G. David Felt

Thinking on this more overnight, technology has shown us how many people are introverted and as such, they grasp to the first straw I think of some companionship due to the awkwardness of having to actually work on a relationship. I think this also contributes to the shortness of marriage. Lack of personal interaction skills. LOL, Yes, the Model X Tesla has auto closing doors. Tesla is actually honest about ripping this idea off from the Taxis in Japan where they pull up and the door auto opens for the customer to get in and then auto closes. While a cool feature that I loved when going to college in Japan, I also see it as laziness in humans as those that grow up like this kid with parents that can afford an expensive auto like the Tesla Model X will come to think all auto's have this feature and then when they get into a normal car will not know what to do. Good catch Mr. B.

Totally agree, plus Europe has one of the worst Acid Rain problems that has destroyed so much forest. This should help to ease that problem and clean it up.

In Wheel Hub Cool EV Motors Protean Electric is making some very cool ev motors which should make auto conversions easy and talk about simple with big long range battery packs. More videos are found ere: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Protean+Electric+In-wheel+Motors+in+Actual+Laboratory+Testing Have to say the break out test is cool from thick ice. Clearly motors can handle being submerged, I can see a true EV 4x4 as battery packs get to have longer range. Course need to replace the Jerry cans with replaceable battery packs.

Should increase ev conversions as people who like their older auto want to keep them on the road.

I know we have fans of various nameplates, but that is just crazy overkill. Thinking on this, I could see this being done for InWheel HUB Electric Motors. This would totally cover the motor assembly.

This makes total sense and is understandable.

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I am going to DISAGREE with you. Most drivers have gotten very lazy lately about driving their auto's. They do not take the time to know where their corners are, they cannot even on a Jelly Bean shaped auto envision where their corners are. Large cars or full size SUV's especially today drive just not much different than a small or compact auto. People who complain about driving, driving large auto's are usually ones that also have a banged up compact or small size auto. They are more interested in their facebook time line and what is going on in their smart phone than in actually driving. I cannot tell you how many people I have talked with that have seen me drive and be it parallel park or back into a parking spot all on the first time, square and straight in the parking spot and they are in awe how easy I park and it always comes down to they do not want to learn or bother being in a parking spot square, not hit anyone, etc. Lazy drivers = damaged auto's, complaints about large auto's, etc. This has nothing to do with them being a pain to drive or park even in a parking garage. Very easy all the time as long as you pay attention to your ONLY JOB! Driving.

Very cool write up. Sounds like you could benefit from going with a BOLT Lease. Those deals are killer at least here on the west coast. With your average driving range, the spacious interior of the BOLT and low cost to power would go really well for you. I get the message you are saying, most people could so easily get along fine in a much smaller efficient packaged auto. Then again, freedom of choice and those of us like me that are Shrek size does make down sizing an impossible thing. Good think we live in a free country at least for now and can drive what we want, spend what we want and enjoy the option of Choice!

Thought some might enjoy seeing who this racing team is. Walkinshaw racing web site Holden HSV Racing web site Interesting to see how things change over the next year with this. Interesting note is that Walkinshaw races Nissan 370's not Holdens. Wonder if this will change in the near future.

Fiat's quality has sucked always, Cheapness is what has kept them going. Cheap to buy and run for the most part. Many of my European coworkers talk about how sucky Fiats are but if it was not for the cheapness to own and easy to repair, they would buy something else. There is also the other side of this coin where some europeans are happy to have alternatives to Fiat and have like many in the US wondered why they are still alive. So many other options that even at $10 a gallon, I would pick something else over Fiat crap.

Very Cool This should help GM sell existing product rebadged as Holden and Holden Walkinshaw editions.

They are already taking reservations. Check out their web site for more details about the assembly line, beta testing, etc. https://www.ff.com/en/

Yes controlling interest in Subaru was owned by GM and then sold at bankruptcy in 2007 to Toyota.

I would say yes to both, the polarizing style and the crazy stupid over msrp pricing will temper the sales and that is a good thing. Pop the air heads and bring them back down to earth.

Agreed, Win Win for everyone world wide!

They have a dozen beta auto's that are testing both here in the US and in Germany at the Nuremberg track. They are well funded and I truly see them having the first ones out by the end of 2018 first of 2019 as they have stated. They did break ground on their production assembly line in Arizona so I would expect them to be one of the new Supercar builders. They have clearly stated they will always be very high end with a starting price over 6 figures. I doubt they want to compete with GM, Ford, Toyota, etc.

I saw that also this morning. Interesting concept, guess bad press if he fails to deliver is better than no press. Gutsy and interesting. I agree with the story that the area should have some sort of storage system to save power for high demand times. We are in interesting times.

H'mmmm Looks like a CUV but a really Ugly CUV. In fact from head on, it reminds me of the butt ugly UK taxis. Sorry but I would not pay $500K let alone $100K for this thing.

