G. David Felt

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.

Seems not all companies in China shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic there. Byton auto company resumed after sterilizing the plant and putting in place social distancing to allow work to continue as they started pre-production models of the M-Byte EV CUV. The company confirmed they are on track to begin sales in China this fall and US sales early next year. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127812_byton-m-byte-ramping-up-at-china-plant-still-on-track-for-2021-us-arrival

Disagree, while I DO NOT and NEVER HAVE Ride shared with strangers, Uber and Lyft give a variety of auto choices compared to the nasty smelly yellow cabs that can die for all I care. The only time I ever need one is when I go to attend Dell Technology World or what we call DTW. Sadly Covid-19 has delayed this to a virtual trade show in October. Hopefully a benefit of Covid-19 will be to shutdown businesses that were barely staying afloat check by check and we end up with a cleaner transit system. Nice as to how clean the grocery stores have become with sterilized carts.

@oldshurst442 @balthazar Seems Birmingham has started Covid-19 ride sharing. ? Seems some companies are already looking at ways to isolate in pods in ride share auto's. Wonder if some people will get sick from the spin motion. ?

Butterfly ?

Cat ? To eat your ?

News today, GM has officially filed the Hummer by GMC new logo with the Trademark office. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88784232&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=documentSearch The old logo was a bulky very much expected logo, the new logo would not be wrong on an auto found in the game Halo on a futuristic world. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/04/general-motors-trademarks-new-logo-for-gmc-hummer-ev-as-expected/ Nice update to the old fat logo: Course if your wanting to remember why GM killed Hummer the first time, here is a recap story on that. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/13/gm-killed-the-hummer-then-suv-sales-surged.html Never knew there was a Hummer bike that sold so well that it was counterfeited. The bike is still a high demand heavy duty off road bike and the counterfeits are still made. https://www.montaguebikes.com/folding-bikes-blog/2014/09/montague-bikes-how-to-spot-a-counterfeit Interesting read on how the GM Ultima battery beats Tesla Battery. This should be a good battle of auto companies. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/business/gm-electric-car-battery-400-miles-of-range/index.html Detroit free press did an update on the upcoming 11 EVs from GM. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2020/03/04/gm-unveils-10-future-evs-new-batteries-and-its-plan-beat-tesla/4905906002/

CRATE MOTORS EV in a Box Yup a full sentence, but very cool when you consider the future of Crate Motors. https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/gm-electric-crate-engine/

Friend finally flew back from Chicago to San Francisco as he had just before the lock down, went to visit his family in Chicago for 2 weeks that ended up being 2 months as this was early to mid February. Jose told me that you had a full flight crew and no one in first class, but a total of 3 people in coach on the flight. 3 stewardesses for 3 people. each was spread out across the flight and the stewardesses also had to sit in the coach section for take off and landing to balance the plane for the 6 of them. He said it was the weirdest flight ever, but service was amazing. Flight cost was still normal prices, so they might be moving freight as the plane took a while to fill up the belly with the freight but clearly no real discounts yet. I doubt there will be as once travel starts up, I doubt there will be much. Heard from many companies that are doing decent in sales with no travel and even my company has informed the global sales staff that future travel will be very restricted since we clearly are not needing the face to face like we used too. Only face to face is the engineers who are going on site to data centers to fix hardware. This is the start of a major transition in how we do business and interact with others.