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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Lots of interesting details: https://hedgescompany.com/automotive-market-research-statistics/auto-mailing-lists-and-marketing This is from the story above:
  2. G. David Felt
    Musk thinks he can apply open source software fixes to hardware being auto's. THIS is a FAILURE. Hardware has Alpha and Beta testing for a reason, so you can have near perfect auto's come off the assembly line. On top of this not mentioned is Musk desire for JIT manufacturing when his company does not have the experience to do JIT assembly. Musk can make money and build a long lasting company by taking a couple steps backwards to get 5000 cars a week forward in production. As they say in racing, Slower and consistent is faster than balls to the wall scary driving.
  3. G. David Felt
    110,000 is crazy amount and no advertising. WOW.
  4. G. David Felt
    Wow, Thought both of those were dead.
  5. G. David Felt
    So our detour into history and pollution does make me wonder when do we leave history in the books and rebuild an area for the betterment of human life compared to trying to preserve all things old? With that question in mind, that brings us back to our core conversation of PSA and the refund asked of GM. With this we have two questions that come to my mind off the top of many: Is it cheaper to litigate this in the courts for ever or just come to some agreement and walk away from the mess that Opel is? Knowing the history and what the European gov is doing, limiting sales of the Amp-E by Opel at a time that PSA due to their own poor emissions record needs help, Is it really the smart thing to do? Versus move forward with moving all new and future product onto a PSA platform for Hybrid / EV and sell as much as you can get from GM of a rebadge Amp-E. One does wonder about the mgmt skill set of PSA.
  6. G. David Felt
    Agreed, the Honda is the worse, but then their whole current sharp awkward edges is terrible.
  7. G. David Felt
    Yup for any of us that have traveled or do travel as I do for trade shows in Europe. The Diesel smell along with the damage from acid rain especially in Germany where I go allot for work shows how damaging Diesel is. I love Diesel and the clean diesel we have here in America is great compared to the unhindered mother earth destroying diesel that has been sold for ever in Europe. This is why Europe, China are all pushing so hard on EV is the need to clean up for health and so much more.
  8. G. David Felt
    Yes, such a sad state of auto design style.
  9. G. David Felt
    Guess it is just the nature of these beasts that there is not much difference look wise between the 3 versions on the market.
  10. G. David Felt
    So are you buying a New Pacifica Hybrid Minivan?
  11. G. David Felt
    Based on your attitude towards EVs, a very Baby Boomer mentality that Women are second class and must obey the men. So in this case, Mother Earth will do as the men say!
  12. G. David Felt
    Borrego? Sounds like some burrito truck from south of the border. Interesting, the reviews on the Borrego are either amazing best ever or terrible, never again will I buy Kia. Weird as even the professional reviews are extreme one way or another. Crazy and only one year with a V8
  13. G. David Felt
    You should go test drive one, they actually handle real well and are pretty tight when you throw them around. Much better than many would realize and I think is the reason for why 93% of Volt owners buy another one.
  14. G. David Felt
    Guess I am dating myself as we have the most cranes of any city right now in North America and I still wear Nautica cloths.
  15. G. David Felt
    They are not a bust and you know that. Do they make a profit? No, but then neither did Petro in the early years. Everyone knows this is the chicken or egg issue and PSA Idiots are looking to blame someone for their poor review of Opel. Business never says or shows anything up front. Everyone tries their best to make money and somethings do not work out. EVs are the future, the changeover will be hard for some that ignor that the climate is changing and the ocnblu (get it?) will flood their home area. If everyone took the head in the sand approach, change nothing, create nothing keep status quo, then we would still be living in a very dark era.
  16. G. David Felt
    I can understand that idea. Guess only having dealt with Enterprise products from Samsung, I have not had that kind of experience where they just drop ya. Had that with other tech companies though.
  17. G. David Felt
    Those ASSumptions from the Chinese Vendor are features for their hacking operations!
  18. G. David Felt
    Have to say it is a nice looking CUV, Love the warm brown interior but the back seat looks really tight at least from the photo. Wonder how much a fully loaded AWD version will go for in comparison to say a Chevy or Mazda?
  19. G. David Felt
    Be interesting to see how this stacks up against Toshiba SCiB batteries?
  20. G. David Felt
    Have to say that I am interested in this new Navigator after seeing this Video review of the new baby! https://www.autoblog.com/9102cdcd-e69c-4af0-9534-79ac9a0a09e6
  21. G. David Felt
    If Lexus had actually did some market checking, they might have realized a clean sheet design was needed as the amount of people on every auto web site I have visited from Autoblog, to MT, etc. have nothing positive about this inside or out as everyone thinks it is ugly. The only thing I have seen that is positive is the comment that Lexus Lemming owners will buy it regardless.
  22. G. David Felt
    Samsung Battery Breakthrough Fast Charging and 45% Capacity Increase Samsung NewsRoom Announcement SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) has announced a breakthrough in developing a graphene ball coating that covers the nickel-rich cathodes and lithium-based anodes. So one would ask what is the big deal? As you increase the speed of recharging a battery, it wears down the anode and cathode. The graphene ball coating not only prevents this, but also allows for an increase in capacity to go along with the faster recharging. This improves the cyclability of charging / depleting a battery. This tech also has proven to allow for a very highly stable battery with no loss of power at 60 degrees Celsius or 140 degrees Fahrenheit which is key for any electronic device but even more so for electric auto's. Graphene is 100 times more effective than copper in conducting electricity and 140 times times faster than silicon. Samsung says this technology allows them to take a conventional EV battery that would require 4hrs under current fast charge technology and reduce it to 12 minutes. To quote their new release: "SAIT’s research results are covered in-depth in this month’s edition of the science journal Nature Communications in an article entitled, “Graphene balls for lithium rechargeable batteries with fast charging and high volumetric energy densities.”SAIT has also filed two applications for the “graphene ball” technology patent in the US and Korea."
  23. G. David Felt
    Cool Racing, Damn those Cheetahs are fast!
  24. G. David Felt
    Agree, the current 4Runner with that ugly predator type mouth is ugly and this is just a piss poor improvement, but improvement nonetheless.
  25. G. David Felt
    PSA Idiots, this was their poor checking and to cut the Ampera-E so they do not have the loss of cash on an EV and blaming GM. Tough Luck, you guys had your chance, now deal with the fall out of your poor mgmt planning.
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