Green Eyed Motors in Boulder, Colorado TMT Model S Refresh Netherlands looking to ban all gas and diesel car sales by 2025 Ford announces another compliance car to be built in Mexico Dumb Tesla meme also hurts the EV category in general, and it’s dumb. Did I mention it’s dumb? The charging crisis for Tesla […]

This week, Tony, Paul, Patrick, Mark, Evan and Russell take a look at: Post Oil Saudi Arabia March 2016 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales In US Hit All-Time Record High BMW EV’s attempt a record at Formula E Race in Long Beach Faraday Future loves the Model 3 China’s Companies Poised to Take Leap in Developing […]

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.

This week we dig down deep on the 2016 New York Auto Show. We tackle and take apart the new Prius Prime, the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan, the Hyundai Ioniq in all its forms, the Chevy Bolt and talk about Tesla reservations for the Model 3 as well as their proposed valet supercharger system. […]

This week Mark and Russell take on… Not sure if I can make it yet but here’s a good news item Hybrid f-150 http://www.cleanfleetreport.com/news-ford-f-150-hybrid-confirmed-ceo/ The auto loan debt crisis http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/15/investing/subprime-unpaid-auto-loans-oil-crash/index.htmlgas up fifty cents a gallon where I livehttps://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=gas+prices+rise&tbs=qdr:wcredit where it’s duehttp://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102812_faraday-puts-up-75-million-bond-to-reassure-nevada-on-factory?fbfanpage&utm_content=buffer5bd95&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Tony My topic, per Andrew Bell: http://stalbert.ca/city-hall/news/news-releases/city-of-st.-albert-purchases-three-electric-buses russell Leaf owners need to upgrade and pay for it https://transportevolved.com/2016/02/29/telematics-system-in-2011-2015-nissan-leaf-electric-cars-will-need-3g-upgrade-before-next-year-and-you-may-have-to-pay-for-it/?utm_content=buffer2b5b2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Tesla S P100D outed? http://www.autoblog.com/2016/03/07/tesla-model-s-p100d-hacker-twitter/ Still the wrong metric http://www.wired.com/2016/02/electric-car-revolution-now-scheduled-2022/?utm_content=buffer69cd5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Mark First Chevy Volt travels 300,000+ miles http://www.hybridcars.com/chevy-volt-travels-300000th-mile/ www.voltstats.net

This week the triumvirate of Tony Schaefer, Paul Guzyk and Russell Frost dive deep into… Feb 2016 Plugin Electric Sales http://insideevs.com/february-2016-plug-electric-vehicle-sales-report-card/ russell LA opens a little thing called the Expo line http://laist.com/2016/02/25/the_expo_line_will_open_in_santa_mo.php Our good friends at Faraday Future may be even worse off than we thought http://jalopnik.com/mysterious-faraday-future-bleeding-cash-blasted-by-for-1761636432?utm_content=buffer1792a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Tony http://www.faradayfuture.com/news/2016-03-01-faraday-future-earns-first-us-patent.html#prclt-uorG7y1N More on VW http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/03/02/volkswagen-emissions-scandal/81214726/ new battery […]

Lot of news this week with Tony, Paul, Mark, Evan and Russell digging in. Paul my 2MT hack a leaf remotely http://jalopnik.com/how-the-nissan-leaf-can-be-hacked-via-web-browser-from-1761044716 Tony http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/another-oil-crash-is-coming-and-there-may-be-no-recovery Mark GM changes Power Train title to Propulsion Systems and states half its 8600 work force are now involved with alternate and EV propulsion. http://cleantechnica.com/2016/02/21/gm-stirs-fuel-cell-ev-pot-with-new-propulsion-systems-name/?utm_term=0_d002dfc067-ab4a17aab1-332052489&utm_content=buffer30eb4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Evan Tesla contacts Indiana owners to […]

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 […]

This week, Mark, Tony and Russell wrestle to the ground...

Volt powertrain uber alles

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/gm-considers-selling-the-volt-s-powertrain-to-other-brands-104479.html

Bye bye ELR

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102254_cadillac-elr-is-walking-dead-but-may-be-great-rare-used-car

VW plays the villain card

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102114_vw-bites-back-doubts-diesel-whistleblower-says-defeat-software-legal-in-europe?fbfanpage

Maybe an electric Bentley

http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/bentleys-electric-car-plans-revealed-20160207-gmnzhd.html

Prius Superb Owl Commercials

http://www.priusownersgroup.com/2016/02/where-i-show-you-what-twenty-million.html

Autonomous driving gets better

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--nai020516.php