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Cam Newton rushed for 62 yards, while Mike Tolbert added 17 yards in the win. Steve Smith and Brandon LaFell added 62 and 59 receiving yards respectively.
LeGarrette Blount rushed for 49 yards for New England, while Stevan Ridley added 48 yards. Tom Brady threw for 296 yards for the Patriots, while receivers Shane Vereen and Kenbrell Thompkins had 65 and 60 yards respectively.
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I was so surprised when a friend clued me in on these reviews. Any contact I've had with Jennifer has led me to believe that she is an amazing person who does a LOT for the community, for very little in return. I am sorry that you two people had a negative experience, but:
To balance the scales a little bit, here are MY experiences with the gallery: No, it is not the most polished atmosphere in Pittsburgh, but I don't believe it's intended to be. It is cozy, is an amazing place for local artists who want/deserve a chance, is a great space for the music events I've seen there, and is a gathering place for many community events as well.
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A beautiful spot with a very sad story. The following is from Wikipedia and is consistent with the info we got from our tour guide: Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689, a massacre took place in Glen Coe, in the Highlands of Scotland. The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glenInvercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnaconalthough the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. Thirty-eight MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by guests, who had accepted their hospitality, on the grounds that the MacDonalds had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary. Another forty women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned.
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A powerful title to your image, and reading your note, such an apt one too. That a place of such natural beauty has witnessed such tragedy is indeed sad, but I guess not really surprising. I really like the frame shape you have chosen for this which nicely emphasizes both the height and the width of the range.
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The E-Flite Carbon-Z Carbon Cub floatplane thread
The release of the new giant scale foam E-Flite Carbon-Z Carbon Cub is imminent.
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84.6" wingspan with a length of 55.8", making it about 1/5 scale
Power system: Power 50 outrunner turning a 15x15.5 prop with a 60 Amp ESC on 6s 3200 to 5000 lipos.
Wing area is around 1100 sq inches and the wing loading is 17 oz/sq ft.
Comes with flaps and with 6 servos installed.
The model is available two ways: as a PnP for a suggested price of 379.99 and as a BnF Basic with an AR635 AS3X equipped RX included (no battery) for just 20 bucks more.
One nice feature is that Horizon has created a special set of large foam floats for this new Cub. I predict these will come in handy for other large models as well.
The special float set has a suggested price of 89.99 and includes an installed servo for the water rudder.
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Seems like a no brainer to get the BnF Basic as you get an Rx worth $100.00 for just 20 bucks more.
Not a small investment when you include the floats, but it is by far the least expensive giant scale Cub once it is fully equipped and ready to go. A lot of airplane and equipment for the money.
There is a huge thread about the new Carbon Cub over in the scale area that is dedicated to this interesting new giant foamy.
I thought it would be worth having a smaller, more manageable thread here in the Waterplanes forum related to operating this model as a floatplane.
I have one on order at my great local hobby shop, Roy's Hobby in Hurst, Tx. I ordered the floats at the same time.
We have an upcoming end of the season float fly on Nov 9 and I hope to get it wet, then for a fairly early report on how it does on the water.
Any other of the Waterplanes regulars planning on getting one?
If do, please post your results and experiences in here.
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I would like to get one. I am currently flying a Flyzone DHC2 -Beaver for practice. I also added floats to a Hangar 9 J3 Cub (81" wing span- 6S). Today is the maiden of the Cub on water.
I'm sure by the time the carbon Z cub is in stock at my shop, I'll be ready to upgrade.
I previously owned the UMX carbon cub but it didn't seem to like water. The servos kept reversing, jittering or getting stuck. After letting it dry, it would fly nice again. I'm hoping this bigger version will have less holes in the fuse and have more clearance for splashing.
Perhaps some improved servo splash guards would help the little uMX Carbon Cub.
The big Carbon Cub is not going to have nearly the same issues as it uses normal closed servos. I also see from the float instructions that the float conversion includes splash guards for the two main cooling air vents on the bottom of the fuse.
With normal use of CorriosionX, I bet the big Carbon Cub is going to be a great waterplane.
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The arrival date at Horizon is now looking to be about the middle of next week. Hoping it arrives at my LHS around 11/6 or 11/7 and I will be able to get it put together for our float fly on 11/9.
Thinking about an early mod to the floats for this model. The bare wire struts for the floats are not very attractive on a 1/5 scale model. Will have to add some streamline K&S aluminum tubing to the wires, or something else similar.
Ought to have the model in hand by 10/31, according to the shipping info at Roy's Hobby Shop. Floats were indeed with the shipment as well.
Weather permitting, water flight report the weekend of Nov 9-10.
Checked on the order with my local hobby shop and was told it now looks like mid-November. By that time, the water around here will likely be solid and I'll be looking to mount skis before too long.
Summers are not as comfortable....
Back to the big foamie Cub. I reviewed the float installation and one nice detail is that they include some small plastic fairings that serve to shield the two air vents, intake and exit, on the bottom of the fuse of the big Cub from water splashing into the bottom of the fuse. They still allow the flow of cooling air, but perhaps not quite as much.
I'm flying a 81" hangar 9 cub balsa with floats. It's been tough to shorten up the landings. I'm hoping the Carbon Z Cub flaps will help. Or maybe it will be a little bit lighter.
There are plenty of small ponds for me to fly nearby but it's a 30 min drive to the bigger lakes. I enjoy flying off water and want to be able to do it in smaller areas. The 55" Beaver worked nice. Now I'm considering the Apprentice S on floats instead of this bigger scale one.
I'm looking forward to hearing how effective the flaps are for short landings. From the videos it looks like take offs are pretty quick.
Got my Cub last Wed and got three flights on it this past weekend on the wheels. HH knocked this one out of the ballpark. Flying qualities are near perfect. Great presence in the air.
One awesome flying machine. Tons of early flight reviews over in the big thread in the scale electic area.
