What Drives Us

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

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”?

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

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

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.

 

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.

Russell’s rant

I still hate the financial press, a lot.

Tony

If we just avoid going political

Mark

Workhorse W-15 with 80 EV miles of range gets an order for 500 units.

Tony

Panasonic has a new solar roof for the Prime

Paul

Hyundai has gone stupid

Russell’s happy news

Storage project in California

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/

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

Danny Cooper, Mark Coughlan and Russell Frost have a conversation with Kathy Beslic, National Advertising and Marketing Manager for GM’s Electric Vehicles.