada, in the rolling hills south of Interstate 80 sits one of the largest graded construction pads ever made. On this site, Tesla has been busy rapidly constructing a behemoth of a lithium-ion battery factory that will eventually be one of the world’s largest buildings. The fully realized factory is not scheduled to be finished until 2020, but already the structure is big by any measure; it’s currently running 24 hours a day and producing Tesla Powerpacks and Powerwalls. Eventually Tesla will make Model 3 battery packs at this building, dropping the cost of Tesla batteries by 30 percent. Here are some gigafacts to wrap your head around." http://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-3-photos-analysis/ Cool, thank you for pointing that out. I took a break and flew through the links and missed this. Wonder just how many LI cells they are producing now.
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    FCA's CAFE numbers are horrible. FCA ranks last among major auto makers at 20.8. The company actually has to purchase CAFE Credits from others http://www.autonews.com/article/20151216/OEM11/151219893/fiat-chrysler-buys-emissions-credits-from-tesla-toyota-honda Awesome Post, this is interesting to see that MB is failing the emissions and has to buy credits to be in compliance globally. Guess that quality MB auto's are not that clean. So the Early Credits reporting shows just how bad some companies are. Compliance is interesting that it shows MB and Kia as both FAILING to be compliant. Compliance Balance is interesting to see who has the most credits for offset. Compliance program is interesting to see how they use it. Very interesting 93 page report. Worth looking at if you want a good look at the auto industry. I can clearly see the drive for EV auto's will make or break the auto industry as the green credits you get for having EV and Hybrids is worth it IMHO. 2014GreenhouseGasReport.PDF
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