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Big Tire Sale!
If anybody is needing tires http://www.discounttiredirect.com is having their Thanksgiving day sale. Ends today (Friday) I believe. They have some good rebates on certain tires. I got $130 back on Yokohamma Envigors. -
Aussi Powerwall, Musk pisses off climate deniers
Source: Elon Musk wins bet, finishing massive battery installation in 100 days | Ars Technica
Tesla has completed construction of a massive 100 megawatt, 129 MWh battery installation in South Australia. The new facility boasts the largest megawatt rating for any grid-connected battery installation in the world.
The project was completed less than two months after the contract was signed on September 29, putting it ahead of schedule. Musk had promised Australian authorities that he would complete the project in 100 days or the project would be free. Musk has said it... -
PSA: Recall & stop sale on all BMW i3s sold in US
BMW has issued a voluntary non-compliance recall and stop-sale on all new i3s until the issue of the recall can be remedied. So if you’re looking to buy a BMW i3, you might be in for some bad luck.
According to NHTSA testing, there’s an issue with frontal crash protection for drivers of the “5th percentile female” in the driver’s seat, if they don’t wear their seatbelt. Basically, that means that, in the event of a frontal crash, females of about 5-feet tall and 110 pounds have a “marginally higher risk” of sustaining neck injuries than is allowed.
@bwilson4web I hope you and yours are safe and having a happy Thanksgiving!
Recall and stop-sale to be issued on all BMW i3 models sold in America
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Georgetown Ky Toyota Plant
Source: Toyota Tells Camry Plant Employees to Cut Costs — Now | TheDetroitBureau.com
Employees at Toyota’s largest plant in North America were just delivered a message from Japan: cut costs or lose jobs.I've taken two tours of this plant and it is 'Disneyland for Engineers.' I hope they get the problem(s) resolved.
The company’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, produces the Camry, which is the best-selling sedan in the U.S., was told in a video from the company’s plant manager that currently it is cheaper for Toyota to build the Camry in Japan and ship it to Kentucky than it is to simply build it in Kentucky.
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Industrial hydrogen
Source: Green Car Congress: UC Santa Barbara team develops catalytic molten metals for direct conversion of methane to hydrogen without forming CO2
In their study, the UCSB researchers prepared liquid alloys of active metals in low–melting-temperature metal “solvents” (Sn, Pb, Bi, In, and Ga) using known equilibrium phase behavior to produce catalysts that melt at <1000°C. The melts are used in molten-metal bubble columns, where carbon continuously floats to the surface where it can be removed.
The carbon produced—mostly graphite—accumulated as a fine powder at the top surface of the melt.
In addition to the problems of high-pressure hydrogen, a hard problem, steam reformulation of methane generates CO{2} and consumes water. This process eliminates the water and generates carbon in a form that can easily be sequestered.
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Ex-semi driver has questions about Tesla Semi
Like, why aren't there outside mirrors? How about windows that roll all the way down? How fast can it stop? Are you sure it can't jackknife?
He raises some good questions about practicality and the laws of physics.
This ex-trucker has some questions about the Tesla Semi
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Prius v ends US run, Rav4 hybrid took its sales
Toyota Prius V hybrid wagon ends U.S. run; RAV4 Hybrid took its sales
Well, many of us suspected this was going to happen sooner or later. I wonder what would happen if Toyota made the v a plug-in? -
Tesla is Going Out of Business, says former GM Vice Chairman.
11/17/2017: Tesla is 'going out of business,' says former GM exec Bob Lutz
Tesla is a "losing enterprise" that won't last, Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, told CNBC on Friday.
"The company, folks, is going out of business. At this rate they'll never get to 2019," the well-known Tesla skeptic said in an interview with "Power Lunch."
Among the issues facing the electric-car maker are fixed costs that are out of control, an inefficient manufacturing operation and no dealership network, Lutz said.
Plus, there's nothing about Tesla (TSLA) that can't be easily duplicated by other automobile companies, he argued.
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Wipe out any progress we've made, right?
By 2019, Volvo says that every new car model that it sells will either be electric or a hybrid. By 2023, Ford plans to have 13 new electric or hybrid cars and GM will introduce 20 new electric cars. By 2025, Volkswagen plans to have launched around 30 new electric cars, and five years later, it will offer an electric version of every model it sells. But all of the manufacturers are also part of an auto industry trade group in the U.S. that is lobbying to weaken fuel economy standards.
Automakers Say They’re Going Electric–But They’re Also Lobbying For We
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Faraday Future's Fantastic Flameout
The story of the EV that probably will never be, the Faraday Future.
Accidental Billionaire
Faraday Future Says Someone Faked Documents
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