Toyota

audio and video,What Drives Us episode

#220 Exploding Puppies

3 Mar , 2017 Video

Russell’s rant

Silicon Valley is full of assholes.

Tony

Honda’s 80 mile Laughing Stock.

http://jalopnik.com/hondas-new-all-electric-car-kind-of-sucks-1792781223

But dealers protect us. From what we have no idea.

https://www.oakbrooktoyota.com/new-toyota-prius-prime-westmont-il

Autonomous racing. Or: if a race car bursts into flames and no one is inside does anyone care?

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/19/self-driving-car-race-ends-with-crash/

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#219 Ejected By VW

23 Feb , 2017 Video

This week’s news…

State legislatures hell bent on being oil industry supported whores

Tesla on track for 5,000 Model 3’s PER WEEK by end of the year

Maybe the telegraph was having a bad day

Dealers are very influential, which should scare the shit out of us

Phillip Barclay shared this one with us, Audi busted for cheating in Hong Kong

Car ban fails to curb air pollution in Mexico City

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#218 Drowning Flowers

16 Feb , 2017 Video

With thanks to 0101Zero for this week’s title. Here’s the links to this week’s stories…

Russell’s rant

Breathing gets more difficult

Repeat after me, there is no such thing as clean diesel

Car companies insist on being evil, all of them

and the original story

Mark

Bolt autonomous driving

Tony

Toyota recalls all 1100 US Mirais for software defect

Smart to stop making gas cars

Paul

Tesla market cap rises to 2/3 of Ford’s value, but does it mean anything?

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#216 Push th’ Little Daisies

2 Feb , 2017 Video

This week’s news…

Russell’s Rant: Toyota is losing prius prime sales, already

Mark

The FIRST Chevy Bolt arrives in Canada

January EV sales numbers, Bolt races but Volt is KING

Paul

Kia Niro

Tesla parts

Tony

Not so clean diesel

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audio and video,One On One

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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#215 Elon Musk’s Tesla Boring Company (in Ludicrous Mode)

26 Jan , 2017 Video

This week’s news and links…

Russell

G4 Prius fading

Paul

It’s hard to believe anything Mitsubishi says

Tony

Because your EV is only as green as the grid that charges it.

Russell

Elon loves trump’s secretary of state

Mark

Elon Musk says he will ‘seriously’ start digging a tunnel ‘in a month or so’ to address traffic problems in LA

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One on One #1 – We Welcome Our Hydrogen Fuel Cell Robot Masters

20 Jan , 2017 Video

Debuting a brand new show, One On One, where two people wrestle over a recent issue for an in-depth discussion. Today, Danny Cooper and Russell Frost talk about the real future of hydrogen, Toyota, Fuel Cell vehicles and also a little on factory automation and the future of jobs making things.

We cite these links during today’s One On One:

Toyota part of consortium spending 10.7B Euros on hydrogen

Another take on the press release above

Toyota chairman says hydrogen needs more time

Turns out, the rumors of hydrogen’s death may have been premature

Toyota claims to have an EV on the market by 2020