Our road tests this week look at two sides of the compact utility coin. Co-Host Chris Teague took the wheel of the battery-electric Toyota BZ4X in frigid Maine. Across the country in much better weather, Host Jack Nerad put the Jeep Compass through its paces. We’ll report the results of this quasi-faceoff.

In the news this week, Tesla says it has a “moral obligation” to keep installing and improving its Autopilot driver-assistance technology. This despite the fact the tech has been identified as a contributing factor in a number of fatal crashes. We’ll have the details a little later in this segment.

One global automaker that has taken a go-slow stance on electric vehicles has found that to be a winning strategy in the United States. But now it might be seeking to change its tune. We’ll tell you which automaker that is and what their plans are coming up.

In the True Crime Files Automotive Edition, the founder of an electric truck manufacturer is facing eleven years in prison for fraud. We’ll have more on this story in this all-new episode.

This week our special guest is Ivan Mihov, a Vice President of AutoNation and the key executive in the company’s most recent initiative, AutoNation Mobility. Have you ever wanted to lease a car for just six months? Well, AutoNation Mobility now offers the ability to do just that. We’ll get the details for you on all this a little later.

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