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Re: Robot Tolls - At My Limit!
AdvancedQs wrote: Maryland. Has anyone had trouble with Maryland? I went through 2 tolls in Maryland over a year ago. October1, 2022. In November 2022 I checked on their website to see if I had tolls to pay. It said they were none to pay. I took screenshot of that. With the date and everything. Now yesterday I got a new thing in the mail from Maryland. It says I owe a six dollar and an 8 toll plus $70+ in penalties. Civil penalties it’s called. Between last October and now I have received nothing else. No communication. Only this notice over a year later saying that I owe fees and fines even though I screenshotted their system showing no tolls. So I called customer service. Trying to get those fines taken off and to pay. The woman was pretty nice. No problems there. She reduced everything down to $24 which is still more than I should be paying, but just to get it over with that’s fine. This is how they rob people. I understand it. it’s a shake down because you’re not from the state. No problem. I’m paying the $24. So she put me through to the automated system. It doesn’t take my card. It takes me back to her. No problem. So we try my card manually. Decline. It has over $5000 available on it. We try it again. Declined. So I try my debit card. There’s $10,000 in there. Declined. Apparently their system is not working properly or my bank is deciding that they are not on the up and up. OK so no problem here now. I’m going to spend even more time paying a toll. I go onto their website and I create a brand new account. Putting all of my license plate information. Credit card information. (The online system took my card no problem ) They ask for a lot of information. I had to fill it all out so that I could pay online. Well guess what? The online system says I HAVE NO TOLL DUE!!! I am beyond my limit here. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Nothing works with that system. I can’t even pay. I don’t even know what else to do. But it sure will keep accumulating and they will pass it onto my state won’t they? Has anyone else had all these problems with Maryland? Also it should not take $24 and 6 hours of my life to go through two ******* tolls. Especially not when it cost all of those toll operators their jobs. I have had it with these kind of tolls at this point. Interesting problem. Was in Japan recently and all toll roads have gates w ETC Electronic Toll Control, automatic toll readers which most cars trucks have inside. Plus theres also atendant booth that takes cash or cc. Grab a ticket when entering highway and pay on exiting. The price is displayed instantly when paying or spoken by computer in your car when exiting without stoping. Very convenient and precise,japanese are serious about perfection in everything. Only downside its bit pricey,to drive on toll roads about 30$ for 300 klicks.1.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Uncle Tony on Rivian Trucks and Parking Garage Fire
Fwiw lion batts do NOT spontaneously combust. Maybe the Frod trucks have been damaged when loading or deliberately so by EV haters,wouldnt be the first time. Tesla batts dont burn even when shot by machine guns https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-performance-vs-hamas-terrorist-photos-video/1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: How many EVs is GM actually selling?
wildtoad wrote: I thought GM quit making the Bolt. I haven’t seen an ad for them lately. I expect a big push back EV’s and more attention paid to hybrids, alternate fuels, and a lot of folks putting off buying a new car until their existing one just falls apart. Then they’ll by a used car. Alternate fuels cost more to make then gasoline,forgetabout it. Never hapen. Same w hybrids,why lug around and maintain ICE when pure EV is so much simpler. GM will go broke again bc it cant compete w Tesla advanced way of building and seling cars.:( Im keeping my old Silvy until Tesla gets CBRTK on. Tesla has biggest SCharger network in the world and geting bigger stil to make traveling easy.choice is easy. :B490Views0likes0CommentsRe: How many EVs is GM actually selling?
Reisender wrote: I think some of the newer companies like Lucid, Rivian and Tesla don’t count them sold until they are delivered. But for the most part they don’t stock them on lots either. We have noticed a bunch of mustangs sitting on the ford lot but when we looked they all had big upcharges on them. Not sure why they do that. They are literally more expensive than a tesla model Y here. Weird. Legacy auto are called Stealerships for a reason ! :W490Views0likes0CommentsRe: How many EVs is GM actually selling?
Groover wrote: GM's production and "sales" of EVs, including pickup trucks, went up by a large percentage in the 3rd quarter. But they count vehicles as sold when the dealer takes them. The Bolt seems to be selling to consumers well but the Hummer, maybe not. Is it that consumers don't want them or is it the ridiculous markups the dealers are putting on the Hummer? GM 3rd qtr EV sales From autoevolution: "Despite GM reporting 1,167 GMC Hummer EVs sold in the third quarter, many still lie on dealer lots, waiting for a buyer. A quick search on CarEdge reveals that 976 brand-new GMC Hummer EVs are available at dealerships. If you filter out the vehicles still in transit, 651 units are still waiting for a buyer. If you want to find out why, just look at the prices. Many are listed at more than $150,000, sometimes even $200,000. This means the dealer markups on these units are outrageous, in some cases as high as $100,000. Of course, not all of them were reported as sold in the third quarter. CarEdge also mentions how long they've been on the market, so we used this filter. Remarkably, 849 of them have been on the market for between 7 and 97 days, which means they were likely delivered from July through September. This sounds like almost the entire third-quarter production is still waiting for a buyer." GM is out of touch w reality,no one will pay that much for EV unless its some kind of Supercar :)490Views0likes0Comments
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