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attitude

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total cluster fuck!
Is Pete going to start selling electric trucks?

I really think electric with a generator to power it like a locomotive is the next step for trucks.

I’ve been in the Nikola assembly plant down here and it was very impressive, I see tons of them out testing.
 

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Glad my current exit is July 2030.
Only way I stay past that, is if my youngest goes to college in CA. Right now all the colleges looking at her are from small Midwest and East coast schools. If she does attend a CA school, exit is 2034.
 

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Is Pete going to start selling electric trucks?

I really think electric with a generator to power it like a locomotive is the next step for trucks.

I’ve been in the Nikola assembly plant down here and it was very impressive, I see tons of them out testing.
They already are for CARB states. Fleets are required to buy 1 for every 10 diesel’s as of this year & it ramps up from there.

PAccar has the only CARB legal diesel engine available so far. Carb mx13.

Word is Nikola is about to go tits up on their class 8
 

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They already are for CARB states. Fleets are required to buy 1 for every 10 diesel’s as of this year & it ramps up from there.

PAccar has the only CARB legal diesel engine available so far. Carb mx13.

Word is Nikola is about to go tits up on their class 8
What’s the rule on out of state trucks running into CA? Before I moved I saw an old cab over, it was loud and sounded good.
 

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What’s the rule on out of state trucks running into CA? Before I moved I saw an old cab over, it was loud and sounded good.
Must have CARB cert to enter CA. AZ registration with Carb cert can go in & out of CA but can’t register in CA.

The whole industry is going to move to Phoenix & Vegas
 

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I’m not a fan of electric cars. This is the reason I won’t be participating in EV’s lol

 
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My prediction, power will be built into the roads. Only enough battery to drive around parking lots and get to your garage. Solves most the problems and watt meter in the vehicle to charge for usage. Can you say nuclear power.
 

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My prediction, power will be built into the roads. Only enough battery to drive around parking lots and get to your garage. Solves most the problems and watt meter in the vehicle to charge for usage. Can you say nuclear power.

We had that game as kids. Slot cars were fun until someone ran one off the track!
 

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Consider this too w/ the ev push........
How many billions of $$$$ can they steal from all these development programs?
The $$$$ seems endless. I'd bet my life that's one of top reasons for this push.
 

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Napa getting ready to get his mail!

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We had that game as kids. Slot cars were fun until someone ran one off the track!
Back in the 60's my family and I went to an amusement park that had a full size, ride in slot car track. My brothers and I spent most of the day riding in it. Throttle, brake and some steering. For the life of me, I can't remember where it was at. It was a figure 8 with a bridge. Two tracks with a pit. Only two cars at a time out on the track.
 

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With Trump as President hopefully we'll be able to drill for oil much more on our soil and also continue to develop EV technology. I'd really like to see our country become independent from foreign oil. Build that border up and be independent from other countries. I know that's asking a lot.
 

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I will just keep stocking up ice cars. 36 or 37 now. Plus all the parts. Retirement might time this just right. Now we just need stills to make gasoline. If we could do 100 octane that would be great.
 

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Well I had my money on Trump but with Elon by his side who knows
Recently on the news Elon Musk read off a list all of the ICE vehicles he owns in response to his enemy, mentally distressed, Socialist masquerading as an environmentalist Gretta Thunberg's public attack on him.
It was a comprehensive list from exotic Porches to all kind'a ICE cars.

A Google search only mentions two but Elon has quite a stable.
He's not stupid, he knows the USA is 30 years away from ever being EV ready outside of Tesla cars.

We bought an EV 3 years ago and the public charging situation since has only got worse. Crowded, broken, unreliable and nowhere near enough of them,, but worse of all expensive to charge on the road.

If anything, Elon will go after the wasted hundreds Billions of Federal money that in 4 years only produced 2 EV charging stations and no home internet hook ups.

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My prediction, power will be built into the roads. Only enough battery to drive around parking lots and get to your garage. Solves most the problems and watt meter in the vehicle to charge for usage. Can you say nuclear power.
Well that should create quite the stir with the Anti-EMF crowd --- 🤔 these will be huge sellers 😁

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Funny that if they have their way won’t be any tow trucks to come save the dead electric cars


 

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They are going to charge us by the mile for our electric cars.
I think you meant to say "They are going to charge THEM by the mile for using electric cars."

A lot of "Us's" in here probably won't be driving electric vehicles anytime soon. 👍
 

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Back in the 60's my family and I went to an amusement park that had a full size, ride in slot car track. My brothers and I spent most of the day riding in it. Throttle, brake and some steering. For the life of me, I can't remember where it was at. It was a figure 8 with a bridge. Two tracks with a pit. Only two cars at a time out on the track.

I think Knottsberry farm had a slot track, and ran small 1920’s looking cars.
I think it was late 1960’s.
 

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Okay. WTH is an ICE vehicle? Never have I ever heard this term before but apparently several of you have. Educate me. I learned today was a "tradwife" is. I'm learning all the new millennial lingo.
 

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The usual California haters posting on things that may or may not happen in 10 years. So predictable and boring. Even if this happens, does it really matter for most of us? If I waited until 2034 and bought a new gas burning truck I'd be almost 70 and that truck would certainly last as long as I needed it.
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If California were to somehow succeed at banning the use of Classic Cars I'd leave for sure. So far on that front, all I've read about are studies being don't which equates to nodda. I'd be missing SoCal weather too if I was living under 4 feet of snow right, but he chose it and has to live with it. lol

My day today.


 

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There’s gotta be some balance, a lot of us remember growing up and the smog was horrible in the 70’s/80’s. I don’t want to go back to that shit. The EPA and Carb were necessary, we certainly don’t need to go all electric though.
The EPA was created as a result of the Clean Air Act of 1970. CARB has been unnecessary since its inception. I appreciate that we don't have the smog we used to. I more appreciate that it was done with internal combustion technology, while making cars more powerful than they ever were. Modern day cars emit 98 percent less smog forming chemicals than they did in the 50's and 60's.

Considering that 50 percent of the electricity produced for use in California comes from burning natural gas and methane. And considering that new hydroelectric and/or nuclear power is basically off the table, going to an all electric fleet will have very little impact on air quality. I know the culture at CARB and they don't give a shit about the havoc they reek to gain a miniscule improvement in air quality.
 
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