But, a glitch on the floats yesterday. Turns out HH underestimated the demand for the floats and fell far short of the quantity needed to fill all the orders. My LHS did not get any floats and will not for months to come.
I was REALLY hoping to get the Cub wet this weekend at the last float fly of the year. Am looking around for floats at other shops. None local got any floats, but a few made it to various on line retailers.
Wish me luck. Better yet, if you are in the DFW area and happened to get a set of floats, drop me a PM. I want to rent your floats for the weekend.... or buy them.
Will drive for floats!
However, when you buy this model, you get far more than a large hunk of foam.
You get:
A 50 class brushless motor worth 40-50 bucks.
A 60 amp Eflite Pro ESC worth at least 40-50 bucks
Four mini digital metal gear servos and two 13 gram digital servos worth at least 90 bucks.
An AR635 RX that goes for $100 by itself.
Add that up and the included equipment is worth $270 to $290, reducing the cost of the large peice of foam to around $110 to $130. Figure the fun stuff like the tundra tires are free extras.
Lots of value in this model. My LHS sold the BnF to me for $370. So my hunk of foam was less than a hundred bucks....
This is already a runaway best seller for Horizon with the models basically sold out of the entire first delivery, and with the next shipment going fast.
Flight performance is simply great. Well worth the money.
It is an easy way to get a giant scale Cub into the air for about 50-75% of the cost of any other approach.
And well executed foam aircraft have some real utility as seaplanes due to the construction material.
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Ok, finally managed to find some floats at an on line retailer and spent some extra cash to get them here via two day shipping.
Will have floats by Thursday, so looking good to try the Cub as a floatplane on Saturday!
Will report on how it all goes.
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LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach Police and Fire departments are investigating a possible suicide in the 6500 block of Stearns Street near a school and day care Friday morning.
Authorities received reports around 10 a.m. of a person hanging near the 405 Freeway and Stearns Street, said Sgt. Megan Zabel, spokeswoman for the Long Beach Police Department.
The area where the person was found is across the street from Los Altos Brethren School, though school officials said the police activity was not impacting the school day.
Principal Rick Lenger directed staff to bring students inside as soon as he noticed police activity and the police helicopter in the area.
Concerned, he went across the street to Christ Lutheran Church where police informed him of the investigation, adding there was no danger to the students.
Lisa Clinton, preschool director at Christ Lutheran Preschool, said students were also being kept inside as police continue their investigation.
Paramedics determined the person, believed to be a male, was dead. Little information is being released about the person or where he or she was found, but Zabel said the scene was not visible to the public.
Authorities are concentrating their investigation to a rear parking lot of Christ Lutheran Church.
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An Awards First – Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]
January 5th 1999
Shania Twain's "You're Still The One" receives Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year, while Come On Over is up for Album of the Year.
January 5th 1999
Shania Twain's "You're Still The One" receives Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year, while Come On Over is up for Album of the Year.
December 29th, 2000
John Michael Montgomery suffers a compound fracture above the ankle when he slips on ice while hunting near his Kentucky home.
December 27th, 1977
Dolly Parton earns the first gold album of her career, with her album Here You Come Again.
December 22nd, 2009
Carrie Underwood's album Some Hearts was named Country Album of the Decade by Billboard magazine.
Today's KLAW Classic was written in part by one of the founding members of the group formerly known as 'The Exiles', J. P. Pennington.
November 17, 2005
With sales of 469,000 Kenny Chesney's The Road & The Radio debuted at the top of the Country Albums chart and the Top 200 all formats chart.
November 16, 1994
Garth Brooks' Ropin' The Wind album is certified for shipments of 10 million copies
November 1, 2012
Blake Shelton wins three trophies during the 46th annual Country Music Association awards, broadcast on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Today's KLAW Classic was the 10th #1 song for Alabama, but it was written by 2 members of another country group.
Today's Saturday K-LAW Classic takes us back 28 years ago today - November 16th, 1984. It's from a group that started as a rock and roll band, formed by high school students in Kentucky way back in 1963.
Alabama took a song written by members of the group Exile, and made it their own.
This group's first hit was actually a Top 40 hit, "I Want To Kiss You All Over".


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From the time Esperanza Spalding appeared on the scene in 2005, the dynamic singer, bassist, composer and arranger has been heralded as jazz's next big thing. Her impressive musicianship has won her White House recital dates, praise from the likes of Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, and critical acclaim.
But last year, as she prepared to perform in front of a huge mainstream audience at a tribute to musical mentor Prince at the BET Awards, she started to think about how the moment could catapult her into pop stardom.
"I was really on this mission, kind of in my mind, to figure out how I was going to take my music and make it accessible to the pop world. `How am I going to turn this into like an Alicia Keys thing?'" she recalled thinking.
But when she got to rehearsals with her famous counterparts - including her idol Keys - she decided fame had somehow warped the purity of their artistry, and she didn't want that happening to her.
"Every person looked like a California raisin - this incredibly delicious, tasty, captivating artist, who has a magnificent magnetism and a unique flavor about what they do and who they are, but all of that has just been sucked out in every direction. ... The industry has surrounded them with all of these superficial pyrotechnics and I think it's really sucked the life out of their creative spirit, and I find that really sad," she said in an interview a few weeks after the ceremony.
"I decided that I was just happy to be a visitor from the liberated realm of jazz, and I decided then, whatever happens, I always want to be surveyor of the territory," said Spalding, who grew up studying classical music in Portland, Ore., before switching to jazz in her teens. "I want to be the one deciding what my art means, how it's presented, even if that means not becoming a pop superstar."
It turns out that being a surveyor has brought her closer to her discarded goal.
Spalding, who released her third album, "Chamber Music Society," last summer, is a surprise contender for best new artist at Sunday's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. She's competing against a field that includes Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine, Drake and perhaps the most pop of pop sensations, Justin Bieber. She's also set to perform on the show and host the Recording Academy's pre-telecast ceremony with Bobby McFerrin.
