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#195 Tony Reviews The 2016 RAV4 Hybrid

28 Jul , 2016 Video

Tony gets a feel for the big chair at What Drives Us and…

Tony

RAV4 hybrid drive review

Mark

EV Charging Corridors Proposed for National Highways

Pencils down for Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bolt readies for production

Tony

Carbon footprint of new cars versus used

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2016, Bolt, Charging, Chevrolet, Chevy, chevy bolt, EV, featured, highways, hybrid, LE, model 3, review, Tesla

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#194 Tony Takeover

21 Jul , 2016 Video

Tony

My topic compliments of Philip Barclay

Mark
Bolt EV production confirmed for October

Spark EV to remain & Volt upgrades and face lift for 2019

Russell
Even if we had autopilot, who really wants it?

Unintended consequences and static law in an evolving world

CR calls for Tesla to disable autopilot

The failure of FCA, dumping Dart to make more Jeeps

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2016, 2017, articles, autopilot, Bolt, Chevrolet, Chevy, chevy bolt, chevy spark, chevy volt, Chrysler, Diesel, emissions, EV, featured, fiat, Jeep, law, LE, recall, scandal, self-driving, spark, Tesla, volkswagen, Volt, VW, zero

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#190 Introducing The Rolls Royce Ipecac

23 Jun , 2016 Video

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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#184 Your Friendly Robot Receptionist

12 May , 2016 Video

Aside from our usual Faraday Future tagging, this week we cover…

Russell
Me talking about buying an electric motorcycle. Or trying to anyway.

Zero Motorcycles

Hap’s Cycles

Tony
I want to talk hyper loop.

Mark
New Nissan xStorage (like a Tesla Powerwall)

Mark
Here we go, owner claiming Tesla crashed on its own!

Russell
I once knew a guy who was sure that the best idea for a restaurant ever, in the history of food service, was a Dracula themed restaurant where the menus are shaped liked bats. Yeah, that was the whole idea. He was sure it was a winner. Faraday Future thinks our future is robots. Lots and lots of robots.

Russell
Predicting person makes big prediction, Chevy Bolt sales of 30K to 80K during first year says KBB analyst

Tony
Could we have a new, viable EV player?

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#183 It’s OK, The Monkey’s Driving

5 May , 2016 Video

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

More numbers

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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#179 New York Auto Show Review

31 Mar , 2016 Video

This week we dig down deep on the 2016 New York Auto Show. We tackle and take apart the new Prius Prime, the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan, the Hyundai Ioniq in all its forms, the Chevy Bolt and talk about Tesla reservations for the Model 3 as well as their proposed valet supercharger system. All that and more, tonight…

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#177 And You Get A Free Bag Of Weed

10 Mar , 2016 Video

Tony

My topic, per Andrew Bell:
http://stalbert.ca/city-hall/news/news-releases/city-of-st.-albert-purchases-three-electric-buses

russell
Leaf owners need to upgrade and pay for it
https://transportevolved.com/2016/02/29/telematics-system-in-2011-2015-nissan-leaf-electric-cars-will-need-3g-upgrade-before-next-year-and-you-may-have-to-pay-for-it/?utm_content=buffer2b5b2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Tesla S P100D outed?
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/07/tesla-model-s-p100d-hacker-twitter/

Still the wrong metric
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/electric-car-revolution-now-scheduled-2022/?utm_content=buffer69cd5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Mark
First Chevy Volt travels 300,000+ miles
http://www.hybridcars.com/chevy-volt-travels-300000th-mile/

www.voltstats.net

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#174 Nevada Hates The Sun

18 Feb , 2016 Video

This week we speculate how the Nevada legislature can so stupid, visit the Chicago Auto Show *and* the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto and much more. Patrick Connor, Mark Coughlan, Paul Guzyk, Tony Schaefer and Russell Frost dive deep into world of crazy lawmakers and cars.

And funny enough, as I was posting this show this morning, this tweet from actor, Mark Ruffalo showed up…