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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    So true Especially with the Toshiba break through on battery charging. Also have to say that Honda Urban EV has a very VW design feel to it.
  2. G. David Felt
    True front end also leaves some to be desired, but I am talking more of the 3/4 look and side profile where it has a very different look. Even then right now pretty much the whole auto industry has lost their mojo for design language in regards to cars IMHO.
  3. G. David Felt
    Seems Honda Urban EV has some visual notes that say VW. https://videos.vidible.tv/prod/2017-09/12/59b7fb48c214e304892ebebf_416x234_v2.mp4?L844xS6_vn3Bpa1cBr6bFs5j-mHaqs_c1LAv-gWJtROHj0vXmcB_ANaEc-2zPQ9k
  4. G. David Felt
    Glad you like it, you're welcome to have all the Big Mouth Enima ball cars from Mazda.
  5. G. David Felt
    Count me in the group that disagrees with this minimalist approach to auto's and the bland style of this Kai and Vision auto's. Not impressed nor is there a desire to want to drive it. Looks like they are just trying to get a needle shape to drive through the air.
  6. G. David Felt
    Very cool, I think that is what aftermarket frames are for. Or custom tube frame made to really make it a sleeper with the right power train.
  7. G. David Felt
    Naw, plenty of smart people have read it, but horse with blinders has to be led to the water. Did not want you to throw a shoe, so brought the drinking trough closer to you.
  8. G. David Felt
    As I posted earlier today, Toshiba has brought fast filling to the EV's and that is a game changer.
  9. G. David Felt
    You need to get out more, been a dry spell I see!
  10. G. David Felt
    I liked the TV series ShoGun, would be great to have a bad ass SUV call Mitsubishi ShoGun The UK version is pretty cool!
  11. G. David Felt
    I see what your pointing out but I can accept it as it gives the strength for roll over protection and they have a proper rear window rather than the big blind spot of the D pillar in the auto.
  12. G. David Felt
    I actually like it and the Green house, just need to Limo Black the side and back windows and put some proper BF Goodrich All Terrain tires on it.
  13. G. David Felt
    I really hope GM gets some EV Mojo to bring out some freakin world leading auto's to pounce on Tesla and the Upstarts from China like Xiaopeng Motors.
  14. G. David Felt
    Nice Looking SUV. Politics suck and clearly that is what happened here as some idiot moron in GM Ivory tower could not see past his ass kissing servants below him in the ivory tower to see what Holden truly had to offer. So Sad, So Bad.
  15. G. David Felt
    Awesome Clicking on twitter, I see the guy posted Ford's announcement of leadership change. Pretty much all the old folks are gone, in with the new young 40 to early 50's crowd. Good news for Ford.
  16. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com SCiB, 200 miles, 6 minutes, Coming 2019 Toshiba announced today their newest battery cell, a lithium titanium oxide (LTO) battery. Capable of rapid charging with long life, low-temperature performance with high input/output power and large effective capacity. There is a wide range of solutions being put forth from the European 350 kWh charging system to Porsche's 800 kWh charging system and yet the one biggest desire of the switch to EV auto's has been how long it takes to charge. The key Toshiba says is in their new anode material. To quote: "We have developed a proprietary method for synthesizing and disarranging crystals of titanium niobium oxide and storing lithium ions more efficiently in the crystal structure." It's also more durable in "ultra-rapid" charging, and charging in cold weather, improving the battery's longevity. In testing, SCiB maintains more than 90 percent of its capacity after 15,000 charge/discharge cycles. Toshiba has stated this battery will be on the market in EV Auto's starting in 2019. They believe that the ability to charge 320 kilometers (199 miles) in 6 minutes will drive the change over to EV auto's. This give larger auto's with a bigger battery pack a normal 12 min charge time for approximately 400 miles of range. Spec SCiB battery Details: LTO - Lithium Titanium Oxide Over 15,000 cycles maintaining more than 90% battery capacity Low temperature with 100% battery charge to a low of -30°C Rapid Charging - 320 kilometers in 6 minutes High input/output current loads Wide effective state of charge (SOC) - Providing industry leading large available capacity in a reduced form factor. What does this mean to the auto industry? Denser batteries in a smaller form factor recharging faster, providing longer road trips. Announced auto companies to use the SCiB batteries in upcoming EV auto / bus applications: Passenger Auto's Suzuki Motor Corporation Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Commercial Vehicles Solaris Bus and Coach S.A Van Hool Hybrid Bus Company Proterra EV Bus Company Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co. Ltd. Northern Iwate Transportation Inc. Waseda University Medium Size bus program Putra Nedo EV Bus Program Uzushio Electric Co. Ltd. E-Trikes Toshiba SCiB web site Toshiba SCiB Technical Details Toshiba SCiB battery uses Toshiba green focus to offer more for less with minimal impact to the planet.
