2013 data says average vehicle lifetime is 16.9 year, multiply that by the overall average of 11,500 miles per year and you come out close to 200k miles at scrapping.
A LOT has changed since 2008, especially in regards to average fleet age (and a 2008 report would probably be using 2007 or older data, aka pre-recession)
Well, the average working age American drives 15,300 miles per year and the average vehicle in the US fleet is 11.5 years old so the average car right now has ~175,000 miles on it, going 40% longer than the average hardly seems remarkable. If it was still the 1970's or early 80's where anything over 100k miles would most likely require a rebuild then sure 250k miles would be remarkable but with modern engines it's just not.
How is 250k miles remarkable? I drove 3 Taurus/Sables to 225-250k miles, all were equipped with the 24v 3.0 V6 which is a highly reliable engine. In fact my old Mazda MPV with the same engine is still on the road with that engine and just went over 220k miles despite hauling a heavier load than the Taurus it was designed for.
Ford's been repaying that loan at ~$465M per quarter and will have it payed off in 2022. They are paying US Treasury interest rates which are just below current market rates for large credit worthy companies. There's little doubt that it was a good deal at the time the loan was made but it's hardly the same as the bailouts of GM and Chrysler.
VW has ONE plant in the US, the Chattanooga Assembly Plant which employs ~3,000 US workers. VW claims more than 9,500 indirect supplier employees. That's nothing like the huge supply chains here to supply Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, and Honda. Heck, tiny little Nissan employs almost that many directly with just their Smyrna plant.
The US standards are very strict about the emissions per unit of fuel consumed, rather than the total emissions per unit of distance traveled
What ever are you prattling on about, the EPA Tier 2 Bin 5 standards apply to all cars and light truck models regardless of engine type, and they call out pollution per mile (.07g/mi for NOx for the entire fleet over 10 years and 120k miles).
That's odd since the BMW X5 35D in the UWV report that kicked off the probe of VW was well below the EPA levels in the combined testing, there were individual circuits where the X5 exceeded the fleet average limit by some multiple (it was the urban cycle in San Fran from what I remember of reading the report last week) but the overall level was well below the limit.
Yeah, it's not even that large by current standards, Samsung announced a 16TB 2.5" SSD last month, though at much lower performance numbers than these Intel units. It will come down to cost and workload profile as to which is a better fit, though for NVMe you really want the highest IOPS per slot that you can get because if all you need is capacity then SAS12 gives you the ability to attach MANY more drives per controller than NVMe which is limited to a handful of drives.
Exactly, here is the email I sent yesterday: Dear Mr. Krishnan,
I am writing you in response to the draft National Encryption Policy recently released by your department. As an IT professional responsible for the security of my companies systems and data I feel I must write to inform you that these proposals are unacceptable to my organization. Should the proposed rules become law I will be forced to immediately terminate the access credentials of everyone who accesses our systems from the country of India. This will result in the loss of several hundred high paying jobs which we have outsourced to a company in your country. I feel that I am not alone in this stance and that you will find that there is a very real hit to your countries GDP as a large number of international companies pull access and contracts from suppliers in India as a result of these unconscionable rules. For the sake of the people of India I hope you reconsider your broad overreach in this area.
Oh, I just looked it up and it looks like it's up to each county's board of elections. Most of the populace counties dumped the Diebold machines after the 2004 election due to high breakdown rate, slow voter throughput, etc. I guess some smaller counties might have kept them with all the problems because it was cheaper to pick up the machines that Cuyahoga and other counties were getting rid of than to switch over to the optical scan units.
Yes, I have, when we ran them through the conduit. It wasn't that difficult to make them take 90* turns so making them take a few degree bend to align the charging port should be no big deal.
The cables wouldn't have to be that big, in my datacenter we run 600A 480V and the cables are about as big around as my fingers, granted there are 4 of them but that's not much bigger in total than the gas hose on many pumps with vapor recovery systems. It would be a lot heavier than a gas hose though so you'd probably need overhead support with the ability to swing the cable into position over the car so you're only moving a small fraction of the weight for those of smaller build.
Florida is a perfect example of Republican gerrymandering, they vote almost exactly 50/50 in national elections but 2/3rds (actually 17/27) of their representatives are Republican and it's similar at the state level (80/120 state house seats held by republicans). It's pretty obvious from those numbers that folks who vote in national elections aren't being equally represented in either the state or national houses of representatives.
It's amazing, the more southern and republican the state the more likely they are to have photo ID provisions! And the northern states are mostly purple states where the state legislature is controlled by Republicans that gerrymandered the districts to hell and gone to get more control at the state level than they should have according to the popular vote! It's almost as if the map from your link proves what people have been saying all along...
