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  1. its the round headlights and large grill that gets me - same reason i like my 2007. Don't get me wrong I like the new Mustang, removing the indent from the door and curving the back 1/4 window up gives it a bit of a porche inspired look, new headlamps are great.
  2. The 2035 end of ICE vehicles by California is similar to CAFE standards. we are talking about 12 plus years, hard to imagine battery technology will not have progressed enough to make Electric Vehicles a clear winner over ICE and to make infrastructure easier (plus to build it) as batteries will have a longer or quicker charge - assuming solar tech hasn't advanced enough to make plug in charging the exception. But the important thing, like CAFE standards is to provide a standard manufactures can plan to. And if for some reason 8 years from now, 2030, we haven't advanced further (and the planet is still habitable) then California will provide a grace period. Bottom line set a goal and i'm confident our Car Companies can make it happen. Better than government leading the development of technology.
  3. As battery technology advances I think at the very least we are rapidly approaching electric eclipsing fossil fuels. The real game changer though will be batteries small enough to easily plug into your car like you do with your cell phones. But even now it seems the battery advances have homeowners installing solar panels at a greater pace - and once you invest in solar panels for your home seems you'd want a car that charges off those panels. Though what happens with people who live in situations that don't provide access to a plug for your car to charge overnight?
  4. You would think Rivian would establish a price above the IPO price of $78. Normally the Brokerage firms value these things so that their IPO investors (which for offerings like this are their favored clients) don't lose money.
  5. Probably not, but it would be cool if the reveal was their first fully electric vehicle to Mark their 200 years at Ford
  6. Notice the Lincoln's phrase "keep an eye on" in the response to Bellanca twitter post and the eye in the Lincoln picture.
  7. I wonder how big a market these extreme environmentalists are. The market is the larger population that support efficiency and reasonable government fuel standards and subsidization to assure the move from coal and oil to electricity powered by solar and wind. Actually the market is almost everyone, now with the technological advancements making electric cars more competitive. Advancement in battery technology means electric panels are becoming more competitive for homes, so while in the past they were rare it is now becoming more frequent - at least in Atlanta. This will further increase the demand for electric cars. Bottom line, I now think Ford was smart to throw the Mustang name on an electric car and comeout with an Electric F 150 - There is no better way to associate Ford with electric vehciles than to associate their top nameplates with electric. The Mustang seems to have hit the mark and if the F-150 Lightning hits the mark, Ford will be well positioned for the mass market's adoption of electric cars.
  8. Great news! I've had my IRA sitting in a lot of cash and the interest earned is nothing. Only stock I've held for a while is Ford. One wonders when or if the chip constraint goes away how much pent up demand there is. Anyway, at 40 cents a year, Ford at $16, which is historically high, is paying a 2.5% Dividend.
  9. How did GM make money in the first quarter? My Retirement Account is jealous https://finance.yahoo.com/news/general-motors-gm-q1-earnings-151503263.html
  10. Re the Mustang vs. Bronco logo. For anyone who has been in a Mustang going over a speed bump, its easy to remember which logo is which because Mustangs do not jump - they go straight forward (perhaps current gen Mustangs excluded).
  11. That may well be true - though as mackinaw noted the date we have that, AVs, has been pushed further into the future than it is now. In the meantime, for the next 20 years it is cars or transit in heavily congested areas. So There will be people like me and people like AGR. Some deal with traffic better and some prefer transit. But look at Georgia - we are dealing with congestion by building HOT lanes and now a one way trip down down 85 through Gwinnett before the pandemic was regularly exceeding $7 for 16 miles because of the traffic and delays in the other 5 or 6 lanes and it was hitting the teens . https://www.ajc.com/news/traffic/new-record-for-hot-lane-toll/Inw3QaFWdfkVLNrOebljkO/ If growth continues metro areas like Atlanta and its surrounding communities will have no choice but to make better use of the capacity of a traffic lane via AV's.
  12. The new 2020 Mazda 3 has a nice interior with an 8" screen that looks more like the Chinese Escape or Kia above (Horizontal vs. Vertical). I like the Hatch.
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