G. David Felt

Ya Need to do a road trip to Seattle. Easy 18hr drive. Go through some lovely areas like Glacier National park in Montana, Wine Country around Lake Chelan in Eastern Washington and the Greater Puget sound area. Makes the trip so easy in a full size SUV.

Investment is always good news, usually some additional jobs too. Maybe some transfers from closing plants.

@balthazar @Drew Dowdell Laws are an exact copy of California and Oregon also has the same ones on the books. I have not included all of them as hunting down the exact specific places is numerous, but all the new homes built in my neighborhood on the old elementary school yard have 220 chargers in the garage. Since it is small change in the monthly payment of a house, these $600K to $850K dollar homes are advertised as EV ready. WAC 51-50-0427 Section 427—Electric vehicle charging infrastructure. 427.1 Scope. The provisions of this section shall apply to the construction of new buildings serving Group B, Group R-1 hotel and motel only, and Group R-2 occupancies. 427.2 Required electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Where parking is provided, five percent of parking spaces shall be provided with electric vehicle charging infrastructure in compliance with Sections 427.3, 427.4 and 427.5. When the calculation of percent served results in a fractional parking space, the applicant shall round up to the next whole number. EXCEPTION: Group R and Group B occupancies served by less than 20 on-site parking spaces. 427.3 Electrical room(s). Electrical room(s) serving parking areas shall be designed to accommodate the electrical equipment and distribution required to serve a minimum of 20 percent of the total parking spaces with 208/240 V 40-amp electric vehicle charging infrastructure. 427.4 Electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure shall be installed meeting one of the following requirements: 1. A minimum number of 208/240 V 40-amp, electric vehicle charging stations required to serve the parking spaces specified in section 427.2. The electric vehicle charging stations shall be located to serve spaces designated for parking and charging electric vehicles, or 2. Additional service capacity, space for future meters, panel capacity or space for additional panels, and raceways for future installation of electric vehicle charging stations. The service capacity and raceway size shall be designed to accommodate the future installation of the number of 208/240 V 40-amp, electric vehicle charging stations specified in section 427.2. The raceway shall terminate at spaces designated for parking and charging electric vehicles in the future. Where designated electric vehicle charging locations serve exterior on-grade parking spaces that are located more than 4 feet from a building, raceways shall be extended below grade to a pull box in the vicinity of the designated future electric vehicle charging locations or stub above grade in the vicinity of the designated future electric vehicle charging locations, protected from vehicles by a curb or other device. EXCEPTION: In lieu of surface-mounted raceway between the electrical panel and the designated electric vehicle charging locations, it is permitted to provide permanent markings indicating the pathway for future raceway, and one-inch diameter capped sleeves through each wall and floor assembly that are penetrated along that route. This pathway and the locations of capped sleeves shall also be indicated on the electrical plans. Raceway shall be installed for any portion of the pathway located below slabs, below grade, or within floor, wall or roof assemblies. 427.5 Electric vehicle charging infrastructure for accessible parking spaces. When electric vehicle charging infrastructure is required, one accessible parking space shall be served by electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The electric vehicle charging infrastructure may also serve adjacent parking spaces not designated as accessible parking. [Statutory Authority: RCW 19.27.031 and 19.27.074. WSR 16-03-064, § 51-50-0427, filed 1/19/16, effective 7/1/16.] We also have the approved Washington state electric vehicle action plan that covers 2015 to 2020. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/28559EF4-CD9D-4CFA-9886-105A30FD58C4/0/WAEVActionPlan2014.pdf Page 32 & 33 cover having homes to businesses, all new constructions is EV charger ready. So circuit breaker to wiring. This was from our state wide building code updates and took effect in 2015: https://des.wa.gov/about/news-media-center/washington-state-building-code-council-updates-state-codes QUOTE: Electric vehicle charging stations: New apartment, office and hotel buildings that have parking lots will be required to put infrastructure in place that supports electric vehicle charging stations. Local PSE or Puget Sound Energy our state supplier of electricity has a web site dedicated to the EV home charging: https://www.pse.com/pages/electric-cars I say go for the suburban size SUV.

