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I didnt know that. Thanx for the info. No need to top up... 15 minutes gets you 80%.. That is right NOW! Today's battery tech and fast charging. And another thing, Regular EVs right now have a range of 250-300 miles. Uber EVs are pushing 400 plus miles. Some claim 500. Others are pursuing 600 and more (Mercedes and surprise...BMW) EVs right NOW are on par with ICE ranges with 300 miles... Common, CCAP... You know that what you are spewing is just shyte fear mongering... That is the cost of doing business... Its a service and a commodity. However, the free market system and competition always finds a way to compensate or reward a frequent user... Herz and lets say Hilton Hotels and Shell and a consortium of public charging stations could have a loyalty program or package or something... as an example... Rome wasnt built in a day. And gasoline stations werent built to as ubiquitous as they are today in just 5 years either. But by 2035-2040 though... And gasoline wont be as cheap as it is now. You think gasoline will be purposely cheap or expensive when an agenda to go all EV will be?

This is what we need. yes. But its the Biden administration, right? How many republicans, Ted Cruz and Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson types and Texas folk that are oil crazy will actually back up this bill? And vice versa of course if it would have been Trump. And Trump would have NEVER done this because of his 'base'...

Like I said, restaurants, McDonald's and In and Out Burger and grocery stores and all kinds of public parking lots with businesses could have charging ports as well as designated stations. And its not as if charging times with these new batteries and systems take a long time with level 2 charging. On avg., 15 minutes gets you 80% of a full charge on a 250-320 mile range EV. Common... Like I said, lots of unnecessary fear...

That is the cost of doing business... Its a service and a commodity. However, the free market system and competition always finds a way to compensate or reward a frequent user... How is that any different from gassing up? But maybe Herz and lets say Hilton Hotels and Shell and a consortium of public charging stations could have a loyalty program or package or something... yes. I know that! ?

you could only fill up a gasoline powered car in a gas station. Charging ports should be ubiquitous like gas stations are. Charging ports are easier to erect than gas stations are. Charging stations could not only BE at specific charging stations only specializing in charging, but almost everywhere there is space and shopping or dining is made where the driver on an EV is out and about doing other things other than just filling up his EV with a charge. Its that simple... And its actually being done like how I say, not only in other parts of the world, but in the US itself, but there are far too many anti-EV rhetoric outlets in the US and the fear of EVs has set in and a stall in progress for charging stations has ensued in some parts of the US...

Yes. Sure. The way it is now now. EVs have been politicized in the US (like everything else), and much whining has been made about public charge systems. Now...as in NOW... would be a good GREAT time to actually STOP the whining about charging times and public chargers and ridiculous talking points about range anxiety and start building up the damn charging infrastructure instead of whining against it. American businesses, all levels of governments at the city, state and federal levels could get involved in building up a charge network... I googled and came across some awesome stuff... Ill just post some pics and American capitalism should be able to do the rest... In the US we act like a few cables and a little plastic box with sensors and adaptors is such an unsurmountable feat. Like its a total impossibility and harder to accomplish than burying large tanks underground and fill them up with that flammable liquid time and time again...talk about logistical nightmare, but we have perfected it,...and these are literally everywhere. And talk about a PERFECT place to put EV chargers since gasoline stations are EVERYWHERE. And the thing is, charging stations, public and in the city could be endless as tanks need not be buried and designated in special places... And let me whine about something... NO NEED to transport the electricity to the charge port like a gasoline truck does to the gas station as electricity travels ITSELF!!! Just in case somebody missed it, solar panels on the charge ports produce electricity to alleviate the other shytty talking point...

I do not know what you mean by that. Either you mean it that a contract lasting 5 years is a long time. or that you think the contracts starts 5 years from now. Im thinking you are thinking its option #2. But the contract starts now OVER the next 5 years it says. Technically it starts the first quarter of 2023. Up to 175 000 EVs of all kinds. A drop in the bucket but its still 1750 000 units. It will help with monies coming in and factories producing regardless the amount... For the next 5 years...

