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Post by cyclist on Aug 21, 2024 9:55:14 GMT -5
The mountains are a popular place to ride bikes... when you see packs of them, 3, 4 and 5 abreast on blind curves on narrow mountain roads, you know they arrogantly think they own the road. 100% as much as a right to own the road as you do.
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Post by OhMy on Aug 21, 2024 10:00:02 GMT -5
The mountains are a popular place to ride bikes... when you see packs of them, 3, 4 and 5 abreast on blind curves on narrow mountain roads, you know they arrogantly think they own the road. 100% as much as a right to own the road as you do. When you do, please obey the traffic laws including stopping at traffic lights and stop signs. Around here, the cyclists always run right through them like they own the roads.
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Post by garycoleco on Aug 23, 2024 22:15:13 GMT -5
DETROIT (Reuters) - At a packed investor day in Dearborn, Michigan, last year, Ford Motor executives lauded their forthcoming three-row electric SUV, which they said would be rolling off assembly lines in 2025.
"We call it a personal bullet train. It's beautiful and it's unlike anything in the segment so far," Doug Field, Ford's head of EVs, and a former executive at Apple and Tesla, said at the May 2023 event.
Fifteen months later, the personal bullet train was officially derailed on Wednesday as the U.S. automaker killed it before it even launched, a sign of the industry's deepening retrenchment on EVs as consumers have been slower than anticipated to jump on board battery-powered technology.
"The reality is that the market changed," Marin Gjaja, Ford's chief operating officer for its EV division, told Reuters on Thursday. "As we saw the growth and adoption rate fade, we were furiously trying to catch up."
Ford executives said they would instead focus on hybrid three-row SUVs, one of the most prominent EV product pivots to date - and one that could cost the company up to $1.9 billion.
Removing a significant vehicle from Ford's EV future, one that executives had promised would differentiate the company in a crowded field, also means leaders will have to refresh their pitch to investors about how they will turn around the automaker's
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Post by luapnor on Aug 24, 2024 6:12:07 GMT -5
Anything beyond local transportation or commuting is not ev territory. The government subsidies targeted rich guys with rich tastes and the total malinvestment moved ev development in the completely wrong direction. A $15,000 low income commuter would have been the better place to start, but the leftists hate poor people and want them riding busses. Now china will eat us automakers lunch with low cost commuter evs.
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Post by luapnor on Aug 26, 2024 16:32:51 GMT -5
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 27, 2024 5:47:57 GMT -5
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Post by resinhead on Sept 5, 2024 17:08:20 GMT -5
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Post by garycoleco on Sept 5, 2024 20:26:46 GMT -5
Car company Volvo has abandoned its target to produce only fully electric cars by 2030, saying it now expects to be selling some hybrid vehicles by that date.
The carmaker blamed changing market conditions for its decision to give up a target it had announced only three years ago.
It comes as the industry faces a slowdown in demand in some major markets for electric vehicles (EVs) and uncertainty due to the imposition of trade tariffs on EVs made in China.
Volvo, which has traditionally flaunted its environmental credentials, joins other major carmakers General Motors and Ford in rowing back on EV ambitions.
Volvo now expects at least 90% of its output to be made up of both electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2030.
The Swedish company may also sell a small number of so-called mild hybrids, which are more conventional vehicles with limited electrical assistance.
'Transition will not be linear' "We are resolute in our belief that our future is electric," said Jim Rowan, chief executive of Volvo.
"However, it is clear that the transition to electrification will not be linear, and customers and markets are moving at different speeds."
The company also said the business climate for EVs had changed, due to factors such as a slow rollout of charging infrastructure and the withdrawal of consumer incentives.
Independent equity analyst Anna McDonald said consumers still had concerns about switching to EVs.
“Some of the subsidies that governments had put in place to encourage electric car purchases have ended and also there’s just that ongoing lack of demand because consumers are worried about charging," she told the BBC's Today programme.
“It still remains the case that electric cars remain more expensive.
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Post by cyclist on Sept 6, 2024 21:52:04 GMT -5
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Post by gardawg on Sept 7, 2024 12:31:49 GMT -5
McMurtry engineers have spent a fifth day attempting to unstick the Spéirling electric supercar from the roof of the factory following an in-house acceleration test. The 1,000bhp fan car had successfully performed another 0-100mph sprint before it shot straight up the side of the factory wall, eventually coming to a rest on the ceiling. Now technicians are scrambling to deactivate the Spéirling’s innovative downforce setup and unstick the Spéirling from the roof, in fear of it becoming a permanent monument to how successfully its giant fan works. “’Stick a giant fan on the car, it’ll be fun,’ they said. Fun. We’ve been trying to shoo it down using rolled-up newspapers for nearly a week in the hope that it’ll move, but it just won’t budge,” an engineer explained, while frantically hunting around for a ladder. “When we designed the downforce-on-demand system, we hoped it’d be useful in attacking corners with ungodly speed and accuracy, not bloody glueing itself to the top of the factory roof. “To be honest, a lot of us won’t go near it because we haven’t slept for four days and now it’s starting to look like a giant insect up there. And the fan’s constant hissing noise is becoming a little unpleasant. “But hey, at least we’ve answered that eternal, age-old question – yes, our car can drive upside down. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, Formula so-called One.” When pushed on who was driving the McMurtry Spéirling during this record-setting acceleration attempt, an engineer said: “Oh god, did we leave Max Chilton strapped in there?”
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