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What Drives Us Podcast - #212 Drove My Tesla Model S To Pick Up My Chevy Bolt - What Drives Us
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 […]
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Record Hybrid Sales Lead 4.2% Overall Sales Growth for Toyota Canada Inc. in 2016
Record Hybrid Sales Lead 4.2% Overall Sales Growth for Toyota Canada Inc. in 2016 | Toyota Canada
(Doesn't a "more than doubled" imply that it's over a 100% increase? not a 54.2% increase?)
Vehicle 2016 MTD 2015 MTD % Change 2016 YTD 2015 YTD % Change 1 Prius c 139 78 78.2% 3136 3029 3.5% 2 Prius Liftback 282 98 187.8% 2855 1624 75.8% 3 Prius v 133 185 -28.1% 2105 2497 -15.7%... -
What Drives Us Podcast - Special LIVE Episode – Faraday Future Live Reveal at CES - What...
Dr. Evan Fusco, Tony Schaefer, Mark Coughlan and Russell Frost get taken for a ride waiting for the reveal of the FF91, Faraday Future’s “first production” vehicle. Spend two hours with us being disgusted at how silly this presentation and more importantly, how clueless this vehicle is. We paid the price sitting through this so […]
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Tesla Stock falls on production delays.
Tesla Deliveries Miss Forecasts Again on Production Delays - Bloomberg
"The Palo Alto, California-based maker of electric cars and energy-storage products delivered about 22,200 vehicles in the final three months of last year, according to a statement Tuesday. The total trailed the automaker’s projection for 25,000 units and brought its full-year tally to 76,230 vehicles, below its forecast for at least 80,000 units."
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Hybrid Bet in Europe
This article could have been put in:
- VW diesel disaster thread
- Prius Prime 'Midwest' thread
In the first full year since Volkswagen’s emissions scandal threw the German giant into disarray, Toyota is on track for roughly a 40 percent jump in annual sales of gasoline-electric vehicles in Europe. Hybrids are set to account for more than half of Toyota’s deliveries for the region by the end of the decade, according to Karl Schlicht, executive vice president of the carmaker’s European division.
SOB! Is Toyota shipping our Prius Primes to the EU?
I suspect not because we have seen EU voices praising their IONIQ, not the Prius Prime. This is a result that pleases me too because it implies we're not losing Prius... -
Ford Says a Fully Electric SUV with 300 Miles of Range + Hybrid Mustang/F-150 Are Coming by 2020
Announced today: Hybrid Ford Mustang, F-150, Small 300-Plus Mile EV SUV are Announced | Automobile Magazine
"invest $700 million in its Flat Rock, Michigan, factory to build a 300-plus mile small electric sport/utility by 2020, a hybrid-powered fully autonomous vehicle by 2021, and a hybrid Mustang in 2020, CEO Mark Fields announced Tuesday morning.
Ford also plans a hybrid F-150 pickup truck"
Full press release with bit more info: Ford Adding Electrified F-150, Mustang, Transit by 2020 in Major EV Push; Expanded U.S. Plant to Add 700 Jobs to Make EVs, Autonomous Cars | Ford Media Center
Interesting take: “While some others seem to be focused on marketing claims and numbers, we’re focused on providing customers even... -
What Drives Us Podcast - #210 Stripped Volkswagens - What Drives Us
This week’s news… Paul Expanding the charging network Mark Montreal installs first all electric bus route in North America Russell Uber needs to be slapped, again and always and this one Tony VW owners are (talking about) stripping their cars for parts before returning them to VW for buyback Russell Tesla to start charging for […]
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What Drives Us Podcast - #211 Worst Year Ever - What Drives Us
This week’s news… patrick Top EV News of 2016 list better tony Drivers in the US complain about a few MPG but in EU ratings are as much as 50% too high. mark (wearing his evan mask) Autopilot predicts and avoids crash 2 cars ahead russell More charging stations for socal russell the real question […]
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U.S. refiners face severe labor shortage for deferred maintenance
Source: U.S. refiners face severe labor shortage for deferred maintenance| Reuters
After years of running flat out, U.S. Gulf Coast refiners are lining up repairs to plants in 2017 - but facing a severe labor shortage that could delay work, drive up costs and raise accident risks.
Fuel producers such as Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC.N) and Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) have delayed routine work in the past 24 months amid high margins. Those margins collapsed this year in a global fuel supply glut, providing an incentive for refiners to undertake the shutdowns necessary for maintenance.
But refiners are now competing for pipe fitters and ironworkers with a host of billion-dollar energy projects, including Cheniere... -
EV's on the market, where are the ads?
Electric cars are on the market, so where are all the ads?
Thoughts on this? Those of you living in California or CARB states may see more of them, but in the rest of the nation, there are hardly any commercials for plug-ins.
Hopefully this changes in the near future as more plug-ins show up on the roads, along with charging infrastructure in more places such as workplace and apartment parking lots. -
Toyota unlocks its engine technology, could sell to rivals
http://europe.autonews.com/article/20161216/ANE/161219900?template=mobile02
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TOKYO -- Long guarded about what was beneath the hood of its pioneering Prius cars, Toyota Motor plans to open up its powertrain technology to rivals, hoping this will boost sales and speed up the industry's shift to lower-emissions vehicles.
Announcing last week it would expand its gasoline hybrid technology development, Toyota said it would consider selling complete powertrain modules - engines, transmissions and other drive components - to its competitors." -
Toyota C-HR Plug In Coming Soon to America?
Hello,
Does anyone have info. regarding availability in North America?
2018 Toyota C-HR | An Unexpected Next Step
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Toyota moves engineering center to TX
Source: Toyota Closing Kentucky Engineering Center | TheDetroitBureau.com
The company informed Kentucky officials of its plans to close its Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing facility in Erlanger, Kentucky, which is just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, by the end of 2017.
The move will affect 648 employees, the company notes, with layoffs starting the first week of January and running through the end of 2018. The company’s technical headquarters, the Erlanger facility opened in 1996.
Moving the engineers away from the Camry manufacturing plant is not something I would encourage. I've noticed in GE and Boeing that the further manufacturing and engineering are apart, there is tendency for small problems to become bigger, longer lasting, and more expensive to fix. Ultimately the product suffers but there is a strange, divergent feedback mechanism.
As the... -
What Drives Us Podcast - #209 New Car Fart Smell - What Drives Us
Mark First Bolt deliveries Russell Why the Verge is useless Lots of caveats and backpedaling but yes, someday, car ownership will not be as it is now Speaking of which, Yuko car sharing I’m sick to smart death of teaser campaigns and (not so) clever marketing, dial back the static, educate me Tony Neat Tesla […]
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Bolt the cannibal and used hybrid/plug-in generator
Source: 1st Chevy Bolt Deliveries Have Begun In California! | CleanTechnica
Autoblog provides more: “The 3 new Bolt owners are a retiree from Fremont who’d previously driven a Chevrolet Spark EV; a software developer in Castro Valley who ditched his BMW i3; and a real estate broker from Portola Valley who turned in his Toyota Prius.”
I'm impressed ... NOT!
Source: First Chevrolet Bolts delivered in Northern California - Autoblog
Which part of bovine fecal matter applies?
Earlier this year, Kelley Blue Book analyst Karl Brauer said Chevy would move between 30,000 and 80,000 Bolts during its first full year of sales.
Bob Wilson
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