G. David Felt

Some things in life are best left alone. I was not aware that in 1975 there were GM certified custom coach builders and as such with full warranty this 1975 Cadillac Eldorado went from the factory to the coach builder and was converted into a station wagon before going to the Cadillac Dealer and sold with full GM warranty. This is one of 2 certified Eldorado station wagons built and blessed by GM. More pictures of the interior on the link below. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37758/this-very-rare-custom-1975-cadillac-eldorado-station-wagon-could-be-yours-for-just-30000

Honda E EV auto while having great reviews failed in one area that led to only 1,000 units sold so far year to date. The reason is range. Honda went with a 35kWH battery pack good for 137 miles of range and at the same price you have the Renault Zoe which is #2 in EV sales behind Tesla in Europe selling 10's of thousands of auto's that has a 245 mile battery pack for the same price in the same segment. Honda has since partnered with GM to use their EV platform to offer subcompact and compact EVs to the world on the same platform that will lower EV entry prices. As such in the mean time till Honda can start producing their new line of EVs, Honda has followed FCA in buying hundreds of millions in clean air credits from Tesla. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/did-poor-honda-e-sales-spur-the-decision-to-buy-ev-credits-from-tesla/

Texas continues their march away from the Oil industry by embracing Green Energy and focusing on the new business that will go into the next century and beyond. Texas will now host the largest solar power station in the US. Producing 1,310 Megawatts of energy upon completion. The Solar Farm or what is being called the Samson Solar Energy Center will support five major consumer brands and three Texas municipalities. AT&T: 500 MW Honda: 200 MW McDonald's: 160 MW Google: 100 MW The Home Depot: 50 MW City of Bryan, TX: 150 MW City of Denton, TX: 75 MW City of Garland, TX: 25 MW This is a $1.6 Billion dollar capital investment supporting over 600 jobs over the 36 month construction period. Additionally this will bring more than $250 million to Landowners for payment of land use and support the local community in what is estimated at $200 million in property tax payments over the life of the project. The project will be online and fully operational by 2023. The power produced will support 300,000 homes. The Texas power grid is becoming one of the most modern in the country as they add 3.5 GW of green energy capacity this year and an additional 5.5 GW in 2021. https://electrek.co/2020/11/20/texas-largest-solar-project-us-samson/

I will take the Dash of the 63 with the red seats of the 62. I hate white seats as they show all the dirt and over time become more grey than white. White is one of the most terrible interior colors for an Auto. The 62 dash has way too much chrome in comparison to the 63 which I like way better and the over all layout is just awesome I think.

I understand and respect your work ethic. In regards to the 455 stations, those are the Open to the Public ones. I get that you might think that one listed at a police station is only for Municipal vehicles, but supposedly they are supposed to be open to use by the public otherwise they are not included according to the fine print. That does not include the private service charge points which increase even more charge locations if your part of that companies plan. I find it weird that your Costco does not have Diesel as every Costco here has diesel in addition to multiple regular gas. Put in your zip code and you can see what the current gas price is for the Costco closest to you. https://www.costco.com/warehouse-locations Update: I did find that Business Costco does not have Diesel here but all the regular ones seem to have diesel.

https://www.drivegreen.nj.gov/charging.html That is a good read, thanks for posting Surreal1272

Cool rides, lots to like about them and a few things to not. But over all, cool rides for the outdoors.

I like this

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Distracted by those Pec's and guns I see!

Take a time machine and you can get this awesome little 1980 truck in your color. They even sold it in Diesel. In Highschool and College, I had my dads 1976 Luv Truck in White like this one. Awesome little trucks, solid and just went. So much better than the S10 Chevrolet replaced it with initially.

Yet you probably do not have a gas station on site at your home, maybe a holding tank for some Jersey cans, but you probably do not have an in ground with active electric gas pump on site to fuel your auto's. Yet you already have all you need to recharge and insure having a full battery pack every day from your house so there is no need to stop in the morning to fuel up. For the type of work you do, you probably have access to electrical outlets so you could always top off as they say with electrons if you needed it. Your right New Jersey away from really dense areas has far fewer charging outlets than other areas but it is growing and upon looking at the map with 1,350 public charging outlets from 455 charging stations that are Type 2 and DC fast charging. Over all there is more than enough charging stations that allows one to be able to do road trips across all of New Jersey. As @Drew Dowdell has stated before, it is a change in mentality of going from stopping to fill up the tank at the end of the day or first thing in the morning to plugging in when you get home and have a full battery pack in the morning. Of the almost 300 million auto's in the US, I doubt most of them like 85% ever really go on a road trip compared to just being driven for local errands and work. Most people can and would be just fine having an EV. I find it interesting to look at various states and see how fast things are changing. State of Texas, a land of Guns and Oil has 1,445 EV stations with 4,386 charging outlets. State of Pennsylvania has 672 EV Stations and 1,856 charging outlets. State of Florida has 1,595 EV Stations and 4,681 charging outlets. State of Alaska has 26 EV Stations and 46 charging outlets. State of California has 6,936 EV Stations and 29,194 charging outlets. Course this does not take into account how fast businesses are adding charging on site for employee use nor the fact that many never use public charging as they have a level 2 charger at home or for the frugal ones which I have many coworkers this way who say I am not going anywhere over night so why spend money when I can just plug into a 110 outlet.

