G. David Felt

Exotic

GM has done this as I get emails all the time about my parents Cadillac's. Very weird, no matter what I do to correct this or them, it always gets merged back into my email address. Auto companies suck at keeping family members with same name separate for communications.

Wall

Like a Virgin

I will say that it was weird when I started using it as I had to retrain my self from QWERTY. I could never see any benefit to Dvorak. But for what I do, the Maltron makes allot of sense.

California CARB has released their final draft of the Advanced Clean Trucks Standard and entered their 30 Day public comment period. Not going political on this or taking a side one way or another, but lets look at the facts of what California is proposing for Diesel from Semi trucks Class 8 all the way down to your Ford, GM and Ram pickup trucks. This policy would apply to manufactures that sell 500 or more trucks of any class a year in the state. So by 2035 here it is by the numbers. Class 8 or what is known as Semi Trucks 40% sold have to be Electric Medium Duty trucks, this is HD delivery trucks and vans 75% have to be electric Consumer trucks such as the F250 or Silverado 55% have to be electric CARB says that this new standard that could go into effect by end of 2020 would require that 4,000 of the estimated 75,000 new consumer truck sales would have to be electric by 2024 with 20% of the trucks on the road in California being electric by 2035. There are currently 27 companies in California that sell 70 models of electric trucks / buses. The Union of Concerned Scientists hailed this standard but said it does not go far enough and the reason for this is as follows: 28 million trucks / buses on the roads of America represent 10% of all vehicles on the road in America, but these trucks / buses contribute 28% of carbon emissions, 45% of Nitrous oxides and 57% of particulate matter pollution. Diesel being the most toxic fuel used in the transportation business. Interesting note about this is that China current emission standards and plan to go to an all electric auto economy by 2040 has fashioned it after CARB. China is watching CARB on this as the commercial truck / bus industry is the last sector to be updated with new regulations to push into the EV era. Now by the numbers and the fact that many companies are outside of the state of California and deliver or pickup in the state using trucks registered elsewhere will not force an all out transition from one fueled by Diesel to one powered by battery pack or Hydrogen. California Trucking Association is disheartened by this standard being pushed out at a time of a pandemic with businesses in survival mode and what many believe will end up being a generational recession that could last a decade to recover from. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/rulemaking/2019/advancedcleantrucks https://chargedevs.com/newswire/california-proposes-to-enact-zero-emission-mandate-for-commercial-vehicles/

Guess you have one of the standard qwerty keyboards compared to the various other types that most computer engineers use. Such as a Dvorak or Maltron Keyboard. Maltron, very common in my line of works has the OR next to each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Dvorak Just in case you want to see all the various layout types. Maltron Keyboard Dvorak Keybaord Industry most common keyboard, QWERTY

Thanks for pointing out my sausage fingered typing. LOL Fixed it. Yup a dead long gone oil company. FYI - Rockefeller family trust divested of all oil stocks in 2016 as they are focused on cleaner environmentally better ways of living life. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-family-is-exiting-the-oil-business/

Yes such lovely innovation of Covid-19 masks. Amazing the innovation of humanity especially in China.

Ya just summed up coal mining and so many other things on top of rare metals which latest versions of batteries no longer need or leave toxic messes under ground where people live or on top of the ground as the latest rig explosions in Oklahoma and North Dakota has done. Lucky for us with advances in EVs we can leave behind eventually the ICE age of old auto's and move forward with the 21st century.,

True, but we do not have to drill baby drill and destroy the planet we live on as is happening in so many places.

obnoxious

Piss Beer

AWESOME JOB FORD!!! Ford took a concept and went to production in a positive air hood system for health care workers that is battery powered with the required HEPA filter in 40 days. This keeps all the nasty viruses away while allowing a much more positive safe working setup for end users. This is CDC approved. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-respirator-healthcare-workers-coronavirus/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/ford-covid-19-coronavirus-respirator/35/ Note the Health Care worker is wearing gloves and face mask while she modeled the unit for pictures. You would not normally wear the paper face mask.

