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@trinacriabob I am humbled by your knowledge of aircraft. And our planet. You have visited many places and I am very envious of. My strengths used to be on military aircraft. I used to know a lot about them. From WW2 fighters and bombers to modern fighter jets, fighter/bombers but my knowledge acquisition stopped somewhere in the late 1980s. I was but a casual fan in the 1990s. Civilian aircraft was also a passion of mine at that time as well, but not as much as the military aircraft. I havent stopped learning about airplanes, but it aint as much of a passion to me as it once was. Cars took over. I appreciate your posts in this thread, and any airplane related subject you talk about. But the thing I appreciate most is your travel tales. I absolutely love those. Along with @Robert Hall and his travelling tales. Whether its about going to concerts in his own city or in another town or whatever. Thank-you guys!!! Yeah, the caption said it was a Boeing 777-300ER The picture was a snapshot of a video. Its impressive that you know the types of airplanes. An enthusiast will know. ? Its impressive in that you keep being an enthusiast of an industry that everybody seems to be taking for granted. Similarly as you continuing to be an automotive enthusiast. Nobody gives a shyte anymore about cars and planes. They have become too mundane for the average moron... And its a shame. About Aeroflot and Russian planes. Other than the military airplanes, I was never interested in learning about their civilian stuff. Only know, I am mildly entertaining myself with them.

@ccap41 You know dude... Your downvotes dont do anything to negate what I say about you... You downvote what I said, about you knowingly or mis-informingly transmitting FUD stupidly believing the shyte you write whether its done on purpose (trolling for your weekly entertainment) or just by you being ignorant... But yet you upvote @David for basically believing what I say. Maybe not about you, but about moronic people spewing FUD about EVs. Its funny to me. You are lining up to be the next BLU. No, your are NOT anti-EV, by the looks of it, on the surface, but you do like to spew some dumb a$$ anti-EV false rhetoric from time to time. You say to some other posters that living in the suburbs its easier to own an EV as these EV owners will most probably have a home charger yet FAIL to realize a worker dude travelling to a different city for a few weeks or so or a vacationing dude visiting a city will ALSO have a charger at their disposal via their hotel... Its the SAME freakin' scaenario and I have mentioned that with SCENARIOS. @Drew Dowdell used his OWN experiences to quell your idiotic notions but you fall back to an argument that has been squashed time and time again regarding range of EVs... 280-320 miles of average EV range today EQUALS ICE cars... Charging times have also been improved to where its not a problem... Dude, you are 34 years old today. Maybe its about time your internet persona acts his age... Facebook and MotorTrend pissing matches of who goads the other poster has been o thing of the past. Its been dead for a looong while. Maybe Facebook is still going on strong with that kind of childish environment. Keep that kind of crap there. Ill be civil towards you. Ill engage with you without the aggressive nature. But as soon as I see you engage in idiocy, I wont back down. Happy Birthday to you. Another olive branch has been sent to you. But its up to you to stop with the nonsense in here if you dont want me to be in your face.

Mercedes EV styling is horrendous. SUV or sedan, no difference in the amount of horrendousness. Actually, nothing they sell now, ICEV or EV, could be considered as pleasant. In recent years, they have managed to uglify even their most compelling designs of just a mere decade ago. The only Mercedes vehicles I personally like are the Sprinter vans and all their iterations. Electric versions intrigue me. With that said, not very inspiring when the only thing I see myself drive or be driven in is a van. It wouldnt have been a big deal if we were talking about GMC with its black and dark grey coloured 1983 Vandura from a certain TV show. But its Mercedes we are talking about. You know, the company that was inspired to do a Formula One 1.6 liter V6 hybrid supercar for the streets. But they phoqued up the looks of that as well... But that is just my lowly opinion. Many folk love the modern look of a Mercedes-Benz.

I like the picture. Something soothing about it.

