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What Drives Us Podcast - #349 Whose Data is it, Anyway?
In this week’s show: 1) The current NTSB requirements for black box data is woefully short of all the data required to determine the actual situation of a modern-day crash. Manufacturers are not required to hand over additional data. Should owners be able to pull the data themselves to turn over to the police? Should […]
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What Drives Us Podcast - #191 The Road From Here - What Drives Us
Russell First impressions driving the 4G prius. and, more prius So is Toyota really taking steps towards more EVs... and then Tony Toyota recall that hits hybrid owners Mark LA uses power saved from LED street lights to power electric cars. Have posted story on WDU FB as well Paul VW settled? Mostly, yes. Tony Looks like Fusco is heading back to the gas station after all
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What Drives Us Podcast - #328 The Wind Beneath my Kilt
1) The HD LiveWire approaches launch – https://youtu.be/rfitxBa7UPg?t=6m40s https://www.rideapart.com/articles/359677/2020-harley-davidson-livewire-ride-review/ 2) The wind doesn’t always blow. . . https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/scotland-has-produced-enough-wind-energy-to-power-its-homes-twice-over.html 3) . . . and the sun doesn’t always shine. . . Solar power system that works at night a renewable energy game-changer 4) . . . which is why we have batteries. Energy storage market booms, […]
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What Drives Us Podcast - #148 Super Mega Hyper Hybrid - What Drives Us
This week Russell works the topics below with Patrick Connor, Paul Guzyk and Tony Schaefer… Subaru sport hybrid comes to Japan http://www.topspeed.com/cars/subaru/2016-subaru-impreza-sport-hybrid-ar170047.html Bugatti Chiron will be a hybrid http://blog.caranddriver.com/electric-bug-bugatti-chiron-hypercar-to-get-hybrid-powertrain/ Chevy Bolt http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/chevys-200-mile-electric-car.html 4th Gen Prius debut http://priuschat.com/threads/4th-generation-coming-2015.117745/page-246#post-2202352 Terrible reporting, stupid people or both? https://thenewswheel.com/indianapolis-orders-employees-not-to-charge-hybrid-vehicles-at-home/ The LATimes says the Prius is DeadBeforeArrival, more or less http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-new-prius-20150626-story.html […]
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Georgetown Ky Toyota Plant
Source: Toyota Tells Camry Plant Employees to Cut Costs — Now | TheDetroitBureau.com
Employees at Toyota’s largest plant in North America were just delivered a message from Japan: cut costs or lose jobs.I've taken two tours of this plant and it is 'Disneyland for Engineers.' I hope they get the problem(s) resolved.
The company’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, produces the Camry, which is the best-selling sedan in the U.S., was told in a video from the company’s plant manager that currently it is cheaper for Toyota to build the Camry in Japan and ship it to Kentucky than it is to simply build it in Kentucky.
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Need a Green Ride? Manufacturer Lease Rates
Charge!!!: EV Lease Deals - Averages and sorted/filtered tables
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If you don't have a lot of cash, and leading works? Might be the way to go.
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Opel to electrify all model lines by 2024, speeding PSA transition
Opel to electrify all model lines by 2024, speeding PSA transition - Autoblog
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What Drives Us Podcast - #345: Cheaper To Go Green Than Brown
We wrap up the Tesla lawsuit, Kacey talks about his hardware upgrade from Tesla for FSD, new energy storage methods and whether or not Starlink satellites are a curse to astronomers. All that and more! CBC Videos: https://youtu.be/inhyl3lMslA https://youtu.be/9IngBHuwBoM https://youtube/P63ZKVOC8vM https://youtu.be/sUriPl497YE
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Short time on sales lots
It is good to see how quickly used plugin cars sit on the sales lots.
Source: 6 Used Plug-In Electric Cars That Spend The Least Days On Dealer Lots
Source2: Fastest-Selling Used Cars in 2017
Analyzing over 2.1 million 1- to 3-year old used cars sold from January through August 2017, iSeeCars.com found that overall, the average used car takes 33.4 days to sell. However, the top 10 fastest-selling cars take only 70 to 80 percent of that amount of time, ranging from 22.2 to 26.1 days. Six of the top ten are alternative-fuel cars, with three electric cars and three plug-in hybrids. The remaining four gasoline vehicles consist of two sports cars and two luxury vehicles. “Vehicles that move off dealer lots faster must have the right mix of demand and supply that may be driven by factors like price,... -
What Drives Us Podcast - #387 Hummers for Humanity
This week we do a deep dive on the debut of the GMC Hummer EV. We go through all the editions and talk about features and pricing. Also, we discuss disposable packing, cover This Week In Tesla and GM’s new battery plant. 00:00 Show Start 05:10 Hummer EV 30:20 This Week in Tesla 37:36 GM […]
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Electric Large Vehicle Fleet News
Organizations like DHL, UPS and even Zion National Park are electrifying large vehicle fleets. New York is transitioning to emissions-free fleets and 12 cities worldwide have committed to buying only electric buses by 2025.
Electric buses will be 40 percent of the market by 2022, thanks to major financial, environmental and operational benefits. They have much lower operating costs and can already be cheaper, on the basis of total cost of ownership, than conventional buses today.
Here's a quick roundup of potential game changers in trucks and buses - but there are many more recent announcements internationally as well!
- UPS To Deploy First Electric Truck To Rival Cost Of Conventional Fuel Vehicles. Source: The Verge
- The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Thursday unveiled five all-electric buses. Source: ChargePoint
- The Los Angeles Board of Airport...
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What Drives Us Podcast - #169 Ice Sculptures at NAIAS - What Drives Us
This week we dedicate the entire show to a discussion about the Detroit Auto Show, more formally known as the North American International Auto Show or NAIAS. Detroit is the big one and that's why we were very happy when one of our own, Mark Coughlan, could attend and give us a view from inside the first press day. We talk about the Chevy Bolt, Tesla, the Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan, and much more. Join us for a solid hour of new cars, concept cars, things that make sense and things that don't.
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