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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Interesting, makes one wonder if they will call him to testify before congress on if he knew about it. I would think with all the paperwork requested that they should be able to say who knew about it and who did not. I can tell you that many middle executives are not aware of issues in a company that are outside their scope of control or responsibility. I truly do not think she knew about this issue just like most of America did not know till this came to light.
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    Funny for the repost of this, guess I should have posted my original on this in the Fiat news rather than the Italians. http://www.cheersandgears.com/topic/83314-sergio-marchionne-says-do-not-buy-500e-we-loose-money/#entry745715 My question still stands, if Electric is so much better, then why do we not see more and better options for pure electric and yet CNG is growing with a ton of choices? Second question is the debate over the green house gas production and the toxic waste from the battery creation. Is it better to produce these battery packs with their toxic waste from production and large initial green house gas output or burn some alternative fuel?
  3. G. David Felt
    WOW, I do not like or think very highly of the Ford New Trucks and yet this dinosaur makes the Fords look luxury level. What an old out of date beast. I agree for the asking price, this is way over priced.
  4. G. David Felt
    What kind of trees? They are heavy with fruit it looks like. Grapefruit...I have orange trees in the back, palm trees front and back. My whole neighborhood used to be an orange grove. Awesome, talk about keeping a high level of Vitamin C around to keep the colds away!
  5. G. David Felt
    What kind of trees? They are heavy with fruit it looks like.
  6. G. David Felt
    Yes, named after a wonderful fighter plan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F6F_Hellcat Was the workhorse of the WWII war with Japan.
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    On a LinkedIn forum for fleet sales this same question was posted about the crazy increase in truck prices from all manufactures and the GM response was that due to the ever increasing Gov requirements for safety features it is pushing auto prices higher and higher. The interesting consistent response was that businesses and most consumers are not asking for these features. Select small groups of forcing increased cost on the consumers with features that have little affect on preventing accidents. So we must question if the gov is really doing the right job by forcing us to have to wear seat belts, have backup cameras, lane avoidance warnings, auto braking etc.. Whose responsibility is it to make sure our kids are not playing behind an auto that causes them to get run over, or someone who is more interested in texting rather than driving. Our school and Mass transit buses have NO SEAT BELTS and yet we are forced to wear seat belts or face a fine of $124 plus a hit to your insurance rates. Yes I know seat belts save lifes but is it the gov's job to make us wear them through intimidation and forced penalties? Where do we draw the line of what the gov should be saying we have in auto's and what are options for purchase. Do green groups or select mom groups should be mandating safety features?
  8. G. David Felt
    CNG will be the saving grace for Muscle / performance auto's. With 130 Octane and the ability to fuel from your home for $1 a gallon, that is where true performance / Muscle car owners will go. Buy it, convert to Pure CNG and enjoy the fun.
  9. G. David Felt
    Amazing and yet sad all at the same time.
  10. G. David Felt
    Very cool and much cheaper than a new car payment.
  11. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com It seems the dirty laundry of other car companies is coming to light as people dig into the history of the EV movement. GM joined the lawsuit with other automobile manufacturers and oil industry to successfully kill the early laws that California passed to promote electric vehicles. In turn, GM killed its EV1 project. All the bad publicity surrounded the death of the EV1 ignores so many other automobile manufacturers which also worked to kill off the EV movement of the nineties. As GM took the brunt of the heat for shredding all its EV1 autos, Honda also silently killed off its Honda EV Plus electric cars. Honda manufactured approximately 340 EV Plus vehicles between 1997 and 1999. Subsequently, all the manufactured EV Plus vehicles were shredded. Honda was the first auto manufacturer to use NiMH batteries compared to GM's use of Lead Acid batteries. The full story and write up is here on EV.com web site along with a very interesting video. You can move the video to 16:50 to see the EV Plus taken to be destroyed. http://ev.com/honda-ev-plus-shredded-like-gms-ev1/
  12. G. David Felt
    Beautiful car and love the engine. Nice to see they learned a thing or two from the Corvette Supercharged V8 engine. Be interesting to see it in person. Hopefully with a proper tuned exhaust that has the low powerful V8 Sound, not that spit throwing wine in the other thread.
  13. G. David Felt
    Cool, thanks for the update, keep us informed as to what the code actually meant. Would be interested to know if you just had bad fuel or what.
  14. G. David Felt
    NOT IMPRESSED! That is one of the WORST tuned exhaust ever. Hopefully the engine performs better than that joke of an exhaust system.
  15. G. David Felt
    FAILURE!, That video did NOTHING to convince me to buy a Volvo. Clearly out of touch with consumers.
  16. G. David Felt
    Still destined to be a history note at best.
  17. G. David Felt
    Very interesting, I wonder how they will hold up to the weight of 18 wheelers and accidents between auto's.
  18. G. David Felt
    Very true, it is a turd and I worry that the Jeep Renegade will end up the same way.
  19. G. David Felt
    Old White Plymouth Fury. Tried to catch up and get a picture but he went the other way from where I was going. Amazing to still see one of these box's on wheels.
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    G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com BMW's launch of the i3 and i8 meant the end of life for most of the BMW pre-production EV's that were launched in 2010. One car sharing service got 70 but the bulk of the auto's were crushed since they were tagged as pre-production and not certified for resale. Strange how we do not hear people crying out about the BMW's auto's but then maybe since BMW had their production versions ready to move these people to unlike GM with the EV1's it is getting little attention. I am sure there are still a few Teary Eyed leasers who had to return their ride but can now at least buy a more luxury golf cart version. We need to get BMW to loan one to Cheers and Gears so we can do a proper evaluation of these auto's. Per the story posted here: http://transportevolved.com/2014/05/23/history-repeats-bmw-openly-crushes-active-e-electric-car/ Original photo posted on Facebook in the Chevy VOLT forum: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203843828880189&set=gm.797427043603256&type=1&theater
  21. G. David Felt
    What took you so long to respond Ocn, I figured you would be one of the first but almost 24hrs later? jk
  22. G. David Felt
    Hard to recall stuff that is 10-15 years, they already have the bugs worked out and a recall for their less than workable sync system does not affect safety. That is why we do not see their bleeding edge performance auto's or anything of any real excitement here. They only import what has been fixed and works from Europe. Poor Europeans have to deal with the recalls. You do not see much of our recalled stuff over seas. Once they work out the bugs on the American public then they take it over seas and you have strong followers as they never see all the mistakes. Japan and Korea does this also. Test new stuff on the local public before exporting it to sell elsewhere.
  23. G. David Felt
    philosophical
  24. G. David Felt
    Reuters reports that the Fiat CEO at a conference on Wednesday was being bluntly honest when he said do not buy the 500e. To quote the CEO; "We loose $14,000 on each 500e we sell." He went on to state that they would sell the minimum required to keep selling their auto's in the US and in states like California. He also went on to say that by 2025 3/4 of the auto's they sell will be Hybrids to meet the Governments mandated MPG fuel requirements. The full story was published here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/chrsyelr-ceo-evs-idUSL1N0O71MS20140521?feedType=RSS This story makes me ask the following question. If people keep saying that Electric Auto's are outselling the early days of Hybrids, then why are there not more electric auto's? We see a growing list of auto's with the option of CNG or Hybrid.
  25. G. David Felt
    To Quote the New Owner, Plenty of Money. They will need to get the assembly line back up to spec, line up the suppliers, get workers hired and trained and the list goes on. Be interesting to see if they can get a car out of the plant in 12 months.
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