This massive switch to EVs world wide wont be left to chance. Like I said, trillions of dollars are being spent to make this happen globally. This switch wont be left for the general population to have a failure on their hands. There will be compromises made. Maybe... The failures will be on some corporations not making it. But the ones remaining will be the new titans going forward in the future. Sears, Blockbuster, Duesenberg, AMC, SAAB are some of the past titans that didnt make it into our future. Amazon and Netflix and Tesla are some of the present and future titans to take us into the next 100 years... Ironically though, all the anti-EV rhetoric from fear mongering opportunists are actually making OEMs to produce EVs to be better than the ICEV ten fold. From acceleration times. To range. EVs, with all the FUD range anxiety crap that is STILL being presented to us with charging times and all, OEMs are trying to get batteries to have 1000 mile ranges. Batteries that do NOT degrade with heat or cold. Batteries to have an almost limitless times of recharging. To have EVs recharging on the go with solar power or on the road... These engineers are using all the whiny bullshyte to engineer unstoppable EVs to be one million times better, more efficient, faster vehicles than the internal combustion engined ones that they are going to replace. And all those improvements aimed for the next 5-10 years to boot...

All anti-EV FUD from people that have vested interest in NOT promoting EVs for one reason or other. That is why I got aggressive with @ccap41 the other day because it is frustrating when I know what is being transmitted is bullshyte, fear mongering and lies. And there is NO excuse to spew that kind of bullshyte when open news is available to us, North Americans, no matter where we live in North America to access the reality of it all. We could discuss and voice our concerns, especially when a solution is available in one area but not in another. Im not soooo close minded that I cannot accept somebody else's reality. Why? I have access to news. To realities other than my own that I could access myself. And if you read my posts to him, you would realize that I lent myself to be in HIS shoes where HE lives... But the same was NOT presented by him to me. And @Drew Dowdell as it where... With these batteries that will be spent or outlive the cars they reside in or whatever... Many GLOBAL solutions are being talked about on what to do with them. MANY solutions have been presented and probably be put into action. And how do I know this? Well, I wouldnt be able to talk to you guys without this thing called the internet. The WORLD WIDE WEB thingy. The www.----------.com or .ca or .org or any other domain. We as North Americans have access to that kind of freedom... And to you of course, Dave. You keep us informed with EV news almost on a daily basis. THANK-YOU!!! 1. Recycling centers to recycle the batteries 2. back up power to power government buildings, hospitals, factories and even private houses as a collection of batteries... And many more ways of batteries that do not pass muster on the EVs that we buy... And all that I said could easily be googled and verified. And it wont be fakenews as these solutions are GLOBAL. From Japan and Chine to Korea and Thailand to Canada, Brasil Mexico and the US. To Germany and France and England and Australia and any other country I didnt mention...

I saw a pic of the new Genesis G90 And it reminded me of this The wheels I prefer the Trans Am wheels!

I called it... From this thread. And it didnt take long to sign up a deal like that either. Not even a week. Its not rocket science to figure out that stuff like this WILL happen. The whole world is demanding this change from ICEV to EV. Trillions upon trillions of dollars of many sectors are being spent and will be spent to make this change. Its only logic that if not for idiot politicians to make this happen, but for global big business to bring us these solutions to make this transition. Its OK NOT to have faith in dummy politicians. But corporate big wigs get paid the BIIIIG bucks for solutions. I think the switch to EVs will happen sooner than later. I have had this feeling for a good 2 years about. I was skeptical before then, but I see the global change and how solutions are presented and executed (with all the technologies and business ventures and all) and I know this change to EVs will happen sooner than we think.

Is that Tom Brady? He looks nice and calm here. But then again, that picturer was probably taken before last week's game... Id get this guy that chair on the sidelines...

Well...this C130 didnt float so good...

(in Johnny Carson accent) I did not know that. (in Russian accent) Thank-you for information.

