GM laying off 15% of workers and shutting down 5 plants due to trump tariffs

Sir Napsalot said:
LOL

I'm rekt tonite boys
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Lucky Luke said:
Then they are getting more miles on the battery packs than my old boss did. He was lucky to get 5 years and went through a controller or two in that time as well.
Disposing of the batteries is a little bit of a environmental nightmare.

Im not sure why we are not looking at steam again TBH. Guess because its free..
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I was saying 30 years ago we should go to nuclear cars. If a softball size core will power a aircraft carrier, all you would need for a car would be about the size of a grain of rice. The car of course would be electric. Some weight penalty for the cooling water though. Might work better in trucks than road cars. The plus would be when you get in from work, you can plug your house into your car's power system.
 
too larry said:
I was saying 30 years ago we should go to nuclear cars. If a softball size core will power a aircraft carrier, all you would need for a car would be about the size of a grain of rice. The car of course would be electric. Some weight penalty for the cooling water though. Might work better in trucks than road cars. The plus would be when you get in from work, you can plug your house into your car's power system.
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"A critical mass in every garage"?
 
too larry said:
I was saying 30 years ago we should go to nuclear cars. If a softball size core will power a aircraft carrier, all you would need for a car would be about the size of a grain of rice. The car of course would be electric. Some weight penalty for the cooling water though. Might work better in trucks than road cars. The plus would be when you get in from work, you can plug your house into your car's power system.
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Speaking of old ideas that sounded good, whatever happened to personal jet packs?
 
Lucky Luke said:
Then they are getting more miles on the battery packs than my old boss did. He was lucky to get 5 years and went through a controller or two in that time as well.
Disposing of the batteries is a little bit of a environmental nightmare.

Im not sure why we are not looking at steam again TBH. Guess because its free..
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In a tourist town not far from where I live called Estes Park, there is a lovely old turn off the 20th century vintage landmark known as the Stanley Hotel. It is perhaps most famous as the hotel in the movie The Shining. The family who built it were quite wealthy and had many business interests. Among these was a unique car from the dawn of the automobile, yes, the Stanley Steamer.

The hotel has one in the lobby, nicely restored. As part of the display, they include descriptions of how it operated and procedures for its operation. It was fairly complicated to get a head of steam up to run the car and it took as much as 30 minutes from a cold start.

How did it heat the water to make steam? It burned oil.
 
Although the riots are raging all around it, the Paris rioters have left the Tesla store untouched. Other than the plywood that Tesla has put on the windows themselves, the Paris Tesla store is unscathed ...
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"Honda has yet to indicate how far away this technology is from being commercially viable."

Speaking of which, where is my fusion reactor? Or atomic resolution data storage?

Sorry but this kind of announcement is common. Some call it vaporware. Not that it isn't interesting.
 
ttystikk said:
In a tourist town not far from where I live called Estes Park, there is a lovely old turn off the 20th century vintage landmark known as the Stanley Hotel. It is perhaps most famous as the hotel in the movie The Shining. The family who built it were quite wealthy and had many business interests. Among these was a unique car from the dawn of the automobile, yes, the Stanley Steamer.

The hotel has one in the lobby, nicely restored. As part of the display, they include descriptions of how it operated and procedures for its operation. It was fairly complicated to get a head of steam up to run the car and it took as much as 30 minutes from a cold start.

How did it heat the water to make steam? It burned oil.
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I was on a steam-powered destroyer
 
Sir Napsalot said:
I haven't bought any gun stuff in ages, bro

There used to be a mag seller that advertised in Shotgun News that had lots of rare shit- I can't remember their name but I bought a 13 round mag for my CZ83 from them. I wish I could be more helpful
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no worries. i just saw your brownell post and figured why not ask.

our walmart doesn't carry shotgun news which became something else gun news gun digest or something but i think i remember that ad you referenced. i'll keep on searching. thanks, man.
 
Fogdog said:
"Honda has yet to indicate how far away this technology is from being commercially viable."

Speaking of which, where is my fusion reactor? Or atomic resolution data storage?

Sorry but this kind of announcement is common. Some call it vaporware. Not that it isn't interesting.
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What's interesting is large car manufactures are spending money on new battery technology research. I'm sure there would be a patent or two in it to maybe use later down the track.
Lets face it, it may be part of the future but not many people are buying electric cars now. Certainly not in Australia where our fuel costs are allot higher than Americas.
 
Electric cars are useless to most Americans. It's still a gimmick for now and the foreseeable future.

People who are well to do buy one as a novelty item, but that's about it.

They simply don't have the range, options or comfort of regular cars and for the price of a Tesla that can't take a family of four to the beach you can buy a BMW 5 series that'll get you there and half way back on a tank of gas in style and comfort and leave 20,000 dollars in your pocket while doing it.
 
TacoMac said:
Electric cars are useless to most Americans. It's still a gimmick for now and the foreseeable future.

People who are well to do buy one as a novelty item, but that's about it.

They simply don't have the range, options or comfort of regular cars and for the price of a Tesla that can't take a family of four to the beach you can buy a BMW 5 series that'll get you there and half way back on a tank of gas in style and comfort and leave 20,000 dollars in your pocket while doing it.
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You're useless to most Americans.
 
TacoMac said:
Electric cars are useless to most Americans. It's still a gimmick for now and the foreseeable future.

People who are well to do buy one as a novelty item, but that's about it.

They simply don't have the range, options or comfort of regular cars and for the price of a Tesla that can't take a family of four to the beach you can buy a BMW 5 series that'll get you there and half way back on a tank of gas in style and comfort and leave 20,000 dollars in your pocket while doing it.
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Yes, people make decisions based upon cost, duh.

The cost of EV ownership is already competitive with gas powered cars according to some studies although states like Hawaii maybe not. It's really just a matter of building up the tech to enable recharging and building up the supply of used cars that drive the cost of ownership further down the consumer tree..

The Bottom Line On Electric Cars: They're Cheaper To Own

https://www.forbes.com/sites/consta...tric-cars-theyre-cheaper-to-own/#618322210b65

What we are seeing is how a disruptive technology displaces a existing one. It takes a long time. Take a look at how long it took for solid state electronics to displace tubes. Or cell phones to replace landlines. During these transitions there are always unimaginative old men who say bah, humbug.
 
I'm a dirty hillbilly and even I know electric is gonna take over the market. Those teslas are nasty bad ass performance. That has always been the issue about electric cars but now they are putting out just silly torque and hp. I'm sure that the more is invested in the batteries ability the range will vastly improve.
 
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