G. David Felt

Veggies

WTF is that UGLY Auto? I respect all of your appreciation even when you think something is lacking. Knowledge is power and you are Yoda!

Yes you Amish are all about keeping status quo and ignoring the ability to move forward with better tech. Sadly, when hybrids have been done, they have been done half ass in some cases and yet as proven by the sales, Toyota took a half ass version of the Rav4 hybrid, finally updated with a gen 2 hybrid and now that thing is superior in all ways to the ICE Rav4. Toyota needs to move forward with that on all auto's as does every other OEM.

Hoping that the new breakthroughs in Solid State batteries can get into production to keep EVs on schedule for coming out and lower prices.

Gardening

Ultimate Fake News right there, it was from Facebook.

For me, Beautiful Appreciation of the SUVs. GMC nails it far better than the mess at Chevrolet especially recently.

I am honestly surprised Toyota has not just dropped all basic ICE and put various power levels of their Prius Hybrid system into all the auto's and move forward. This is my thinking also with how Chevrolet should have pushed the Volt system into CUVs way before everyone else rather than the tight little 4 door sedan they stuck with. I honestly find the Toyota style just like the Lexus to be butt ugly. The interior looks like a mashed up mess. This will sell well to the Lemming Faithful, but I would not expect it to gain market share unless everyone else just gives up of those that are left.

With really low oil and gas prices, the EV industry is going to be in for a rough couple of years according to this review / analyst. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/now-what-electric-vehicles-coronavirus-colin-mckerracher-bloomberg/

Wonderful NOT, incompetent leadership strikes again in that the EPA has removed the laws covering regulation of lead and other harmful emissions that can affect our kids and our health all for the all mighty dollar. https://electrek.co/2020/04/16/epa-kills-mercury-pollution-rule-putting-pregnant-women-minorities-at-risk/#more-130668

Amazing the BS Junk coming out of Germany. Guess they truly cannot compete in EVs so they are falling back on making their whole product lines Hybrids and that comes with Worse MPG and pathetic electric range at that. Why bother other than to continue the last 40 years of Lying marketing BS about their quality of auto since they cannot seem to engineer anything else. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127832_2021-bmw-330e-plug-in-hybrid-23-electric-miles-but-worse-mpg-than-non-hybrid How do you bring out a new Hybrid with worse MPG on top of only a pathetic 23 miles of range. The Chevrolet Volt did better than this on pure electric and everything else. What a joke. Mercedes-benz is in the same boat, cannot deliver a quality true EV, so making the whole product line Hybrid by the end of 2020. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127830_mercedes-benz-pushes-plug-in-hybrid-tech-will-have-20-phevs-by-end-of-2020 MB latest Hybrid is rated at 43 mpg on their European test which no one ever really gets due to the loopholes and lack of real world testing which is why our EPA results are so much more accurate. So MB Hybrids really only get about 20 mpg pure electric range. Wanna understand the difference between European testing of range and the EPA testing check out this writeup. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1091877_why-european-gas-mileage-ratings-are-so-high--and-often-wrong

GMC

Hope your bum is not bruised, was 70 yesterday and sunny here in Seattle and freakin hot. ?

Too Funny, 23 1/2 hr service. Guess they gotta get 30 min of sleep daily.

Buick

Cookie Crunch Cereal

Honeycomb

But the replacement part is only $600 dollars. This was just a blow off repair, but I wonder how bad the rest of the auto was crashed and just as cheaply repaired. I agree with you that it was probably a totaled Hellcat repaired on the cheap and an attempt to sell high. I see 747's every day still as clearly Boeing is still bringing in parts for new plan production and of course, UPS and FedEx use the 747 for freight out of Pain Field north of my house.

Sad that Kia, Subaru, Honda and Hyundai all placed above Ford and Chevrolet.

WOW, this Hellcat frame repair is a Joke. https://www.facebook.com/5ee5c20c-b32e-4f72-bea1-cff42c471f62 https://www.thedrive.com/news/33006/this-sketchy-dodge-hellcat-frame-job-is-the-most-dangerous-repair-of-2020-so-far

Check out the all new Lotus EV supercar. Have to say it is a very interesting style, but does follow pretty much the rest of all the super cars for being butt on the floor. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lotus-evija-electric-supercar-configurator-colors-features/ To me very weird rectangle steering wheel, but the video showing all the built in areo dynamic affects are cool to watch.

Ford has started their Dealer training for the Mach E auto and the surprise which was posted to the Mach-E forum is that the certified power / torque rating is higher than stated at the reveal in Nov 2019. https://electrek.co/2020/04/14/ford-mustang-mach-e-power-bump-closer-production/ Here are all the updated power specs of the Ford Mustang Mach-E: RWD Standard Range Mach-E: 266 hp / 317 lb-ft / 198 kW (+11 hp, +11 lb-ft, +8 kW from original specs) RWD Extended Range Mach-E: 290 hp / 317 lb-ft / 216 kW (+8 hp, +11 lb-ft, +6 kW from original specs) AWD Standard Range Mach-E: 266 hp / 428 lb-ft / 198 kW (+11 hp, +11 lb-ft, +8 kW from original specs) AWD Extended Range Mach-E: 346 hp / 428 lb-ft / 258 kW (+14 hp, +11 lb-ft, +10 kW from original specs)

GM is offering a Covid-19 purchase package on the Chevrolet BOLT. This puts the Premiere loaded BOLT at $36,000 and the LT at $29,000 with the no payments for 4 months. Seems everything else is getting 0% for 84 months and no payment for 4 months. I did find the following additional cash discounts: Blazer has an additional $3,250 cash allowance Traverse $2,500 cash allowance Tahoe $3,750 cash allowance Suburban $3,750 cash allowance Trucks have the financing, but have to pick a local dealer based on zip code to get additional deal info. Spark has $1,000 cash allowance Sonic $1,000 cash allowance Impala has $2,000 on 2019 models, $1,500 on 2020 models cash allowance Camaro $1,500 cash allowance Corvette Stingray 2019 models $3,250 customer cash All other corvettes are regional deals based on zipcode 2020 Chevrolet Express Passenger $3,500 Customer Cash 2020 Express Cargo van $3,500 customer cash

New era in fueling stations is growing in Europe by CaCharge EVSE large-scale charging. Allows fast charging of 6 autos at a time. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/cacharges-evse-solution-is-optimized-for-large-scale-charging/ Founded in 2015 in Sweden and pushed into Norway in 2019 as the largest fueling company of EVs, they are now starting expanding across all of Europe. The system is designed to handle load management in evening out peaks and user management with payment solutions simplifying the experience of recharging your EV on the go.