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Melissa Cartagena

Melissa Cartagena

Creativity At Scale, Boomerang, and Crystal Flip Flops At the Beach

JD Power’s Home Charging Satisfaction Survey

JD Power’s Home Charging Satisfaction Survey

The score also dropped based on the total absence of gas station snacks in most American garages. 🥤🌭

Mississippi Bill Guides EV Sales

Mississippi Bill Guides EV Sales

It will be interesting to see how this works. Will startups jump to working with franchise dealers or just put their stores near state borders? What’s the first thing you see on the way out of a dry county? Ok, yes, a firework store, but after that…

VW and Audi Think Affordable

VW and Audi Think Affordable

Hot Tip - To save a little on the production cost, may we suggest adding more cup holders? The way we see it, each time you "add" a cupholder, you remove material, thus saying micro-fractions of a penny per vehicle!

Happy St. Paddy’s: Enjoy Some Green Energy News

Happy St. Paddy’s: Enjoy Some Green Energy News

Companies are moving quickly to advance green energy production, but as we already know – it’s not easy being green.

Tesla’s Need for Speed

Tesla’s Need for Speed

Tesla’s Model S Plaid is faster than earlier claims, the Supercharger V4 is nearing deployment, and FSD is upgraded and coming back despite the recalls, legal actions, and urging of the NHTSA.

 T-Mobile To Buy Mint Mobile

T-Mobile To Buy Mint Mobile

If my cellphone plan goes up even one dollar I am leaving a bad review for all the DeadPool movies on Rotten Tomatoes. -Chris

GPT-4 is Out and GM is In

GPT-4 is Out and GM is In

ChatGPT gets an upgrade, and GM gets ChatGPT.

The McCarthy Auto Group Joins Forces with JCCC

The McCarthy Auto Group Joins Forces with JCCC

Is there a better way to support your industry than by helping to advance the next generation of leaders and techs? If there is one, we can’t think of it.

Technology Parade: TikTok, Google, and Apple

Technology Parade: TikTok, Google, and Apple

TikTok gets educational, AI gets its own email, and Apple gets virtual.

US Fuels Its Alternative Refueling Infrastructure

US Fuels Its Alternative Refueling Infrastructure

The grant doesn’t mention any funds for charging station-based lemonade stand entrepreneurs. Even if they have a really cool name like “Shockingly Good Lemonade” or something like that…

 Profits and Production: Porsche, Volkwagen, and Honda

Profits and Production: Porsche, Volkwagen, and Honda

Porche is growing profits, Volkswagen is growing investments, and Honda is growing EV production.

MDCS Group Meets Up and Makes Wishes Come True

MDCS Group Meets Up and Makes Wishes Come True

How cool is it that an online community became a real-world community doing real-world good? The internet is a crazy place.

Hollywood's Most Extravagant Swag Bag

Hollywood's Most Extravagant Swag Bag

No wonder they always says it’s an honor just to be nominated.

Rivian and Amazon, Buick’s Huge Screen, and Toyota Dissects a Tesla

Rivian and Amazon, Buick’s Huge Screen, and Toyota Dissects a Tesla

Rivian wants to sell more vans than Amazon wants to buy (Or maybe it’s vice versa), Buick added a car to a big TV (or maybe it;s vice versa), and Toyota says Tesla EVs are art on the inside (we are sure this one doesn’t work vice versa).

SVB: What Is A Bank Collapse?

SVB: What Is A Bank Collapse?

Dang, don’t you hate when you have more theoretical money than real money. That’s how they get ya!

Shoe Game Strong

Shoe Game Strong

Shoes are a lot like cars — sometimes they’re weird and sometimes they’re cool, but they always take us where we want to go.

Mitsubishi’s 2030s, VinFast’s Optimistic Delay, and Another Nail In AM Radio’s Coffin?

Mitsubishi’s 2030s, VinFast’s Optimistic Delay, and Another Nail In AM Radio’s Coffin?

Mitsubishi is going electric but not giving up on gas, VinFast isn’t Giving Up On America, and is America ready to give up on AM radios?

New Car National Average Price Up 9%

New Car National Average Price Up 9%

Averages are weird, as long as one car sells for over MSRP the average price will be higher than the sticker. Maybe not 28% higher (looking at you, Genesis), but higher anyway.

Brian Ortega

Brian Ortega

Making Content, Human Element, and Staying As Weird As You Need To Be

GM’s Volunteers, CATL’s Q4, and Porsche’s Campout

GM’s Volunteers, CATL’s Q4, and Porsche’s Campout

GM is asking for volunteers, CATL is asking if anybody wants any of these extra batteries, and Porsche is asking if y’all wanna go touch some grass.

Music in Tech

Music in Tech

Spotify is getting visual, Apple is going old-school, and Stationhead is gaining interest.

Electrification Timeline Confidence Surveyed

Electrification Timeline Confidence Surveyed

What do you think about the 2030, 2035, 2040 timelines? Are they realistic? And if not, what would be a more realistic target?

Going Where Kids Are

Going Where Kids Are

Thank you for all you are doing, and who you are being in your community, Mike Terry Auto Group!

The Phantom Syntopia: A Delight for the Eyes and the Nose

The Phantom Syntopia: A Delight for the Eyes and the Nose

ASOTU Signature Scents – “New Car Smell.” - AMJ “Rich mahogany and leather-bound books.” -Kristi (and Ron Burgundy) “Somewhere between summer breeze, Wingstop, a long Saturday morning run, and kids after school snacks.” -Kyle “Rain. But, not the good kind. The ‘oh no, I left my windows down!’ kind.” -Chris “Leather and a mix of new car smell.” -Myles