G. David Felt

Easy, where they are bigger in China and India and both countries are going solid EV over the next 10 to 15 years, this product will be the start of their full EV portfolio. More and more Countries are setting mandates to covert to a fully EV auto industry. As such, this is the start of their new product line of EVs and the start of moving away from ICE to EV in a portfolio for sale in the US.

Fairytale

Worked this morning, watered my garden and then spent the afternoon washing and detailing my 2008 Chevrolet SS. so, shiney and mirror like! #ibizeverythingwax

Southern

Totally Disagree with you as you are trying to compare end products when the subsidies do not look at end products. The subsidies go to an industry, once the looks for and drills for oil regardless of the end product. No different than Solar, Wind or Hydro where subsidies go to it's production also regardless of the end product. The end results of the products do not matter to the subsidy as it is the Oil Industry and they get a subsidy when they already produce billions in profits and are 100 plus years old, so why do they need subsidies then compared to new clean tech production of energy sources.

Have to since that is all the records have, but then you can see in the charts that OIL still takes 3 times or more than any renewable energy source per year.

Depends I guess on where you look as these studies show Oil industry gets far more subsidies than Solar, wind, Hydro. Since WWII Oil has received $600 Billion plus 2015 & 2016 $15 billion a year given to the oil industry. Start of the Nuclear age, $100 billion in Subsidies Last Decade, $75 billion been spent on Solar and Wind. https://www.ewg.org/energy/22777/federal-energy-subsidies-what-are-we-getting-our-money https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/subsidies-for-oil-gas-nuclear-vs-renewables Interesting study showing we spend 10 times more on Fossil Fuels than our own kids education or renewables. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/united-states-spend-ten-times-more-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-than-education/#263063a34473 Another interesting comparison. https://news.energysage.com/solar-energy-vs-fossil-fuels/ If ya want to ignore all the other think tanks, then at least look at our own Federal Governments reporting of spending on this area. Clearly Geothermal, Solar, Win and Hydro do not equal what the Oil industry gets of the tax payers dollars. https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/ This is very interesting as it shows that since 2016, renewables have been reduced while Oil has been increased in subsidies. Clearly Oil with their crazy profits do not need the billions in subsidies. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35932 This is very interesting as it is an Analysis of the EIA reporting. For the first 3 quarters of 2019, Solar and Wind provided 6 times as much electricity as Natural gas plants. While natural gas production of Electricity has a diminished lead on energy production, clearly we are at a tipping point in this country where renewables will truly be the dominant source of clean power very soon. Once the reporting is complete for Q4 of 2019 and 2020, it will be very interesting to see how this plays out. https://www.renewablesnow.com/news/overview-us-wind-capacity-exceeds-hydro-while-solar-tops-oil-679030/ Another interesting read about oil subsidies. https://www.fuelfreedom.org/oil-company-subsidies/ This write up takes one thing that is missing from everything above and that is the subsidies to Oil companies for fossil fuel projects abroad. https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-closer-look-at-tax-breaks-and-societal-costs

