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G. David Felt

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    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com News Reports GM to Announce Secondary Use of VOLT Battery's! According to the wall street journal, yesterday GM was set to announce a secondary use for the VOLT batteries. According to the story, the 17 kWh battery that GM builds for the VOLT has a cost between $5,100 to $8,500 dollars. According to GM Media, the First generation batteries are now to be used in a second life from helping to keep the lights on and equipment running in IT data centers to bat houses and Duck nesting box's for endangered species. According to GM, the first generation VOLT battery at the end of it's useful life still actually holds over 80% of it's original storage capacity. As such GM has put together commercial and non-commercial use of these battery systems with and without wind turbines to generate enough power to keep buildings up and running for 4 hrs or when not needed return to the electric grid renewable power. The reuse of the VOLT batteries has allowed the GM Data Center administration building to get the LEED Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council. Full GM Medias Announcement VOLT Battery Backup System
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    440 mile Washington Cascade Scenic Loop Highway is EV-ready G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Washington state department of transportation announced yesterday that the Cascade Scenic Loop highway, considered to be one of the top 10 drives in North America is now EV-ready. Governor Jay Inslee joined other city and state representatives at Pybus Public Market to announce the kickoff of this drive that can be done in pure EV mode. Driving this 440 mile loop through the cascade mountains and lakes of Washington emission free will enhance the beauty of the state and preserve the outdoors for future generations to come. WSDOT full News Release is found here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2015/06/CascadeLoopEVReady.htm The full Cascade Loop Scenic Highway PDF is found here: http://www.cascadeloop.com/flip_book/#1 This is the EV station list for the Scenic Loop Highway. This was funded by a $25 million tax payer dollar initiative.
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    Life will have it's ups and downs, but life is always worth living for as there is so much to learn, see and do in life that even the worst day is still a great day to be alive in this awesome world we live in! Hang in there, things will always get better.
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    The cost should have been in a auto line that could justify the cost.
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    Do you think the canceling of the Hybrid is also a realization that in the low end line of auto's people have been driven out of car shopping by the outrageous cost of auto's today. The Civic line probably does not need a Hybrid or CNG. Those should have been in the Accord line.
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    I totally agree with Cmicasa on his take on this FAILURE of Jag!
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    Sad for the death of the CNG Civic as those that own them love them. But GM, Ford and Dodge / Ram are expanding so just more options from others. I have to question Honda Executives on this as I really doubt about some of their changes recently.
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    The last line is what auto companies should all live by, they have to stay Fresh! You do not go 7 or 10 years on the same body / style / technology.
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    Exciting, this could cause VW to actually finally change and bring new everything to the table. Be interesting to watch unfold and how long to incorporate all the changes.
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    I can one-up you. Why do people who are already doing that in the rain... slow down further when they enter a tunnel? The tunnel is 55mph speed limit, they're doing 40 in the rain, and then slow down more when there is no rain!! Let's take this to the final point of not only in a tunnel, but the auto in front of them gets over and the person breaks slowing even further. I just do not get these people!
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    50 shades of Grey
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    Personally an ugly car and a waste of resources. FCA needs to stop wasting money on trying to revive this dead brand and focus the billions on proper R&D for their core brands that need it. The recalls for sucky 9 spd transmissions to gas tank issues, etc. Right now FCA is failing all their established brands and wasting billions on Alfa Romeo is wrong. Should have left this in the history books and move forward with the other brands.
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    Smart cars are fine for local driving and inner city commuting, but longer suburban to city commuting I would get something safer. While the car shows the over all cage stays in tack, there is plenty of evidence that shows the cage survives but the human body cannot. 60 mph and you will still have serious injuries in that car. To me human life is worth more than the MPG of a car like the Smart cars and all overs that are this small.
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    Wrap or Lay is the question........ I mean Spray! Guess I would Spray, never been one to wrap it, but I like the depth that you can get with paint that wraps cannot do. Plus wraps are just to commercial even though I understand it can be very custom, but for me give me some serious depth on a good paint job covered in Clear Coat and I am there.
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    Bet MI plant is happy for expansion of jobs or security of existing ones.
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    Teslas own web site says it will compete against the Luxury SUV makers in price. So expect a stripped down model to start around $75,000 and go up to over $100,000
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    Very Cool, I have seen some amazing MPG numbers for the Duramax engine and with a proper coder you can have your power one day for racing and economy the next. The engine really seems to work for various functions all by just changing the mapping of the chip.
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    Call me less than impressed. Is the new 7 series nice looking yes, but like others have stated very much a larger version of the 3 series. For the kind of money they are asking for I expect better. Interior is where I am dumb founded. How can you say this is anything but a failure. Bland straight dash with an after thought screen screwed into the center of the dash. The 1980's console was more a driving center in the 7 series then than this is now. Interior from the first 7 series in the 80's 2016 7 series interior
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    Lovely cars, to bad the evil big 3 killed them.
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    The Avalanche could do 21 - 22 on the highway back with a 6-speed, so I imagine a fairly basic Silverado 1500 V8 could do at least that and probably better. I probably should have clarified that the Silverado/Sierra in question was a hybrid. And it was the second-generation of GM's hybrid tech (they actually kicked things off with a mild hybrid version of the truck previous to that one). Point being: making a 5500-pound Escalade meet CAFE standards is going to be difficult, but quite doable. Ohhhhhh that does make more sense.. Didn't they have hybrid Tahoes also? I assume people just werent buying them because it seems like a great way to be able to keep massive vehicles around when the regulations get really strict. Supposedly Ford is working on a hybrid powertrain for their F150.. The Hybrid Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade are loved by those that own them and hard to find on the used market. GM FAILED to market them. It was great to have an AWD with 22mpg. Having driven them they are so quiet up to 35MPH and then the engine kicks in and it still is awesome to drive. GM needs to revisit it or beef up the VOLT system to use it in the full size SUV's.
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    Sad that they did not capitalize on the car scene from Fast and Furious 2. They could have so grown and kicked ass if they did not ignore the trends of youth.
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    This is sad as it sounds like he is desperate to find a partner knowing FCA has limited time before Bankruptcy happens. Gut tells me an ugly change will happen in the next 12-18 months with FCA.
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    Always a good time to look at changing careers.
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    I am interested in what Tusk was talking about when he said other interesting features or more accurately suprises plus I wonder if the Insane Mode will make it into the X. http://teslamotorsnews.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-insane-mode-of-p85d.html CNN Money had a great overview of this story also along with their own test of Insane mode and the home battery pack. http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/10/autos/tesla-suv-model-x-delivery/index.html
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