G. David Felt

Ouch crazy prices are bad for all, but then it is a capitalist society with what ever the market will bare.

OUCH Ford is scaring people today with their $11 billion restructure plan and lay offs. @A Horse With No Name Seems the stock is down today to 2009 pricing. Recession level based on what this story is saying. https://jalopnik.com/fords-layoff-plan-is-making-a-ton-of-people-nervous-re-1829751888 https://corporate.ford.com/homepage.html Weird that no official info is on their web site.

https://jalopnik.com/the-strangest-desert-festival-in-the-world-makes-everyo-1829467474 The ultimate tribute to the Mad Max series of movies. Check out the story and pictures. It has gotten crazy big and looks like allot of fun. I so could so many of you there!

Awesome, much appreciated, thank you.

@William Maley How is the interior space for big people? I grew up with my parents having a 626, my moms car and later my oldest sister got a Mazda 6 in 2007 which if I was in the front no one could sit behind me. So how is the interior space and rear headroom with that coupe sedan design?

An SUV to make ya go H'mmmmm ? Interesting how they got this from that above.

Yesterday was a weird day, driving on the freeway and no time to snap a pic but saw an AMC Javlin kind like this one off the web. Have to say I kinda like the body design. Maybe just a nice big change form the over abundance of the mustang and camaro everywhere I look. Also as I was exiting I saw an old metro van like this: Wife asked what it was as she had not seen anything like it before. Weird day with old iron that you rarely see anymore.

Bummer, sorry it did work but the web site seems to kill their older pages.

Disagree, their Debt load is so big, I suspect that the next recession will cause them to finally have to go bankrupt to unload their excessive legacy debt and pension obligations.

Thank you, that is cool!

Big Trucks = Getting ready for the Zombie Apocalypse!

Friend, Ya just did!

OUCH this is gonna cost VW again! Bloody crazy what all they have done.

gonna take more than 7 years, maybe 14 to 20 but this is a good move long term.

China Leads the market in EV sales and now they have decided they cannot allow anyone to lead in self driving autos. pony.ai is an autonomous technology startup that is raising funds to push science fiction to reality not just in China but around the world. Recently they just raised $102 million in funding to expand their testing. They currently are a Level 4 autonomous vehicle startup with the HQ in Beijing and remote offices in Fremont California and Guangshou, China. This company founded in 2016 by Tiancheng Lou who worked previously at Baidu an AI company and James Peng a programmer who was part of Googles autonomous program started the company to build systems that could work on any auto. The focus is a complete software stack that works both internally in the auto and externally taking into account action of what is going on around the perimeter of the auto, what is being done inside the auto and what humans may try to do to the auto. The goal is a software solution that is fully independent that can be sold to any auto company. With a quality management team / founders, young staff of graduates and their A and B funding secured, the company is now worth $1 billion dollars without selling a single software solution yet. GAC Group (Guangshou Automotive Group Co) has signed a strategic agreement with pony.ai in February 2018 to cover all aspects of self driving for their product line of auto's. Currently they have a public course that the AI auto's are available for use by the publik in Nansha, Guangzhou and covers a total of 2.8km route. While China currently lags behind the US in AI autonomous driving, no one should ignore them as China is the new Silicon Valley hotbed for tech startups. From software, motors, to battery tech, the Chinese government is helping companies to become global players and take over the markets due to their market protectionism. This does bring up big questions around protecting their market at the cost of competition from the US, Europe or other Asian countries. Japan and Korea have decided to open AI development centers with partners in China to keep from getting blocked out. Does this mean that GM's ownership and work in San Francisco that Honda just bought a piece of could be in jeopardy of getting into the Chinese market? EV Obsession Story

Thank you OK, you have that stupid rubber piece below, but probably helps with airflow. hood is a bit taller, but windshield looks smaller. Over all top of the trucks look the same. Honestly, without some sort of measuring tool, I doubt anyone would ever really know there is a change in the drag coefficient. Thank you again for posting, this is great.

I do like Workhorse electric van. Focus is on commercial use at this time. UPS, FedEx and the USPS are all using it in tests for residential delivery work. 100 miles under freight load. This would be nice for both inner city and residential delivery where range is right in the 80 miles per day use. Quiet

I like this, different than all the other trucks out there. Needs some tweaking but I like it. I like the interior and the fact that this is made with a Carbon Fiber frame and was built to give 186 miles in the cold of northern Canada and be used off road shows this was for more than just normal road use. They sure took a page from Tesla with the large center display. Yet this was also built in partnership with the University of Toronto. So I am thinking more a project study than actual production when it was shown off last year. Original published story: https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/02/havelaar-canada-unveils-electric-truck-called-bison/ Havelaar is quiet on their long range plans for this truck. http://www.havelaarcanada.com/bison/ Is it worse than the Workhores W15 that is going into production and they have numerous reservations for? This is a pickup with EV range and a built in generator for even longer driving. 80 miles pure electric up to 80MPH and the generator kicks in for a total of 310 miles. https://workhorse.com/pickup/ You might not like the style or power train, but at least these companies are offering diversity of truck style and options. OEMs seem to be stuck in a rut.

Gotta Love Custom old trucks! Custom cars, nothing better.

@balthazar What do you think? Decisions, Decisions, Decisions ? Sexy Ford, Yes I would take this over a Mustang!

@A Horse With No Name I quote this as he is right on! And this is my point...less than passionate efforts lead to less than spectacular results. The auto industry is showing passion, there are many waiting to get their first exposure to a solid less maintenance driving experience in EVs. You have lost on how your resistance will not stop the world moving forward with EVs. EVs make noise, just not enough for blind people. So companies are taking that into consideration. The nice thing is above 20 MPH they are silent and lovely when you are driving around. Leave the noise on the race track and embrace the natural sound of Earth.

Seems the charts speak for themselves. You can read the story at Jalopnik or go to ISEECARS and read each on individually. American and Asian rule the lowest depreciation on auto's. A few US and Asian auto's but the Germans rule the highest depreciation on auto's. Jalopnik story ISEECARS website

WOW, Idiot walked away according to various sources with a broken jaw, missing teeth and broken shoulder. https://jalopnik.com/mustang-split-in-half-during-idiotic-street-racing-cras-1829680148

Jaguar has now added their own sound for inner city driving so blind people especially can hear the auto.

@A Horse With No Name What do you think of their new pickup?