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#229 EV Marketing: Tesla’s Project Loveday and Matthew Teske

4 May , 2017 Video

This week we spend the entire show discussing EV marketing and what works and what doesn’t. We look at Matthew Teske’s Project Loveday video, a commercial for Tesla. Learn more about Matthew at http://www.teskedesign.com

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#228 Carma

27 Apr , 2017 Video

Huge thanks to Tony who did almost all the news this week…

russell’s rant, there is no apple car

Mark

The 3500 Chevy Bolt EVs in the US travel past 4.5M miles

Here’s a preview of the upcoming 2018 Leaf

Tony

Heavy Hype from Fisker

And an interesting article about how Fisker hired a company to post in comments sections

Paul

Apple Maps adds EV Charging Stations (in the IK for now)

Russell

This makes sense I suppose, Model 3 configurations may be limited initially

Tony

Short on details but perhaps promising, glass batteries

Russell

Uber’s lawlessness isn’t new

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#227 Elon, Get Your Thumb Out Of Trump’s Ass

20 Apr , 2017 Video

Patrick Connor’s feature; Russell’s Rant:

Build it and they will park

Russell (via patrick)

Model S driver survives epic crash

Even the obvious, sensible stuff must die

EVs can go fast

Tesla loves trucks

Tony

Electricity is cheaper than gas throughout the US

Evan (via mark)

Chevy unveils a new Plugin Concept at China Autoshow, the FNR-X

Someone (via patrick)

Model s price change

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#226 The Farm And The Furious

13 Apr , 2017 Video

Thanks to Lee Moon for the title this week.

Russell

Autonomy is not the right goal

Mark

US surpasses 1% share of market in EVs for first time!

Paul

Hybrid cop car

Russell

Elio

Tony

EVs are the future

We touch on the Farmers hacking their tractors as an indicator of what we discussed many shows ago and the “Right to Fix”?

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#225

7 Apr , 2017 Video

Russell’s rant

Why do all car dealers suck so bad? Why is buying a car so painful?

Why print mags are dead

Mark

March EV sales go up

Tony

Charging the Bolt

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#224 Chevrolet Bolt Review And This Week’s News

30 Mar , 2017 Video

This week’s news and reviews…

Mark –

Mark goes into detail on his week driving the Chevy Bolt EV

Paul –

Tesla finds some new funding

Russell –

Uber news round-up: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Android Auto whips ass on Apple Car Play

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#223 The Official Tesla Linkbait Show

23 Mar , 2017 Video

Not really.

Russell rants about linkbait featuring Tesla and cites more than a dozen examples of stories that exist simply for a click.

He also talks about the Prius Prime door.

Patrick talked about why the Tesla Model 3 probably isn’t shipping in July and why that is just fine.

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#222 Hacking The Tesla Fan

15 Mar , 2017 Video

A very special episode with three fantastic guests. We started out digging into how fans and enthusiasts affect cars and car companies and went everywhere along the way. Special guests, Alex Roy, Edward Niedermeyer and Matthew Teske.