My husband works for GM. Today, New hires will receive fourteen dollars and hour...on the line. I can’t believe it.
On the subject of hybrids. My husband said the Chevy Tahoe is safe, and we could buy it. The only problems is when the batteries go bad, they cost a great deal. I think they cost about five grand. We keep our cars because we buy a new one two years after the last one was paid off.
Yikes : five grand !
Greeeeaaaattt, now Abdul and Juan can build the next 50k car they push out the door.
I drive a Prius, bought in Nov. 04 now has 110K miles. The battery still does great. Haven’t had the first problem, other than some people assuming I am a lib. I enjoy straightening them out on that, though.
Yeah, so???? What's your point, that complete greenhorn newbies should start off making $40/hr to do relatively low skill level work???? No wonder the US auto makers are going bankrupt in a hurry. Journeyman electricians, who actually have to go to school and learn a great deal about electric theory, only start out at 40% of journeyman wages when starting their apprenticeships. They receive raises as they accumulate hours in the field and pass the classroom tests. It can take them 4 years to become a journeyman.
new nano lithium technology developed at Stanford U. will allow lithium laptop type batteries to hold about ten times their present charge. This will change the hybrid equational alot. We will be seeing electric cars going 500 mile per charge soon and the electric rates compared to expensive gasoline equates to about 150 miles per gallon. The oil companies have done all they could aligned with the car makers to keep the staus quo in poor mileage combustion engines. But that will be coming to an end soon, thank God.
Are the Tahoes flex fuel or true hybrid?
We looked at a few and Suburbans— just bought a new vehicle. We went with GM, but it was an Escalade.