Or do what Ohio did after the 2004 election disaster, go to scantron style ballots. Everyone has used them, they can easily be retallied by industry standard equipment or by hand and the error rate is low. As far as reliability, schools with almost zero budget manage to keep them working through much higher workloads then a few elections a year so the equipment is obviously robust enough and the likelyhood that it will become outdated is zero.
Yes, the NAFTA factories setup in Mexico almost always put out an inferior product, just as the factories in eastern europe almost always put out inferior products for the european brands that manufacture there, but they sell those lower quality products at a lower price point. Those factories are somewhere between first world and Chinese/SE Asian crap because that's what the companies have built them to produce and that's where the expertise level is. It's probable that in a generation or less that China will exceed the production level of the factories in these second level states because they are building up the supply chain knowledge and they will get capital from the state lenders to compete on an international level. We've seen it before with Japan in the 80's and 90's and Korea in the 90's and 2000's.
With that said, GM won't let you order a car without OnStar unless you're a fleet/rental customer (fleets don't want them and have enough monetary clout to get what they want).
Are you kidding, fleet purchasers LOVE OnStar unless they already have an alternative telematics provider that they use that can't tap into the OnStar system.
Wow, I didn't know there was a more stripped down head unit with Sirius than my Chrysler non-display unit. Even my el-baso model has separate buttons for SAT,AM/FM, CD, and BT/AUX
Don't you know, America would be foolish to worry about home-grown talent. We will just import all of our talent from the rest of the world, allowing our lazyass native-born children to become rich off of the hard work of others!
Yeah, except both parties have made legal immigration harder, made it harder for college grads to stay after their education is done, and made it easier to outsource work through free trade agreements. I've been saying for years that the answer to the H1B program isn't to have fewer H1B's it's to have more freaking full work visas and to make the green card process for skilled professionals significantly easier and faster. If this country wants to have any chance of competing with China and the EU then we need more human capital, pushing away smart ambitious people is so wrongheaded that I can't comprehend what goals it serves.
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2013 data says average vehicle lifetime is 16.9 year, multiply that by the overall average of 11,500 miles per year and you come out close to 200k miles at scrapping.
A LOT has changed since 2008, especially in regards to average fleet age (and a 2008 report would probably be using 2007 or older data, aka pre-recession)
Well, the average working age American drives 15,300 miles per year and the average vehicle in the US fleet is 11.5 years old so the average car right now has ~175,000 miles on it, going 40% longer than the average hardly seems remarkable. If it was still the 1970's or early 80's where anything over 100k miles would most likely require a rebuild then sure 250k miles would be remarkable but with modern engines it's just not.
How is 250k miles remarkable? I drove 3 Taurus/Sables to 225-250k miles, all were equipped with the 24v 3.0 V6 which is a highly reliable engine. In fact my old Mazda MPV with the same engine is still on the road with that engine and just went over 220k miles despite hauling a heavier load than the Taurus it was designed for.
Ford's been repaying that loan at ~$465M per quarter and will have it payed off in 2022. They are paying US Treasury interest rates which are just below current market rates for large credit worthy companies. There's little doubt that it was a good deal at the time the loan was made but it's hardly the same as the bailouts of GM and Chrysler.
VW has ONE plant in the US, the Chattanooga Assembly Plant which employs ~3,000 US workers. VW claims more than 9,500 indirect supplier employees. That's nothing like the huge supply chains here to supply Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, and Honda. Heck, tiny little Nissan employs almost that many directly with just their Smyrna plant.
The US standards are very strict about the emissions per unit of fuel consumed, rather than the total emissions per unit of distance traveled
What ever are you prattling on about, the EPA Tier 2 Bin 5 standards apply to all cars and light truck models regardless of engine type, and they call out pollution per mile (.07g/mi for NOx for the entire fleet over 10 years and 120k miles).
That's odd since the BMW X5 35D in the UWV report that kicked off the probe of VW was well below the EPA levels in the combined testing, there were individual circuits where the X5 exceeded the fleet average limit by some multiple (it was the urban cycle in San Fran from what I remember of reading the report last week) but the overall level was well below the limit.
Yeah, it's not even that large by current standards, Samsung announced a 16TB 2.5" SSD last month, though at much lower performance numbers than these Intel units. It will come down to cost and workload profile as to which is a better fit, though for NVMe you really want the highest IOPS per slot that you can get because if all you need is capacity then SAS12 gives you the ability to attach MANY more drives per controller than NVMe which is limited to a handful of drives.
