G. David Felt

This makes sense, I bet if you look at the sales rate you can pretty much see who has the strength in numbers to justify paying for an auto show and who does not. Luxury auto lines from Germany are probably not that strong in Detroit compared to other brands. Same in France, VW is clearly not as popular as Audi.

Agreed, Damn 2 plate state crap this looks good. Just wish all states would better define a set amount of standards. I really like RFID License tab on the back plate. Police scan and know the info they need without a front plate.

Personally, all states should go with RFID tag License tabs and only a single license plate on the rear. I see no reason for a front plate at all even for Police or any other gov service use.

Never know when you might race and if you lose control always good to get a quick pull out and back into the action. Kinda like why do women and men have nose rings? Rings in the center of the nose has always been used by farmers to control unruly bulls. So are they saying they are unruly and need to be controlled? ?

I actually like the Tow Hook being Red like the Calipers and standing out.

80 Amazing Health Benefits of Wine! https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/80-amazing-health-benefits-of-wine/ss-AAtJmLn?li=BBnb7Kz I highly recommend drinking some tonight, tomorrow and this weekend. ??

Demon - Crazy 4 miles only, still all wrapped, Plum Crazy Purple. Dealer is asking $149,900 as a buy it now price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/142792437144?rmvSB=true

https://rideapart.com/articles/terminator-2-harley-davidson-auction Seems they expect this hog to sell for $250,000 or more. ?

Cool ad for a house, outbuilding, 5 Acres and 340 Vintage auto's. Lots of Mopar Muscle. Asking price, $1 million. http://www.thedrive.com/vintage/8758/for-sale-in-canada-five-acres-340-vintage-cars Found another story on this with even more interior pics. http://www.thedrive.com/news/20901/the-aznom-atulux-a-custom-italian-luxury-dodge-ram

Honda Clarity Commercial on now.

This Cracks me up, Great Thursday morning everyone!

Totally Cracks me up this Nissan Leaf Commercial. Makes me think this is @ocnblu type of life.

Korean Chevy BOLT Commercial Nissan Leaf 2.0 showing ProPark

OK, Thought about this and realized it would be good to have a thread on what commercials are out there about alternative powered auto's. VOLT Commercial Gotta say i LOVE THIS VOLT commercial. Snakes taste like Brussel Sprouts! So post what commercials you see for alternative Powered auto's.

Welcome back, Great to have an old member return and add to the auto discussion. Life around here is anything but boring. Just ask @ocnblu. Again, welcome back, if you could since we also have a bunch of new members, tell us a bit about yourself, your auto's and passions please.

Gotta be a Custom build since it is in California. Right? ?

So how is the baby Doing? Out of it's winter sleep and ready to ROAR?

Be interesting to see all versions of Kona from Electric to basic ICE and performance ICE and see how they stack up against each other.

Italian scary like the garbage italy is building under the Alfa and Fiat name.

Green car report was able to go to New Jersey and at Jaguars North America HQ get to drive the I-Pace and see what it is all about. I will say this is very exciting as they say it has the interior space of their full size XJ sedan. Good read. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1116036_2019-jaguar-i-pace-brief-first-drive-of-all-electric-luxury-crossover

Robots are not the only problem, I would clearly point out the extensive multi panel pieces of the body of the car and the extensive manual assembly of key components. Clearly Tesla needs to also listen to what the rest of the auto industry has already figured out on how to build the body and other key components to quickly assemble their auto's.

EV Charging NorthEast Strategy Electrify America, the multi billion dollar investment in the US charging infrastructure turned on their first fast charging station in Massachusetts as part of their 4 year investment in North America not including their $800 million California investment. EA will be building out an extensive network of fast charging stations that will support people wanting to go on road trips with efficient, fast and reasonable charging of their EV auto's from coast to coast. Up till now, while the northeast states have signed onto California's move to a cleaner auto environment, the installation of charging stations have been haphazard at best and leaving EV auto owners looking at a road trip equal to the early 1900's before gas stations were on every corner. The Northeast Corridor Regional Strategy has brought together the following states and districts in putting together an extensive detailed roadmap on how the money will be invested to allow charging at Destination Locations, on the road, around town, at work and home. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. These 11 states and 1 district came up with the following overarching issues: They then worked out and defined the recommendations for the following charging use cases: This group has successfully come up with a strategy that covers from 2018 to 2021 from interoperability, regulations, up time, pricing to low-income and disadvantaged communities. This strategy is a clear road map to the successfully implement a charging station roadmap of installations to marketing and awareness. Anyone who is wondering how we will flip over from ICE auto's to EV auto's will see here that a major EV station push is coming that will benefit everyone including attracting tourism by making roadtrip fun and easy in an EV auto. northeast-regional-charging-strategy-2018.pdf

Soros backing Tesla bonds. https://www.autoblog.com/2018/05/16/tesla-bondholder-george-soros-billionaire/ Tesla X pulling Boeing Dream Liner https://www.autoblog.com/2018/05/15/tesla-model-x-p100d-tows-boeing-787-airplane/ May 26th to 31st Tesla to shutdown Model 3 assembly line again to fix problems. https://www.autoblog.com/2018/05/15/tesla-six-day-shutdown-fix-model-3-assembly-line/

@Cubical-aka-Moltar That RAM SUV totally rocks. Makes ya wonder why RAM has not done something sooner. Course then we have the CUV/SUV's of the past. Makes ya wonder how long before a Camaro or Mustang CUV will come out when we had a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am Concept like this:

This totally makes sense that Hybrids are a stepping stone to full EV auto's. I do think that Kia might have hit the Nail on the Head in having a Diesel Hybrid. Will be interesting to see what the MPG is for that hybrid in comparison to the petro hybrids that Volvo puts out.