What Drives Us

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?

This week’s show starts with a fiery debate between Evan and Russell over Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Come for the excitement and stick around for the excellent news coverage this week.

Russell Rant/s…

You can’t have it both ways, Elon Musk is normalizing trumps craziness

Thanks Igor

For posting info on the prime availability in NY state via twitter

And so begins the walkback of shame

Fucking Uber

Mark

VW tells us how they will spend the $2B Dieselgate Fine

11 facts about the Bolt

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

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.

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

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

This week’s news…

russell

Finally some sense…which, probably won’t last past the 20th

russell

Tonight we lose viewers in Oklahoma

Tony

China halts over 100 coal power projects

russell

The joke that continues to be called faraday future 

Mark

Is a Lithium-Ion battery shortage coming?

Paul

Prius Prime Being Dumped On By Some Toyota Dealers

 Mark

Chevy’s month by moth rollout plan for the Bolt

This week’s news and links… Mark NAIAS wrap up and slideshow (You can watch or listen to the entire 2017 Detroit Auto Show review here) Tony Indiana wants to charge EV owners and this russell I call bullshit on autonomy AND Autonomous cars won’t work russell VW’s ID Buzz is bullshit Evan VW’s Oliver Schmidt […]

A great hour on this year’s Detroit Auto Show with Mark Coughlan, our man on the scene.

This week’s news stories… russell postmortem for faraday future tony 2016 plug-in sales figures Mark Chevy Bolt 579 – Chevy Volt 3691 Dec Sales russell I honestly don’t give a shit about ford’s pr, it’s time for them to put up products and tell their ev trash talking ceo to stfu russell woz is a […]