"It's exciting, I think it's inspiring for me. I guess I didn't realize that on a broader scale people were aware of my music," the 26-year-old said last month.
While popular audiences may just be getting to know Spalding, she's a star in the world of jazz. Her previous albums have been strong sellers and established her as the genre's bright future, and for good reason: She's a multifaceted performer. When she's not wowing audiences with a heavenly sounding soprano and scatting like the vets of old, she's impressing them with her bass playing (she also plays other instruments). So impressive were her musical gifts that after finishing the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston at an accelerated pace, she became an instructor there when she was 20, making her the college's youngest faculty member.
Spalding expected less mainstream attention for "Chamber Music Society," which blends her classical roots with her jazz world.
"It was really focused on composition and the intimacy of classical music and jazz-improvised music, and to me, that seems like it would be received by a smaller audience, yet there it is with a nomination on such a broad field," she said.
Spalding is perceived as a long shot to win best new artist, but Gil Goldstein, who co-produced "Chamber Music Society," is hopeful voters will recognize her unique gifts.
"I've been kind of joking, saying it would be nice that if once in a while, the best new artist would be someone who reads and writes (music)," he said, laughing.
"It would be like a real breakthrough victory if she would win, sort of like when Herbie won album of the year," he said, referring to Hancock's surprise win in 2008 for the album "River: The Joni Letters."
If the upset does happen, don't expect Spalding to alter her musical path. After her brief flirtation with wanting bigger stardom, she's more determined than ever that the most important thing she can do is make good music.
"The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme," she said.
And she hasn't let her Grammy nomination change her life, either.
"I'm going to buy a dress that I wouldn't have normally bought to go to the awards ceremony," she said, "(but) I still take the subway ... things are pretty much as they were before."


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Ill. police use Facebook to catch red light-runners
Motorists who run red lights may find their photo on the police department's Facebook page
GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Police in Granite City, Illinois have a new tool to help catch motorists who run red lights. They are posting pictures of the crimes on Facebook.
Look at the video from the camera across the street and you'll see the problem that's caused much of the chaos. Driver after driver choosing to ignore the red light at the intersection and blow right through. The thought of a child crossing as this happens is enough to scare them to death here.
A red light camera was put in to cut down on the problem, and to some degree it's worked. Police say 93 percent of those who've paid tickets thanks to these pictures have never been cited again. They learned. But now police have taken it to another level posting the video from the camera on the department's Facebook page every week or two.
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Apple TV updated, now features VEVO music videos, Disney and The Weather Channel
Over the past few weeks and months we've been reading rumors regarding VEVO making its way across to the Apple TV. Today, it finally has. In the latest over the air software update, Apple's home entertainment device has been loaded up with VEVO, Disney, Disney XD, The Weather Channel and Smithsonian 'apps'. All five of which are available in the States. Sadly – but unsurprisingly – only the VEVO app has made its way to the UK and other international countries.
These new additions certainly do bring to mind the recent rumblings that Apple is looking to help users "cut the cord" and ditch their cable service providers in favor of the Apple TV. And, with speculation that the company is planning to announce and release a new TV product this year at some point, boosting the options available on what used to be the company's "hobby" device is a sure of showing us that they're serious about it. With the ever growing list of on-demand channels available to stream, the need for traditional cable TV is reduced.
What do you think? Could you – US readers – quit your cable and go 100% Apple TV? If not, what does Apple need to do in order to convince you to ditch your TV subscriptions?
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Pinterest is a great platform. However, if you own a business, there is one feature missing: the ability to monitor the sharing activity around your content.
Of course, you could always check things manually by entering http://pinterest.com/source/yoursitename.com (Just replace "yoursitename.com" with your domain name) or do a manual search on Pinterest. What a hassle, though!
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Next stop for the Rangers: Washington.
The Rangers clinched the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs Saturday, blanking the already-eliminated Devils easily in the regular-season finale, 4-0.
Henrik Lundqvist, who made 20 saves for his second shutout of the year, helped the Rangers close the regular season on a 10-3-1 run. They have 26 wins and 56 points, and avoided a first-round matchup with the first-place Pittsburgh Penguins, who are the top seed in the East.
"We are where we need to be," defenseman Dan Girardi said. "April was a good month for us. We played our style and won in different fashions. It was a good way to finish the year. They weren't playing for much. We got on them early and stuck with it from there."
The Rangers moved ahead of the Islanders into sixth place and will play the red hot Capitals in Washington for Games 1 and 2 next week. Ottawa lost to the Flyers in regulation Saturday night, 2-1, and cannot finish of the Rangers, even though the Senators play their season finale Sunday against the Bruins.
Derek Stepan, the team's leading scorer, and Ryan Callahan each beat Devils goaltender Johan Hedberg (17 saves) and added an assist in the first period, when the Rangers took a 2-0 lead. Rick Nash scored the final two goals to give him a team-high 21 in 44 games after not scoring in the past three games.
Stepan's opening goal came at 2:37, when Callahan spun behind the net and set him up for a blast with a backhand pass. Callahan, denied a shorthanded goal on a breakaway when Hedberg lunged with his left skate to deny the opportunity, didn't miss on the next solo chance.
With Taylor Pyatt in the penalty box for hooking at 18:43, Stepan intercepted Marek Zidlicky's pass in mid-ice and fed the Rangers captain, who sped in alone and beat a diving Hedberg through the legs with 59 seconds left in the period.
"We have kind of found our way, in the last 10 games or so, just to come in each night and have a different mindset and focus on the game and the start," said Stepan, who has 18 goals and a team-high 44 points.
Since the trade deadline on April 3, when the Rangers acquired Derick Brassard and two others from the Blue Jackets, and Ryane Clowe from the Sharks, the Blueshirts lead the NHL in scoring, averaging 3.6 goals per game. They had been at 2.4.
