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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Correct. LONG TERM adaptation is key and our ability to adapt and create technology to do so will be dependent on slowing rate of change. You’re welcome. If you don’t have research that’s cool but weak insults/grampa level bold font and prepper site hysteria is boring. We can talk Hummers...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Rivian starts deliveries next month. Will be interesting to see if they can do it with the semiconductor shortage… https://insideevs.com/news/494400/rivian-deliveries-june-rivian-guides/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    2015-2019 5.3 any good?

    Pretty sure. Could be a 17. I burn through vehicles fast don’t pay much attention. She’s a looker though.
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    This was fun. Thanks and...Stay angry!
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Well, those are certainly all words. I guess I’m glad that our govt had the foresight to invest in oil, highways, rail systems, medical research, space travel, early renewables research and the like. You don’t need to be. There have always been people people against stuff like that. Either...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Consumer subsidies that drive down the cost of the car (for the “top 20%”) are expired for tesla. Regulatory credits are not subsidies. They are credits being purchased by other auto companies. But again, not sure how this changes your position or mine. I believe the govt should invest in...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    I don’t know. You could be right but this shows BYD as selling 23k units in March. If that trend holds for the year they’d certainly exceed Tesla’s 2020 numbers. https://insideevs.com/news/503336/china-byd-sales-march-2021/amp/ This article says that Tesla sold the most EV’s IN COUNTRY...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Sigh “The U.S. federal government is subsidizing electric cars with a $7,500 consumer tax break for the first 200,000 vehicles an automaker sells. Once the threshold is met, the tax credit is cut by half for all vehicles sold over the next six months and is then halved again for another six...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Yep. Bad news indeed. Like I said. Until very recently Tesla has had the TOP SELLING EV in China. But China is doubling down on EV’s so that won’t last long. “The EV maker sold just shy of 70,000 electric cars in China in the first quarter of 2021 according to the Global Times, 37% of its...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    “Zeekr, its own home-grown EV brand, will face fierce competition from Tesla whose Model 3 was the top-selling electric vehicle model in China last year. It will also compete with Chinese groups Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto which are seeing healthy sales.”...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Tesla is the top selling EV in China but China has wised up and is throwing money at emerging technologies so that advantage won’t last forever as strong competitors are taking off and the US govt throttles EV’s subsidies down. I guess I don’t see this as a zero sum game. Seems to me we could...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    95% of daily drivers would be within range of CURRENT EV technology. Are we ready for 100% EV’s TODAY? Nah. Nobody is suggesting that. I love technology and and if we’re going to throw money at a mature finite resource/industry to ensure we have <$5 gallon gas I’m good with us also putting...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Right. You think that the govt and industry should invest in EV but not mandate it for another 2 decades. I concur. Always have. Saying I’m wavering won’t make it true. If you look back on my posts I think you’ll see that your knee jerk perception about what I believe doesn’t map to the reality...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    The petroleum cornucopia position. Interesting. I’m not totally following your position but it sounds like drill baby drill and invest in renewables for the next 20 years but don’t “force” EV’s? Is that essentially it? If that’s the case then this is a fantastic waste of time since that’s...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Chicken or the egg but we can agree to disagree. Taking about the top 20%, NIMBY-ISM and “current state” fallacies are all hyperbolic. Furthermore the OMG industry is heavily incentivized so it isn’t free of govt intervention. That said, what is your view? Drill baby drill until somehow an...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    I don’t “watch” news and I’m not ignoring anything other than the fallacies. The article I linked to talks about the regulatory environment and the environmental hurdles. And again with an emotional appeal vs an actual response. Why? So....Do you believe that the “big picture” and best long...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    AGAIN with current vs future. Just because China is CURRENTLY the leader doesnt mean it always was or will be. The US used to be a leader in many of those minerals (supply and production). We shifted away from them and thankfully we’re making moves to get back into it (article attached). And I...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Again with the current vs future state fallacy. REE’s are everywhere and aren’t particularly “rare”. This is a production issue not a supply issue. As for domestic production, I’d gladly swap some fracking and offshore oil production for mining operations that produce largely reusable resources...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Wind, hydro and sun arent finite and many materials are reusable. Petroleum is 100% one and done. Furthermore the US sits on one of the largest rare earth mineral reserves on the planet so it’s very literally in our own backyard. You STILL won’t answer a single question.
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Yep. The switch over to renewables is not without its short term issues. I’ve acknowledged that wholly and “countered” that mining a largely recyclable resource is exponentially more appealing to me than drilling in more and more sensitive area to extract a finite non renewable/recyclable...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Nope. I’ve answered everything you’ve put out there with almost painful specificity. Heck I even specifically responded to the snippet of the report that you pasted and your associated comment. You’re playing a parochial game of gotcha around an entrenched worldview and it hasn’t worked. Beyond...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Sigh. More non answers. Look. You don’t like the inevitable move to electric vehicles. I understand that. Change is hard and it’s always going to be met with resistance. It appears now that you’re throwing any argument against the wall to try and make your feelings about the change seem...
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    so your concern around EV’s is around the use of (largely reusable/recyclable) minerals and the impact on the environment? So this is largely an environmental issue for you?
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    '21 High Country Ceramic Coat

    I have used one for windshield and roof before. Something like this: https://www.griotsgarage.com/product/wash+mop+stick+kit.do?code=PPCPLG&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyaXezcTB8AIV0AaICR1z-wJkEAQYAiABEgImvfD_BwE Not sure what his is. Its not microfiber though.
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    Electric Suburban / Electric Tahoe / Yukon / Escalade EV

    Facts only insult the ignorant and I certainly applaud progress. Thanks for noticing! [emoji869] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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