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What Drives Us 71 - Pudding Drive-By

Submitted by Danny on July 20, 2011 - 11:33am.

The What Drives Us podcast recorded live last week and covered everything from Volt vs LEAF sales to pudding. Yes, pudding. It's a trap!

We're now recording the show LIVE each week at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific if you would like to come on and join in the fun of a live chat room while we talk about all things with green cars. Visit us each week at http://whatdrives.us/live

Vote for Prius vs Volt in Consumer Report's Moto Madness Round 1

Submitted by Danny on March 18, 2011 - 3:37pm.

Consumer Reports has gotten into the competitve spirit of March Madness and has created Moto Madness. Moto Madness pits cars of similar aspects against one another until there is one champion to rule the automotive world. This is your chance to show that the Prius is way better than the Volt, so go on over to http://www.crdashboard.org and vote for the Prius and for your favorites from the other categories.

Just in case you need some help remembering who to vote for, refer to the image above.

http://www.crdashboard.org/

What Drives Us 54 "Chelsea Sexton and the Volt redux"

Submitted by Danny on March 7, 2011 - 1:27pm.

The What Drives Us podcast recorded live this past week and featured guest panelist Chelsea Sexton, who came on to talk about her continued experience with her Chevy Volt. This week's episode also discussed Fisker's plan to sell 15,000 Karma EVs annually, Honda's hybrid "road map" and their continued dependence on the IMA system, and Hyundai's decision to delay the Sonata hybrid in order to add a noisemaker "feature".

What Drives Us Episode 45 "The Volt Experience and 2010 in Review"

Submitted by Danny on December 20, 2010 - 1:11pm.

This week we use our final episode of the year to grill Chelsea Sexton on her experience with the Chevy Volt, then we spend the 2nd half of the episode going over our favorite stories from 2010. What Drives Us will return in 2011, we'll see you then! Thanks for a great first year of podcasts!

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Tony Schaefer, Linda Weidemann, Jason Holder, Chelsea Sexton

Episode #: 45

What Drives Us Episode 43 "Harmony Wins!!!"

Submitted by Danny on December 7, 2010 - 11:29am.

This week Danny & Russell rope Jason Holder into joining the podcast to talk about Solar Panels, the Volt and LEAF EPA labels, Tesla, and the hotly debated Prius Harmony ads winning awards.

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Jason Holder"man"

Episode #: 43

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What Drives Us - Episode 40 "The Twilight Years of Hybrids?"

Submitted by Danny on November 5, 2010 - 3:12pm.

This week Danny & Russell are joined by Linda and Jason to discuss whether we are entering the twilight period for hybrids, GM announcing another concept Volt, the Prius PLUS performance package, and more!

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Linda Weidemann, Jason Holder

Episode #: 40

What Drives Us - Episode 38 "Danny Drives a CR-Z"

Submitted by Danny on October 26, 2010 - 1:13pm.

Danny and Russell are joined by Tony Schaefer and Jason Holder. Danny discusses his mutli-day test of the new Honda CR-Z hybrid, the 2012 Ford Focus, Volt MPG in charge sustain mode, the EPA and E15, Brammo's new Enertia plus and much, much more.

Host: Russell Frost, Danny Cooper

Panelists: Tony Schaefer, Jason Holder

Episode #: 38

Time:1:27:53

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What Drives Us - Episode 35 "The 'Wasn't that obvious?' Edition"

Submitted by Danny on October 5, 2010 - 10:02am.

Abandoned by co-host Danny Cooper and regular panelist Tony Schaefer, Russell had to go another continent on another hemisphere to fill the gap. This week we are very glad to have Dr. Evan Fusco back on the show, live from Australia. Regular Panelist, Linda Weidemann braves some nasty, unnamed illness to appear on the show as well. A great show with a wide range of topics mostly centered around the, "Wasn't that obvious?" theme.

Host: Russell Frost

Panelists: Linda Weidemann, Dr. Evan Fusco

What Drives Us - Episode 32 "K9A - K9 Assist Hypermiling"

Submitted by Danny on September 10, 2010 - 3:10pm.

This week Danny and Russell are joined by Tony Schaefer and Jason Holder. The group take apart the new Fisker Karma commercial and wonder why the Karma itself actually is, discuss Plug-In America's Paul Scott take a job at Santa Monica Nissan to sell Leafs, Volt transparency, the new liquid cooled Lion battery for the Ford Focus EV, a HUGE rebate on the Tesla Roadster in Japan and two eerily similar Toyota hybrids NOT meant for the US. At least for now.

Hosts: Russell Frost and Danny Cooper

Panelists: Tony Schaefer, Jason Holder

What Drives Us - Episode 30 "Revenge of the Civic Drivers"

Submitted by Danny on August 26, 2010 - 12:17pm.

Danny Cooper takes a week off and we welcome new guest panelist, Jason Holder to talk about his experience with the Honda Civic Hybrid (2nd generation) and the Honda CR-Z. Jason speaks in depth about the firmware update, Honda performance and his driving impressions of the CR-Z. Regular panelists Linda Weidemann and Tony Schaefer join in to discuss news of the week including Volt MPG, Leaf production number rumors, dead flowers, reveal the mysteries behind plasmacluster and much more.

Host: Russell Frost (Danny will be back next week)

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