Anyways... On another note @ccap41 10 out of 11 for the Cowboys versus the Giants!!! My olive branch to you Accept?

hey Tucker (CCAP) https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Busch+Stadium,+700+Clark+Ave,+St.+Louis,+MO+63102,+United+States/The+Dome+at+America's+Center,+701+Convention+Plaza,+St.+Louis,+MO+63101,+United+States/@38.6277209,-90.1949022,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b31b440bcf17:0xa57962d7e3509f27!2m2!1d-90.1928209!2d38.6226188!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b31f4b9ec5c1:0xe0984b60ee40c8ee!2m2!1d-90.1885068!2d38.6328232 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Busch+Stadium,+700+Clark+Ave,+St.+Louis,+MO+63102,+United+States/Enterprise+Center,+1401+Clark+Ave,+St.+Louis,+MO+63103,+United+States/@38.6245147,-90.2002652,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b31b440bcf17:0xa57962d7e3509f27!2m2!1d-90.1928209!2d38.6226188!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b313f33f9ffd:0x16d092e190f89a21!2m2!1d-90.2026783!2d38.6268402 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Enterprise+Center,+Clark+Avenue,+St.+Louis,+MO,+USA/The+Dome+at+America's+Center,+701+Convention+Plaza,+St.+Louis,+MO+63101,+United+States/@38.6285755,-90.1989582,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b313f33f9ffd:0x16d092e190f89a21!2m2!1d-90.2026783!2d38.6268402!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b31f4b9ec5c1:0xe0984b60ee40c8ee!2m2!1d-90.1885068!2d38.6328232 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Enterprise+Center,+Clark+Avenue,+St.+Louis,+MO,+USA/The+Gateway+Arch,+Gateway+Arch,+St.+Louis,+MO+63102,+United+States/@38.6224845,-90.2030462,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b313f33f9ffd:0x16d092e190f89a21!2m2!1d-90.2026783!2d38.6268402!1m5!1m1!1s0x87c0f0607541e5b5:0x79ed2889c696a834!2m2!1d-90.1867504!2d38.6251269 All the best restaurants and hotels and those sports stadiums I posted up there using google maps are all within 2-3 miles of one another, if not shorter. The phoquing airport is 26 miles away https://www.google.com/maps/dir/MidAmerica+St.+Louis+Airport+(BLV),+9656+Air+Terminal+Dr,+Mascoutah,+IL+62258,+United+States/The+Gateway+Arch,+Gateway+Arch,+St.+Louis,+MO+63102,+United+States/@38.5880517,-90.1411138,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x88760f698c7acb57:0x3935d0dba5d589cf!2m2!1d-89.8156661!2d38.5476913!1m5!1m1!1s0x87c0f0607541e5b5:0x79ed2889c696a834!2m2!1d-90.1867504!2d38.6251269 Six Flags in St Louis is 30 miles away from the Arch. 50 some odd miles from the airport... EVs today have 280-320 miles of range. Hotels and airports HAVE EV chargers. Admittingly, I had a hard time to search for charging ports near the park. But... 1. Im not from St Louis. 2. Im not planning to take a trip their tomorrow either to really find one next to the park. 3. Its only 30 away from the St Louis Arch, next to a hotel Im leaving in. Or 50 some odd miles from a hotel airport. 150 miles of travel time to and from for that particular day Im visiting the park if I stayed next to the airport, is plenty of mileage. I charge at the hotel at night. I got 280-320 miles of range again in the morning an NO inconvinience what so ever. Hell, I drive after the park to see a NHL game or baseball game and eat and drive and do all kinds iof things downtown St Louis WITHOUT walking, just driving and I still have enough juice to get back to the airport hotel... Like phoque off Tucker!!! Stop the trolling. I njustb did a fast planning thing to go to YOUR city and I KNOW I wont have any inconveniences with an EV... Working or vacationing in YOUR city.

@ccap41 Your downvotes are fine. I do the same thing to you. Its phoquing funny that you have resorted to downvoting, actually. Like a little man-child not liking what he is hearing. Wah wah wah. Grow the phoque up!!! Not the first time I tell you this.

