Pat Wma

This is a no brainer! Just look at what is already being produced or has existing models made/demonstrated and will be in production VERY soon. Take the new Hummer as an example. The machine is introduced with over 1,000HP. That's more than Trophy Trucks. So at the very beginning that beast has more power than 99/100 guys on here could handle and I doubt more than a handful of guys on here have ever experienced. Look at what Rivian did driving chase for that Long Way Up "documentary" driving two prototypes that we went from clay models to being shipped to Tierra Del Fuego in < two months. They drove all the way to LA and only one had a problem. Moreover, Rivian went in a built a network of charging stations every 100 miles between TDF and LA proving that building a network of charging stations across 10,000 miles of what most modern countries would call "wilderness" was no big deal. Even perennial junk seller Harley Davidson built two electric prototype motos in almost no time from scratch and they went an even harder 10K miles with only one having a problem. Both machines that had a problem were replaced rather than sending in a team of people with a container of parts. If you've ever tried to ship racing parts into 3rd world countries like South Africa or anywhere in South America you'll know why they simply shipped in new vehicles. Look at what Porsche has already done with their 919 Hybrid Evo car. It's the fastest racing care ever. Period. And not by a small margin. That 919 beat the previous Nurburgring record by ~52 seconds! And that thing came out in 2014. Electricity is gonna be close to free soon to incentivize everyone to move on from petroleum. That will save every country billions or trillions of tax dollars just in the medical expenses from living with the ubiquitous use of petroleum. Anyone here ever go down to a very busy harbor like LB/LA and look at all the kids who have asthma in the surrounding communities? It's heartbreaking what that diesel exhaust does to the innocent. It should be illegal. And if you don't think so just go to one of those places and ask to see the kids who can't breathe. See if that softens your cast iron heart. These new vehicles are just electronics and we already know how to move the tech at a pace of twice as much for half as much every 18 months from our recent experience with computers. Only this time it won't be a bunch of nerds and weirdos in Silicon Valley. It will be the best engineers in the the USA, Japan, and Europe going for the gold or losing everything. Think what that should mean for capture and storage of energy too. Remember that 80% of the people on this planet live in so called "Developing Countries". So they are gonna want to just skip petroleum and go right to green energy. Before anyone wastes our time droning on about the cost of going green, let us know how many trillions of dollars and how many thousands of lives have we thrown away because of our desire to burn fossils for fun? I'm 62 and my generation will be the last to burn fossils for fun from birth to death. Finally, look at the places that matter; where all the people live and where ICE cars have been king. Places like LA. LA has largely moved on from ICE engines. There are no more race tracks here. You might argue that Fontana is a race track here in So Cal. But Fontana isn't really a race track. It's just an event center. Guys who were here when I was young will tell you about Riverside where lots of races happened across the spectrum of racing. (Same for Drag Boats here. We created that sport near Bakersfield and races wear held all over down here. Hell, they'd flood fields to race boats at places like Ski Land.) But Riverside was bulldozed well over 30 years ago. The nearest real track like Riverside is Sonoma. It's the real deal too with old time events like Family Drags on Wednesday nights that are free for spectators! There are no more ICE cars built here in LA either. Car mods are just a hobby now even though we still lead in the design of race engineering and style. (Unless you consider the design and engineering of Nascar stuff cutting edge cause they are still using the rear suspension out of an early 1960s Chevy pickup!) You can still go to races here with twin turbo EFI big block Chevys are pulling water skiers at well over 110MPH for an hour in the ocean and at the River. And the SCTA still has great events on the dry lakes. And there's a lot of semi-secret racing styles still happening but that stuff never travels east of the Colorado River. Racing died here long ago and only lives in the places that have little else to do but watch cereal box cars that all fit the exact same template drive around in a circle for three hours and pretend it's racing. Nascar is nothing more than a VERY expensive reality TV show and the spectators are really just there for the gossip and drama. I remember a time here in LA when we tested race cars out on the highways here. I mean like Indy cars and Shelby stuff and a lot more. Families used drag boats for ski boats at Parker and no one thought anything of it. No one is talking much these days about the future of all that. Why? Because gas engines are kinda at the end of their development. Diesels are a joke. Electronics has done amazing things with ICE cars but that is about done. Electric cars and trucks are starting at more power than ICE can do now. Think about that. I have a '91 Crewcab Dually that we are restoring after wearing out and I'll electrify it in a minute when the kit is right. Sure the Luddites are gonna whine about charging times but that is gonna change too. And even if it didn't and my wife and I had to layover at our campsite in the Redwoods while our batteries recharged, well, am I gonna cry about that? Our '17 Sierra Crewcab Denali 4X4 6.2L is awesome and will be the last ICE truck we buy for sure. Of course the usual people in the abandoned places will cry foul cause life includes change. Yawn. Look, it was a great ride. But there was a ride before this one and there will be another after this one. So let's get on with it! Oh, and by the way, I work in the petroleum industry as did my father. I don't know anyone in this industry who isn't at least as forward thinking on this as I am. Especially the young guys who know they aren't gonna retire in this industry without surviving some sort of swim with sharks. But the smart ones aren't gonna be left behind like people on the Great Plains and Rust Belt. So, like always, the smarter people are making plans now for their 2nd career.

I'm in Design, not Maintenance. So let me know when you get someone to finish it and I'll be back to pop off with more opinions carried on the rarified air from where I speak.

So, the problem with this form is there isn't a lot of functionality for the average user. The data needs to be sorted another way to be useful and there needs to me heaps more of it. What you need for proper information design is for a user like me to be able to move through an information tree; Excel and the other apps that present the same information in a numerical format are super inefficient and just plain misleading. What would be useful would be a tree of questions that we often see in jokes. As the user answered the questions he'd be moving closer to the answer he seeks by being subgrouped again and again into groups of people with which he shares an increasingly similar pickup. Something like this. Is your truck a 1500 or 2500? That answer splits the users off into subgroups. Each subgroup is asked questions necessary to narrow the group again. Is your tuck lifted? This splits the groups again; the user is moved to a subgroup with whom he shares more similarities. Then perhaps is your truck 4WD? Then perhaps is your suspension stock? Then perhaps is your truck Lifted/"leveled", Stock, or lowered if not stock? If "Yes" then how much in front? How much in rear? Or it's stock or lowered. That narrows again. Then last I suppose some wild cards like have you added larger fenders or cut the body around the wheels etc. Get the idea? Then everyone on the site should be asked to fill it out for a permanent White Paper area like IBM does, or used to do. Then you'd have a guy like me who has narrowed the information down to what is useful to me instead of me having to convert the file to Excel (at least a third of the population hates to work with information in that format) and then asking my wife to sort it down to what is useful for our pickup. And someone will then surely just start posting what will work on specific pickups. When I see the list of what works on my pickup I'd post it.