Cool web site and good info on what GM is doing to work with the Environment rather than against it. https://www.gmsustainability.com/ One can download the sustainability report here: https://www.gmsustainability.com/_pdf/resources-and-downloads/GM_2019_SR.pdf Key bits on what the new EV roadmap which has expanded is as follows: The Product Cadence of Our Evolving EV Portfolio GM is well on its way to an all-electric future, with a commitment to 20 new electric vehicles by 2023 and plans for additional models taking us beyond that. Our all-new modular platform removes significant physical constraints associated with conventional vehicles — no need to build around gas tanks, engines, radiator or exhaust pipes, for example. In the past, EV design placed great importance on differentiating the EV visually from its ICE counterparts. No more. The flexibility of this new platform frees us to proportion vehicles to meet unique brand personas and to design around vehicle and customer segment needs. Here are the EVs that each GM brand anticipates introducing. CADILLAC GM’s luxury brand plans to introduce four electric SUVs and one statement vehicle including: • Cadillac Lyriq SUV, which is designed to hit the heart of the crossover market and meet the needs of customers around the world. • A globally sized luxury three-row SUV that emphasizes interior space and cargo capability for the modern family. • An SUV EV with attainable luxury — similar to today’s Cadillac XT4 — and aimed at this key global growth segment. • A full-size, three-row luxury SUV that builds on the DNA of the brand’s highly successful Escalade. • The Cadillac Celestiq Statement Vehicle that is an ultra-lux EV with bespoke, hand-assembled craftmanship and project build rate of only 1.2 vehicles per day. GMC Teased during the 2020 Super Bowl telecast, GMC is bringing back the iconic Hummer brand through two models: • GMC Hummer EV truck that boasts performance of 1,000 horsepower, 11,500 lb-ft of torque and 0 to 60 mph acceleration in three seconds. • GMC Hummer EV SUV builds off the GMC Hummer EV truck but will be configured as an off-road-capable SUV. CHEVROLET Building on the success of the 2020 Chevrolet Bolt EV, which offers new front-end design and other exterior updates, the brand intends to launch: • A mid-sized SUV targeted to U.S. customers who are looking for an electric option in this segment. • Chevrolet BET Truck, which will be the brand's first electric full-size pickup, offering 400+ miles of range on a single charge. • Chevrolet Bolt EUV that features a distinctive SUV design inspired by the Chevy Blazer and offers Super Cruise driver assistance — the first vehicle outside of Cadillac to do so. BUICK Two new all-electric entries for the Buick portfolio will carry the new face of the brand: • A Buick SUV will offer more conventional crossover proportion that maximizes interior space and cargo. • A Buick CUV will feature more expressive proportion with a greater emphasis on form and athletic fashion. In addition, the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle will be the first production vehicle from our partnership with Honda. Read about the Origin on page 74.

Cognac

Higher Taxes on the Auto's that are polluting and increase gas tax.

Working tonight and have found even though I cannot understand what they say, the K-Pop music is enjoyable.

Dessert

good or bad?

NY has now committed $750 million dollars to install state wide 53,773 Level 2 chargers and 1,500 DC fast chargers throughout the state. https://electrek.co/2020/07/17/new-york-state-750-million-ev-charging-infrastructure/

BMW is ramping up production of Electric drive units that no longer require rare earth materials along with ramping up battery production. Win Win for leaving behind rare earth elements and increasing production of EV. BMW also says that Plug-in and ICE will still be critical parts of their portfolio till at least 2030. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/bmw-expands-e-drive-production-capacity/ GM has also launched another new model in their Buick family for their largest auto market under the Buick banner. The Buick Velite 6 PHEV is a dual electric motor AWD auto with a 1.5 L generator allowing it to go 60 KM on pure electric and then up to 780 KM on generator. This equates to 37 miles pure electric and 485 miles on generator. https://media.gm.com/media/cn/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/cn/en/2020/Jul/0703_Buick.html

Acorn Squash with Butter

Na great Coronavirus apocalypses is coming. After all NY still has the most infected.

Exciting as this will also be a standard CCS charge port rather than the Leaf Proprietary port. Nice looking but still a bit too blah for me in style. Should sell well to the Nissan faithful.

Seems GM has decided to kill the Fuel cell car for the commercial market globally and focus the resources on EVs and ICE. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gm-new-fuel-cell-electric-vehicle/

Raised Bed

They still have their trailer and one location, the southern food is Da Bomb. Limited Menu, but better than nothing. https://biscuitbitch.com/ Mask up Bitches per their web site! Menu Love: https://biscuitbitch.square.site/s/order?location=11ea68c98f76d396a76c0cc47a2b1e8c#2

Very cool recovery of a Chevy Pickup at 11,000 feet.

Nissan while coming out with CHAdeMO Version 3.0 that runs at the 350kW charging level, has dropped their standard except for China and Japan which will continue to use it. The rest of the world will get CCS standard charging ports when the new Ariya EV comes out per Inside EV write up here: https://insideevs.com/news/433929/nissan-switches-to-ccs-in-us-europe/ Top is the Nissan proprietary plug versus the CCS plug bottom.

Crossrally circuit has now added a EV version to the competition. As such, Ford is considering if they should build a Rally package for the Mach e. What are your thoughts on this concept? This is soo funny, not once, not twice, but three times the Tesla X CRUSHES the Ferrari. This has me just cracking up that a design would not be tested to insure it could handle going through puddles of water. WTF Tesla?