Again with the Tucker Carlson response... Just because HE mentioned a dealership, it doesnt HAVE to be a dealership...\ There are COUNTLESS of chargers... THAT is the point... @Drew Dowdell and myself showed you yet ANOTHER phoquing solution to charge a phoquing EV on your work/vacay trip... YOU decide to shyte on it and use your bullshyte excuse again... Just IGNORE this part of his dialogue JUST to pick on a suggestion... Ignore all the phoquing charging ports one passes by in a TOURISTY area where no wastage of time or effort is being done by a work or vacationing dude. Ignore all that and continue to be Tucker... Boy...you are such a lame a&& Hey Tucker... charging points are all over the major cities, especially in the tourist spots... Including the one YOU live in... Stop the phoquing trolling already... Hey Tucker, you are not gassing up in a gas car. Why do you need to charge up every day in an EV? If you are working, you are staying in a hotel close to work. You are walking to work. Not driving. If you are staying at a hotel close to the airport, the airports have chargers... Downtown? Yup chargers. Dude, you are wrong and you know it. Stop trolling CCAP!

Youde get that with me too. But you argue like Tucker Carlson. You act like a child. You deserve the same treatment. To keep on spewing about charge times when I have REPEATEDLY given you LINKS to relieve your so called opinion, you ignore all I have to say and go back to your childish charging times... On vacation, walking around is done. Anywhere in the world for ANY reason. Cars are less so of a factor. Hotels DO have charging points. Touristy arears DO have charging points. 250-320 miles is a helluva lot of miles to drive.... Like in daily driving, 3-4 days one goes before one has to charge or gas up. And THAT is a lot of freakin miles driven. We are NOT driving AWAY 250 miles from our vacation spot.... I included the Quebec city thing only to prove how absurd your so called opinion is. But in that scenario, we are visiting TWO cities. TWO destination spots. Ind in THAT scenario, both Montreal and Quebec are walking cities. You get the MOST out of both cities walking. As you walk and dine and witness historical sites, the EV is charging... Visiting any vacation destination, 50 miles going and 50 miles coming back in one day is probably the MOST you;ll drive in that day. Coming back to the hotel, one WILL charge overnight and have another 250-320 mile range again if one needs to do another 100 mile range trip. But if that is the case, why did you choose a destination hotel to be 100 miles AWAY from these destinations. But it dont matter, it aint an inconvenience to charge up while EATING on a reststop along the way if one couldnt charge AT the hotel THAT night... In ANY scenario... Going to Disneyworld and one stays at hotels NOT at Disney, the Hotels are NOT 50 miles away... One could do several trips to Disney without having range anxiety. Charge up at night after the 3rd trip to Disney. g=Have another 250-320 mile range... Staying in Miami, the fartest away from the beach, and want to go to the beach? Miami beach is not 300 miles away from the fartest point of Miami. And even if it was, swimming at Miami beach is a 3-4 hour affair. Plenty of time to charge the phoquing EV... You will eat. Move the phoquing car at that point in time. But why are you staying 300 miles away from the beach if you wanted to go to the beach? Hey Tucker... Discuss with me like an adult. NOT like a teenager. When you do that, you will get respect...

https://www.reservations.com/hotels/st-louis-and-vicinity-mo/amenity/electric-car-charging Even in St Louis... Hotels in and around the area, with 250-320 mile range, renting an EV and charging it at your hotel 2-3 times in a 2 week vacation time period is NOT an inconvenience by itself, let alone compared to an IVE vehicle. FYI... There are very few gas stations in the downtown core of Montreal... For the last hundred years, I havent heard anybody bitch about being low on gas and freaking out in the downtown core of Montreal... There are many many many more charge points... Links are posted before. Hotels in the downtown Montreal core with EV charging points https://www.reservations.com/hotels/montreal-qc/amenity/electric-car-charging

And its NOT a problem right NOW... Unless you want it to be. And if you make into a problem discussing it, a mountain out of a mole hill, you are no better than Tucker Carlson... And if you truly dont know about reality, than maybe inform yourself with non-misrepresenting details before spewing FUD...