G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Faraday Future's FF91 really a Tesla X competitor, not Tesla S? Story broke on electrek web site about the FF91 in a comparison to the Tesla X ev CUV. Facts of the matter is the FF91 seems to really be in size and shape more of a competitor to the Tesla X than the Tesla S which Faraday compared it to when they first revealed the EV. Comparison Specs Length FF91 - 206.7" long Tesla X - 198.3" long Height FF91 - 62" tall Tesla X - 65" tall Width - both are 89" Battery Packs top end FF91 - 130kWh with 378 mile range Tesla X - 100kWh with 289 mile range Horsepower FF91 - 1050 Tesla X - 760 Faraday Future calls their FF91 a Tesla S killer, but clearly based on electrek story it is a Tesla X killer. Maybe we just say this is a Tesla Killer since Tesla clearly has nothing to compete with it. Subjective as it is, Tesla wins for the cool Gullwing door factor, but other than that and being in production, clearly I have to give style props to the FF91 both the back and front and side look far better. Tesla is a very dated look and I think over the next 18 months as other OEM's come out with EV's Tesla shine will truly drop and be in need of serious polish if Musk does not address the dated look and overall need for an update on their products.

Yes they did give those dated platforms to Chrysler. Yet if Daimler really cared about those nameplates, they would have shared their latest platforms with them instead to reduce the cost of them and improve all the nameplates. Daimler really did not care about anyone but themselves to get patents and other sources of money to grow the Daimler family only. Daimler FAILED at growing the complete family of products rather than just themselves. Once the abuse was past the point of any benefit for them to dump their own costs and mistakes on they then dumped the brands. So much for quality leadership. On topic of Dodge, Pentastar and the the rest of that powertrain. I will give FCA Kudo's for smoothing out that V6 powertrain as it really moves the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Durango well. My son loves his Jeep GC with the V6 powertrain.

@oldshurst442 & @A Horse With No Name coming up on 26 years of marriage and 27 years of knowing my wife. I see both your points and realize that at some point people do grow apart and that tends to happen due to a lack of communication and shared interests. If you cannot spend at least a fraction of your time together be it watching movies, gardening, hiking, working out, etc. and cannot have a decent open conversation, then there is a good chance you should have never gotten married. To many of the short term marriages I see today, that 3 out of 5 marriages end in divorce in the first 3 years here in North America tends to come from the inability to actually communicate and have some shared interests.

@smk4565 You seem to be confused between traditional turbo's using exhaust gas and having to spool up and how they have minimized turbo lag usually by the use of a twin scroll turbo and electronic turbo's that are more like a supercharger as Drew states. Not going to repost everything what is already out on the internet, but some good sources that clearly explain the differences of hp to torque and how turbo's torque is measured at the maximum psi spin can be read here: https://www.roushperformance.com/blog/2010/12/the-meaning-of-horsepower-and-torque/ Roush has an outstanding easy to understand web page on this. Not wanting to accept Roush, then read here where 75 different engineers from Executives of various engineering companies to basic engineers explain in nauseating detail about the torque / hp and turbo's affect. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-torque-and-power-in-a-car-in-layman-terms Love this thread of engineers who also go into details of turbo lag and the affects on torque and hp. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-correlation-difference-between-turbo-lag-and-how-it-affects-torque-and-horsepower-and-in-turn-the-revving-of-the-engine One of the best clear explanations: Vikrant Vaidya, B Eng. Mechanical Engineering, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (2001) Answered Jul 26, 2015 1. Every engine has a published torque & power vs rpm curve. This curve is generated as per global SAE procedure on an engine dyno with appropriate exhaust. But it is nonetheless a steady-state curve which is very explicit at the start of the SAE procedure. 2. What steady state means is that, at every engine speed point (Eg. 1000 rpm, 2500 rpm, 4500 rpm, etc.) on that curve, the throttle is opened (or fuelling is done) fully and the dynamometer load is varied till a steady state is achieved in terms of target engine speed. 3. A turbo-charger is a turbo-machinery which is prone to 'spooling' delays unlike positive displacement machines. In other words, it takes time for the turbine to harness the exhaust gas energy and supply it to the compressor. It takes some more time for the compressor to pump the extra air into the cylinder. This constitutes the famous turbo-lag. From #1, #2 & #3, it is quite clear that turbo-lag would not affect the rated torque and power of the engine. It will just take more time to achieve that torque. So in real-life driving, you would perceive it to be under-performing as the time v/s torque trace would not match the speed vs torque trace from the published curve unless adequate time is provided for the turbo to 'spool-up'. Torbo'd for Torque is one of the best articles about the need to IGNORE PEAK POWER and TUNE for Average Power through the RPM range for best drivability. http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&title=-Turbod-for-Torque&A=111106 QUOTE: People tend to lose sight of the fact that when you’re accelerating through the gears, the engine revs aren’t constantly at peak power or peak torque. (Maybe an exception is a very high stall torque converter on an auto trans where the revs stay more constant as speed increases.) But normally at full throttle, the revs are sweeping through a range of engine rpm. And even more to the point in a street driven car, for most of the time, the revs aren’t anywhere near peak power. In fact, if your engine has a redline of 6000 rpm (or 8000 rpm for that matter), it’s extremely likely that you’ll be at one-quarter (or less) of that engine speed most of the time. And where does that leave your top-end power figure? Irrelevant... This is also another good how it works on Turbo's: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/turbo.htm

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