balthazar

No- the actual pickup line, not the Avalanche reboot already shown.

I don't hate the Silverado EV's styling (tho it's less appealing in the above renders as a Tahoe), but I don't know it will have mass appeal to the Silverado demographic. I doubt it will be widely embraced. Still waiting for the BE pickup reveal..... ?

This is 'Gray Baby'. We've been feeding her breakfast & dinner on our back porch since the summer of '19. We got her a heated, insulated 'A-frame' house outside over the winters, and eventually she would let us pet her on occasion. 2 weeks ago, at about 11PM, she was calling loudly at the back door, and scratching at it some. She never did this before, never came inside the house before. So we figured out how to bring her thru the back door, into the garage and down into the basement (my basement door is in my garage). She kept glancing back into the backyard (I have woods behind my house)- so either she was afraid of a predator, or she was just DONE with being out. She stayed 2 weeks in the basement, snuggled up on a couch down there, and she was quiet & content. Slept a TON. Never tried to leave/go up the stairs, and quickly she would lay right next to or on one of us. We'd go down & hang out with her. Super-sweet. It was clear she had been in a home before. Sad that she lived outdoors for 1.75 years when she could've been safe & snug inside. Took her to the vet after a week; about 3 yrs old, clean bill of health, got some shots, good to go. But we have 3 cats right now, so my son/his girlfriend found a couple who are 'cat people', and tonight Gray Baby took a ride to Philly to live there. I like to play it nonchalant RE cats, but I'm pretty sure I'm not fooling anyone here. She's going to be missed...

Reviews have shown people want a million dollars (tax free, while we're at it). Now what? Everything comes at a cost. This is why Rolls Royce doesn't sell 5 million vehicles per year. Affordability is the number 1 criteria in consumerism.

^ that’s quite a bit older than 60 years. If the above info RE rims is accurate, people will have to also dump their OEM rims to go airless. As I suspected- because part of the securing of pneumatic tires on rims is via air pressure (duh). Also, the inner surface of any pneumatic rim if far from a single plane. Boom- another price hike. Wonder if someone will calculate up the potential weight of all the scrapped factory rims. ? I’ll add to my earlier comment RE flats. All 3 on my 2500HD occurred in my driveway, IE; I ran over a nail/bolt on the road, never knew it at the time, drove home, and found the flat the next morning. Never stranded. I very seldom notice people with flats on the road, it’s not a common problem from my observation. But NJ spends a LOT of money on road repair/maintence.

A pipe dream. Tire companies have been trying to get airless tires into regular production for 60 years now. I’ll see if I can find the clipping I saved to show that.

'Economies of scale' is in no way guaranteed to A. happen fast enough to offset inflation, B. be enough to see a significant drop, and C. no assurance such economies will ever be passed down to consumers. It's an unreliable assumption. This is where people "bitch" about the past - general overall quality of many many consumer products isn't getting any better, just more expensive. Those were 2 (very unscientific) polls on Elon Musk, not on electric cars. Remember the poll referenced here recently that said the percentage of folk who would buy an electric car as their next vehicle was 5%??

It appears not:

When I read some of David's posts, I'm reminded of one of the Star Trek movies (the one with James Cromwell), where one of the people upon first seeing the Enterprise asks 'How much money did all this cost?' and Picard chuckles and replies 'We don't use money anymore.'

? Auto industry is making more production carbon fiber than ever before, yet a set of GT500 rims is still about $25,000.

He already owned an electric Honda E, so he did 'learn something new', he just didn't like it. As stated here before; the automobile really didn't replace the horse.

A GT500 front carbon rim cost $7015.82. Each. - - - - - Interesting real-world experience :

Interesting video somewhat dispelling the myth of extreme handling between IC and BE vehicles.

I also have always declined a road hazard uncharge. I've had I think 3 punctures on my 2500HD over 150K miles, (plus I think 1 on my wife's car in the same time) but the tire was never scrapped, but plugged (which I do myself). - - - - - This pro race driver agrees that it's very likely they'll be too expensive for mainstream use. As currently proposed, the airless tire would be sold pre-mounted on a wheel, so if you like your OE rims, you're not going with an airless tire. What this means is 1000s of bolt patterns & offsets - all increasing Michelin's development costs by a HUGE margin. He also brings up another significant criteria- these are likely to increase unsprung weight- the enemy of good handling.

Yeah; we don't have a price yet. Let's start a pool. ? Every time a new 'revolutionary' replacement for a long-running product appears, it ALWAYS costs more, not less. If it's only -say- 20-25% more, that might see a significant take-rate. Here tho it seems like more costly materials & construction methodology, so that's upward pressure. But I'm betting heavy that the 'gee-whiz' factor is going to see a price penalty that's over double. 2021 Camry wears a 235/45-18 (26-in overall diameter). At Firestone, that's a $190-200 tire. A Michelin 26-in tall airless tire for lawn equipment is $640, or over triple the air tire. Now upgrade that to hold the weight & speeds of a Camry. They might be $850 each.

Like a lot of things, you have to balance your fear / chances of getting a flat and being stressed over it vs. an (expected) extremely high price tag every time you buy a new set of airless tires. The mass aggregate of non-repairable punctured tires per year is meaningless to the individual. olds- have you ever bought the 'road hazard' coverage when buying new tires?

mercedes sold 400+ units in December- does anyone want it?

$1500-1600 for a set of airless tires is not going to gain much traction ( ) with the 'appliance crowd'. It's not like the olden days of A Christmas Story, where blowouts are all that common, but let's go ahead and invent problems that require new, hyper-expensive solutions. You know- like cabin air filters. ?

Watch; these tires will be like $450 a pop.

'21 to '20 is probably largely legit, but '21 to '19 wouldn't be. At some point we'll be past the industry interruptions and back to 'normal'. I just read that GM is in a positive chip position and now Ford is seeing downward pressures.

Between chip shortages, pandemic effects and tundra being a new generation- sales numbers are meaningless right now... basically industry-wide.