The point is its not a BIG PHOQUING deal. Especially when one is on VACATION. Yes, EVs DO take a tad longer to charge up. In the context of being ON vacation. 250-320 miles, in a city core or beach or tourist theme park, to do touristy things, one does NOT need a car as much as YOU seem to think you need one. THAT is the point. I showed you examples as how it WILL be done. The storyline is true and realistic... Stowe Vermont https://chargehub.com/en/countries/united-states/vermont/stowe.html Popular Charging Stations in Stowe Stowe ElectricChargePoint Stowe ElectricChargePoint Stowe ElectricChargePoint Spruce Peak Performing Arts CenterChargePoint Stowe Mountain LodgeNon-Networked, Tesla Stowe Electric In phoquing Vermont... Its a tourist hot spot... What inconvenience are you babbling on about? Hey Tucker, have a nice day because Im done with your shyte today! I never said you were. There is that Tucker Carlson way about your views... Its in the posts that I wrote DIRECTLY to you that I say you are NOT anti-EV. Just that you are a CONTRARIAN. A troll... Your Tucker Carlson style of discussing shyte is getting old and tiresome. But you do you if it tickles your fancy for your entertainment purposes...

No it aint Tucker. No amount of false fear mongering alters that. Charging is just a tad longer than filling up. But that is just the way it is for EVs. For now. The concept of RENTING EVs for vacation is not an inconvenience. Like at all. YOU want it to be. YOU say it is. You twist it like Fox news and Tucker Carlson does, but it really is not. You can keep on harping on the fact about charging times, and that is ALL you got, but it aint a problem unless you want to make it a problem. And with that, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING can and IS an inconvenience. About that wise man thing... You are the one making a mountain out of a mole hill. Ive given you how it is. You dismiss with the same Tucker Carlosn style talking points like your judgement is how it is. And your talking points is NOT how it is... Keep at it Tucker!

Again with the same bullshyte. Ill be calling you Tucker from now on.

its called selective reading and being a contrarian on your part... Where I come from, yeah. As so where you come from too. St Louis is not an isolated place. If I ever wanted to see the Cards play for a day, or the Blues, Id be alright flying into your city and renting an EV for the week. Its up to YOU to prove me otherwise, because in Montreal, there is NO problem. Search in the description Eaton Center, Molson Center, Bonsecour Market. All these places are at the extreme of one another from Old Montreal to the east (Bonsecour Market), in the middle of the area, Eaton Center downtown Montreal and to the west, Molson Center where the Canadiens play. Not to far away from Atwater metro station where the Forum used to be... You could enter that too. https://lecircuitelectrique.com/en/find-a-station/ in and around Old and Downtown Montreal. And all the hotels https://chargemap.com/cities/montreal-CA

Dont be coy. You are not stupid. Ive explained it thoroughly. Chargers in major US cities and in Canada, especially in the touristy areas, are EVERYWHERE. Where one hotels (as a verb) when visiting downtown cores or beaches or theme parks... 250-320 average 2022 EV vehicle miles are more than enough to get you going for your necessary winding down time from your 1st world stress. Charging the car over night when sleeping is also an option AT the hotel underground parking if you are such an entitled prick that when walking around at a downtiown core of any city is too much for you. Never you mind that you pass your parked car several times over when walking around... Dont pretend than you dont understand... Unless of course you have never vacationed that you dont understand. And if THAT is the case, then why the phoque have you an opinion on something that you dont know about but want to die on a hill for for being an idiot?

Confirning your response that your 'exactly' was on my 'inconvenience' response. Which it aint. Dont brush off this response: 1st world problems... That you have to move a car...on vacation. Spending hundreds of dollars if not thousands visiting another place buying useless trinket souvenirs and dining. This is a reality YOU dont want to admit exists. If YOU want to say it is an inconvenience, you would be a very entitled SOB. One that garners NO empathy from me. If you walk around Montreal, yes Montreal, not Venice beach, but Montreal, and you have to move your rented EV car while passing by these individuals and whine about it... Atwater Metro station...downtown Montreal. You are one tone deaf individual. And quite frankly, an a&&hole... Like In said... 1st world problems... That you have to move a car...on vacation. Spending hundreds of dollars if not thousands visiting another place buying useless trinket souvenirs and dining.

To boot, its still gets a 329 mile range rating... Despite its atrocious efficiency...