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#401 Attack of the Raccoon Sand Worms
Timeline:
00:00 Intros
03:20 NHTSA to take on battery safety
08:15 AQMD suspends guidelines to accommodate COVID cremations
13:35 You can buy Hasselhoff’s personal K.I.T.T. car
16:10 This Week in Tesla
25:50 Standardize Autonomy Terminology
34:45 SpaceX is now a natural gas drilling company
38:15 SPACs Everywhere!
44:20 Biden to convert federal fleet to made-in-America EVs
50:15 Shout-outs and Go Home
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#400 20 Times Twenty
Timeline:
00:00 Show Start
01:30 Michael Manring
09:15 Teslaquilla
14:20 Intros
24:00 It’s Been 400 Shows!
35:05 An Apple Car?
55:10 This Week in Tesla (and GM?)
1:07:20 Will Tesla Wreckognize E-Mode
1:13:25 Biden’s Transportation Stimulus Package
1:20:23 Shout-outs and Go Home
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#391 A Big Wallet And A Smile
00:00 Intro 02:45 Amazon Eyeing Rural Postal Service 13:15 Virgin Hyperloop Completes First Test 24:50 Meet the Tata Nexon EV 32:00 This Week in Tesla 38:00 Xcel Utility Increases EV Spend (and bills consumers for the tab) 44:55 Quebec to Ban New ICE Cars in 2035 50:15 Shout Outs and Go Home
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#390 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Tiny Costly Red Machinie
Expanding Equity In Electric Mobility
The Kandi is ready to sell.
This Week In Tesla
Chicago’s MetraRail introduces dedicated Bike Cars
Convert an original Mini to EV
Mustang Falls short with EPA Ratings Allegedly
Ford Invests in Kansas City Plant
They can’t ditch the proprietary InfoTainment systems fast enough
The doesn’t have a battery. The car _is_ the battery
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#389 The Mourning After
00:00 Show Start
05:30 New Recycling Factory in NE Indiana
22:00 Ford to Make all-EV e-Transit
30:25 This Week in Tesla
40:00 Massachusetts Votes for Right to Repair
45:25 Shout Outs and Go Home
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#356 – Three Fifty Something
1) The Union of Concerned Scientists have completed their study and concluded that ride sharing (such as Uber and Lyft) introduce almost 70% more pollutants than the rides they are replacing. Not only the rides they are replacing but taking people off mass transit.
2) A study of vehicles interacting with pedestrians at a crosswalk showed that there is a direct correlation between how aggressive the vehicle is towards the pedestrians and how much that vehicle costs. So yeah, rich drivers are bigger jerks and the data backs it up!
3) The coronavirus is impacting the supply lines of vehicle manufacturing along with other appliance manufacturing. Couple this with Ford’s continuously declining stock price and market share and we’re starting to wonder whether Ford can avoid a bankruptcy or total liquidation.
4) Continuing our discussion about Tesla’s Buffalo, NY, factory, the state of New York is looking to sell some manufacturing equipment it had purchased for Tesla but was never used.
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WDU 1on1 #8 Matthew Klippenstein
Fuel cell engineer and sustainable energy expert Matthew Klippenstein comes on One on One to discuss the Nikola merger and what it means for Nikola, fuel cell and BEV semi trucks. A little aside on GM’s new announcements but mostly, why a diversified energy sector is a stronger one.
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#354 Ed Neidermeyer, Tesla, and Autonomy
1) Special Guest Edward Neidermeyer joins the panel to discuss his recent appearance on Bloomberg TV regarding Tesla. We also discuss autonomy (of course, in relation to Tesla).
2) Mark gives his report on attending the Toronto Auto Show.
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#353 AWD and the Chicago Auto Show
1) Russell has just returned from a Toyota event in which he was driving their brand new AWD systems they are introducing in their sedans.
2) Tony and Jon B spent two days at the Chicago Auto Show and provide their impressions of what they saw.
3) Jon B provides speculative insights as to what the upcoming RAV4 Prime might reveal about possible changes coming to the Prius Prime.
4) Jaguar is having to temporarily stop production of the I-Pace due to a battery shortage.
5) Why is it extremely possible that ICE vehicles are not going away anytime soon?
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#352 EVs Everywhere!
1) Russell teases that he’s been invited to a Toyota AWD event. More details in a future show.
2) Simon Wecker, a guy in Berlin, Germany, pulled 90 cell phones – all with Google Maps active – through empty streets. Why? Because Google interpreted all that data to mean that the streets were congested with 90 cars, all barely moving along. The result was empty streets thanks to Google routing everyone around Wecker and his wagon of phones.
3) Hyundai is doubling their Kona EV production be adding a second factory. This is in response to the Kona’s massive demand, which Hyundai is not able to keep up with.
4) The new US Building Codes will call for new homes in the US to be manufactured “EV Ready”.
5) Rivian and Amazon are designing and building a custom EV Amazon delivery van. It’s kind of cute.
6) We’re relatively excited to see that there are EV trucks coming to market. Americans love their trucks so if we want to win them over we’re going to need electric trucks.
7) Toyota is introducing new technology to safe stupid people from themselves. This new software will detect when someone mashes the accelerator rather than the brake and make sure the car doesn’t surge forward. Because, let’s face it, unexpected acceleration was really human error all along.
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