The What Drives Us podcast recorded live last night and featured special guest Mike Granoff of Better Place, a company "accelerating the transition to sustainable transportation". Mike hopes that his company will help drive us to an oil-free future.

The What Drives Us podcast recorded live this past week. This week's episode discussed the automaker's push for additional federal money for hydrogen research, 5 things to hate about the LEAF, which automaker has the highest loyalty ratings, Prius resale values, and more.

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

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".

This week we talk about the Leaf with owner (and PriusChatter) Dave Laur and then run through the weekly news. Complete show notes can be found over on the What Drives Us website.

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Linda Weidemann, Jason Holder, Tony Schaefer

We spend an hour talking to Toyota Motor Sales USA's Doug Coleman, who is the Prius Product manager. Doug has seen the Prius through almost it's entire history with Toyota and has many fascinating insights in Prius' history as well some awesome sneak peeks into the future of the Prius family <cough>Prius c Plug-In</cough>.

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

It's the First Anniversary of What Drives Us, we're having a party and you are invited. Listen to a live recording (that means we don't edit it) of our first anniversary celebration where we go back and listen to clips from shows that never made it air. Yes, you get to see the ugly underbelly of the What Drives Us machine and possibly learn all too much about your favorite hosts and panelists.

This week we tackle SUV's continued astronomical sales, EV quick chargers, the coast-to-coast Hyundai Sonata Hybrid trip on 2 tanks of gas, Toyota's new Entune system, and more!

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Linda Weidemann, Jason Holder

Episode #: 46

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

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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This week Danny, Russell and the whole crew talk about the outcome of Toyota Sudden Acceleration Claims, Nissan delaying the LEAF, and ask the question "Why won't Chevy reveal Volt mileage numbers?"

Hosts: Danny Cooper, Russell Frost

Panelists: Linda Weidemann, Jason Holder, Tony Schaefer, Jon B.

Episode #: 42