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Philosophically speaking... Who in power and in charge with massive amounts of money, regardless if that person in charge is from the private sector or public sector, does NOT 'mismanage' money? In the private sector, isnt that called fraud? And there are many forms of financial fraud to boot? Not putting up a fight with you regarding your statement, just philosophically speaking and acknowledging that when it comes to money : And yeah...mismanagement of public monies by different levels of government IS thievery in my honest opinion...

I got the visual!!! Imagine trying to clean out the outside air of a city's downtown core? How long would a HEPA filter last by cleaning out the air for everybody? What about the surfaces? The air might be clean but are the surfaces clean as well? Does a HEPA air filter system clean the surfaces. Surely no bacteria lives on surfaces that we touch in our cars. The dashboard, the steering wheel, the seats we sit our asses on... So much wrong with a marketing campaign focusing on a HEPA air filter system in a damned car. A car???!!! Perhaps one of THE most dirtiest things we touch on a daily basis due to the fact that we dont wash our hands nearly half as much as we should, even during COVID times, eating and having crumbs and coffee spill and sauce from Big Macs fall, or slush during winter, driving around in cities where smog exists and a car is not hermetically sealed. Like not even 1% hermetically sealed... Leave it to the Mercedes fanboi to toot toot toot such a useless marketing bullshyting campaign...

They will have NO choice BUT to buy an EV when all OEMs STOP producing ICE vehicles... What? Folk will refuse to buy new cars and just stick to used ICE vehicles? HA! That is funny! And besides, like I said, urban centers are flirting with banning ICE vehicles in their downtown cores... The fact that OEMs tell us that they will STOP producing ICE vehicles and have ALREADY STOPPED R&D on the internal combustion engine is what we often ignore... We DO however have wishful thinking in that we say stuff like OEMs will backtrack on that idea... But THAT is what is NOT happening as like I said, the PLANET has decided that the internal combustion engine is done for... In 2030 or 2035... (yeah yeah...I said by the end of THIS decade) 99% of the world's OEMs will stop producing ICE vehicles. That is it. No more new internal combustion engined vehicles. By 2035. Finished. Sure, one could buy used, but when mayors of cities will ban them from their urban centers. Dont forget, there will be MORE EV choices. More EV choices than ICE choices by the end of THIS decade. ICE choices WILL dwindle... It was said that FoMoCo forced people to buy the ecoboosted 6 F150 by not producing and having many 5.0 F150s on hand to sell. Just a rumour. But that was the popular thing to say about ecoboosted 6 cylinder sales of the F150 versus the 5.0 F150. And now, the ecoboosted F150 is well accepted???!!! Just a tactic that may be in use... Lets agree to say that we will both see what will happen in 2030-2035 as we both really dont know what will happen...

Once you open the door or window and...POOF! There goes the hospital operating room quality air on the inside...

Never said that we will ONLY see BEVs on the road. Banning of ICE in urban centers is a thing though. Still up for debate what will constitute a ban on. NYC is fliting with this idea I said to reflect that. I kept it general. I used terminology to reflect generalizations. Flirting is such a term that I used. Montreal wants to ban ICE vehicles outright in the downtown core... Again, nothing concrete though as the term 'flirting with the idea' seems to be accurate. https://electricautonomy.ca/2020/12/15/montreal-ban-ice-cars-2030/ Europe's measures regarding ICE vehicles in their urban centers versus an entire ban versus smog regulations are always being defined. Especially when it comes to individual countries and further more when it comes to urban centers. Walking back from certain bans but always restricting the internal combustion emissions... World governments DO acknowledge the millions upon millions of ICE vehcles that are GOING to be sold from now until 2030-2035. NOBODY, including myself, is NOT denyiung that. But it seems that you WANT to ignore the ever present RESTRICTIONS that are made AGAINST the internal combustion vehicle. World wide, there WILL be a ban on the internal combustion engine. What seems to me by certain "walk backs" is the most painless way for everybody to cope with an eventual ban of the internal combustion engine. THAT is why there is a walk back. NOT because of the idea that people will rebel against it because people do not want EVs. But because ICE will STILL be present. And you cant just whisk those cars away with a snap of the fingers. But...dont kid yourselves, the SALE OF NEW internal combustion engine vehicles for average joe folks to commute privately will come to an end by THIS decade. And no...Ford and GM and Stellantis and VAG and Mercedes and Volvo and Honda and Toyota and Hyundai motors and all those Chinese makes will NOT walk back on their agendas to quit selling ICE vehicles and that their portfolio will ONLY be EVs. THAT is coming...

