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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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One View Of The Faraday Future Reveal
I wanted to write this while my impressions were still fresh because the one thing I felt that I never explicitly said during our special episode was…anger. It made me mad. I felt used. Faraday Future, from here on, FF, used me for a sucker and I had to sit there and take it. Why? Well, let’s talk about it.
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#203 Special Guest Edward Niedermeyer – Talking Tesla
Daily Kanban co-founder and noted car author, Edward Niedermeyer joins us for a spirited hour of discussion on Tesla. In addition to the regular panel you see every week, our friend, Chelsea Sexton graces us with a visit to add her voice. Do not miss this show.
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#201 Afternoon Delight
Danny and Russell take on the show as a duo this week. Here’s what they talked about:
MB says fuck pedestrians, we’re protecting our customers
From Tony
From Mark
Bolt begins oozing out
Chevy Bolt Allocations are given to some California and Oregon dealers.
And yet…
http://insideevs.com/dealer-reveals-additional-chevrolet-bolt-pricing-details/
“The next step in the process is to begin taking orders for the 2017 Bolt. Rumors suggest that could happen as early as this week, but only in the states of California and Oregon for now.
There are plans to go nationwide, but that’s not expected to happen until 2017.”
From Paul
Does Tesla even have the legal ability to make all the cars it’s promised to?
And yet…
The Force is strong with this one
“Clearly, it is kinda ridiculous now to say that an automaker with 1,000-plus workers is working on nothing at all. So, let’s drop that vaporware status and ready ourselves for some big reveals coming from Faraday soon –“
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#192 Plug-In Chesterfield
Or “CRZya-Later”
With special thanks to Tepperman’s
Russell
Tesla driver dies while using “autopilot”. Maybe this is the end of cute Tesla names.
“Autopilot” stunts
Paul
All time EV Sales record for June 2016
Russell
VW “buyback” varies
Tony
Tonight, we’ll see if I can fill in to revive “Danny’s Honda Rant”. RIP
Mark
New GM autonomous driving research center
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#190 Introducing The Rolls Royce Ipecac
This week Russell, Paul, Mark and Patrick discuss…
The first electric touring motorcycle.
What has to be the ugliest concept vehicle ever unveiled, a self driving Rolls Royce.
Why Nissan Leaf sales have slowed so much.
Nissan confirms 200 mile range Leaf coming.
Tesla talking about acquiring Solar City.
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#183 It’s OK, The Monkey’s Driving
This week our panel take on:
You Say Autonomous Cars Will Encourage More People to have sex in cars Like that’s a bad thing
Volvo pisses on Tesla’s autopilot functionality
H/T Cooper: RAV4 Hybrid has made the Prius V irrelevant and redundant…already
Salient numbers:
RAV4 Hybrid sales for April 2016-3,807. YTD 2015-8,741 2016-4,970
Prius v sales for April 2015-1,322 and for April 2015-2,462
Bye bye Prius v
Mark Coughlan talks about how Awesome the new 2G Chevy Volt is (and how awesome In-N-Out is).
The Chevy Jolt may be a dumb name but it’s a great idea, even if it is bogus
Japan has more charging spots than gas stations?
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#182 Those Are Some Big Tanks
This week Evan, Paul and Russell go over…
A new autonomous driving coalition begins operations
Hybrid and EV owners are buying switching to gas cars more than they used to says Edmunds
Mitsubishi has been cheating the EPA MPG tests for 25 years
VW and the EPA finally at a settlement but it’s not complete…yet
Honda to expand Clarity line to include EV and PHEV
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#173 Do NOT Burn VW Dealerships
This week, Mark, Tony and Russell wrestle to the ground…
Volt powertrain uber alles
Bye bye ELR
VW plays the villain card
Maybe an electric Bentley
http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/bentleys-electric-car-plans-revealed-20160207-gmnzhd.html
Prius Superb Owl Commercials
http://www.priusownersgroup.com/2016/02/where-i-show-you-what-twenty-million.html
Autonomous driving gets better
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc–nai020516.php
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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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