Will UAW Strike?

[5030]

Still on strike. Getting colder up here as well. Pretty soon the 55 gallon drums and wood pallets will be getting burned to keep the strikers warm.

I'm sure Fain is quite toasty however. Probably brown bagging it as well, cannot even afford McDees anymore. Baloney on sponge bread with a dab of mustard and a bottle of cheap brew.

 

[5030]

Bingo.

EV's are like cellphones. Once the battery is done...it's better to just junk it.

... and pay a premium price to junk it because the battery is Haz Mat.

 

[5030]

If I was to EVER buy an EV, it would have to be a hybrid, not that will every buy one anyway, because I won't. Heck, my Focus gets 40 mpg every day and being retired, I don't motor that much anyway.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Hey Gale,

Have you ever made a cross country road trip using the dependable Tesla superchargers? How was the FSD? We'd all love to hear about it again (and again)

Yes . Since getting it in Jan I have put 14K miles on the car charging at home. Recently I had a cross country to Austin Texas to work a tradeshow. Going out I was figuring out things
Coming back knowing FSD was hitting on all cylinders I just got in the car and said navigate to home, put it in gear set FSD and took off and that was pretty much the last of the thinking process as far as the drive itself went. It did all the decision making process. Found the superchargers that she wanted to charge on and 800 mi later I was at my driveway.

Today I'm driving the 2016 Leaf SL that has a 2020 40 kilowatt hour battery in it. It is nice but nothing like the Tesla. I'm having trouble keeping from running over stuff because I got used to the one pedal driving which is awesome.

Back when Tesla's was more expensive than Toyotas, I was looking seriously at the RAV4 plug in hybrid and so I bought a 2015 Prius C to serve as a test bed to learn that technology since I've never owned a Toyota in my life. I'll have driven Nissans for the last 50 years. Actually impressed with the Toyota hybrid technology. It's very slick. The only downside that I found was you had the worst of both worlds. Getting rid of oil changes and gas stations was a major major improvement for my life.

What are you currently driving?

 

[Pixguy]

Yes . Since getting it in Jan I have put 14K miles on the car charging at home. Recently I had a cross country to Austin Texas to work a tradeshow. Going out I was figuring out things
Coming back knowing FSD was hitting on all cylinders I just got in the car and said navigate to home, put it in gear set FSD and took off and that was pretty much the last of the thinking process as far as the drive itself went. It did all the decision making process. Found the superchargers that she wanted to charge on and 800 mi later I was at my driveway.

Today I'm driving the 2016 Leaf SL that has a 2020 40 kilowatt hour battery in it. It is nice but nothing like the Tesla. I'm having trouble keeping from running over stuff because I got used to the one pedal driving which is awesome.

Back when Tesla's was more expensive than Toyotas, I was looking seriously at the RAV4 plug in hybrid and so I bought a 2015 Prius C to serve as a test bed to learn that technology since I've never owned a Toyota in my life. I'll have driven Nissans for the last 50 years. Actually impressed with the Toyota hybrid technology. It's very slick. The only downside that I found was you had the worst of both worlds. Getting rid of oil changes and gas stations was a major major improvement for my life.

What are you currently driving?

A trip to Austin? Please tell us about that trip.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

A trip to Austin? Please tell us about that trip.

Let me know when you're reading comprehension kicks in.

 

[5030]

Cousin Jeff had a Prius and traded it on his Tesla. I wish he would have told me he was going to do that as I would have bought it. Oh well. My plan was to add Tweco connectors to the battery and use it for field welding. Better than toting my Lincoln gas drive welder in the pickup truck.

Like I said, I'd buy a hybrid but never a plug in and the price has to get in line before that happens.

 

[Pixguy]

Let me know when you're reading comprehension kicks in.

Thanks, sometimes it takes me 5 or 6 times.

 

[hiddentacocatneddih]

What does the guy circle jerking his tesla ego have to do with the Uaw strike again?

So we have a deal or what

 

[Hay Dude]

GM, Honda scrap plans to co-develop 'affordable' sub-$30,000 EVs

The cancellation by GM and Honda is the latest in a growing number of decisions by automakers to scale back or scrap previously announced EV plans.

www.cnbc.com

Maybe the p___tical winds are bowing in a different direction.