Just another nice name, the self opinionated, self obsessed, selfie taking, younger generation have given themselves. ?I hear & read that terminology 'woke' quite a lot lately. I'm not sure what it means, I'm not even sure that those that use it know.
past participle: awoken
- stop sleeping; wake from sleep.
"she awoke to find the streets covered in snow"
Similar:
wake (up), awaken, stir, come to, come round, bestir oneself, show signs of life
Maybe it means that people are waking up from having the wool pulled over their eyes by the boomer generation.
Just thinking how much electricity is needed to re-charge such a large battery bank. Is it power saving on one hand and using more to charge the batteries.
The ship, which will carry 2100 passengers and 226 vehicles between Argentina and Uruguay, was originally designed to run on liquefied natural gas (LNG).
But Mr Clifford said its future owner had second thoughts about using the fuel due to environmental concerns and public perception.
"In the owner's words, in three years time LNG will not be very popular – it will be like a dead horse," he said.
In the context of the ship being built for export, neither.But the thought that occurs to me will the re-charging of the battery bank come from a diesel or coal fired power station?
And we sell our gas for a pittance while others are way out in front with power generation. Appears that the powers that be, have their collective fingers elsewhere, while we generously donate out natural resources.In the context of the ship being built for export, neither.
Uruguay obtains about 59% of its electricity from hydro, 23% wind, 14% biomass and 1% solar with 3% from thermal generation fired with oil or gas depending on price and availability at the time.
Argentina production by source is about 61% gas, 13% hydro, 10% wind, 7% nuclear, 5% oil, 2% coal and 1% other renewables (solar, biomass etc).
Those figures will evolve over time, quite rapidly in Argentina's case since they're investing heavily into wind energy so as to reduce the use of expensive gas and oil.
So the use of oil isn't zero but it's low no matter which end of the trip (or both) it's recharged.
Tesla's Price Cuts Are "Dangerous" For Residual Values: Kia UK Boss
Paul Philpott says Kia won't rush to match Tesla's heavy discounts of up to £8,000 in the UK.
Tesla's radical move to cut prices massively in the US, China and Europe may be imitated by other EV startups like XPeng and Aito, but some of the legacy carmakers don't seem to keen on the idea.
Kia, for instance, does not see that as a good thing because it could have "dangerous" implications for residual values in the longer term. At least that's the opinion voiced by Kia UK president and CEO Paul Philpott to Autocar.
In what is very likely a strategy directed from the higher echelons of parent company Hyundai Motor Group, Kia UK's boss said the company won't rush to match Tesla's heavy discounts of up to £8,000. Philpott warned that such a "blunt" action could inflict significant damage on the residual values of Kia electric vehicles.
"It's a pretty dangerous strategy to reduce prices, and we have a lot of other tools at our disposal that we would employ before we did that," the executive said. He explained that controlling supply, offering finance support or looking at tactical offerings would be ways to protect existing customers.
Philpott added that undermining residual values means there will be no saving for lease customers. He also said it will be interesting to see how the fleet buyers respond to this "complicated situation."
Another factor that needs to be taken seriously into account is customer dissatisfaction. "And then you have to contend with the uproar of the people who bought at the higher price before you made the reduction, which in Tesla's case is almost 16,000 in the UK," Philpott said.
Kia UK has an eight-month waiting list for the Kia Niro EV and 12-month waiting list for the Kia EV6. The carmaker had a record-breaking year in the UK in 2022, topping 100,000 registrations for the first time. The Korean automaker will add the seven-seat Kia EV9 to its electric lineup later this year as a rival for the Tesla Model X.
GM is spending one billion dollars on a new V8 engine and EV components
General Motors has announced it intends to spend just under one billion dollars to develop its next-generation V8 engine.
The company will invest $918 million across four of its US sites, of which $854 million will be spent developing the sixth generation small block V8, and $64 million on supporting EV production.
GM’s Flint Engine Operations in Michigan will get $579m from that total for the bulk of the new V8 – block, crank and head machining, as well as assembly. Its Bay City GPS site will get $216m to build cams, connecting rods and block and head machining, supporting Flint’s operation.
Meanhile, Defiance Operations in Ohio will get $55m, the bulk of which will go towards building block castings to support the future V8 programme, while $8m will be used to build a casting development cell for “future EV strategies”. Rochester Operations in New York will get a total of $68m from the pot, $12m of which will be used for V8 intake manifolds and fuel rails, and $56m for battery pack cooling lines for GM’s electric cars.