EV FAILURE, Not a term I would likely use normally or lightly use at all, but Lexus has made me use this term in regards to their First Lexus EV that just went on sale in China, will go on sale in Europe at the end of the year and the US next year. WHY do I think this is an EV FAILUE? Simple, following the official release from Lexus, we start with the positive. Decent battery warranty, 10 years or 1 million KM or about 621,000 miles. So they do believe in their battery but then Nissan did too and for gen 1 and gen 2 of the Nissan leaf you get the same type of battery, air cooled battery pack of 54.3 kilowatt size. Lexus, like Nissan is using the onboard AC system to to circulate cooled air around the battery pack and heating elements in the floorboard to deal with cold weather use. Lexus uses an active management system compared to Nissan's passive system. This in comparison to Tesla, Rivian, GM who all believe a liquid temp controller circulation system while a bit heavier is better for optimizing battery life and density. This is also proven out by a story electrek did on 8 lessons about EV battery health from a 6,300 EV fleet. You can read the Electrek story for the 8 lessons and all the details on battery health, but the core is that liquid temp controlled battery packs degrade at 2.3% annually compared to air cooled battery packs at 4.2%. The other reason for liquid cooling is that if Nissan and Toyota / Lexus expect to go beyond a 50kW DC fast charging rate, they will need the liquid cooling to manage temperature when Quick Charging. For the best selling Electric auto from Nissan, the Leaf, one has to wonder if they are really committed to the EV auto's like they say they are. https://electrek.co/2019/12/14/8-lessons-about-ev-battery-health-from-6300-electric-cars/ https://newsroom.lexus.eu/ux-300e-first-all-electric-lexus-offers-class-leading-quality-and-a-10-year-battery-warranty/

We are supposed to hit 80 today and all weekend long. WTF, this is supposed to be spring showers.

True, petroleum products are used in all forms of auto's. While Net Profit is lower than gross profit, also the accounting as the link I posted with the gross profit shows the rest of the accounting picture and they truly manipulate the system to avoid paying taxes on the profit with all kinds of crazy expenses and manipulation. Too bad the CEO is not paid on Net Profit as they clean house on the gross profit bonus payments. Oil if far more profitable than their net profit shows and I still do not believe they deserve or really need the billions in dollars the government gives them. After all you and I as small business owners do not get the supplement payouts that many especially big oil gets from the gov.

Current average prices for fuel here in western washington is as follows: Regular = $2.29 Mid Grad = $2.53 Premium = $2.68 Diesel = $2.75

Got it, an east coast thing since that does not exist on the west coast. Saw an L train in a movie once. Clyde Dales

Imagine your B59 could end up having a Marine 4 banger Diesel in it if we became like Cuba.

Yes, I was off by a few years thinking of when they had multiple years of $100 billion plus gross profit, but the end point is that the oil industry DOES NOT need billions from the tax revenue of the government. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

picked up the SS from the dealership after GM under warranty replaced a failed front left wheel bearing hub assembly. Ran into a guy picking up a new CT6 V edition. Was loving it, I asked him what he traded in and he pointed to a BMW i8. Had 28,000 miles plus on it. Said his wife loved how quiet the auto was but wanted space and to not be sitting to low on the ground. He said alsonif BMW could build it without all the maintenance as the extended range system required more work than a normal auto due to having to disassemble so much of the body to get to the hybrid system. I would say cool auto that was a build fail for low maintenance.

A new awesome Bremach T-Rex truck is now for sale. Bargain price of $120,000 Your choice of powertrain, Gas, Natural Gas, Hybrid or Electric are their 4 power train choices. https://theawesomer.com/bremach-t-rex/96549/

Italian

Like the Influenza of 1918/1919, expect this over the next 18 to 24 months. I expect an increase in cases for the fall, the time to take an actual real vaccine, test, verify and then produce for global use will take time, so I do not see an end to social distancing and shelter in place at home till after 2021.