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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Agility Fuel solutions is happy to announce their CARB certification approval of their updated GM 6.0 Liter V8 Engine for CNG applications. COSTA MESA, CA – August 16, 2018 – Agility Fuel Solutions, a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, announced today that it has received California Air Resources Board (CARB) certifications for its first natural gas-powered engine. The Agility 366NGTM, a General Motors 6.0L engine with an Agility natural gas fuel system, is certified to meet the CARB Optional Low NOx Emissions Standards and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. In addition, Agility also received CARB Heavy-Duty On-Board Diagnostics (HD-OBD) certification with full compliance. The certified engine is suited for school bus, walk-in van, cutaway chassis, cabover, terminal tractor, and medium-duty work truck applications in all 50 states. It is available to vehicle OEMs as a standalone engine or as a fuel system only and can be combined with Agility’s compressed natural gas storage solutions resulting in a complete end-to-end natural gas solution for Class 4-6 medium-duty vehicles. “This certification demonstrates Agility’s capabilities to meet newer, more stringent engine certification requirements, including HD-OBD,” said Brad Garner, Agility’s President – Powertrain Systems. “In addition, because this engine is certified to the Optional Low NOx standard, fleets using this engine will qualify for a higher level of grant funding and rebates.” About Agility Fuel Solutions Agility Fuel Solutions is a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Its product offerings include natural gas, hydrogen, and battery electric energy storage and delivery systems, Type 4 composite natural gas cylinders, propane and natural gas fuel systems, and propane dispensers. Agility offers solutions for a variety of vehicle types, including Class 8 trucks, refuse trucks, transit buses, school buses, concrete mixers, and delivery trucks. Agility has been manufacturing and servicing safe and reliable clean fuel solutions for commercial vehicle fleets and OEMs for more than 20 years, logging billions of miles on the road per year. For more information, visit www.agilityfs.com Agility Fuel Solutions Press Release
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    That segment is so small it is a waste of time and resources to go after. Most people DO NOT want a coupe on steroids as a CUV. Waste of effort and time for all auto companies. The Germans can continue to beat themselves up over it for the what 100-200 sold a month.
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    From time to time, various manufactures will give SPIFFs on selling their hardware. I know I have seen retail folks use crazy lies to get you to buy a product they get a $25 spiff on. Yet a quick sale can come back to haunt a person if they are not careful.
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    Technology is cool, but we are not there yet and I think it will take a generation, aka 10 years to get there.
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    This will so make the auto's last longer and be much more comfy come this winter for you. Awesome move! @Drew Dowdell Seems really weird but since the image posting bug, the emoticons now seem to have a bug that if you use a keyboard shortcut it gives the weird image icon and the shortcut for it but does not really post the emoticon. Yet this time it worked for me. Weird even the menu now has some weirdness to it. Weird, the image showed fine of my screen capture but submitting it shows the same problem we had before with images. Must be an expansion of the bug in the software.
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    @Cory Wolfe Great to hear from you, sorry to hear about your job. Stay positive always good things happen. Have you thought about going into content writing for the High tech industry or the auto industry in regards to the various positions the Auto companies have for content writing or as I stated High Tech? I know of plenty of positions where we could use solid folks creating solid quality manuals, white papers, blogs for technology. Wishing you all the best on your next adventure.
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    So true, it really did start around 1940!
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    We survived the 70's and 80's putting the kids there with no problem before the Gov had to protect us from ourselves!
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    BMW has some ugly CUVs. The coupe thing is just VSS-S is GM's new platform, what does the initials stand for?
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    Agree with @Cubical-aka-Moltar Green house has not really changed and other than the license plate, it just looks like a scalled down size between the 3 CT versions. Truly hope they are clearly different looking.
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    OK, for those that do not want to read the long heavy testing to see who wins what, here is a recap: Features (Cores & PCIe Lanes) Winner AMD Overclocking Winner Tie Coolers (heating/power consumption) Winner AMD Motherboards Winner Intel Gaming Performance Winner Intel Productivity Performance Winner Tie Value Winner AMD Bottom Line Winner AMD
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    Gotta love Toms Hardware reviews. Great review of the bleeding edge new CPUs from Intel and AMD. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2-vs-intel-skylake-x,5727.html?utm_source=th-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180815-th
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    For it's day when new, not a bad looking SUV, but the Envision wins hands down as the better looking ute.
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    Yes, from an engineering standpoint all the box's are ticked and it does beat my TBSS. Take driving experience into consideration and I still would put it up against a CX9 and in most cases unless it is another well experienced professional driver would win. But your point is valid and I do agree with it from that standpoint.
