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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Never said I never cared about weight, I care more about performance and sustained long term dependability. I agree with you that a $1,700 battery is over kill for most people but then that battery is clearly slated at Class A motorhomes. If you paying a million for this type of retirement travel around North America, then a $1,700 battery is cheap. That said, I love my $200 Li-Ion battery from Sears. It is on it's 6th year in my Suburban that I use during the summer to pull trailers, my waverunners, etc. During the fall, winter and early spring, the Suburban is covered and stored with Dri-Zee to keep it mold free, moisture free. I disconnect the terminal lines on the battery and in the spring time, I reconnect, takes 3-4 extra turns to get the gas pumped back up to the engine and it roars to life. Drop Dead Dependable. That is what I love about the Li-Ion plus it does run the stereo with serious bass well.
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    I was wondering if you would only hang on the most expensive top end Li-Ion battery Wings. If you had gone through all the links and my gut tells me you did, yet you just totally ignored the Li-Ion battery's that start at $199.99 and go up from there, yes most of the auto batteries are around $500 and have an 8yr warranty. Some only state a 1-2% energy loss over a 1yr sitting, others state no energy loss over a year just sitting. Yet all do cover deep cold cranking amps that surpass your $100 battery and life expectancy. I enjoy my auto's with decent stereo's and for that, I know if I am not running the auto, a normal $100 battery might give you 10-15 min of time in today's auto's before running out of power and then it will not crank your auto. The Li-Ion can go much longer and still crank your auto. The devil is in the details, but depending on your expectation of quality, long life and deep cycle use, there are valid use cases for the Li-Ion auto batteries.
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    Very Cool, but will never see the daylight of production even in the Military. The energy deficiency of Hydrogen makes no sense especially when deployed outside of this country. That is to clarify and say that while Hydrogen has power as a fuel, the ability to create the fuel to power a hydrogen engine is negative as it takes far more energy to create the fuel than you get out of it. Concept, an 11 on the 1-10 scale. Coolness Factor - 11 Reality factor - (-11) The Military would do far better putting these tax dollars into an EV rapid assault vehicle that is whisper quiet or quieter that can sneak up on the enemy and with fast swap out energy cells.
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    Very Cool!
  5. G. David Felt
    The Photo's Rock! Not sure I would want to be in those cars on a rainy day as you can clearly seeing the rain dumping and those wheels are pretty much slicks. But I love that Purple!
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    Time for a new thread, I think many of us grew up seeing the various auto mags and the crazy Hot Rods that were totally custom rides from vans, to custom corvettes, etc. Post your cool find of Custom Ride. I will start by one that just blew my mind, talk about the perfect Van / Boat Hauler.
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    Being that cost of batteries has been brought up, we are in a time of dropping price per KWh of batteries and there are many stories that cover this. http://www.powertechsystems.eu/home/tech-corner/lithium-ion-vs-lead-acid-cost-analysis/ This story above actually shows that while the Li-Ion cost is higher right now, long term those batteries are cheaper due to weight, so shipping is cheaper, storage of power is superior, so long life which again ends in reduced cost plus many other factors. End result was that the Li-Ion is truly cheaper. http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/electric-vehicle-batteries-are-getting-cheaper-much-faster-than-we-expected/ This study shows that while Li-Ion was about $450 US dollars in 2014 per KWh, by 2020 the cost is expected to drop to around $200 per KWh and could go significantly lower depending on the ramp up of battery production. End Result is that Li-Ion is a superior battery to use in any Auto. The stability and long life especially in storage makes it a better route than traditional Lead Acid batteries or the various mid level batteries. I will say that I have found Li-Ion gel pack batteries to work extremely well in auto's. Li-Ion Auto Batteries Sears Li-Ion Auto Batteries Smart Li-Ion Batteries JEGS Li-Ion Batteries ebay Li-Ion Battery Listing
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    Hell Ya This should go into production for spring 2017 sales.
  9. G. David Felt
    Your so right, he just needs to give up everything especially his petro powered auto since the worst polluting areas in the word are the gas / oil refineries and coal burning power plants. The toxic levels emitted are just killers. http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/toxic-air-pollution-concentrated-at-small-number-of-sites/ar-BBwLQ7P?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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    So how does a Ford Fan feel about Fords first EV attempt. 1967 Ford Comuta EV! http://blog.caranddriver.com/electric-youth-fords-1967-comuta-ev-concept-was-a-city-car-for-swinging-london/ We know cause ford reports clearly state they will have a 200+ mile EV auto to compete against the BOLT. http://www.automobilemag.com/news/ford-will-unveil-chevrolet-bolt-competitor-this-year/ Also Ford has decided to enter the e-bike market. So are e-bikes terrible because they are not pure original bikes? https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2011/09/18/ford-rides-into-e-bike-market-with-stunning-concept.html https://www.cnet.com/news/ford-mode-ebikes-mwc-2015/
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    WOW, talk about nit picking, are you sure you want to open up this can of worms? We can go down all the negatives about petro cars from the child labor in China that builds various parts for cars to iPhones to clothes to the health issues with Petro / oil and the toxic issues on any car, to the negatives about all the maintenance. Come on @Wings4Life we all get you clearly HATE EV's! Talk and debate the actual auto rather than having to dive so far into the weeds of the back 160 acres. Is any auto clean, planet friendly, NO. I am starting to get the feeling this is more about it being GM who brings out the first mass produced EV auto with rang world wide than your beloved Ford Motor Company. How are you going to respond when Ford finally shows off their first long range EV? Are you going to be just like SMK and move the field goal posts to justify what Ford finally is building to compete against GM?
