AD #3600 - Porsche Says No to Tesla’s NACS; Ford’s Farley Shoots Back at UAW; GM Makes Military Version of Hummer EV

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Ever since Ford announced it would go with Tesla's North American Charging Standard, or NACS, just about everyone else has jumped on board. The SAE announced

it's going to standardize the NACS connector, and it seems like every other day another automaker or public charging company announces the same, but not Portsia. Automotive

News reports that Portia will not make its cars compatible with Tesla's supercharger network, even though Porsha is trying to make as many chargers available to its customers as possible. And as we reported the other day, Testla's strategy of cutting prices

is paying off in China with record deliveries, but really it's paying off globally.

Analysts estimate that Tesla delivered about four hundred and forty five thousand vehicles from April to June, which would be an increase of about five percent compared to last quarter. So even though it's losing market share to new evs coming out,

Tesla has still been able to boost sales, mainly thanks to the price cuts and other incentives. That's never a viable long term strategy, but Tesla

should be able to spark fresh demand with the cybertruck and an upcoming refresh to the Model Y and three and I've been reading a number of reports that the updated version of the base rear drive made in China, Model three will come with a new battery pack. It's said to features CTL's new M three P

cell, which is believed to be more energy dense and cheaper to make, and will boost total energy from sixty to sixty six kilowatt hours. However,

there's still no definitive reveal date for the refresh three and Why. UAW president

Sean Faint says automakers are run by ready executives who try to screw their workers.

He calls GM Ford and Stellantis the enemy and told his members to prepare to go to war this fall when their labor contract expires. But now we're

also getting chatter from the other side of the fence. Ford CEO Jim Farley

says the company actually treats its workers like family and compensates them well. He

points out that Ford's average UAW worker earns one hundred and twelve thousand dollars a year, including wages and benefits. We would add that skilled trades workers earn

another fifty grand a year. On top of that, the average UAW worker

also earned forty two thousand dollars in profit sharing in bonuses over the last four years. With their healthcare coverage, UAW workers pay zero premiums and most of

them don't pay any deductible. Only about one percent of Americans get such a

generous healthcare plan. Farley also points out that they earned fifteen hundred dollars a

year in inflation bonuses, which is more than they would have received with a COLA or cost of living allowance. Farley says the upcoming contract negotiations quote should

be about collaboration, not concessions, and creative ideas not confrontation. A UK

watchdog bayon ev adds from Toyota and Honda because it said they exaggerated charging speeds and were misleading about the availability of fast charging in a b Z four xAd.

Toyota claimed that the EV could be charged to eighty percent and thirty minutes using a one hundred and fifty kilowatt fast charger, and Hunda said the Ionic five can charge from ten to eighty percent. In eighteen minutes using a three

hundred and fifty kilowatt charger. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority received complaints about those

claims, and the companies eventually admitted that those numbers were achieved in perfect factory conditions. The ads also claim that owners would be able to easily find fast

chargers at public locations in the UK, but that was de misleading because most of the sites are in England, with very few in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And this is the first time that the Watchdog has banned ads

involving electric vehicles. Ford open the full build in price website for the new

Mustang, which means we know how much it costs now. A base Eco

boost version starts at just under thirty one thousand dollars, not including destination charges.

To go to a VHGT, it costs forty two five hundred. A

convertible for the Eco boosts adds nine grand to the price and ten grand to a GT. And lastly, the new five hundred horsepower dark horse Mustang starts

at just under sixty thousand dollars. Ford says, of all the people that

have already configured a new Mustang, fifty percent more people are ordering the high performance package on the Eco Boost version, which it thinks is due to the addition of its electronic drift break, and that twenty seven percent of GT and Dark Horse buyers are ordering a manual transmission. There's a lot of focus on

growing the EV charging infrastructure for passenger vehicles, but there's also going to be a need for sites to charge electric commercial vehicles, and that's why the State of Michigan has partnered up with Daimler Truck North America and DTE Energy to launch a prototype program to test charging for commercial evs called the Mobility Charging Hub.

It will allow companies to test new technologies, digital services, and business models.

DTE will operate the hub's infrastructure, including EV charging solutions, solar canopies, and battery energy storage systems, and the site will be located at a Dimler Truck facility just outside of Detroit. The goal is to help speed up

the development of commercial evs and create quote, the truck stop of the future.

The Hummer could once again be a military vehicle. GM Defense took a

Hummer EV, stripped off anything it didn't need, then upgraded it with Fox shocks. Thirty seven inch tires and heavy duty breaks. It also improved the

approach and departure angles, added a rollcage and mounting points and attachments for things like guns. It even features an onboard twelve kilowat diesel generator that can recharge

the battery pack. GM Defense says an EV offers the added benefit of being

quieter and having a lower heat signature. The Volkswagen Group is rolling out technology

at its plants that uses artificial intelligence to perform quality control checks of spot welds.

The system was first tested at one of Audi's plants, and now the VW Group is installing it at three more in Europe. Currently, the company

uses ultrasound to manually check welds randomly, but by using AI it makes the process more efficient. Audi said it was able to analyze one and a half

million spot welds on three hundred vehicles each shift using the tech, and the data generated can also be used to improve other production processes. You've heard of

CPO cars right certified pre owned. Those are used cars that go through a

thorough inspection and get resold with a factory warranty. Well now Honda is doing

the same thing with its corporate jet a new one costs around five million bucks, not including taxes or destination charges, while a used one is about two million dollars cheaper than that, and Honda believes CPO jets will open up the market to more customers who can't afford a new one, and they also get all kinds of factory support for training and maintenance. The jets are made in

Greensboro, North Carolina, and Honda has sold two hundred and thirty of them since they went on sale in two thousand and six. And a programming note

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