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    That would be a fun drive comparison. Unless they drastically updated the driving characteristics from the 2018 model year that I had for 2 weeks, I would say in comparison to the one I drove on my 25 wedding anniversary, that no my TBSS beats it. I doubt the CX9 could handle what I have done in the 130 -150mph range of my SS.
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    LOL, I find the Mazda to be butt ugly and trying to hard to look like the rest of Mazda ugly car family. Rather take an Atlas that truly looks more SUV like and deal with a boring look but more functionality. Not ture, I love to drive and love performance as to why I own a Trailblazer SS. While not the best on interior space, it looks like a traditional SUV and drives like a Corvette out of hell. ?
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    @William Maley Do we have a listing of the 30 top markets this is happening in?
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    WOW for AWD that really is a hit. Thank you
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    DOH, We got our hand caught in the cookie jar and now are trying to make it Fake News.
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    Maybe the next Tahoe / Suburban will get a more Corvette look. ?
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    Interesting to see what these two companies bring to the table in a Hybrid and EV model.
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    Cool, I totally agree with the assessment of the Buick and Trax. I am excited that the Trax is going revolutionary in it's style. Should really help pump up sales. Buick already has a winning formula, so evolutionary makes sense to keep the auto closer to what is currently selling. I wonder if a hybrid or EV will be included in the lineup?
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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/how-the-mighty-have-fallen-30-mile-porsche-911-r-estimated-to-take-measly-dollar375000-at-auction/ar-BBLWpPp?li=BBnb7Kz#image=BBLWpPp_1|5 This is an interesting Million dollar porsche race car now only worth $375,000 and yet nothing but time has changed since money changed hands.
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    @trinacriabob First off I have to place this disclaimer. I work for Dell Technology. I hope this info helps. Ask me any questions you have. The guy you talked to I have to agree with @Drew Dowdell is full of crap. With that said, the Epyc chip is AMDs commercial grade CPU and the Ryzen is the consumer for desktop and laptop applications, same 32 core cpu but with less memory and PCIe channels. Both chips kick Intel's Ass in performance for both their i9 commercial cpu and i7 consumer and this includes their over clocked gamer cpu. Intel just showed off a 10Nm 28 core CPU at Computex and they did not bother till after the show a day or two later that it was over clocked at 5GHz and had a mini refrig water chiller. Intel is struggling as AMD has vastly surpassed them. AMD both consumer and commercial chips handles up to 2TB of ram per CPU with 32 cores in comparison to Intel CPUs that max out at 96GB of ram. Right now Intel will not be able to get anything up and running till December when they start shipping their 10 nanometer (Nm) CPUs that will get close to AMD. Yet AMD also at Computex showed off their next Gen Epyc / Ryzen CPU on a 7 Nm design that will again drop power needs, heat etc. Right now AMD is actually winning even in their Gen 1 Ryzen chip that is in most system shipping in minimizing power consumption and heat generation. I will say that if you can afford to put in a little more money, picking up a next Gen Ryzen would give you a long lasting computer. Good Review on the new AMD Ryzen Gen 2 that will be out in September systems. https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2950x-and-2990wx-review Good info for Gen 1 Ryzen out now and should find good deals on it if you are happy with the performance. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-review,5571.html Here is an excellent review of AMD versus Intel Cpu's. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2-vs-intel-skylake-x,5727.html I will say if you have access to Costco, they have some very sweet Dell XPS desktops that are better priced than even my employee pricing for the configurations they sell. Here is the current info on Costco for Desktop system only: Here is for all in one systems: Here is their current Printers. After being a long life HP user, their costs for consumables is just stupid crazy compared to printers and quality seems to be terrible right now. I tried Epson but they also seem to be following the HP model. I ended up getting 3yrs ago a Brother MFC system and they rock. Solid and just plain awesome. Last option is to consider REFURBISHED. Comes with full warrenty and a great way to either save money or get more system for less money than usual. http://www.dell.com/us/dfh/p/?cid=287779&st=dell+refurbished&VEN1=1PQIzE1f%2C74010960201652%2C901kuu23312%2Cc%2C&VEN2=be%2Cdell+refurbished&lid=5512803&dgc=st&dgseg=arb&acd=1230921317820600&VEN3=153604497227599147 This second link looks like dell but I am not sure, first time seeing it. Might be a certified resellar. https://www.dellrefurbished.com/
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    Wonder if it will get a Z71 package. ?
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