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Cars: 2015

dxmnkd316 said:
Cool. And I'm sure you couldn't make a buggy-whip!

None of what you said makes your opinion on the future of cars any more valid than mine. You're just an obsolete but useful idiot.
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He’s knows exactly what he’s saying. He designs drivetrains for ICE vehicles and doesn’t want his job to become obsolete or to be placed into a situation where he’s not the expert at designing inferior drivetrains.
 
Swansong said:
so sayeth the anti vaxxer.
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I can only relay what I know and experienced. To vax or not is a personal choice. If you want jabed I'm not stopping you or anyone, just tell how you experienced COVID at the level I did and your firsthand knowledge of vaccines to match mine.
 
St. Clown said:
He’s knows exactly what he’s saying. He designs drivetrains for ICE vehicles and doesn’t want his job to become obsolete or to be placed into a situation where he’s not the expert at designing inferior drivetrains.
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Jeb2020 knows how he feels. His mom's job became obsolete once they invented the glory hole.
 
So you can be more specific in what you think is so unproven and undeveloped- nothing being advocated is actually a secret.

The CARB EV mandate and LEVIII are the ones driving things in the US going forward, so while it's cool to blame the former President for you, it's pretty inaccurate.

For the EV mandate, BEV's have been around for a long time, there are tweaks going on for the motor to make it more efficient, but I would not call that unproven or undeveloped- that's massively developed. Batteries is where the real game is for EV's And as far as I'm concerned, it's not moving nearly fast enough- as we are generally using the same Lithium based chemistry that we've been using for the last decade. There are tweaks available to it, but the required quantum change seems to be still far away. Since Hybrids are also part of the EV mandate- plug in hybrids and normal hybrids have been around for many years now- HEV's for 2 decades. The reason those are still important is the cost of an entire powertrain plus a large generator is still cheaper than the range extending battery packs. As far as I'm concerned, the only real "new" aspect to hybrids are mild hybrids- which replaces the alternator with a motor-generator and a small battery to supply some mild hybrid energy recovery. And of that, the real question is the cost of the battery, since MHEV's are supposed to be really inexpensive. But of the EV mandate, a gross majority of those will have ICE's powering them.

I worked many years on the LEVIII coming up, and while it mandates that the fleet average is going to be SULEV30, the path to get there may not be easy, but I saw it as very likely. Nothing required in LEVIII is new or even unproven, it's just development. To give the people some perspective, in 2025, the entire fleet of new cars and light trucks will be as clean as the cleanest version of cars that are available right now. And that's considerably lower than the fleet average 20 years ago.

There are some new ideas for ICE's coming, but they are pretty much all tweaks from the DI change that happened around 2010.

So I'm really not sure what you mean by unproven and undeveloped.

Is there a massive risk to be an ICE engineer going forward? Sure, I knew quite a few fellow engineers that were forced to retire when I did. But it's not the end of ICE's, it was more a purge of people who had qualified for retirement and they wanted to get them off the books.

Are BEV's perfect? Not even close. I have some serious questions that most BEV's advocates don't want to address. But that hardly means they are unproven and undeveloped.
 
I see on social media that megyn Kelly was just whining about Obama being the real shadow leader.

not even an original conspiracy theory

heads up, tucker Carlson says he has a guy who swears he had sex with Barack in 1999 so that will be the next talking point used
 
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This guy has been pushing this since 2008. I remember when he called into Opie & Anthony once. They put him on the air, assuming he was joking or he might be some fun crazy dude. Within about 2 minutes they realized he was serious and insane and that this was obviously defamatory and cut him off.


Yes, the guy that Opie & Anthony cut off for being nonsensical is going to be on Tucker... 15 years later.
 
Swansong said:
This guy has been pushing this since 2008. I remember when he called into Opie & Anthony once. They put him on the air, assuming he was joking or he might be some fun crazy dude. Within about 2 minutes they realized he was serious and insane and that this was obviously defamatory and cut him off.


Yes, the guy that Opie & Anthony cut off for being nonsensical is going to be on Tucker... 15 years later.
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Because Tucker gives his fans what they want, and his fans have no ability to distinguish between truth and what they want to hear.

But if you give air to a defamatory comment, are you liable as the purveyor but not the speaker? Do they have to prove you knew it was a lie?
 
Back to topic of cars. My 2017 Subaru could be totaled from the hail storm. Won’t know for a month.

got claim filed, called preferred shop and booked in for month from now. What’s not encouraging is the shops saying they’ve not seen a single car from the august storm with less than 8k damage.

now, I think mine is worth 14-16k, but I have a lot of dents in the hood, and I know there’s damage I’m not seeing. Roof and side panels also have some visible dents. All look to be PDR but even PDR is running 8-20k from this storm.

id love to get a hybrid but as I’m newly jobless, really don’t want to spend more on a car. I may just get salvaged title and drive for years if it’s totaled as the car doesn’t look bad.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Back to topic of cars. My 2017 Subaru could be totaled from the hail storm. Won’t know for a month.

got claim filed, called preferred shop and booked in for month from now. What’s not encouraging is the shops saying they’ve not seen a single car from the august storm with less than 8k damage.

now, I think mine is worth 14-16k, but I have a lot of dents in the hood, and I know there’s damage I’m not seeing. Roof and side panels also have some visible dents. All look to be PDR but even PDR is running 8-20k from this storm.

id love to get a hybrid but as I’m newly jobless, really don’t want to spend more on a car. I may just get salvaged title and drive for years if it’s totaled as the car doesn’t look bad.
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Make sure you can insure the car as damaged. Especially as they are the one who would declare it as totaled.
 
Kepler said:
But if you give air to a defamatory comment, are you liable as the purveyor but not the speaker? Do they have to prove you knew it was a lie?
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Question: interesting use of the term "defamatory". Is there something about consensual sex between two adults that you find "defamatory" Kep? I thought we were in the Faculty Lounge, the land of "Hate Has No Home Here???
 
Chuck, most people would consider someone claiming that they had sex with them while they were married and after they sold them cocaine which they both smoked before said sex to be defamatory regardless of the gender of that someone, but I understand the rules might be different in New Hampshire.
 
French Rage said:
Chuck, most people would consider someone claiming that they had sex with them while they were married and after they sold them cocaine which they both smoked before said sex to be defamatory regardless of the gender of that someone, but I understand the rules might be different in New Hampshire.
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May I point out the fascinating toping within a car centric thread. Just need Rock and Roll to make it the iconic kind.
 
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