GM investing almost $1billion in next‑gen V8
Yes, next-generation, yes small-block V8: the engine format that’s as archaic as it is evocative, powering everything from ‘60s Lola Can-Am cars that race the Goodwood Revival, to the just-revealed hybridised 2023 C8 Corvette E-Ray. The move is described by the General as one to ‘strengthen its industry-leading full-size truck and SUV business’.
We can surely hope then that the marque’s quintessentially V8-powered sportscar will get V8 power in at least the next generation to come too. GM has so far only committed to all-electric manufacturing and the stop of internal combustion engine production by 2035. That’s no guarantee the gen-six V8 will live right up until then but you can be sure this $918million investment will be expected to yield returns for as long as possible. Add to that the next Corvette isn’t expected before 2028 and you can sort of fill in the blanks: this new V8 should go the distance. Indeed, as the gen-five has, given it debuted almost ten years ago in the 2014 C7 Corvette.
As for the current Corvette, a future V8 doesn’t exclude electrification. Quite the opposite. The E-Ray with its front motor and compact battery is just the start, with GM being very open about the imminent arrival of an all-electric ‘Vette. The fact that will be sold alongside the screaming 670PS 8,600rpm Corvette Z06 is if nothing else, proof the two approaches can co-exist, and even benefit each other. Ford CEO Jim Farley once told us, if not for the Mustang Mach-E, the V8 pony car wouldn’t be allowed to live on. Indeed, there’s a reasonable investment coming for EV architectures and integration, as well as for the V8.
As for the new mill itself, no specs are known just yet and indeed, only the volume utilitarian offerings have been spoken about on the record as hosts for it. Whether it’ll remain naturally aspirated is also up for debate. More as we have it.
Yes I guess this statement by GM sums up the situation.
It's a bit of a cleft stick, there isn't enough E.V production capability and there are still a lot of people who want to buy ICE cars.
GM to invest $918 million in new V-8 gas engines and EV components
About $579 million will go toward GM's sixth-generation family of small-block V-8 gas engines that are used in highly profitable vehicles.www.cnbc.com
“Our commitment is to an all-EV future, no doubt about it,” Gerald Johnson, global head of GM’s manufacturing, told reporters after the announcement. “We know that has a horizon and between here and there, there are a lot of internal combustion engine customers that we don’t want to lose.”
The engines are used in some of the automaker’s most highly profitable products, such as its full-size pickup trucks and SUVs. They’ve also been used in some Cadillac and Chevrolet performance cars.
I wonder if it's possible that as the takeup of EV's increase, petrol is suddenly going to be cheap again and sales of petrol engine vehicles will increase.
If the lawmakers allow it that is.
Did Kerosene become cheaper when kerosene heater sales dropped, in favour of gas & electric heaters? That was before my time, though I remember during the 1980's my boss buying it by the 44 gallon drum as a cleaning product and he didn't like wasting it.
Edit: how will petrol engine sales increase when manufacturers stop building them?
You saw that GM is investing $579m in new V8 engines ?
Of course they will eventually die , but in the meantime they will coexist with ev's for quite a while imo, as I said regulations permitting.
In short, it slowly but surely became harder to obtain and more expensive for retail consumers.Did Kerosene become cheaper when kerosene heater sales dropped, in favour of gas & electric heaters?
MickHyundai appears to be on target to open its new Singapore manufacturing plant in the first half of 2023. The plant will manufacture Hyundai’s popular EVs such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 SUV, which sold out locally in under 15 minutes in the latest Australian offering this week.
The plant is part of the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Jurong which is a district in western Singapore. It’s also the first car assembly plant to be based in Singapore in more than 40 years.
With the construction completion date set in April, hundreds of Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs will start rolling out before the middle of the year.
The new plant is a good sign that Hyundai is looking at manufacturing facilities closer to Australia. Singapore is a right-hand drive market like ours and with it being an island nation, it has a car market of around 45,000 vehicles a year.
This means that the new plant in Jurong with a production capacity of 30,000 vehicles will need to be geared to exporting some of the EVs it produces in the coming years. Some of these may even make it to Australia, ensuring we don’t sell out of EV batches in under 15 minutes.
If we get a genuine battery manufacturing plant here, I would think that E.V manufacturing would follow.
Having such a small market place for vehicles in Australia, it would make more sense to have the manufacturing near the major Asian markets, so Singapore makes a lot of sense.
There really isn't a lot of advantage producing vehicles here, the input costs are much higher, e.g taxes, wages, shipping of the completed product.
I was reading an article today about the wages an army private in the U.K earns, apparently it is 21,000 pounds, so that's around $42,000 Australian.
Why would they want to build cars here, when they can import a tesla from China, a BYD from China, a Hyundai from Singapore?
Where would the financial or social gain be?
Only if we actually make a major component here IMO.The government would have to get behind it like they did in 1948.
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