I’d take that Mustang over a Tesla.
Someone on the forum had a relative that got it….can’t remember but curious about real life experience with it.
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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
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Someone on the forum had a relative that got it….can’t remember but curious about real life experience with it.
My neighbour is a fleet manager for a Canada wide company and they have been looking at electric delivery trucks. The catch is they need PTO's and the electrics can't do the job. They've gone as far as Switzerland and keep getting told it won't work.
Then he told the CEO the price and it really wouldn't work.
A PTO?
A separate motor hooked up to whatever a PTO would be driving is the simple solution.
A PTO is only a thing to avoid having to add another engine / motor to a vehicle with an existing power source. No need for that with a BEV.
A separate motor hooked up to whatever a PTO would be driving is the simple solution.
A PTO is only a thing to avoid having to add another engine / motor to a vehicle with an existing power source. No need for that with a BEV.
if only they would drop that silly Mustang name, and just call it a Mach E.
and wait till Ford releases the F150 electric, that thing will be market leader for sure.
I never fancied american automakers, (esp GM, they are absolutely clueless, even with electrics up to this point. where is their world beater car? the Volt?? how about truck? the ridiculously priced Hummer? electric pick up?) but Ford always had my interest and never needed a bailout. They should be proud.
He is very knowledgeable and the fleet distributes fuels from one end of the country to the other. I don't intend to become an expert on PTO's but when he says it won't work I'll take his word on it.
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Again, I'm not going to become a geologist to find new sources of rare metals. I worked in the magnet business 30 years ago and the raw materials came from China. They still do.
All it would take is for Canada to detain another executive at the request of the USA and we'd get a bamboo shiv in our backs to shut us down.
Changing historic power systems forces a century of evolution to change in a few years. Hawaii had a problem with solar and I don't know if it's been resolved.Nice - so we'd rather tax and beat the hell out of our own people rather than confront countries like China (and I'm sure other populous countries like India etc) about their emissions...?
Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade - Carbon Brief
China’s CO2 emissions have grown at their fastest pace in more than a decade, increasing by 15% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021.www.carbonbrief.org
I wonder if those Nordic countries have a beefy (carbon?) tax system which in turn raises the price of petrol to what it is projected to hit here in 2030..if memory serves me well - around ~40+ additional cents per litre?
So what will the Federal Government do with all this additional tax revenue?
Will it be used for the betterment of infrastructure or quietly vanish into thin air?
Estimated impacts of the Federal Carbon Pollution Pricing System - Canada.ca
Pricing carbon reduces pollution at the lowest cost to businesses and consumers. A well-designed price on carbon pollution provides an incentive for climate action and clean innovation while protecting competitiveness.www.canada.ca
On a side note, it looks like the EV taxes are starting to take hold now that they want to address the loss in revenue at the pumps lol:
EV owners told to send in odometer readings for road tax, and they are not happy
Victoria electric vehicle owners have received a letter asking for a photo of their odometer for the state's EV road tax. And they are not happy.thedriven.io
I suppose time will tell how all of this plays out....
So many people opted for off grid due to solar being a viable option that the income base for infrastructure maintenance was so reduced it was about to collapse.
We enter our Km's at sticker renewal time so a few right clicks and left clicks could generate an invoice. When this will happen depends on whether the government is pro or anti the PC product of the day.
Re getting our dirty work done in China, I was on a rush job, Friday PM and running out of time. I offered to work the Saturday and was told the general contactor was Seventh Day Adventist. He wouldn't work Saturday nor would he let anyone else work on his behalf. I admired his ethics. Kick that around with regard to civil rights, minimum wages and pollution.
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It’s pretty awesome isn’t it? I just filled up and did 3600km on that tank which included two trips up to Penetanguishene. Last summer I managed a 6000km tank in the summer. I’m using less gas than I projected I would when I bought the car and now it still performs like the day I bought it. Add in the hundreds of hours saved from using the HOV lanes, not fillip at the pumps or doing routine maintenance and a his car has been a winner for $33k.