I dont get the hate it got. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, and he didnt even come up with it...as you pointed out and @David showed us with his link, it is a beautiful livery. And quite presidential. Modern would be another adjective. The guy is a conman, but that doesnt mean he doesnt have taste. OK...I take that back... So phoquing gaudy. I like showey showey myself, and Im quite loud and egotistical, but yeah...Im not into the King Midas gold thing... And the French Provincial thing on the side and that chandelier, man.... I was born in 1973, not 1773 or even 1873... Neither was he... I like the robin egg blue and gold accents. It looks good on a 747. But I think that that livery's time has come. A more modern take would be great. I am Canadian so maybe MY voice should be hushed on that matter... I understand the darker colours being problematic with heat retention and electronics, it is a shame that the proposed livery is a no-go.

I never thought of it that way. And guess what? You are correct! Yes. The 747 is a beauty. Still after all these decades. I know your heart is in San Franc Seattle...and Ill agree to a point that the A380 may not be as attractive and pleasing to the eye as the 747. She is a bit of a hefty girl. But she needs to be that way. She is a double decker all the way through. She has adopted an oval (egg) shape all the way through JUST like the 747 is only like that on its 'hump'. I get your Seattle pride, but...the A380 is beautiful in its own unique way. And its fine that you dont like her. Aside Airbus' several mistakes on her The timing of her launch was miscalculated as jumbo jet flying for most airlines was coming to an end as single engined wide bodies and flying preferences changed the game. Airbus actually DID initially design her as a transport plane, but changed the cockpit placement at the last minute negating a transport version. Had they stayed the course and made the cockpit above the nose to open up like the 747, the 747 would have died almost immediately. Airports WOULD have spent money to accommodate the A380. Airlines, despite Boeing's effort with the 747-8 would have balked at it and the A380 would have taken its place. Despite her girth, heft and sheer size, she flies elegantly... So put THAT in your Boeing pipe and smoke it!!!

Not to mention GM's EV1 That was a thing in the mid-1990s

CDs are older than you think... Press 'play' A song from 1984... Invented in 1979, released in 1982. Laser Discs in the 1960s, but the DVD took its place in the 1990s. Cassettes and VHS/Beta were the mediums for so long because of recordability. Back to CDs... CDs took over in the late 1980s over the LP. Didnt take long for the LP to be replaced by the CD. Cassettes soldiered on because of recordability. But once the CD became recordable, about the mid 1990s, the cassettee was gone. DVDs came to be about this time too. But at the turn of the 2000s, MP3 players/ipods and downloadable music became the norm and that spelled the end of the CD. Now we have spotify, youtube, and icloud storage... and all kinds of streaming apps and websites, legally paid for or grey area free... No need to record or keep physical copies to be played back on a machine. Just a machine, be it a PC or smartphone, TV orr even a car, ICE or EV, that can access the internet... But going back to the EV thing, computers have been a part of our daily lives, excluding gaming machines like Ataris and Colecovisions and Nintendos, since the mid 1990s when we started to really rely on them for daily shyte...

That is a good start. To overcome the unnecessary fears of rotary electric motors, batteries and computers. Because you are overly dramatic... Common man... suuuuuch advanced technology? The theory of electric motors goes back. Waaaaaay back. The idea of a United States of America is actually younger than the experiments of electrostatic motors... This as a functioning motor as we know it today that powers HVAC systems, fans, vacuum cleaners, RC motors, sewing machines, drills and other power tools, washing machines, water pumps, elevators, escalators, computer disc drives, etc... since the 1830s... Batteries have been with us since the early 1800s too. We have been changing batteries in our toys for 100 years. We have been recharging our toys the last 30. Computers? We have been accustomed to computers the last 50 years and computers have been by our side 24/7/365 the last 20. EV cars are hardly suuuuuuch advanced technology. Stop being suuuuuch a drama queen!!! Fair enough...

Perfectly stated!!!