Nash scored his 20th at 17:23 of the second on a dish from Brad Richards, who was behind the net. Nash had a breakaway on Hedberg earlier and appeared to be pulled down by Ilya Kovalchuk, but no call was made. Nash's 21st came at 5:30 of the third after Mats Zuccarello held the puck, skating and waiting for an opening.
"We have been inconsistent, but we made some big plays and won some big games to keep us afloat during the tough times," said coach John Tortorella, who declined to comment on the 0-for-6 power play, perhaps the only negative in the game.
"I'm concerned with the lineup a little bit. I'm hoping some guys get healthy," he said, mentioning Clowe, Brian Boyle and defenseman Marc Staal. "I'm happy with the past month, five weeks. Now we have to prepare for whoever we play."


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Some of the best games ever coming soon to Virtual Console
It took them long enough, but it seems that finally Nintendo 64 games will be coming soon to the Wii U Virtual Console. The official Wii U Virtual Console page has been updated and it mentions Nintendo 64 when referring to future releases. No release dates have been given as of yet but it can\'t be too much longer we have to wait to play some classic N64 titles on Wii U.
\"Check back regularly for the latest releases, including the future addition of titles from the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 systems.\"
No actual games have been revealed either, but you can already imagine some of the games that will be releasing, titles such as Super Mario 64, which was the first N64 game to release on Wii Virtual Console way back in 2006, Ocarina Of Time, Mario Kart 64, F-Zero X, the list goes on.
We expected Nintendo 64 Virtual Console games to be available when the Wii U launched, but it never happened, we never actually got any Virtual Console games at launch. But it now seems like they\'re finally coming.


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Mainstream Large Sedans Comparison
batista Posts: 159well yes it does and no it doesn't - the 'trick' that Pontiac used to 'hide' it - smaller tries and wheels on the front than on the rear.
You are not right this time. Actually wide tires are used at the front.
Tires, P255/45R18 front, P225/50R18, rear
Why would they use smaller tires at the front? It's not RWD remember.
255/45 IS a smaller tire/wheel combo than 225/50 - why would they do that all has to do with that gyroscope mentioned by joe131, the inertial forces created are less with the smaller tire - therefore less torque steer. Not a bad idea, although it does mess with evening out tire wear - and sure, many RWD cars do come that way.
yep a ludricrous assertion, I drive the 'tightened up' Touring - which does allow some bumps and a tad of road noise thru, and think that I have a little more road feel thru the recalibrated steering. To call it a 'sports sedan' though, despite the wonderful power, is almost as 'nuts' as pletko's comments.
Karen_S Posts: 5,095A reporter is hoping to talk with Buick Lucerne owners who never before owned a Buick. Please reply to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than Thursday, May 10, 2007 with your daytime contact info and a few words about your experience.
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To a degree I would agree, but for cars packing 200+ hp, it's a non-issue as we know all of them can pretty much merge into highway traffic with ease. It's the smaller 4 bangers (some) that would be the rule in this case.
It's funny, but when I was driving my grossly underpowered '87 Excel, I NEVER had a problem with merging into highway traffic. It's a matter of knowing your vehicle and doing so at a moment that provides you with a safe merge.
The problem is too many folks want to use that hp to stick themselves into traffic regardless of whether traffic affords the opportunity or not. I see folks driving Accents, Corollas, Sentras, Versas, all those sub-compact cars with tiny little 4 bangers that can merge into traffic with no problems.
No, you are right its not a sports sedan. However, I do think that it strikes a good balance between a soft ride (mine is an XLS) and handling. Its been a while now but I did drive a Touring and don't remember it being that much firmer than the XLS/Limited. I never drove an XL but would suspect that with 16" rims and taller tires that it would ride softer than the rest.
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had an XL rental for a period of time a did find the XL substantially softer - but you may be right - a function of the tire size, assume yours is also the 215/55/17 Michelins?
sorry, misread the tire sizing - the GP "trick' actually the reverse of what I said. Here's an article about it:
Same size but mine came with the Bridgestones. They are just OK. Pretty noisy on the highway and aren't wearing that well.
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an simple comparison of HP/lb. in my mind can help us decide when accelerative power is sufficient or marginal.
The Avalon, Azera, Maxima (as well as those Detroit V8s) will all figure at about 13 lbs/HP (or better) and therefore have similarily quick accelerative capabilities. It is those Lucerne 3.8s and 500s that have to pull 18-19 lbs or so, that don't accelerate nearly as well. Your point about adjusting to what you got is right on, it wasn't until recently that cars like these (6 sec+) even existed. Sometimes I wonder how we made it thru the 80s and 90s with the selection of relative 'dogs' available to us? Suggest to you that had Hyundai decided to put that older 194hp 3.5 in the Azera or Toyota had stuck with the 200hp 3.0, we would have the same 'problem' as the Lucerne and 500.
Yeah...looking at what is avaiable today, compared to 10 years ago...it is amazing we made it.
Even with the Lucerne and the 500 using underpowered powerplants, the power is still sufficient to merge into traffic safely. Then again, offering an underpowered engine isn't so bad because there are plenty of folks that seem to be scared to push the gas pedal! LOL
It's truly funny to see someone pay $50K+ for a high powered sports car...say a Vette and do the speed limit and watch a $10K sub-compact barrel down the highway at speeds in excess of 80 mph.
Even with the Lucerne and the 500 using underpowered powerplants, the power is still sufficient to merge into traffic safely
well, I guess, this might be where we disagree - but, then again, we both might be just a little spoiled? I drive usually between 4-500 miles per week, and would guess that there are a handful of times (5 or less) that I actually use a good part of the power my Avalon has. To me, that is enough to justify the 268 hp. Could I adjust to a 3.8 or a DT3.0, sure - but not without some wincing.
I won't disagree with you on the being spoiled part. I came from an '02 Sonata (170 hp) into my Azera, so yeah...that was lethargic compared to now. However...I NEVER had an issue when I was driving the Sonata.