Ive got lots of miles on this frame myself. Lots of partying. Lots of alcohol. Weekend alchy if you will. No drugs though! Although alcohol is a drug too. Banged up knees playing sports. Hockey and skiing. Yes, skiing. I dont know how sous-bois is called in English, but its a ski run with trees in the run at the side of the ski hill and Ive wrecked my knee by stopping thanx to a tree... with my knee. Damaging that knee further by getting body checked (playing hockey) and the target was that right knee. Eventually, reconstructive knee surgery was made because there was no ligaments and tendons holding my knee in its socket. Not too mention the hard hard work of doing 70-80-90-100 hour work weeks at the restaurant when the restaurant was at its infancy. But knock on wood, I fell great! Although 50 is right around the corner for me too, I feel like Im, well, maybe not 20, but at max 32. But Im still like a child in my heart!

Ive got slightly more time than you to feel this way.

Best case scenario being 55-57 percent? You've already admitted defeat for the internal combustion engine... As low as 16%? What both you and Balthy and all who dont want to see the EV change forget to see that the internal combustion engine is being banned and phased out LEGALLY by laws AROUND the planet... It DOES NOT MATTER what the acceptance rate of EVs are in the US of A in 2030 when the WORLD is BANNING the internal combustion engine. Automakers walking back on their EV portfolio? Which ones? The American ones? Ford and GM? Stellantis is headquartered in a place where EVs are universally in agreement that its the way of the future. In a place where the internal combustion engine is universally in agreement has run its course. Stellantis is FORCED not only by WORLD governments to sell ALL EVs, but the company itself NEEDS to do this switch in order to compete as VAG is also a home competitor in this market. And VAG is also a BIG player in the Asian market. And in the Asian market, EVs are also universally in agreement that its the way of the future where the internal combustion engine is also universally in agreement that has run its course. And the Asian market has OEMs that are full on EV as of NOW! Ford and GM are very very small in comparison to the WORLD's automobile manufacturing. This aint the 1950s where Ford and GM owned the world... Ford and GM has since sold off their global partners and simply left some markets. Alone, GM and Ford are still a huge powerhouse. But when faced to fight a GLOBAL shift in EVs, Ford and GM are miniscule... About this shift to EVs and about the internal combustion engine disappearing. ICE may or may NOT be going anywhere anytime soon. There are too many ICE vehicles in circulation for the disappearance of the ICE. BUT... many urban centers (city centers) around the PLANET are flirting with the idea to BAN the ICE. New York City is ONE of these cities... So its not as if this shift in thinking hasnt taken shape in the US of A... And living in Montreal, close to NYC, I havent heard any New Yorker really bitch about this idea as much as I have heard from a longer distance, Alberta Canada and Texas USA how pissed off they are for the switch to EVs... NYC being the BIGGEST, most populous and STILL the most influential city in America...

@surreal1272 Happy Birthday!!! You are 1 day younger than my cousin... 2 and a half months older than me.

Id take a peak at the links. https://insideevs.com/news/553972/us-bev-sales-october-2021/ https://www.ev-volumes.com/ About Toyota, I agree with you. About EV sales and percentages and hype machine comments and automakers walking back EV commitments...I dont agree with you.