Exactly, here is the email I sent yesterday:
Dear Mr. Krishnan,
I am writing you in response to the draft National Encryption Policy recently released by your department. As an IT professional responsible for the security of my companies systems and data I feel I must write to inform you that these proposals are unacceptable to my organization. Should the proposed rules become law I will be forced to immediately terminate the access credentials of everyone who accesses our systems from the country of India. This will result in the loss of several hundred high paying jobs which we have outsourced to a company in your country. I feel that I am not alone in this stance and that you will find that there is a very real hit to your countries GDP as a large number of international companies pull access and contracts from suppliers in India as a result of these unconscionable rules. For the sake of the people of India I hope you reconsider your broad overreach in this area.
As such, it's not prescribed that much (in this age range).
That is VERY wrong:
Despite this, more than 2 million prescriptions were written for U.S. children and teenagers in 2002, link
Oh, I just looked it up and it looks like it's up to each county's board of elections. Most of the populace counties dumped the Diebold machines after the 2004 election due to high breakdown rate, slow voter throughput, etc. I guess some smaller counties might have kept them with all the problems because it was cheaper to pick up the machines that Cuyahoga and other counties were getting rid of than to switch over to the optical scan units.
Have you looked at the Maryland's 1st congressional district? That's about the least gerrymandered map ever.
Yes, I have, when we ran them through the conduit. It wasn't that difficult to make them take 90* turns so making them take a few degree bend to align the charging port should be no big deal.
The cables wouldn't have to be that big, in my datacenter we run 600A 480V and the cables are about as big around as my fingers, granted there are 4 of them but that's not much bigger in total than the gas hose on many pumps with vapor recovery systems. It would be a lot heavier than a gas hose though so you'd probably need overhead support with the ability to swing the cable into position over the car so you're only moving a small fraction of the weight for those of smaller build.
Florida is a perfect example of Republican gerrymandering, they vote almost exactly 50/50 in national elections but 2/3rds (actually 17/27) of their representatives are Republican and it's similar at the state level (80/120 state house seats held by republicans). It's pretty obvious from those numbers that folks who vote in national elections aren't being equally represented in either the state or national houses of representatives.
It's amazing, the more southern and republican the state the more likely they are to have photo ID provisions! And the northern states are mostly purple states where the state legislature is controlled by Republicans that gerrymandered the districts to hell and gone to get more control at the state level than they should have according to the popular vote! It's almost as if the map from your link proves what people have been saying all along...
Or do what Ohio did after the 2004 election disaster, go to scantron style ballots. Everyone has used them, they can easily be retallied by industry standard equipment or by hand and the error rate is low. As far as reliability, schools with almost zero budget manage to keep them working through much higher workloads then a few elections a year so the equipment is obviously robust enough and the likelyhood that it will become outdated is zero.
"low-quality" Mexican factories
Yes, the NAFTA factories setup in Mexico almost always put out an inferior product, just as the factories in eastern europe almost always put out inferior products for the european brands that manufacture there, but they sell those lower quality products at a lower price point. Those factories are somewhere between first world and Chinese/SE Asian crap because that's what the companies have built them to produce and that's where the expertise level is. It's probable that in a generation or less that China will exceed the production level of the factories in these second level states because they are building up the supply chain knowledge and they will get capital from the state lenders to compete on an international level. We've seen it before with Japan in the 80's and 90's and Korea in the 90's and 2000's.
GM and Ford have the largest market share at this point,
Huh? Global market share this year is VW, Toyota, GM, Renaut-Nissan, Hyundai-Kia, Ford.
Ford is at half the volume of those first 4 which are all at 10m units +- a few hundred thousand.
Uh, who fired on Fort Sumter....
Functioning free markets require information symmetry, asymmetrical information distorts markets.
With that said, GM won't let you order a car without OnStar unless you're a fleet/rental customer (fleets don't want them and have enough monetary clout to get what they want).
Are you kidding, fleet purchasers LOVE OnStar unless they already have an alternative telematics provider that they use that can't tap into the OnStar system.
Wow, I didn't know there was a more stripped down head unit with Sirius than my Chrysler non-display unit. Even my el-baso model has separate buttons for SAT,AM/FM, CD, and BT/AUX
Don't you know, America would be foolish to worry about home-grown talent. We will just import all of our talent from the rest of the world, allowing our lazyass native-born children to become rich off of the hard work of others!
Yeah, except both parties have made legal immigration harder, made it harder for college grads to stay after their education is done, and made it easier to outsource work through free trade agreements. I've been saying for years that the answer to the H1B program isn't to have fewer H1B's it's to have more freaking full work visas and to make the green card process for skilled professionals significantly easier and faster. If this country wants to have any chance of competing with China and the EU then we need more human capital, pushing away smart ambitious people is so wrongheaded that I can't comprehend what goals it serves.