#336 Hydrogen Double Take
- Florida Power & Light committed to 1,000 new EV chargershttps://insideevs.com/news/373803/florida-1000-charging-points/
- From Yahoo! Finance: Solar and Wind are now Cheaper than Coal in Most of the World:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-wind-now-cheaper-coal-210000650.html
- Truly a new take or just flogging an old trope one more time?https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydrogen-boss-explains-how-fuel-cells-can-achieve-corolla-costs
- This is going to be fun: The 2nd Gen Mirai will be out in 2020. They’re actually making a 2nd Gen:https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/26/toyota-mirai-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car-second-generation/
- And speaking of Hydrogen:Engineers in Alberta think the’ve found a way for the oilseeds to produce clean fuel:https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-hydrogen-innovation-1.5290297
- Lane tape might be a cheap fix to help AV developmenthttps://www.on-sitemag.com/roads/marking-the-way-to-driverless-cars-ontarios-407-etr-3m-team-up-to-test-novel-road-tape/1003965295/
- Between 1990-2016, despite a sizable 35% increase in the overall fuel efficiency of our vehicle fleet, national emissions rose by 21%. Why? Because those improvements were accompanied by a 50% increase in driving.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-Forum-Electric-cars-won-t-save-us-but-a-14462534.php - Some people love car dealers (service)
https://www.autonews.com/fixed-ops-journal/survey-3-out-4-vehicle-owners-prefer-dealership-service
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#228 Carma
Huge thanks to Tony who did almost all the news this week…
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#213 In Colorado You Get $5000 Back And A Car Filled With Weed
This week’s news and links…
Mark
NAIAS wrap up and slideshow (You can watch or listen to the entire 2017 Detroit Auto Show review here)
Tony
Indiana wants to charge EV owners
russell
AND
russell
Evan
VW’s Oliver Schmidt gets nabbed by the FBI
russell
The looming battle, owners say; I have a right to fuck up my car; one manufacturer says, not so much
Evan
New high power charging stations
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#212 Drove My Tesla Model S To Pick Up My Chevy Bolt
This week’s news stories…
russell
tony
Mark
Chevy Bolt 579 – Chevy Volt 3691 Dec Sales
russell
russell
mark
Chrysler Portal Electric Minivan Concept at CES
russell
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#211 Worst Year Ever
This week’s news…
patrick
Top EV News of 2016 list better
tony
Drivers in the US complain about a few MPG but in EU ratings are as much as 50% too high.
mark (wearing his evan mask)
Autopilot predicts and avoids crash 2 cars ahead
russell
More charging stations for socal
russell
mark
Solar power continues to drop in price, $0.01 kWh possible in 2025
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#210 Stripped Volkswagens
This week’s news…
Paul
Expanding the charging network
Mark
Montreal installs first all electric bus route in North America
Russell
Uber needs to be slapped, again and always
Tony
VW owners are (talking about) stripping their cars for parts before returning them to VW for buyback
Russell
Tesla to start charging for charging
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#209 New Car Fart Smell
Mark
Russell
Lots of caveats and backpedaling but yes, someday, car ownership will not be as it is now
Speaking of which, Yuko car sharing
Tony
Paul
Ward’s ten best powertrains for 2016 (it’s a “2017” list)
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#208 It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
Russell
Honoring Chelsea Sexton on the anniversary of the EV1 release, for her amazing work in promoting EVs. And, she’s going to be featured on a new Nat Geo special on TV.
Mark
EPA pushes to accelerate EV adoption before Tump’s term begins
Tony
Toyota announces a more efficient powertrain
Russell
Send us your Russian Outlanders
Ford, please delete your account
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#207 Weed Banking
Mark
Bolt to lose $8-9k per car before ZEV Credits, to make $8-9k per car after credits
Audi, BMW, Daimler and Ford team up to deploy fast chargers in Europe, 400 to start
Tony
Paul
Russell
Hydrogen. It’s really, really dead for passenger cars and that’s a good thing
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#206 Sabotage!
Russell
The Drive loves and hates the Bolt
Tony
Mark
Supercharger sabotaged in Barstow CA
Russell
Paul
hmmm, haven’t we all been saying this for years??
Russell
It’s new but because it’s VW, I won’t believe anything they say about it
Russell
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