In honour of National Lampoons Christmas vacation. The year goes by and I always forget that a baby blue Continental is quietly parked slightly out of frame minding its own business until l I see the movie again. I get all giddy looking at it and New Year's Day comes along and I forget the car until... the following year. And the cycle continues... And yeah, Im watching the movie with my wife right now as I type this. I gotta say, its my favorite XMAS movie.

like I said... A used car dealership or a private sale WILL be asking 10 grand for a Camry. Only a blind, Toyoter fool will fork over that money for one. HOWEVER, the dealership on a trade will NEVER buy a used Camry for that much... $10K for a Hybrid Camry with 130-165 k miles? The dealership will offer to buy that car for 5 thousand... And not a penny more. Will probably put it up for sale for $12K... I wont buy it. Balthazar will certainly not buy it. But a blind Toyoter faithful lapdog certainly will. The Camry will fall apart on him the very next day, but the fool will certainly ignore the problems and will praise it. And the reason being is because he had an uncle back in the day 40 years ago in '81 who bought a Chevy and the radio knob fell off and therefore he swore off American cars forever...

There is no entity that is going to buy a private person's 200K Camry for 10 thousand dollars... Let me put it this way... YOU own a 200K Camry regardless the year, and you waltz into ANY brand dealership, including a Toyoter dealership, and you want to trade in your 200K Camry for a new car, no dealership from here to hell will give you 10 thousand dollars for it. The dealership will give you 200 thousand REASONS as to why your 200K Camry is worth maybe $200.00 HOWEVER, anybody selling a 200K Camry, from a used car dealership to a private sale, to a stupid fool thinking that Toyoters are soooooo phoquing reliable, that stupid gullible Toyoter fool just might fork over 10 000 dollars for one. So yeah... Perception....

I would have never thought that the Avanti was a fast car, but sometime in the beginning of the new millennium when I first started on the interwebs, I came across a fact. That the Avanti was THE fastest car in the world upon its introduction. Before then, I just kinda looked at it and no emotions flowed through me. I was very indifferent towards it. I did know that I didnt really like the '80s version. I always felt that it should have STAYED in the 1960s. The '60s version is just so pure. There are some '80s designs that I like the excess, plastic body cladding aero work, and others not so much. The Avanti's interior is pure class. I like it a lot!

If the argument will delve into: "But I NEED to drive those miles..." Then if THAT is the case, EVs are NOT the type of vehicle that addresses that persons needs. So moot point about cold battery life loss... However, the technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. The more expensive EVs are already in the 400 mile range and the Lucid Air is said (not proven yet)to have a 500 mile range. And the newer battery tech such as Ultium, is said to reduce battery loss due to cold. By the time ICE becomes really dead, these cold issues will have been eliminated..

I am Greek, therefore a little melodrama here and there is the norm from where I come from. Either from starting it myself, or actually noticing it and calling it out. Even if its a small tiny amount of melodrama, I sees it. Im accustomed to seeing it. Its in my Greek DNA. Italian and Hebrew peoples are also masters of melodrama in sniffing it out and creating it. Call it a gift? (For creating it and seeing it) Anyway. A question was asked about if the technology is up to snuff to withstand harsh Michigan winters. And it was asked in a way to undermine GM's ability to engineer things and at the same time, it was asked in way to undermine the technology itself. Nothing wrong it asking about it. But everything wrong about being skeptical about it when Teslas have been in use in harsh weathers since close to a decade now. And the answers that were posted by CCAP, Robert and myself have addressed the issue. When a Model S had a range of 200 some odd miles with the 60 KW/H battery, and when Nissan Leafs and Chevy Bolts had 100 some odd mile ranges, 5-6 years ago, then yeah, it was an issue. The norm now is 300 mile range. Even at 50% battery loss life with harsh cold weather and the heater is on full blast and because its NOT uncommon to HAVE a 50% battery loss regardless what EV we are talking about, 150 mile range on a REGULAR daily driven commute does NOT pose a problem any more. If one wants to do other things and drive to different places on TOP of their regular daily driven routine, then at even 150 mile range, we WILL have a problem. The thing is, I live in an area where the climate gets harshly cold very very often every winter. But I drive gasoline powered cars. For now. The thing is though, even with a FULL TANK OF GAS, I DO NOT DRIVE HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE WHEN ITS HARSHLY COLD OR SNOW STORMY OUTSIDE... Or at least I try not to... So we could throw all kinds of imaginary problems to our skeptical criticism of a technology that we may not welcome in our lives, we should try to be less melodramatic with our questions surrounding our unfounded problems with the tech. Like I said, no need to create a mountain out of a molehill. (I saw that its one word and not two. LOL) Because I saw through the melodramatic style of asking the question if General Motors could release an EV pick-up truck ready for the vigors of a harsh Michigan winter...

