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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Head 2 Head Tesla versus HellCat
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    i was curious of that as well. it cant be the posting thing, i was essentially MIA in posts for nearly a year here. Where are you guys seeing this quitters?
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    On top of this is the incentive gov gives to businesses. Unlike Petro, it is very easy to get permits and install for Charge, Charging stations at companies everywhere. My work building just installed 4 charging stations and even though the cost of electrical is 6 cents per kilowatt of power in Washington state, the building owner charges $3.75 per KiloWatt and I see plenty of people who are willing to pay $10-$20 per session to charge their auto. There is a max charge rate governed by the state here and that is $20.00 So I see plenty of people offering to install charging stations and let people charge up their auto. Washington state also made it mandatory with building new homes, condo's and apartments, all living spaces must come with a 220V charger now. So electrification will take off fast I believe. Faster and Safer than a Petro Station.
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    Here you are wrong, the west coast has a massive charging infrastructure now especially with the electric highway initiative. You can now drive all over British Columbia and down to Baha California and charge all the way. http://westcoastgreenhighway.com/ I also wrote about this back in April 2015 http://www.cheersandgears.com/topic/84688-electric-highway-west-coast-style/ The electrification of the US will happen faster than you think and not 20 years from now. Tesla sells a butt load of auto's in Washington state and we are northern state so you fail in your assessment that this is a Southern state car only.
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    All Companies will face this and even Apple has hit this with their iPhone. They have to have a core foundation that can lengthen and shorten depending on the platform it is to be used for, as such, one needs to look at a global base that can be used to build everything off of. I actually can see two such bases, 1 for the auto / CUV world and one for the Truck / SUV world. This makes sense as long as they keep the design updated to be fresh along with electronics and power train. Most customers can care less about the frame and the core structure or what is the foundation for the auto.
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    Hopefully they deliver on the option of a modern Turbo 4 and Turbo V6 that would really move this car.
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    Yet Tesla Does NOT make batteries yet, Panasonic does for them and is the one who is investing with them in the giga factory that will make them for Tesla. LG is making the GM batteries for them in America to the Spec that GM designed them already what Panasonic will be doing for Tesla.
  8. G. David Felt
    Both are great interiors but the Buick wins hands down for me, just a bit nicer. Love it in fact.
  9. G. David Felt
    I would pass on both as neither overs real value for the dollar. The best bang for buck Luxury SUV out there is the Escalade! WHAT? The Wine Was Not Merlot? I'd rather have a pinot noir or malbec.. +1 for two awesome Wines, can I get some Dark Chocolate with that please!
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    WHAT? The Wine Was Not Merlot?
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    The problem with your counter examples is that they precisely prove my point. Chrysler DID own the minivan segment for nearly a decade, and Ford didn't relinquish its ponycar sales dominance for a long time either. GM will get to market first, with way more experience building cars and a dealer network more than up to the task of moving cars in the required numbers. The Tesla? Debut delays and troubled launch of current product are both very troubling signs. Their insistence on fighting legal battles to sell cars in Michigan will just wear them down even more. They're in huge trouble. No you're just heavily cheering for GM. The new market is heavily competitive. There's no protection for domestic makes from the foreign competition. GM will not gain any advantage, especially if gas prices fail to cooperate. I can for sure give GM a pity point for head a start of a few hundred to a couple thousand in sales. Pony cars sold in the hundreds of thousands, in the millions in the first few years they came out. That isn't going to happen for electric vehicles. The Volt was meant to transform GM's alternative vehicle footprint. It did in a sense, but now it's in dire threat by another Chevy, and by making a conventional Malibu hybrid - the Volt will be in even more scrutiny. Even the famed Prius is no longer going to be the top-seller Toyota as the company predicted. GM isn't going to win here. No one will, not at first. And because of inertia and bounded rationality, I can easily bet ham over fist that people will definitely wait just a few months more to get the Model 3. So anyways, go see my new thread on the subject and discover why I believe what I believe. Because Elon Musk admitted it himself. Uh, even incumbent automakers make some pretty stupid mistakes (read : ELR), but except here the problem is that Tesla's Model X is still sold-out. And yeah, they had an engineering gaffle. But then again, it's the only production SUV ever made that has Gullwing doors and a panoramic windshield as STANDARD equipment. Have they started to really produce yet and deliver to customers? I have not heard of any production yet or deliveries.