I have seen the exempt plates that government vehicles get on what is clearly personal auto's and wondered the same thing. That is odd and how do they get their personal auto with an exempt plate or commercial plate. Very bizarre.

Totally agree that BMW has failed styling for decades. So many better things even in Europe over what BMW is building.

Cool Project, Wonder how he will keep the exhaust out of the inside so one does not suffocate to death?

Question, I have not gone to look myself, but it would imply based on your post that you still have to have a TRD packaged version to get the manual. You cannot just get a base level truck with Manual Transmission, etc. like in the old days a decade ago. My neighbor has his truck base everything, manual windows, manual door locks, manual transmission and from what I see, you cannot do that anymore.

I also noticed that high maintenance cost and wish they would break it out to better understand what it relates too compared to the ICE version. It does go against everything Tesla has said as well as what real world owners post about such a low cost maintenance.

Hey William, the tires are clearly low profile. Are they run flat tires? Do you believe there is a chance for Rim damage by having the TRD handling package since you said you felt everything? What is the standard tire on this auto or is these the standard?

A face only a mother could love! ?

Usually I would agree with you, but what I have been reading and even heard from my own dealership I take my auto's to for service is that it is a huge improvement over the current BOLT as to why when GM realized they had leaked the next gen Bolt in a video covering other products, they took it down before too many people saw it on the GM web site. Sadly it does not seem anyone did screen captures. This was the teaser from a few weeks back that GM released. Which does go with the quick pic that was taken on the road when it was seen. Here is what GM Authority Mag believes it will look like based on the teaser above and the pic taken in the wild. Which I think is better than the current one. Even the new dash and interior is better than the old. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/11/gm-shows-glimpse-of-2022-chevy-bolt-euv-dashboard-video/

Next Generation Chevrolet Bolt caught in the wild in California as they were filming it. Very interesting break down of the actual cost of using a Tesla S as a police car compared to an ICE police car. Full detailed report is in the link below. https://electrek.co/2020/11/19/tesla-model-s-passes-test-police-car-fremont-fuel-cost/#more-155905

Right up your Amish alley!

Valid points, but I think especially in California where EV West does a ton of EV Conversions, people who are spending the kind of money we are talking about are also holding onto these auto's a long time. Case in point is my self. Bought New in 1993, my 1994 GMC Suburban SLE. Driven as is till 2007 when I had the V8 350 rebuilt at 200,000 miles into a custom built 402 and put another 60k miles on that before I then converted it to CNG since it required premium gas when it was hitting $5 a gallon here costing $250 to fill the rather large extended range tank on it. CNG fueling from my home took me to 83 cents per gallon and it is still there, but I am looking to do another auto project just like all of us auto enthusiasts and I see AWD EV Suburban being quiet as the wife likes about our Escalade ESV and powerful. So a Connect and Cruise AWD EV package is what I see as the perfect conversion. I will pull the 402 with custom built transmission and my custom differentials and sell them, then putting that money into the EV conversion. The battery pack is the most expensive part of this and I hope that by the time I get to doing this project, prices will as I expect continue to drop reducing the over all price. Nice part is that like your B59 Buick, I do not have to deal with airbags and all the rest of the electronic nanny devices since this is a 1994 auto. I do plan to have a backup camera as I love the benefit it gives to getting way closer to things than ones own eye can do from inside the auto.

Battery tech is moving away from precious rare earth elements and that is proven in a variety of new solid state battery production that comes online next year for a wide variety of EVs that will be produced next year and moving forward. No Charging Network, please state where you actually live as I am willing to bet there are far more charging options than you are aware of or willing to acknowledge. Cold weather issues have been made moot. How you will ask, easy just like ICE auto's loose MPG efficiency in cold weather, batteries do too, to offset this, we have Hydro thermal management and that has been proven well by Tesla and GM in their current EVs where people have lost some range but over all still have plenty to get out and about to work, errands, etc. You are right on it will take time and yet we have seen where properly motivated and supported, you can change the masses to embrace change. NORWAY leads the world with over 60% of new auto sales being EVs for the last 2 years and climbing. Yes a small country compared to the US, but a great example of how they have embraced change for a better healthy life for the MASSES. Here are sites that track where one can charge their EV. https://www.plugshare.com/ https://chargehub.com/en/charging-stations-map.html If you do not like 3rd party mapping sites, then use the Governments own location site that shows the 100's of thousands of charging locations and growing. https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_stations.html

Not Everyone got invited to the live Barclays 2020 Automotive Conference, but there is the PDF press release you can get all the juicy details on GM over the next 10 years of what they wanted to announce here: https://investor.gm.com/static-files/66b83c73-17f3-426a-9618-393cea479c19 The Chart set that has additional cool details is available here: https://investor.gm.com/static-files/6e4732bd-c07d-43c0-80e8-9e2294b903fc Cool part is that multiple auto sources were there on the Video concall and did screen captures of EV's they talked about. Example is the TEASE of the all new Chevrolet EV Pickup Truck. The Silverado pickup will have a 400 mile battery pack and higher options as well. https://electrek.co/2020/11/19/gm-teases-electric-pickup-truck-prototype/ Here is the full screen image grabbed by Electrek that shows the Hummer by GMC SUV and what is a Chevrolet CUV EV. https://electrek.co/2020/11/19/gmc-hummer-ev-suv-version-first-peek/