I’ve also now been driving it strictly on L and have found that my overall range has gone up by several km per full charge.
One of the reasons we bought the Volt is because my wife can use it for work (unlike the manual WRX) and she actually enjoys it.
We love the odyssey but that thing can be a pig on gas.
Thanks to today’s weather I started with 99km on the guessometer and did 87km on electric to and from Scarborough. Not bad.
Ive seen 100km range…but that drops to 97km within 1km of leaving my house. Just waiting to crack the 100km electric kms on a single charge.
We love the odyssey but that thing can be a pig on gas.
Thanks to today’s weather I started with 99km on the guessometer and did 87km on electric to and from Scarborough. Not bad.
Ive seen 100km range…but that drops to 97km within 1km of leaving my house. Just waiting to crack the 100km electric kms on a single charge.
Shame it's made by GM who's totally clueless with electrics.
Let the carnage begin! Linked from iphoneincanada.ca because Sunny.
www.iphoneincanada.ca
Tesla to Release Full Self-Driving Beta 9 to Testers on July 10 • iPhone in Canada Blog
Musk has just confirmed the release date for Tesla's highly-anticipated FSD beta 9.
www.iphoneincanada.ca
GM is a mess right now.
Look at their product line up. Simply atrocious.
Ford is leading the way with the award winning and highly acclaimed Mach. I assure you the F150 electric will be a game changer. Where is GMs answer? where is the teaser or pre production models creating buzz? I haven't heard much if anything about the electric Chevy p up? Wheres the buzz?
Ford's redesigned full size Transit has been on the market for 5 years now, a very compelling van with steady updates. They even are bringing out an Electric version. GM still soldiers on with their tired 20 year old design Savannah. Wheres the high roof? The medium roof? all wheel drive? Ford offers all this on the Transit.
Whats going to carry GM, the abandoned platform BEV Bolt? their Blazer and Malibu? Buick? please.
they blab about commitment to next gen electrics on their website, that can only carry them so far.
Clueless....
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GM reminds me of the worst waitress I ever saw. A guy complained about a dirty bread and butter plate so she picked it up and as she turned around pretending to pick up a replacement off an adjacent table she actually just wiped it on her skirt. It didn't work.
Germany's black eye....
www.cnn.com
Volkswagen and BMW fined $1 billion for running emissions cartel
The European Commission has fined Volkswagen Group and BMW over €875 million ($1 billion) for colluding with Daimler to hold back the development of technology that could have reduced harmful emissions from their vehicles.
I'm all for a clean planet but the automakers are getting fined for meeting the EU standards of the day but NOT going beyond them even though they could? It sounds like a rabbit hole to go down.
I actually doubt that charge will stick - it looks like the one that may is that they all colluded on not using the technology.
I actually doubt that charge will stick - it looks like the one that may is that they all colluded on not using the technology.
Anyone know what that was? Etoys have long been the domain of cheap and prone to bursting into flames. Stacyc/HD have one of the better reputations that they want to keep. Many of the cheaper toys are obviously made at the same factory but have thousands of brands as they are just price-point commodity sales (and/or good fire starters).
It will be interesting to see what happens with fire fighting as BEV's become more prevalent. There are stories about fires burning for 12 hours with constant intervention required. That's not a huge deal when they are a few percent of the fleet but at almost 100% of the fleet we will need a hell of a lot more fire fighters/trucks or a better way to extinguish them (pipe into battery pack to flood with neutralizing agent, inert gas or very cold phase change liquid to remove heat)?
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This EV incentive gravy train is going to end soon
EV tax is coming people
EV tax is coming people
JT will give you an EV incentive as it's not his money so spend spend spend. Douggie will tax EV's as they aren't paying much road tax.
of course, revenue from gas taxes will be drying up as each year passes, they will find another way to screw us.
can't wait to see what new taxes they dream up to ding us on.
Simplest is road tax on sticker renewal. Pay xx cents per km driven. I suspect lots of vehicles may have issues with their odometers if that happens.
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