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> 21 Mar 2018
>
> Big Auto Freaks Out as Tesla Model 3 Deliveries for Q1 Track Toward
> 8,000 to 10,000
>
> The major automakers are increasingly in a bind. They're faced with a
> choice - keep investing in dirty energy vehicles that pollute the air,
> the water and wreck the climate, jump feet first into the EV
> revolution, or play both sides. And it's this dichotomy that's
> producing some rather freaky behavior.
Reply by rickman●January 19, 20182018-01-19
Bret Cahill wrote on 1/19/2018 12:30 PM:
>>> I once asked a relative of the manager of the largest engine plant in the world if the politics at GM was really that bad, already the stuff of course work, books and PhD papers.
>>>
>>> He cringed with this grim don't even think about fixing it look. No matter what any CEO tried, he'd get out flanked by underlings.
>>>
>>> Years later he said he'd be better off as a failed entrepreneur than work at GM.
>>
>> Read the book, "The Reckoning" by David Halberstam. If you think GM is bad,
>> I bet Ford is worse.
>
> Ford might not be quite as "hidebound" now as in the past.
>
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-ford-motor/ford-plans-11-billion-investment-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-idUSKBN1F30YZ
>
> I wish I had a < 5 week response time planning letters to politicians.
>
> We're living in a philosopher-engineer's paradise. Just daydream out loud and it becomes reality in real time.
I'm sure you know what you are referring to, but I don't. I can't see
inside your head. Care to explain what you mean?
--
Rick C
Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998
I think we will need additional power generating plants.
Some reduced need because of night time charging. but at some point
there will be increased demand.
Mikek
Reply by Bret Cahill●January 19, 20182018-01-19
> > I once asked a relative of the manager of the largest engine plant in the world if the politics at GM was really that bad, already the stuff of course work, books and PhD papers.
> >
> > He cringed with this grim don't even think about fixing it look. No matter what any CEO tried, he'd get out flanked by underlings.
> >
> > Years later he said he'd be better off as a failed entrepreneur than work at GM.
>
> Read the book, "The Reckoning" by David Halberstam. If you think GM is bad,
> I bet Ford is worse.
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:11:30 -0800 (PST), mrdarrett@gmail.com wrote:
>On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 10:06:22 AM UTC-8, Bret Cahill wrote:
>> Daimler and others already pointed out that the battery upon which Tesla's e-Semi is based does not exist. Tesla isn't just hoping a better battery will appear, however. They have good information on it and it isn't all that insider:
>>
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/new-discovery-could-be-death-blow-to-traditional-lithium-ion-batteries-2017-12
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/01/electric-cars-already-cheaper-to-own-and-run-than-petrol-or-diesel-study
>>
>>
>> Bret Cahill
>
>
>We used to have driverless cars, which could bring you home when you were asleep or drunk. Then they got rid of the horse.
>
>Bring back the Horse and Buggy! Horses are solar-powered! They eat grass, which grows from sunlight!
>
>4 hp Horse and Buggy! Now with steel ball bearings! Charge your cell phones with the onboard brushless motor alternator!
>
>Michael
How much insurance does a horse need?
--
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by ●December 18, 20172017-12-18
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 10:06:22 AM UTC-8, Bret Cahill wrote:
We used to have driverless cars, which could bring you home when you were asleep or drunk. Then they got rid of the horse.
Bring back the Horse and Buggy! Horses are solar-powered! They eat grass, which grows from sunlight!
4 hp Horse and Buggy! Now with steel ball bearings! Charge your cell phones with the onboard brushless motor alternator!
Michael
Reply by Bret Cahill●December 16, 20172017-12-16
> >>>>>> Daimler and others already pointed out that the battery upon which=
Tesla's e-Semi is based does not exist. Tesla isn't just hoping a better =
battery will appear, however. They have good information on it and it isn'=
t all that insider:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Smart people will invest in the tow truck business.
> >>>>
> >>>> Even with short range & long charging times EV tow trucks make sense=
right now as they generally don't go far.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> That's not what I meant.
> >>
> >> Fire engines are another likely EV candidate.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bret Cahill
> >
> > To put out the battery fires?
>=20
> At least they can be doused with water. Gasoline fires are much harder t=
o=20
> fight. There was an accident on the DC beltway some years back where a c=
ar=20
> cut off a gasoline tanker at the 270 split and the truck ended up straddl=
ing=20
> the guard rail. Its momentum rammed it into the overpass abutment and it=
=20
> came apart all over the highway. A number of people were maimed and kill=
ed.=20
> The car that caused the accident was never found. They closed the=20
> overpass until they could be sure the heat didn't weaken the steel. Of=
=20
> course traffic was a total disaster.
>=20
> At least car batteries won't release all the energy of a tanker filled wi=
th=20
> gasoline!
>=20
> This happened some time ago so to be sure of the details I googled the=20
> accident. It was not so easy to find amongst all the many other gasoline=
=20
> tanker accidents on the highways.
One must-do if not entirely formal study would be to compare the stats on t=
he number of lives lost developing and using fossil carbon technology, i.e.=
, black lung, mine, boiler, drill rig and other explosions & fires, to numb=
er of deaths from non fossil tech, i.e., dams, Solar City, wind turbines, G=
alaxy cell phones, etc.
The basis would be life-years / joule.
Researchers could even include Dutchmen falling off old timey windmills, da=
re devil swimmers sucked through the turbines swimming across Lake Mead, wh=
atever. You could easily get 2 sig fig accuracy.
Hyping such a study would hamstring snow trollers because they must at leas=
t pretend in their talking points no process can involve more than one step=
or involve more than one effect ("8 feet of Gore Bull wammin' just fell on=
Buffalo! BWAHAHAHAHA!").=20
Once you force them to open the door to consider multiple factors like the =
advances in safety regulations, tort law as well as the technology, it star=
ts to drain the fun out of their "it's simple" shtick.
Bret Cahill