There are times I have tapped the gas pedal more than a situation actually called for, but like you...the times I've really NEEDED it have been few. It is nice to know it's there though...that much I won't deny!
your old Sonata should have logically run in the low 8s, in the same ballpark as the Lucerne and 500. 2 seconds doesn't sound like much, unless of course, you consider that that 2 seconds is about 180 feet (~12 car lengths) at 60.
Did you ever try paying the insurance on on of those high powered sports cars? It's bad enough with a clean record, add on a few points for barreling down the highway at 80+, then see the bill.
My '99 Cobra is $840 a year versus $640 a year for my Azera.
You obviously don't live in Jersey.... not to get off topic but I pay $2400, for an '06 Avalon and a 99 S-10 (liability only on the truck). Can't imagine if I had points or accidents. Also, if I had a Mustang like yours 4000+
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Oh...trust me I know!
However, there's a new sherriff in town. I was watching Top Gear last night and they pitted a new Mitsubishi Lancer Evo against a Lamborghini Murcielago and even though the Evo had 1/3 the number of cylinders, it was pumping out over 400 bhp and the Lambo couldn't shake it on the track!!! Technology is amazing!
Sorry to get off topic, but I had to share that!!!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program...
I love my Azera!!!
You are right, acutally mid-8's. However...I still never had any problems with merging, it was quite competent.
dborth Posts: 474I had a '87 Volvo 740 Turbo Plus, 4-banger 180 hp/rwd. It ran 0 -60 according to Volvo in 7.7. Not bad for a heavy mid-size 4 door sedan of 20 years ago.
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Turbo and supercharging create engines of their own definition and their own set of problems in drivability and durability. Understand that the Chinese market Lucerne uses the Ecotec 4 banger as a base engine - can you imagine 150hp even trying to keep near 4000lbs. moving - guess the Chinese have not only a lot of time on their hands, but also bad hearing. Car of this size (and weight) IMO need a minimum of 240 hp or so (as well as 6 cylinders or more), hopefully without the 'benefits' of a turbo?
150HP in the Lucerne. Painful! Speaking of the Lucerne, it boggles my mind why on earth Buick wouldn't put the 3.6 in the base model. Do you think it has something to do with the "loyalists" wanting the 3.8 from their LeSabres and Park Avs or is it GM just not having the money to make the change?
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drgadedipe Posts: 8the engine is a Chevrolet V8. if ne1 knows any modification i could to the engine i will be very thankfull.
had the experieince of driving the new Saturn Aura XR a couple of weeks back, and it is a relative revelation to all those other GM pushrod choices. Really good power (some torque steer), and a smoothness and willingness to rev never before seen in a 'Detroit' product. Not quite up to the Toyota/Honda/Nissan V6s in that dept. but close enough that few would notice the difference. I agree, the Lucerne would be much much better with the 3.6 than even the Northstar if for no other reason than FE.
Think GMs problems with being able to do this may be more financial and labor related - they can't produce enough of the engines to use them line wide (the way Toyota and Nissan do), and may be constrained thru labor contracts from closing some of these plants that make the old stuff. Pletko would be disappointed though - it was a 6 speed auto in the one I drove and is subject to a little gear hunting on downshifts, much like many of these new (expensive to fix) 'high tech' trannies.
cnw Posts: 105The width of the tires is the only thing that differs. The radius and resulting diameters differ by only 0.7%--an insignificant difference when talking leverage and the effect on torque steer. Good tool at http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html to check the difference that a change in tire size will make.
It's possible they don't yet have the production capacity up to speed on the 3.6 liter. The 3.8 has excess capacity and is on its last legs as well as the factory that produces it.
I hope you are right. IMO the 3.8 ship has sailed. The 3.6 six speed in the Aura should be the future of GM mid and full size sedans.
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You are right most of the newer transmissions do hunt around a bit. Especially in the 35 - 45 range.
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The 3.8 has excess capacity and is on its last legs as well as the factory that produces it.
True, too much production capacity for the old 3.8 and complicated by the fact that GM can't do what they want (or need) to do in terms of closing old plants. Unless, of course, they want to end up doing what Ford did and continues to do - spend beaucoups of money to 'buy-out' their employees, an effect of some rather nasty labor contracts they signed back in the truck/SUV euphoria days.
imidazol97 Crossroads of America I70 & I75 Posts: 21,399> too much production capacity for the old 3.8
Odd they have capacity. The 3.8 hasn't been made for years. There has been a 3800 since before 92 IIRC and it has been modified strongly since then. Check some other discussions for a full history of the passing of the 3.8 and the evolution of the 3800 motor. But sometimes people are talking about things that don't exist anymore. :blush:
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you can clain the 3.8 has been improved and/or modified since the Buick 231 of the 50s, and sure it has - the only porblem is that the end result is the same - an ancient and non-competitive engine. Suppose it becomes a definition of what you consider to be new and improved, doesn't it?


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Packers RBs coach Alex Van Pelt confirms that Ryan Grant will have only a minor role if active versus the Lions on Sunday.
"You have to play football to be in football shape, obviously," Van Pelt said. "So we're obviously not going to throw (Grant) out there this week and expect him to carry the load or anything like that. It'll be some spot duty this week and as he gets stronger and into football shape, he'll have more of a role." Alex Green will handle the bulk of the carries in Week 14.


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Welcome back Laundry List for the shopping savvy men. Brought to you by the fine people of EastDane.com, Textstyles is combing the city of Toronto to seek out the coolest, dandiest, best dressed men you may or may not know. Today, we bring you Dr. Parambir Singh Keila, not only does he work in geriatrics he can also wax poetic on Tom Ford to Raf Simons and can choose a lovely sparkling rosé.
Sorry ladies, he's otherwise taken, his lovely wife Anjli Patel (who you will meet soon I promise!) sat in with us while we chatted about fashion, turbans and Parambir's take on men's style at the gorgeous d bar in Yorkville.