Yes! And that is going to happen here (North America) too. Like I said above. Its time for humans to change their ways in consuming certain items... And even if we dont agree on that statement regarding climate change... The Hemi is going away because Dodge pays huge compliance fines. And ultimately, the emissions regulations WORLD WIDE regarding ICE will end up killing off 3 and 4 cylinder cars WORLD WIDE before this decade is up... World wide INCLUDES the US and Canada.

Albeit not as much. With my rant, I dont want to make it seem that there is no SIGNIFANT battery life. Because there is. With my rant, I dont want us to make a mountain out of a mole hill. If we are honest about this EV thing, there is plenty from the tech that is way way waaaaaaaay behind what we are used to with the internal combustion engine. But that is the thing. Are we expecting EV tech to be on par with tech that we have been using, improving and honing in on for the last 120 some odd years? of COURSE there HAS to be some compromises to be made with a switch to EVs. I get it, some of us do not WANT to make these compromises. Fair enough. But lets be honest about THAT then. There is no need to false news it... But then again, we have come to a point where humans have no CHOICE but TO change their ways regarding pollution. Is battery tech all that superior to gasoline tech in regards to pollution? Some say yes. Some say no. And somewhere in between those two factions the truth resides...

Yes. Considering it IS General Motors and the amount of time GM has taken to release their Ultium tech EV vehicles to the public, Im sure the right engineering has gone into them to make sure uneasy and queazy Americans about EVs wont be disappoint... Kinda like Supercruise. It took, what it was like, GM forever to introduce a smart cruise control system of the likes of Mercedes and Tesla and all others. But when Cadillac unleashed it to the world... Man-oh MAN was it gooooood! Have you noticed that GM, other than the Bolts, GM has NO OTHER EVs to sell? And GM has been promising us Ultium for 2-3 years now? Let me remind you that the Bolt is last gen Battery tech... Let me ALSO remind you that the Bolt does NOT lose THAT much battery life in cold cold weather. No need to speak Norwegian to actually see what THAT data tells us about either the Bolt OR Tesla.... as both have been sold in Canada and in the US and some of these ENGLISH speaking folk have announced it on their Youtube videos have dealt with it more or less with no real pain... There is no need to go all 'Fox News covering the Jan. 6 riots' or CNBC Chevy pick-up truck explosion' on this matter... Ill repeat, Norwegians dont seem too disturbed from their daily lives by the battery life loss in cold weather. Maybe we as uneasy, queazy Americans and Canadians shoudnt make a mountain out of a mole hill... It makes us look weak and stupid to the rest of the world...

If it werent actually transporting huge stuff, who knows why it was there?

How about we ask Norwegians and how they cope with it. After all, they have voted EVs in with their money and not their mouths...

The next big thing in commercial airplanes will be electric engines. But I doubt a specific airliner will have the impact the 747 had. In the military, the next big thing would be pilotless fighters and bombers. When that tech filters down to commercial airliners, I doubt that a specific airplane will have the same impact the 747 had. The only airplane that rivals the 747 in being a game changer on the same level was an airplane that was launched at about the same time as the 747. And that would be the Concorde. Sadly today, flying simply does not have the same aura it had like in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, especially in North America, flying is reduced to riding the city bus. Its too common, its too cheap and its available to far too many people. People that dont have any self respect, let alone asking for these people to respect their flying environment and others around them. And that is one reason why there wont be another airliner like a 747.