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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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#388 Listen to Her
We learn to listen to Georgia and, we discuss vanadium flow batteries, electric buses, Tesla FSD and more.
00:00 Show Start
04:10 Solar has Become the Cheapest Energy Source
13:55 Vanadium Flow Batteries
21:50 This Week in Tesla
29:40 Electric School Buses
45:20 Vote Because your Rights Depend on It
58:00 Shout Outs and Go Home
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#387 Hummers for Humanity
This week we do a deep dive on the debut of the GMC Hummer EV. We go through all the editions and talk about features and pricing. Also, we discuss disposable packing, cover This Week In Tesla and GM’s new battery plant.
00:00 Show Start
05:10 Hummer EV
30:20 This Week in Tesla
37:36 GM Converts old Saturn Factory to EV
1:12:28 We have Convenienced Ourselves to Death
1:03:00 Shout Outs and Go Home
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battery, Convenience, debut, EV, Feat, feature, features, gm, Hummer, LE, Tesla
#386 We Do Not Condone Shocking Wildlife
00:00 Show Start
03:50 Turning Interstates into Solar Farms
13:55 Municipal Microgrids
22:45 This Week in Tesla
28:55 Rivian Releasing R1T and R1S Early 2021
36:00 Can the US be a Green Hydrogen Powerhouse?
44:05 Rivian Delivers 1st Amazon Delivery Van
51:00 Shout Outs and Go Home
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WDU Special: “Happy 20th Birthday, Prius”
We spent almost two hours talking about the history and impact of Prius on the world. Current and former members of the Prius Team from Toyota join us for the first hour. It’s a great look back at one of the biggest impacts in cleaner vehicles. We’re all current and previous Prius owners and Prius enthusiasts. But when asking about previous decisions and future plans, that doesn’t mean we went easy on them.
Supercar article referenced by Tony: https://whatdrives.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SuperCar.pdf
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#385 Tail Gating on the Moon
This week, we talk about the ongoing Nikola saga, solid state batteries in Mercedes buses, This Week in Tesla with new catchy theme music, Plastic eating enzymes, a cheap EV in China, and Toyota’s Lunar Cruiser.
00:00 Show Start 05:15 New Allegations with Nikola Motors
13:00 Mercedes Introduces Solid State Battery Buses
20:05 This Week in Tesla
28:55 Plastic Eating Enzymes
40:30 A $5,000 EV in China 49:25 Toyota’s Mars Rover
54:10 Shout Outs and Go Home
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batteries, battery, bus, china, EV, LE, nikola motors, solid-state, Tesla, Toyota
Transport Treehouse #7
Dean Taylor has over three decades in the electric transportation area with a focus on regulatory and legislative affairs, external engagement and business and strategy development. After retiring from Southern California Edison he’s become an independent consultant for many EV organizations.
Newsom’s Executive Order: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.23.20-EO-N-79-20-Climate.pdf
Dean’s LCFS webinar presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRrZAqaOHk&feature=youtu.be&t=1040
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#384 It’s All Downhill From Here
00:00 Show Start
06:10 Nikola investigated for Fraud
18:00 Cadillac Forces Dealers to Install Chargers
27:45 This Life in Tesla
40:40 California to End ICE New Car Sales
50:35 Ford Announces EV F-150
56:00 Lordstown Shows Interior
1:00:45 VW Reveals ID.4
1:11:50 – Shout Outs and Go Home
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cadillac, California, Car, EV, Ford, fraud, LE, reveal, Tesla, VW
#383 A Big Weight And A Long Shaft
00:00 Show Start
03:58 Heavy Weights and Gravity as Energy Storage
13:30 The $10,000 USD Kandi EV
20:55 Guy Gets Rightfully Scammed
25:10 This Week in Tesla
32:35 Uber Lyft going all-EV?
39:00 The Gig Economy Basically Sucks
49:10 Shoutouts and Go Home
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#382 Nikola and GM Sittin’ in a Tree
Russell buys a used Prius from Paul and explains why he flew 1200 and drove for 17 hours to do it, GM and Nikola decide to make trucks, the Las Vegas CC buys a monorail, Puerto Rico plans out a better future, new ways to make energy and more.
Here’s awesome Google Doc Paul mentioned: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1HflVng6sYIb6Gs4pOKiDGtqU5YJ2-hgdM4pRNaT62gs/htmlview?fbclid=IwAR3Xzeh-U5AVI_bcfcSAqx_PIBAVAoka3CYSkpaLZ1xKs_x2dqy8KU05NZA#
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