When did you start getting into fashion?
Parambir: I've always been interested. I think one of the greatest synergies of my relationship with Anjli has been a greater appreciation and realization of my own sense of style and what suits me and to explore that.
What did you wear on your first date?
P: Oh gosh!
Anjli: that's a good question ;)
P: I remember what you wore the first time we met. I don't know if I remember what I… oh, no. Our first date was to a Cuban music concert in Kingston. And it was two days before my birthday. I was turning 24. I have no idea what I wore.
Was that the precursor or was that when it was starting to form?
You can trace it back to high school because I was still trying to explore and find out what was me. I played with hip hop style, I played with prep, I did a little bit of goth for one season. And that's one of the things about fashion right now is that it's not all the same. I can love Damir Doma, Rick Owens and at the same time I love what Tom Ford and Brunello Cucinelli offer. So I can play on the different axeses of my personality. It's not the 80s or the 90s where everything was more homogenous. And that's the challenge of our time as well.
Day to day is it a mood that strikes you or do you have a go to ensemble?
Traditionally men dress really uniformly. I think that plays out in part when I'm at work. I love what I do and I work with an older population, I do geriatrics, so I have to dress a certain way to respect my patient and the encounter. I have these little old ladies who wake up hours before their appointment and they take out their best jewellery and their brooches and get their hair done—they are going to see their doctor. It wouldn't be right if I didn't do the same. Minus the curlers. But when it's my time I think I actually spend more time thinking about what I'm going to wear when I'm not at work. Work is shirt, trousers, shoes and then I'll add something else depending on the occasion. I'll add on a tie or a cardigan or a jacket.
Do you find that your clients dress up even more cause you've got such sharp style? Like you met the first time and maybe he/she wasn't that great and the next appointment they're all tricked out in their vintage Dior?
I'm waiting for that moment, I'm sure it's going to happen soon. I haven't had the time to create that kind of continuity yet.
Back to personal style what's most important to you?
I dress to the occasion and I like to explore different things at different times. It could be that I'm playing with a certain colour or pattern, a silhouette. Once fall comes around I'm much more in the mood for clothing that drapes in a different way. Spring comes and I play with something else, season plays a definite role. I like to make sure that I'm dressed up for an occasion. I think it's fun and fashion is a creative output and you should have fun with it and I try to do that.
Where does your inspiration come from: blogs, magazines, other references…?
All of the above. I think Toronto is a wonderful city to live in because in my opinion the renaissance that's going on in men's fashion. So I take inspiration from the men around me, from blogs, from my wife and what she tells me. At the end of the day I buy something because I love it and I keep on adding to it with each new season. So I'll mix and match and create these ensembles that to me are beautiful and very representative of what I'm feeling like. But aren't necessarily reflective of what's going on in mainstream fashion at that moment.
What's the hardest part about shopping for you?
Tailored clothing is very difficult to fit. I'm fortunate that I do often fit jackets off the rack. I like to still get them tailored to me. Trousers are a different story and I find that out of the ensembles the uniform, the hardest thing for me is the shirt.
What is it that doesn't work for you?
Collar length, under arm and waist fit. My waist works for what most designers are creating but not for what most work/business attire are taking into consideration. They're thinking of the gentleman that has a few more around his…
How much do you hunt online?
It's fun. I like to go through ad read what the editorials present. I enjoy daydreaming about different outfits. I'll do that when I'm bored. I shop online only on 3 occasions: one for a designer I can't find locally. Second, for a designer or the look/item I can't find locally, and third is the sale.
If you had to give your style a city, which would it, be?
Toronto! To me it's a potpourri of different things going on at this moment. When I travel to different cities I dress to what the style of that city is. I'm very different in Miami compared to London or New York to Los Angeles. What I'm part of is what's going on in Toronto. I'm very proud of the fact that we're Canadian and we get to be part of this city and what's going on here right now.
It's such a different city style wise just based on all these co-existing cultures!
Guess what the most common question I get?
Why is your turban black and what does it mean?
They think you have like a black belt in something? It must mean he has tamed a tiger!
Anjli: I love it!
P: Exactly. So first people feel that this is a very personal question.
Like totally taboo.
So they start by saying, "Is it ok if I ask you a very personal question?" And I always think about if they're going to ask me if I'm married.
Or your sexuality, or something actually…
Anjli: Personal!
P: They'll be like, what does the colour mean. Absolutely nothing, I like black and that's it. My father wears neutral colours and my grandfather used to wear royal blue.
Anjli: your father would never wear black!
What about orange?
Sometimes my grandfather would.
Anjli: Orange is my favourite colour.
Same! It's happiness basically.
Anjli: But it's not universally loved colour.
You're right it's a real knee jerk reaction. You're either for or against. Do you ever just invite shit though? I'd totally just take the piss. Black means I'm in mourning.
Sometimes. Yeah, I've achieved a higher level of consciousness than yours.
I've sat atop the mountain for three months.
Next, it's always "do you tie it yourself." Yes, every morning. And then "how long is it" and I tell them it's seven meters of cloth folded and then wrapped multiple times.
Seven meters really?
I used to wear a smaller one that was only five meters. Seven meters long, one meter wide, half-half-half and then a third. I iron it to get it nice and creased straight and then I wrap it. The next question is always about my beard. Do you trim it? And I'm like no, but that's usually the sequence.
As for the turban is it something that evolves in a man's lifetime or do you stick with the same? Does the way of tying mean something?
Yes. In Punjab, which is where Sikhs come from, a different style turban represented your province or village. If someone has just come from Punjab I can still usually tell where they're from based on the turban. Mine is just a preference but most people will always be like "Oh you're from here…" and I'm always like, "No and you shouldn't judge!"
Punjabi culture is so colourful do you think that's part of your love of colour?
Definitely, and also I'll credit Anjli who brought out my colourful side.
Isn't that lovely!
