audio and video,What Drives Us episode
#224 Chevrolet Bolt Review And This Week’s News
This week’s news and reviews…
Mark –
Mark goes into detail on his week driving the Chevy Bolt EV
Paul –
Russell –
Uber news round-up: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Android Auto whips ass on Apple Car Play
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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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#204 Let’s Talk About Cars
Paul
Mark
Russell
You bastards owe me an apology
Front company takes another financial hit
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#159 Crowdsourcing the Panel
First and foremost, big thanks to Tom Stangl and Bruce Nowrocki for being on the show this week, our first ever, crowdsourced panelists.
As usual, thanks as well to all our regular, hard working panelists, Patrick, Paul, Mark and our special panelists tackle…
Porsche picks Apple CarPlay over Android Auto
http://www.ibtimes.com/porsche-picks-apple-carplay-over-android-auto-due-privacy-concerns-google-data-2128769
Toyota wants the Thai people to pay for EV infrastructure (among other things) before they’ll expand operations there
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/719308/toyota-seeks-ev-infrastructure-support
Gorgeous Honda EV-Cub concept that, sadly, we’ll probably never see
http://insideevs.com/quick-look-honda-ev-cub-concept-photos/
The Google autonomous car
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/googles-cute-cars-and-the-ugly-end-of-driving#.ytNlogxAM
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#154 Russell Rants About Tesla & Airbnb
This week Tony, Patrick and Russell discuss a new Hyundai hybrid and EV, Gm building an EV plant in China and long discussion about what type of tech we want in our vehicles.
What types of tech do we want in our vehicles? (ignore the link baity headline)
http://fortune.com/2015/08/25/apple-carplay-android-report/
Another “Prius fighter” but forgive the link bait, this might be real
http://wot.motortrend.com/1508_spied_ev_variant_of_hyundai_prius_fighter_spills_its_all_electric_guts.html
GM to build half billion EV factory in China
http://www.hybridcars.com/general-motors-begins-building-470-million-ev-factory-in-china/
Two minutes news…
Hawaii moves away from fossil fuels
http://www.thenation.com/article/hawaiis-governor-dumps-oil-and-gas-in-favor-of-100-percent-renewables/
Tesla and Airbnb
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/22/tesla-airbnb-partner-up/
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#151 Attack of the Tesla Clones
This week Danny, Russell, Patrick and Paul take on…
The dumbest possible law we could make…
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2015/07/29/us-will-finalize-long-delayed-quiet-cars-rules/30828651/?utm_content=buffer8ead1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Please for the love of all that is holy, please, stop…Link bait of the decade…
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=apple+bmw&safe=off&tbm=nws
Chinese continue their creativity explosion making more direct copies of other country’s products…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1099332_youxia-electric-tesla-clone-from-china-so-bad-it-makes-us-laugh
We’re all driving bugs now…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/03/us-toyota-sales-idUSKCN0Q805F20150803
Infotainment…
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/07/toyota-will-not-add-android-auto-in-2016-models.html
Volt 2.0
http://insideevs.com/2016-chevrolet-volt-rated-at-53-miles-electric-range-106-mpge-42-mpg-on-gas/
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#145 Golfing in Dubai
This week, Russell Tony and Paul take on…
Consumer Reports looks at CarPlay and AndroidAuto…
http://www.carscoops.com/2015/06/consumer-reports-reviews-android-auto.html
Kind of like “unlimited data” cell phones, unlimited charging may, in fact, be limited…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098831_teslas-contradictory-messages-is-supercharging-unlimited-or-not
Toyota says they’re going to make more fuel cell membranes…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098818_toyota-fuel-cell-megafactory-matches-tesla-gigafactory-in-impact
On one hand, fixing things is good, on the other, the need to have things fixed sends another message…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098807_fiat-500e-electric-car-software-issue-leads-to-fourth-recall
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android, carplay, Charging, consumer reports, EV, featured, fiat, fuel cell, LE, review, Tesla, Toyota
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#143 Is He Still Alive?
Danny calls in sick but Russell bravely soldiers on with Evan Fusco, Patrick Connor and Paul Guzyk at his side. The topics? Oh we got topics…
Another nail in the coffin for franchise dealers, well, not really but we wish…
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/06/costco-grows-to-become-a-leading-car-seller/index.htm
ADJUNCT story, Chevy dealer learns that by actually not pissing off everyone who asks, you can sell a lot of Volts…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098599_high-volume-chevy-volt-dealer-how-to-sell-successfully-lessons-learned
A follow up or continuation of a topic from last week, how branded telematics shove the manufacturer to the side…
http://www.businessinsider.com/raymond-james-apple-google-enemies-auto-industry-carplay-android-2015-6?utm_source=googleplaynewsstand&utm_medium=referral
EVs and resale value
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098663_used-electric-cars-which-hold-their-value-best-which-is-worst
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