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27179/exclusive-photos-future-air-force-one-747-has-left-california-to-begin-modification-in-texas

There are a LOT of delays. From engineering oversights to using existing 747-8s rather than building new from the ground-up due to tedious, careful, time consuming redux renovations to Boeing mishandling the over-all project. The planes had to be put on stilts, stilts that needed to be calibrated individually each and every time a part of the aircraft had to come off so no additional stress made it to the rest of the body. Flex stress. Boeing also has some major competence problems in handling the project. One smart thing Trump did do on the contract is that any cost overruns would come out of Boeing and not the American tax payer. Boeing also hired a company to do the interior but that company went bankrupt due to Covid's influence on the world's economy so that put a kink on the time-line as well. One thing that bothers me is how Trump thinks he saved US tax payer's money on canceling the order of two new planes by buying 2 already built 747-8s from a deal that never took place due to the fact that those 2 747s were never delivered because the airline went bankrupt. However, the fact that presidential aircraft are highly modified aircraft, using 2 already built planes would require dismantling of those airplanes only to be rebuilt is just wasting unnecessary time and energy gaining no advantage... I for one, like Trump's colour proposal It aint happenin' that way. Biden ditched that colour scheme. Something about the blue on the bottom heating up the fuselage that additional engineering costs need to be made to insulate the sensitive electronics. I dont know... Its a soap opera through and though from Trump's moment canceling Obama's order and shttyng his pants with glee telling us he saved tax payer money, to the press coverage of changing of Air Force One's livery to Boeing's incompetence of delivering the planes on time to Biden's canceling of Tump's colour choice... I dont recall this much circus with George senior getting his 747. Nor do I recall reading anything bad about Kennedy and the now classic livery of Air Force One...

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/ford-mustang-mach-e-sales-figures/ Year sold 2020 3 2021 27,140 2022 25,765 https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/ford-mustang-sales-figures/ Year sold 2005 160,975 2006 166,530 2007 134,626 2008 91,251 2009 66,623 2010 73,716 2011 70,438 2012 90,706 2013 77,186 2014 82,635 2015 122,349 2016 105,932 2017 81,866 2018 75,842 2019 72,489 2020 61,090 2021 52,384 2022 29,910 As one could see, in 2022, the EV version doesnt trail the coupe ICE version all that much. But all that is just useless talk. Truth be told. Its a WORLD WIDE THING. Electrics are being pushed by governments WORLD WIDE. NO automaker will be making ICE passed 2030 at the most. NONE of us HAVE a choice. The gasoline engine is gone. No, the gasoline engine wont even be available to be bought used probably after 2040 or something. You dont get it yet? WE DONT HAVE A CHOICE. Going to EVs is NON-NEGIOTABLE. WORLD WIDE DECISIONS But, as @David mentioned. Even though we and the automakers have no choice BUT to be all in EV, the market demand IS strong for EVs. Its just the anti-EV voice is loud and the same BS anti-EV rhetoric gets repeated over and over again and that is ALL we hear.

OK..this is cool that on the TV screen dash, that an option exists so that one could configure it to look like an '80s Fox body speedo and tach and all else. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a41209180/2024-ford-mustang-fox-body-gauge-cluster/ and Fox Body

This being the last of the combustion engined Mustangs, it would only make sense that Ford evolved the platform rather than give us an all new one. Let's be happy they actually spent money on heavily revising it rather than just mildly refreshing it. Knowing that no refreshes at all are on the table over at Dodge and Chevy for their last of the ICE pony cars before they go EV.

Hence the black and white picture. It is from a village on a Greek island. @David mentioned living in thee woods. Im a city slicker so I dont like that lifestyle. However, I could give Greek island village a try. I have done it couple of months at a time when I was younger on vacay. I could eventually return to that kind of life IF it was like how my mom grew up. Which is not. Yeah, her growing up in that kind of poverty did suck and hence why many Greeks came over to North America, but her life had advantages that in 2022 we will NEVER see again. Clean air. Fresh fruit directly on the tree. etc.