I'm someone who's bold enough to wear it but wont necessarily think of trying it without that little prod. The tee shirt I was wearing before Anjli had bought for herself, I think it was Givenchy Resort 2013. The colours reminded her of the Maharaja jewels, but it didn't fit her, it's massive, it barely fits me so I've inherited it. Which is nice cause usually it's the girls who steal from us.
Definitely, I'm always like "I want this, this, this and this. Thanks, Ha!"
Anjli: Exactly.
Try getting it back!
Anjli: I do end up doing that a lot, especially with his scarves.
You must be a master at tying scarves too.
Of course! I tied this tie while I was waking over.
Any parting words for the guys out there?
Clothing is a social commentary. And at the end of the day we're all tribes men/women and when we see someone dressed similarly to ourselves that our sense of belonging. Because I'll see other well dressed guys and we'll give each other that little once over and the head nod.
Thank you Parambir!!
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By: Rabbi Ari Enkin
There is a well-known custom to eat fish on Shabbat. Indeed, the Shabbat meal frequently begins with a first course consisting of fish.[1] This is no doubt partly due to the story of "Yosef Mokir Shabbat".
The Talmud tells the story of a certain impoverished Yosef who always honored the Shabbat with the best possible foods. In Yosef's neighborhood there lived a wealthy Gentile. Local fortunetellers warned this wealthy Gentile that Yosef would one day acquire all of his wealth. Not wanting to see all his hard earned possessions end up in the ownership of someone else, he went and sold everything – purchasing a precious stone with all the proceeds. He kept this precious stone set in his hat so that it should be with him wherever he went. Once, as he was crossing a bridge, a wind came and blew off his hat and jewel sending it into the river below, and the man watched as his jewel was swallowed by a fish that then disappeared.
One late Friday afternoon Yosef was walking in the marketplace. A fish merchant desperately trying to sell his best catch before the onset of Shabbat approached Yosef surveying his interest in buying the fish. True to his reputation, Yosef did indeed purchase the large and tasty looking fish in honor of Shabbat. Upon arriving home and slicing open his fish in preparation for cooking, Yosef found a diamond – the rich man's diamond – in the belly of the fish. The sages teach us that it was in the merit of Yosef's extensive honoring of the Shabbat that he merited to receive this diamond which we are told was worth thirteen roomfuls of gold.
Fish is especially appropriate for the Friday night meal, although it is ideal to partake of fish at all three Shabbat meals.[2] If one only has enough fish for one meal, it seems preferable that it should be saved for the Shabbat daytime meal.[3]Some authorities argue that the third Shabbat meal is actually the ideal time to eat fish.[4] The popularity of fish on Shabbat may be due to the fact that fish ("dag") is the gematria of "7", suggesting that we are to eat fish on the seventh day.As with anything one eats on Shabbat – one's personal gastronomic preferences and conveniences take priority.[5]
There are a number of additional explanations for the custom of eating fish on Shabbat. One explanation has it that eating fish represents a three-part continuity in the order of creation: Fish were created on Thursday, Man on Friday, and Shabbat on Saturday.[10] Others suggest that eating fish on Shabbat represents the feast which will take place in Olam Haba, the next world, in which the Leviathan[11] fish will be served.
[1] Shabbat 118b [2] Magen Avraham 242:1 [3] O.C. 271:3 [4] Minhag Yisrael Torah, O.C. 291:1,Ta'amei Haminhagim 305 [5] Mishna Berura 242:1 [10] Ta'amei Haminhagim 305 [11] Bava Batra 75a, Rashi;Bereishit 1:21. The Leviathan is a giant fish which was created on the fifth day of creation. God created one male Leviathan and one female. The male, we are told, was castrated, and the female was set aside for that special banquet discussed above. See: Tehillim 74:13-14, Iyov 41, and Yeshayahu 27:1 for biblical references to the Leviathan.


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The last time naked photos of Vanessa Hudgens hit the web, the High School Musical star vowed she would be more careful and would never let it happen again. Well she wasn't and now new topless photos of 20-year-old are spreading like wildfire.
Two years ago the Disney starlet caused a scandal when nude photos intended for boyfriend Zac Efron went public. Parents of her tween fanbase were outraged that Hudgens flaunted her sexuality in such a manner. They were concerned that her impressionable fans would copy her actions.
The nude scandal from two years ago took its toll on Hudgens, telling Parade magazine the lessons she learned for the whole sorry experience:
That's why I'm extremely guarded. I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end! It is hard. I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe. I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along. I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down–no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
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wikiHow to Make Glamorgan Sausages
Glamorgan sausages are vegetarian. They have been made for a long time and are enjoyed as a substantial meal in their own right even by those who enjoy the meatier variety.
To get the desired consistency, it is best to have a food processor for combining the ingredients.
- 225g Caerphilly or Lancashire cheese, grated
- 200g white bread crumbs, freshly made (they should be soft crumbs, not hard, dried ones)
- 1 onion, grated very finely
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbs parsley, chopped finely
- 1 tsp thyme leaves, fresh if possible
- 2 eggs
- Plain/all-purpose flour for coating
- 3–4 tbs olive oil
1Put the cheese, fresh breadcrumbs, mustard, onion, and herbs in the food processor. Process until the ingredients are combined but not too much.
2Add seasoning to taste.
3Crack the eggs and separate one yolk from one of the eggs. Reserve the egg white. Add one whole egg and the extra egg yolk to the processor. Process quickly.
4Remove the mixture from the processor. Wash your hands and prepare to roll the sausages.
5Roll out approximately 8 sausage shapes. This is best done on a non-stick surface such as baking paper or greaseproof paper laid over a wooden board. Adjust until you are happy with the shapes.
6Whisk the egg white till it froths. Roll each sausage in the whisked egg white. Follow by rolling in the flour to coat.
7Heat the oil in the frying pan over low heat. Cook the sausages in the oil until browned. Attend to them at all times, turning regularly.
