Wow, 6 months wait for a Chevy-Tahoe

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

Reisender wrote:

Interesting. Still, can’t hurt to have more North American built capacity. I know mining in three Canadian provinces is ramping up to deal with the raw materials demand for the growing North American battery production. It’s all good.

I know, bought stocks in them, I just don't recall if they're Canadian, Australian (biggest) or Ameerican, or joint-venture, lol.

Another aside, congratulations for being the No. 1 country in the world. No wonder my brother don't want to move to California despite the invite of my sister -- although all his kids want to and one, in fact, already relocated.

Thank you.

Reisender wrote:

Interesting. Still, can’t hurt to have more North American built capacity. I know mining in three Canadian provinces is ramping up to deal with the raw materials demand for the growing North American battery production. It’s all good.

I know, bought stocks in them, I just don't recall if they're Canadian, Australian (biggest) or Ameerican, or joint-venture, lol.

Another aside, congratulations for being the No. 1 country in the world. No wonder my brother don't want to move to California despite the invite of my sister -- although all his kids want to and one, in fact, already relocated.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
@Reisender - It is still a South Korean company. I wonder development of Elon's purchase of Maxwell. My last was that they will actually focus on new materials (away from lithium?)

An aside, your link showed a restored Land Rover Defender converted into EV. Love that old Defender seeing them leaving us stuck in the mud or high flood waters in the jungles of Borneo with our Land Cruisers.

Interesting. Still, can’t hurt to have more North American built capacity. I know mining in three Canadian provinces is ramping up to deal with the raw materials demand for the growing North American battery production. It’s all good.

@Reisender - It is still a South Korean company. I wonder development of Elon's purchase of Maxwell. My last was that they will actually focus on new materials (away from lithium?)

An aside, your link showed a restored Land Rover Defender converted into EV. Love that old Defender seeing them leaving us stuck in the mud or high flood waters in the jungles of Borneo with our Land Cruisers.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

Groover wrote:
GM has some good news on the chip shortage
Spring Hill plant starting sooner

Ford, Nissan not so good.
More downtime for F and Nissan

Toyota planned ahead. In spite of their famed just-in-time parts delivery Toyota feared a chip shortage and built some inventory. Now they are reaping the benefits.
Toyota had chip inventory

Intel after the administration summit said they will attend to this soonest with quick solutions. The operative word or question, is how quick -- the problem is now.

But it's good the administration and the industry is on the same page realizing this is an strategic material that should be produced domestically to be weaned from the dominant Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturing.

Hope on batteries too -- and soon with Japanese and South Korean dominance. Although less strategic as they are allies.

More US battery capacity coming. https://electrek.co/2021/04/14/gm-second-massive-battery-cell-gigafactory-us-lg/

Groover wrote:
GM has some good news on the chip shortage
Spring Hill plant starting sooner

Ford, Nissan not so good.
More downtime for F and Nissan

Toyota planned ahead. In spite of their famed just-in-time parts delivery Toyota feared a chip shortage and built some inventory. Now they are reaping the benefits.
Toyota had chip inventory

Intel after the administration summit said they will attend to this soonest with quick solutions. The operative word or question, is how quick -- the problem is now.

But it's good the administration and the industry is on the same page realizing this is an strategic material that should be produced domestically to be weaned from the dominant Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturing.

Hope on batteries too -- and soon with Japanese and South Korean dominance. Although less strategic as they are allies.

GM has some good news on the chip shortage
Spring Hill plant starting sooner

Ford, Nissan not so good.
More downtime for F and Nissan

Toyota planned ahead. In spite of their famed just-in-time parts delivery Toyota feared a chip shortage and built some inventory. Now they are reaping the benefits.
Toyota had chip inventory

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
They just love a new car smell.

But come to think of it, it might be some brain sickness. I never bought a used car before. Just lately, it's hand me downs from my kids -- as long as they're not just passing on their headaches on me as I don't find it fun going and spending time in mechanic's shop (nor sending my mechanics son to college).

Agreed. That's why I always buy certified used, usually a year or two old. Much prefer Certified Pre-Owned that come with a big fat manufacturer's warranty. The car I have now was bought with 10,000 on the odo. It came with a 4-year unlimited mileage bumper-to-bumper factory warranty. Hard to beat that, not to mention it was over $14,000 less than a brand new one.

They just love a new car smell.

But come to think of it, it might be some brain sickness. I never bought a used car before. Just lately, it's hand me downs from my kids -- as long as they're not just passing on their headaches on me as I don't find it fun going and spending time in mechanic's shop (nor sending my mechanics son to college).

Just for fun, I did a quick AutoTrader search. 2019-2020 Tahoes, with 15,000 miles as a maximum on the odometer, yielded a total of 37 vehicles within a 300 mile radius of me. Remember, new is not always the best way to go, especially if waiting for one stresses you out like it would me!