  17. G. David Felt
    Stiff Thing-e
  18. G. David Felt
    Opel has more orders than they can fill for the Opel Ampera E According to the news, Opel has issued an order to all opel dealers to pause on accepting anymore orders for the Ampera E EV auto that is based on the Chevrolet Bolt. To date, Chevrolet has delivered 15,000 bolts and in Europe 1,000 have been delivered in Norway alone with another 5,000 already on order. Opel has also started Ampera E deliveries in Germany, Switzerland and Netherlands. Opel has stated they want to ensure getting the Consumer Reports most reliable auto, the BOLT into as many hands as possible and at this time till they can fulfill the backlog, they are holding off on accepting new orders. There is no answer from Opel or GM on what is holding up production of the Ampera E for the European market as GM has the capacity to build far more auto's. Opel Ampera E story
  19. G. David Felt
    Seems the following story on Electrek is that Tesla has been using the European standard mennekes plug also in China till this summer when China came out with their own GB standard plug. Tesla Proprietary plug is on the left and China GB plug is on the right. This has forced tesla to change from having it in the lense of the rear taillight to a gas type door on the rear quarter panel. GB port plugged in. According to the standard since Tesla has joined the CCS group to promote that as a global charge standard, they have also stated they would have adapters to plug into the cords. Seems this would allow others to use the supercharger stations too. Interesting, https://electrek.co/2017/10/16/tesla-new-dual-charge-port-design-model-s-model-x/
  20. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Xiaopeng Motors, Thanks Tesla for Open Source Patents It was only a matter of time and someone coughing up money before someone would use Tesla Open Patents to build a EV Competitor. Xiaopeng Motors is that company and thanks to Tesla, the dream of a young man is becoming reality. Musk has always said the focus is the drive to accelerate the change to EV Auto's. With this dream we now have the XPeng SUV EV. Henry Xia took this to hear in 2014 when once Tesla had announced the open source of their patents that this young engineer could build his own dream company. With the help of other young engineers, Mr. Xia took a look at the market and chose to come out with his vision of an EV SUV. There is no complete listing of all the open source patents Xiaopeng Motors used but clearly enough to say he hit the same consistency from battery pack to external look minus the gullwing doors and to the dash. Speculation is the top module on the auto is a Lidar unit. Comparison of the batteries where Xiaopeng uses Samsung battery cells via Tesla Panasonic cells. Xiaopeng Battery Tesla Battery Xiaopeng Dash Tesla Dash Xiaopeng Dash Screen Tesla Dash Screen Xiaopeng Motors raised 320 Million to start production beyond the 15 hand built models. They are working to raise 1.4 billion US to ensure the ability to produce 100,000 of the XPeng SUV EV. With the first round of money, the young CEO hired away Tesla learning lead for Autopilot, Junli Gu to head up Xiaopeng autonomous driving efforts as they plant to continue to copy Tesla using the Open source patents where possible to offer the same or better versions. Your thoughts on this? Will this help or hurt Tesla? XPeng has even copied the same charging port and standard from Tesla. Sound off on what you think about this. Xiaopeng motor story
  21. G. David Felt
    EV Microbus, Beetle, The Thing, so many awesome auto's that can have a better life in the EV lane! Rock on MEB
  22. G. David Felt
    Seems NY Times is complaining about the overload of early arrival Pumpkin Spice everything. Saw this in online ads. Crazy flavors:
  23. G. David Felt
    Modern Corvette engine in the 1986 Aero Monte Carlo SS. Talk about sleeper!
  24. G. David Felt
    Had a lovely tan 4 door Mavrick, awesome little car. Maybe an EV powertrain will finally make the late 70's and 80's mustang perform.
  25. G. David Felt
    Yup 240 would be the standard if we stayed old school, it will be interesting to see what GM does as they move their tech forward. Considering that the Bolt is a 350 Volt voltage system, I could see a Buick Electra 350 as a true name. Deep Dive BOLT spec with pics Very cool details and pictures, one of the better stories on the tech behind the BOLT.
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