Very interesting, I am loving the names that are back on Lincoln. I honestly think Cadillac would do well to go back to names on their auto's. Leave the Alphabet soup on the ICE versions, but for the EV versions go back to names.

You should check your template your using, we had problems with the custom one and @Drew Dowdell had opened a ticket, since then, I went back to the default one and no problems like that.

Very true, Washington, Oregon and California actually require in all new home construction that EV chargers are now installed in the Garage. New Apartment and Condo units have to include charging areas. So in this case, you retro fit the older homes or use public charging stations or move to a new home/apartment/condo if you want an EV charger.

Now that reminds me of an EV! I wonder if Rivian took inspiration from it.

I really hope not as the Crossover Coupe is so over done and ugly. Tired of the loss of headroom, space, etc to a stupid design trend.

Love the SL from MB but this has always been a hatchet job and pathetic HP for a Twin Turbo V6, I would have expected over 400 HP for a TTV6 motor. I am fine with this going, yes I get it that another enthusiast auto is gone, but I suspect we will have other superior EV options coming down the road. Time to let the 2 person sports car take a breath before you get more new models.

Agree, from what I have seen the Blazer is pretty much like all other over priced low end CUVs from all vendors. My gut tells me the Blazer is NOT going to do as well as they think due to the WRONG pricing.

Wish there was an easy way for the end user to flash the Nav / radio system and reload the operating system easily. That should be standard in this day and age of technology.

Yup, I think the Trackhawk is a bit overpriced too, but then most of us have talked about the V8 powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk at $45K compared to this Blazer.

Yup, those are the CARB Vapor Recovery nozzles and depending on the auto, some are a pain in the ass to fuel with as they do shutoff when not properly sealed. I hate them and look forward to the EV day when pumps are gone. @Drew Dowdell What issues are you having with the Encore?

Very true, but I have to question how small we go on ICE auto's before the interior room is just not worth the price they ask for the auto.

Yea, just double checked and realized I had the 1999 octane levels, now in 2019, 87,89,91

My daughters best friend has an Overland and the leather dash is half off and the rest lumpy and they blame her detailing by a 3rd party as to why it is coming off and as such refuse to fix it under warranty. Not happy at all, yet the regular dash in my Son's Altitude is fine going on 3yrs now. Go figure, probably a piss poor glue job by Jeep.

Looks tiny and less useful than the terrible package called Crosstrek which I just shake my head at on how poorly packaged it is.

@ccap41 @Robert Hall West coast seems to go 83 regular, 86 mid and 91 premium. Go figure. My bad, those were what they were till 1999 here, I just double checked and see it is 87, 89, 91 for regular, mid, premium.

Just searched in 150 mile range of my house and only 2 Green Jeep GC. First is a TrackHawk and second is a TrailHawk. Just tried the build tool and I see it only comes up on those two so far. Trail or Track????? Decisions, decisions, decisions!!!! ? Trackhawk Trailhawk

As long as all light systems relay this info, then I would agree with you that having this optimize with your adaptive cruise control would be an outstanding feature then.

WOW, prices are interesting for a 4x2. I wonder how much of this is to make up the $77 million dollar fine they got nailed with for missing their fuel economy numbers? ?

I like the Kinetic Blue, wish they had a Deep Forest Green for this, but having an RS configured the way I like it, is a $52,655 auto and I just have to question the value in this auto for that price.

No one my friend ever has everything they need when it comes to tools! I always seem to find a tool I need for a project.

Brexit is already having an impact on jobs that do not require college education and I see them leaving the Euro Union as an attempt by the rich to rebuild a cast system in UK. I think they have greatly missed the bigger picture here all in an attempt to grasp at holding onto the past that is already gone.