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What Drives Us – One on One #2 – Death Of The Prius, Tesla, Volt And Others To Blame?

28 Jan , 2017 Video

This week Danny Cooper and Russell Frost take apart claims that the Toyota Prius is on its last legs and why that might be happening. In the process we dig into Tesla, Chevy’s Bolt and Volt as well as other EVs.

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#214 A Darker Possible Future

19 Jan , 2017 Video

This week’s news…

russell

Finally some sense…which, probably won’t last past the 20th

russell

Tonight we lose viewers in Oklahoma

Tony

China halts over 100 coal power projects

russell

The joke that continues to be called faraday future

Mark

Is a Lithium-Ion battery shortage coming?

Paul

Prius Prime Being Dumped On By Some Toyota Dealers

Mark

Chevy’s month by moth rollout plan for the Bolt

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#212 Drove My Tesla Model S To Pick Up My Chevy Bolt

5 Jan , 2017 Video

This week’s news stories…

russell

postmortem for faraday future

tony

2016 plug-in sales figures

Mark

Chevy Bolt 579 – Chevy Volt 3691 Dec Sales

russell

I honestly don’t give a shit about ford’s pr, it’s time for them to put up products and tell their ev trash talking ceo to stfu

russell

woz is a nice guy and all but really, why should I care what car he drives? I wasn’t all agog when it was a tesla

mark

Chrysler Portal Electric Minivan Concept at CES

russell

And so it begins

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#209 New Car Fart Smell

15 Dec , 2016 Video

Mark

First Bolt deliveries

Russell

Why the Verge is useless

Lots of caveats and backpedaling but yes, someday, car ownership will not be as it is now

Speaking of which, Yuko car sharing

I’m sick to fucking death of teaser campaigns and (not so) clever marketing, dial back the static, educate me

Tony

Neat Tesla trick

Paul

Ward’s ten best powertrains for 2016 (it’s a “2017” list)

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#208 It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

8 Dec , 2016 Video

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.

Bolt battery

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

1 Dec , 2016 Video

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

Tesla doesn’t mind the GAAP

Super-Cap-Battery

Paul

Volvo PHEV review

Russell

Hydrogen. It’s really, really dead for passenger cars and that’s a good thing

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#204 Let’s Talk About Cars

10 Nov , 2016 Video

Paul

Tired of waiting for your auto mfg to link with Android Auto? You will soon be able to get it free of charge, without having to change anything in your present car!

Mark

Toyota is planning long-range battery-powered electric cars for 2020 as its hydrogen fuel cells cars are failing

Russell

No, it won’t. Prius inversion and how losing the edge in public perception might hurt Toyota more than they ever thought and no, it won’t hurt Model 3 sales

You bastards owe me an apology

Just a few bad apples

Front company takes another financial hit

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#201 Afternoon Delight

12 Oct , 2016 Video

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

Leaf upgrade

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

Nice attempt at educating the public on clean vehicles although the linked videos are on the same youtube channel as their Super Duty truck videos. 🙁

Does Tesla even have the legal ability to make all the cars it’s promised to?

And yet…

Tesla sales still strong

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 –“