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    The problem with your counter examples is that they precisely prove my point. Chrysler DID own the minivan segment for nearly a decade, and Ford didn't relinquish its ponycar sales dominance for a long time either. GM will get to market first, with way more experience building cars and a dealer network more than up to the task of moving cars in the required numbers. The Tesla? Debut delays and troubled launch of current product are both very troubling signs. Their insistence on fighting legal battles to sell cars in Michigan will just wear them down even more. They're in huge trouble. No you're just heavily cheering for GM. The new market is heavily competitive. There's no protection for domestic makes from the foreign competition. GM will not gain any advantage, especially if gas prices fail to cooperate. I can for sure give GM a pity point for head a start of a few hundred to a couple thousand in sales. Pony cars sold in the hundreds of thousands, in the millions in the first few years they came out. That isn't going to happen for electric vehicles. The Volt was meant to transform GM's alternative vehicle footprint. It did in a sense, but now it's in dire threat by another Chevy, and by making a conventional Malibu hybrid - the Volt will be in even more scrutiny. Even the famed Prius is no longer going to be the top-seller Toyota as the company predicted. GM isn't going to win here. No one will, not at first. And because of inertia and bounded rationality, I can easily bet ham over fist that people will definitely wait just a few months more to get the Model 3. Your wrong, Musk says that based on the upcoming get excited roll out of pictures and more details at the end of March it will then be 1-2 years to get the Model 3 to market. Bolt will be on the market for that length of time and probably get a refresh. Tesla is hurting and I doubt this will save them before someone else, probably a Chinese company will buy them up.
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    FAILURE - Never should have stolen the money from the American Name plates to try and bring back a dead platform. Leave Alfa Romeo in the history books. Focus on Maserati and the American plates that make FCA their money. Kill off the Stupid totally terrible quality Fiat.
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    Why? We'll take drugs after major surgery and try to remember the correct name. Musk, Tusk, all the same for an Ego Centric man.
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    The problem with your counter examples is that they precisely prove my point. Chrysler DID own the minivan segment for nearly a decade, and Ford didn't relinquish its ponycar sales dominance for a long time either. GM will get to market first, with way more experience building cars and a dealer network more than up to the task of moving cars in the required numbers. The Tesla? Debut delays and troubled launch of current product are both very troubling signs. Their insistence on fighting legal battles to sell cars in Michigan will just wear them down even more. They're in huge trouble. Agree, I see posts that Tusk is excited to give more details and pictures of the Model 3 but expects production to start in 2 years or so once capacity at his mega battery plant in Reno is up to speed. This just proves that Tesla will fail to deliver and GM will gain market share with their BOLT as well as Hyundia with the Inoq that is coming out next year also. I think Tesla is going to be really hurting by the time they actually get the Model X and Model 3 produced and delivered.
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    Those are nice updates, I am excited to see how they update the Encore, the dash is a big improvement over the existing Encore. Hope they also bring out a more powerful engine option.
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    End of March Tusk has planned to show off the auto even if only in pictures and give more details about it. Hope it is not the same ugly profile of the S model. They really need something a bit more exciting.
  18. G. David Felt
    Sounds like a fun day and very cool show, to bad some of the want to see auto's were not there. Sucks that they focus only on a few shows and mostly blow off the rest. The Auto Industry really needs to show off everything at all the shows to drive interest.
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    These are sexy auto's put in the proper Electric motor and you have a screamer of a Green Hot Rod!
