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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I plug my cell phone in every night, why not my car? Pull it in the garage, plug it in, done. Far more convenient than waiting in line for the Costco pumps. I've even switched to an electric lawn mower this year after I got tired of the constant need for repairs on my Toro. I had an electric in storage that was given to me when my father in law sold his house. Sure I have to go through the "inconvenience" of plugging it in, but it doesn't smell, there is no exhaust, it's lighter so I don't even miss the self propelled feature, and it's not breaking on me constantly.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Mm... just thought of this.... Terrain Denali Diesel.....
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Exactly. The Bolt would be an excellent second car for us for around town use, and yet would still be suitable for road trips (for the two of us) when needed. My partner has a 35 mile commute each way each day and rarely ever drives further than that. The Bolt is probably a bit small for us to roadtrip with family, but that is a limitation we're finding in our Encore already... so it's not a factor of fuel but rather size.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    The goal of this game isn't to stump the next person, but instead to give the next person as many ways out as possible. Here's how we play. 1. Person posts a favorite movie quote and names the characters/actors. 2. The next person can quote another movie by any of the prior actor's co-actors, but not from the actors in the quote. For example Colonel Mustard: How many husbands have you had? Mrs. White: Mine or other women's? Colonel Mustard: Yours. Mrs. White: Five. Colonel Mustard: Five? Mrs. White: Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong and disposable. Colonel Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies. Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable. Colonel Mustard: Right! Martin Mull and Madeline Kahn in Clue The Movie Now, the next person posts a favorite quote from another movie using any actor in Clue except Martin Mull and Madeline Kahn. So any movie quote with Tim Curry or Christopher Lloyd for example, would be acceptable. Actors and movies can be reused, just not consecutively. We'll use the quote above to get started. Feel free to use the IMDB. Remember, the idea is to give the next person a way out... not to stump them.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Start / Stop on a diesel? Interesting...
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I love to drive... but anything over 400 miles is really my limit for a single day. I do 500 or 600 miles only when absolutely needed.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    A person who mostly uses their car around town never has to fill up. They just plug in each night. Volt owners already experience this and that only has 50 miles of EV range. My friends up in Michigan who own one fill up 4 times a year.... only because the regenerator runs just to keep the gas fresh. That will certainly become an issue going forward. Certain areas of California already have that issue and Tesla has already warned abusers of the Supercharger system who would leave their cars there all day.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    The PA Turnpike has already committed to installing chargers at every single rest stop on it's network. 79 chargers between Pittsburgh and Columbus, but the Bolt wouldn't need any of them because it could cover the 185 miles with 65 miles range left to spare.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    239 between Detroit and Chicago. So..... no, the Bolt is not limited to in town use. Range anxiety is just a red herring.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Pittsburgh to DC 300+ Chargers
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Weeeelll... there's an app for that. Plugshare for Android - Plugshare for iOS There are others as well, but they tend to be brand specific, like for Tesla or Nissan Leafs or for a specific network of chargers. Plugshare gives you all of them and you can deselect the ones you don't want to see. There are 131 charger en route between Pittsburgh and Detroit.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    I'm not an over the road trucker... By the time I get to Detroit, I'm ready for a long nap. It doesn't take 8 hours to charge the Bolt on Level 3 which is what you'll usually be doing on a trip like that anyway. For 99% of the driving public, the Bolt's range is more than sufficient. Range anxiety is a red herring.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    It's not always about saving money..... no one buys a Tesla to save money. It's about saving a different kind of green. I would hardly call the Bolt limited to around town. It will get me from my house in Pittsburgh to the Renaissance Center in Detroit (295 miles) with one 30 minute stop at a Walmart in Central Ohio to top up the battery. Plug in, Stop in at El Patron for food, pee, get back on the road.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    The diesel is the Whisper Diesel that does so well in Europe. I wish they would offer it in the Encore and Regal here like they do in the Mokka and Insignia in Europe.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Wow! That's really attractive! I look forward to seeing the new Terrain.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    The 500L is like the final generation Dodge Colt Vista. Ugly bubble that isn't capable of much.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    The Venzas issue was the face.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    XTS being extended makes sense... JDN said there was a substantial redesign coming.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I think Mazda's new business model is to build cars for other manufacturers as well as their own.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    It sounds like you just described a Chevy competitors to the Ford Flex?
  21. Drew Dowdell
    On the old Pruis, the narrow low rolling resistance tires were the biggest contributor to its poor handling performance. However, the Civic Hybrid on similar tires felt much closer to at least industry average.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Well again, the bulk of Pruis sales have been of the awful to drive type as the new one has only been out for a few months now. The point that I was making was that the driving characteristics of that car clearly didn't sway consumer sentiment against it. That it is at minimum as competent as a Corolla now may be a step up, but the bar was pretty low.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Maybe they need to lose a few pounds...
  24. Drew Dowdell
    I'll try it out next week.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    On Amazon, a SanDisk 512gb is $345 and offers 7.5 hours of 4k video storage. I imagine the price per GB on the 1tb card will be even higher. You can get a 256gb of the same speed for $89 that gets you 3.7 hours of 4k storage. You can buy nearly four 256gb cards for the same price as one 512gb card. The value simply isn't there except in very specific and specialty circumstances.
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