audio and video,One On One,Special Guest,video only
What Drives Us – One On One #3 – GM Talks About The Bolt And Their EV Future
Danny Cooper, Mark Coughlan and Russell Frost have a conversation with Kathy Beslic, National Advertising and Marketing Manager for GM’s Electric Vehicles.
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Special Detroit Auto Show Episode NAIAS 2017 Review
A great hour on this year’s Detroit Auto Show with Mark Coughlan, our man on the scene.
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Special LIVE Episode – Faraday Future Live Reveal at CES
Dr. Evan Fusco, Tony Schaefer, Mark Coughlan and Russell Frost get taken for a ride waiting for the reveal of the FF91, Faraday Future’s “first production” vehicle. Spend two hours with us being disgusted at how silly this presentation and more importantly, how clueless this vehicle is. We paid the price sitting through this so you wouldn’t have to. Watch us suffer and learn what folly really looks like, during this special What Drives Us live episode.
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#188 Special Guest: Ben Rich, Long Distance Electric Motorcyclist
This week Tony, Mark and Russell spend the entire show talking with Ben Rich. Ben rides his electric Zero Motorcycle all over North America and is just about to set out on a new voyage around the US. We discuss his techniques for long distance electric motorcycle travel and ev bikes in general.
You can find Ben on Twitter, @Benswing and on Instragram, @BenSwing.
We also want to shout out to Hollywood Electrics and Zero Motorcycles.
Thanks to Ben and to Mark Coughlan for inviting him.
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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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audio and video,Special Episode
Special LIVE What Drives Us – Tesla Model 3 debut
What a night! In a very special live, almost two hours long What Drives Us episode, Danny Cooper, Russell Frost, Tony Schaefer, Evan Fusco, Mark Coughlan and Chelsea Sexton witness and explain the Tesla Model 3 debut as it unfolded on 3/31/16.
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#174 Nevada Hates The Sun
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…
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audio and video,Special Episode
Special: Mark Coughlan at NAIAS talks with Chevy about the Bolt battery
Our man, Mark, talks to Chevy about the Bolt battery.
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#169 Ice Sculptures at NAIAS
This week we dedicate the entire show to a discussion about the Detroit Auto Show, more formally known as the North American International Auto Show or NAIAS. Detroit is the big one and that’s why we were very happy when one of our own, Mark Coughlan, could attend and give us a view from inside the first press day.
We talk about the Chevy Bolt, Tesla, the Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan, and much more. Join us for a solid hour of new cars, concept cars, things that make sense and things that don’t.
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