  12. G. David Felt
    Those are the kinds of customers Cadillac does not need or any luxury car maker wants.
  13. G. David Felt
    Talk to woman, the number one complaint when the Female Engineering team started researching to build the Ford Flex was that Woman hated the smell of gas and having to touch the dirty gas cap. The Engineering team was the first to remove the gas cap and integrate the vacume gas cap into the gas door. This allows you to push on the door, it pops open and you can then stick in the gas nozzle and pump. Men have been for too long used to ignoring woman and not listening to what they want or like / dislike. If you talk and ask woman the top 5 things they dislike about cars, I bet you will hear gas smell, fueling, gas cap, maintenance.etc. We just have not been used to asking let alone listening to what woman want.
  14. G. David Felt
    Have to Say that I do love the Chevy Bolt EV Savings Calculator as it gives so many options to play with. http://www.chevyevlife.com/bolt-ev-savings-calculator Have to say, Drew has stated this time and again, EV's right now is about saving a different type of Green. The BOLT is the first Mass Produced auto that delivers on this that addresses many peoples concerns. People worry about range, not a problem with 238 mile battery pack. People want quiet, EV's deliver that. People want their Tech connection, BOLT gives that. People want comfort, again this is given with the various packages. People want CUV's, this is give as the BOLT is the first CUV EV. People are tired of pumping gas and having that smell on their hands, EV's remove this. People want less maintenance, EV's give this. I could go on and on, and yet I will also acknowledge that EV's are NOT for everyone. They have many things people like, many things people will miss about existing auto's. This is the time for EV's to start making a difference and if we want to have a cleaner planet, cleaner cities, cleaner air, then EV's have their place. Much noise polution can be removed by cities mandating delivery trucks, buses and auto's be moved over to EV's.
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    Weird, as I do not see them either.
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    An interesting thought, those that are in their late 50's early 60's and still think of Cadillac as a Baby Boomer slush mobile, will like Buick having a luxury trim line. My oldest sister thinks this way and now that she has ordered her Buick Envision, I can easily see her moving up to the Avenir trim level when she goes to get a newer one in 2 years.
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    This is based on California, 4 zones, with 4 pricing rates and he then spread that down in a hour by hour and averaged it out for his own use. California is the most regulated and set pricing brackets so what goes on here is very different than in most other states. Even then, the price is actually not really changing by the hour, just the average rate based on the bracket and if he pulls more energy at one bracket than another ends up changing the average hourly rate. In looking at his spreadsheets, he is still paying based on the amount of power used in each of the four set brackets. This is what can be confusing for some as you can play a very large game of guess that grey based on how you want to avereage your cost over each hour in a 24hr day based on the cost per bracket. End result is recharging at night during low usage is always cheaper than during the day. Again this is based on 3 bracket zones during the summer and 2 brackets during the winter. You can average this out all you want and depending on your energy use, you could see the price per hour go up or down, but the end result is this company is still regulated to only charge their bracket rate, so you still pay the rate for the bracket that the electricity is used in. You can play the grey scale game or just accept the fact the day time charging is higher than night time charging and the BOLT will win over many since they can drive it during the day for days on end and then recharge it over night. Still regulated prices that are set for each bracket. Not hourly or by the minute changes as you have stated unless you look at averages which is just chasing grey ghosts.
  18. G. David Felt
    Wings, can you please post which states allow prices to change on an hourly rate? I am truly interested since electrical rates are far more regulated is my understanding than gas. Nothing of what you say happens here in the Northwest, I know california has 4 different price zones over 24hrs,but they are the same over and over day to day, so what you are saying sounds more like a special case in the mid-west or back east.
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    Cool, very nice to hear. My wife had a sentra when we married, the only time I have ever owned a non american car. It was a solid little eco box for commuting to work every day. Over all love to see the big bump in engine numbers, but still not thrilled by these high HP and Low Torque numbers on a turbo motor. Bet Sentra could easily beat this if it had a proper current EV powertrain.
  20. G. David Felt
    SMK, can you post the link to the video please. Thx
  21. G. David Felt
    Just bake your butt like a microwave and maybe melt some fat at the same time!
  22. G. David Felt
    This will please the ricer crowd as it is a knock off of the STI look. Over all nice, nothing to blow my socks off with. The engine is also a yawner to me as I am just not impressed with high revving engines that move so little till you hit 10K rpm. To me they are totally lackluster engines, Would take a BOLT over this. I am sure the off the line punch will be better in the BOLT than this can deliver. Honda's Multi cam high reving engines have never impressed me and probably never will. I acknowledge that it does come from growing up on American V8 motors. Why add weight and turbo's when I can get better torque and movement out of a push rod engine at lighter weight.
  23. G. David Felt
    Ya do know that the Volt had wireless charging before MB mentioned it here right. I do agree with you that this is a good start for MB. I do wonder how MB gets 310 miles out of a 70KWh battery pack and GM only has 238 miles out of a 60KWh battery pack. Especially since one is single motor and the other is dual. Be interesting to see if they can actually deliver as Tesla could not on that same size battery pack.
  24. G. David Felt
    Funny how it seems to be a copy of the Bolt but with a VW badge on it. Funny how it seems to be a copy of the Bolt but with a VW badge on it.
  25. G. David Felt
    Seems cost have come down for Level 2 chargers, Amazon has them between $400 -$700 dollars and with installation that would tend to price out around $1,000 to $1,200 installed. https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Alevel 2 charging stations Amazing options.
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