  20. G. David Felt
    All very interesting and fine points. I will take exception with your comment Suaviloquent that the Tesla looks fantastic, Tesla looks like all other Generic Jelly Bean Cars. It is a cool study in EV technology, but I would not say it looks fantastic. Comparing the Tesla, Fisker Karma and Bolt, you have designs that are clearly different. Fisker is a better comparison to Tesla and I take a Fisker over a Tesla in Looks. Bolt is a CUV style and so really you cannot compare it. Chevy Bolt also is Starting at $37,500 so there is no telling what you can add to the auto and achieve yet. Interesting find is on the Green Car Report that did an in depth story on GM and LG. While GM designed and engineered most of the BOLT, they did it in working with LG testing the BOLT all over the world and making sure the BOLT is a Global auto from day one. So the Partner Ship to research Electric auto design was signed and started in August 2011. The Goal according to then GM CEO Dan Akerson and LG CEO Juno Cho was to create a EV car that could replace a gas auto. To Quote Green Car Reports the following was done by the two companies: "GM designed the electric traction motor and the battery-control system, was responsible for all integration of the powertrain into the vehicle itself, and validated all systems." "LG Chem--which supplies lithium-ion cells from Holland, Michigan, for the Chevrolet Volt and Spark EV, and the Cadillac ELR and CT6 Plug-In Hybrid--designed, engineered, and tested the Bolt EV's battery system to performance and packaging specifications supplied by GM." The story has much more details that are exciting to read and the best part was at the end when GM states they expect to have BOLT deliveries begin shipping to dealers in December 2016. The BOLT is expected to be on lots, not a small special order auto, but on lots for people to touch, look at drive and experience. I think this is one of the times that GM has got ahead of the game and is a threat to Tesla. Tesla really does see GM BOLT as a threat to them if they cannot deliver a Model 3 soon. On top of this is the story that broke on CNN about Tusks Ego and his piss poor response to the delays in delivering the Model X. He cancels a customers order due to the customers tweet that was critical of the Model X launch. Story here.
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    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Tesla Model 3 to Debut End of March, Production Late 2016 Green Car Report is reporting that the first images of the Model 3 will be shown at a Debut late in March. Tesla CEO in France for a Tesla Owners Convention says it could be only a picture or two, that they will show the real thing closer to production or release for sale. Yet many have stated that Tesla has been known to surprise people with new production auto's. GM with it's Chevy Bolt 3 going into production and availability coming up at dealership has put pressure on Tesla to finally deliver on the Model 3. Tusk has stated it will be a $30,000 auto with Federal Incentives and a 200 mile range. This puts it actual selling price at $37,500 like the BOLT. When asked about further details he had no comment. Green Car is also reporting that there are rumors of higher capacity batteries and more powerful motors to upgrade to that would push the Model 3 car price up maybe as high as $50,000. What are your thoughts, can it be done? Will Tesla after years of delay finally deliver? Is GM finally putting pressure on Little Tesla? Sound Off.
  22. G. David Felt
    Car is still Butt Ugly, will it have better reliability? I doubt it. Cool that it is AWD with some power, hopefully Fiat does not make the mistake of detuning the engine. This auto will need every pony to make it move and have some cool factor.Hopefully Torque is equal to or better than the 237hp. Wonder if it is really AWD or 4WD or 4x4 as a powertrain.
  23. G. David Felt
    Scion loses on all fronts to what everyone else is putting out as a competitive entry level auto.
  24. G. David Felt
    True, good catch, Updated post with the 2015 Volt that does share more in common being powertrain but otherwise nothing else. Different sheet metal, different interior. Cars were very different.
  25. G. David Felt
    Wow a "4.6L" pentastar that gets 25-35 mpg in a heavy-ass brick of a full-size sedan?? It's crazy because Fiat-Chrysler can barely manage that with their 4-cylinder cars. Torque NOT Horsepower is where it is at for moving heavy auto's and getting good gas mileage.
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