8Serve. These are best served immediately with a suitable sauce or a gravy. Fried onion pieces are also an ideal addition and mashed potatoes.
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Pellion Technologies leveraging high throughput computational materials design to make progress on Mg-ion rechargeable batteries
13 June 2011
While the current generation of lithium-ion batteries has enabled the very visible return of a still-nascent plug-in electric vehicle market, industry stakeholders on all sides are clear about the need for more advanced energy storage technologies that transcend the limitations of current Li-ion couples in terms of cost and/or capacity in order to support a mass market for these plug-ins. (Earlier post.)
Last week's 4th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium-ion, hosted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), brought together researchers tackling the "Beyond Li-ion" problem by working on a number of different platforms (e.g., Li-O2, Li-S, Mg-ion, Zn-air, Na-metal halide) and components (electrodes, electrolytes) and exploring different synthesis techniques. One basic challenge in developing a "Beyond Li-ion" solution is identifying the appropriate materials.
At the symposium, Dr. Kristin A. Persson, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, described the benefit of using high throughput computation to tackle this problem in battery research. It is now possible to leverage computational power to calculate a wide variety of properties that are relevant for advanced energy storage systems, she said, enabling researchers to identify performance bottlenecks in known materials as well as screen hypothetical materials to accelerate new materials discovery.
The use of such an approach combined with database capabilities enables the creation of a "materials genome", Persson said.
Persson is also a co-founder of Pellion Technologies—an MIT spin-off co-founded by Dr. Gerbrand Ceder, funded by Vinod Khosla, and recipient of an ARPA-E grant (earlier post) that is developing a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) rechargeable battery. Pellion is leveraging such high throughput computational materials design, coupled with accelerated materials synthesis and electrolyte optimization to identify new high-energy-density magnesium cathode materials and compatible electrolyte chemistries.
Pellion, said ARPA-E's Dr. Dawson Cagle in an earlier talk at the symposium, is targeting the development of a Mg-ion battery with 2–4x the energy density of Li-ion batteries, that would be compatible with the existing Li-ion manufacturing infrastructure. "Pellion is one of our higher-risk projects," Cagle said.
Persson noted as part of her talk that by leveraging such high throughput techniques, Pellion has already screened some 9,600 cathode candidates and moved 15 of those into the lab, where they are cycling them under different conditions. This represents a significant speed-up in development time.
Magnesium-based couples have been discussed for some time as having the potential to achieve a high specific energy and eventually replace Li-based couples.
Magnesium is divalent, thereby displacing double the charge per ion, Persson noted (i.e., Mg2+ rather than Li+). As an element, magnesium is much more abundant than lithium, and more stable. Magnesium-ion batteries theoretically could offer good electrochemical performance, while being safer and less expensive than Li-ion batteries.
However, Mg-ion batteries have suffered from a number of limitations. Mg2+ ion insertion into ion-transfer hosts proceeds slowly compared with Li+, so it is necessary to realize fast Mg2+ transport in addition to other requirements, noted a 2003 study by researchers at Nankai University in China. Researchers from Bar-Ilan university (one of Pellion's partners in the ARPA-E award, focusing on the electrolyte) in a paper published in Chemical Materials in 2009 outlined more specific limitations:
Anode/electrolyte incompatibility. Magnesium, like lithium, develops surface films upon exposure to oxygen, humidity, and most polar organic solvents as a result of reduction reactions. Unlike lithium's, however, Mg interphase formed is a real passivation barrier since it is both electron and ion insulating. In other words, in most polar organic electrolytes such as those commonly used in lithium batteries, magnesium anodes do not function as reversible electrodes.
However, earlier studies of Mg cathodes were performed in such electrolytes, Levi et al. point out, with some of the works not using Mg anodes, but different sources of Mg2+ ions)
Hence, once any of these cathode materials proves viable for practical use, a full compatibility study of these materials with proper electrolyte should be necessary. Such a study will be particularly crucial for hydrated cathodes because of incompatibility between water and magnesium or between water and some of the feasible electrolytic solutions.
Narrow electrochemical windows of the electrolyte solutions. With a narrow electrochemical stability window, organohaloaluminate/ether electrolytes limits greatly the choice of cathodes for Mg-ion batteries, and hence its potential specific energy.
Slow solid-state diffusion of Mg2+ cations. The majority of the intercalation compounds, proved to be good Li cathodes, show poor, if any, electrochemical activity with Mg, usually because of the exceedingly slow solid-state diffusion of the divalent cations.
The idea was that we need a high energy density cathode that works with the electrolyte and a new anode. We are using exactly the same screening criteria [as described in her talk for Lithium system] only pertaining to magnesium. What we did find out though and as is well known in the literature is that we are diffusion limited.
But, here's where computations come in. We can find a few outliers there, where it actually moves quite well in the compound. We don't have to go through all the literature, we can pick those out by our high throughput screening of everything that is out there. While in general, it's true magnesium moves slower, there are outliers. We have synthesized some cathodes already.—Kristin Persson
E. Levi, Y Gofer, D. Aurbach (2010) On the Way to Rechargeable Mg Batteries: The Challenge of New Cathode Materials. Chemistry of Materials 2010 22 (3), 860-868 doi: 10.1021/cm9016497
Huatang Yuan, Lifang Jiao, Jiansheng Cao, Xiusheng Liu, Ming Zhao and Yongmei Wang (2004) Development of Magnesium-Insertion Positive Electrode for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., Vol. 20 No. 1, p 41
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The world will find ways to progressively improve performance by up to 4x or to about 1000 Wh/Kg and reduce mass production cost from $400/Kwh to $100/Kwh in the next 20 years or so. That's what is required for future affordable highway capable e-vehicles to replace the current ICE fleets.
Meanwhile, we will have improved HEVs,/PHEVs and progressively improved city BEVs. City e-buses will be out in large numbers very soon.
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