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What Drives Us Podcast - What Drives Us – One on One #2 – Death Of The Prius, Tesla, Volt...
This week Danny Cooper and Russell Frost take apart claims that the Toyota Prius is on its last legs and why that might be happening. In the process we dig into Tesla, Chevy’s Bolt and Volt as well as other EVs.
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News Items: EV Battery Shortage? Hybrid reliability is good.
From the Washington Hybrid Report:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2017/01/13/HybridReportJan1520157.pdf
EV Batts
"There is now concern in the auto manufacturer world that there will be a shortage of electric car batteries as demand takes off, Automotive News Europe (Gibbs, January 2, 2017) reports. Just a year ago, Volkswagen had decided that batteries were over-supplied. Now, they are scrambling for batteries as they gear up to sell more electric cars. Those who follow the auto industry point out that a year ago, Volkswagen was building “clean” diesel cars instead of electric, but since the diesel emissions reporting scandal, Volkswagen is now depending on electric cars to fill its clean car requirements. But Volkswagen is not alone. Most European car makers are ramping up production of electric cars. Tesla does not plan to worry about battery shortages. It has... -
What Drives Us Podcast - #215 Elon Musk’s Tesla Boring Company (in Ludicrous Mode) - What...
This week’s news and links… Russell G4 Prius fading Paul It’s hard to believe anything Mitsubishi says Tony Because your EV is only as green as the grid that charges it. Russell Elon loves trump’s secretary of state Mark Elon Musk says he will ‘seriously’ start digging a tunnel ‘in a month or so’ to […]
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A Crack In The Lexus EV Wall?
Lexus thinking about plugging in?
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Reports of Prius death have been greatly exaggerated
Source: http://wardsauto.com/industry/toyota-down-sales-prius-upside-rav4-hybrid
DETROIT – Toyota is calling for 75,000 sales of its Prius liftback variant in 2017, 23,866 fewer than it sold in 2016.
The reason? Weak market demand for hybrid cars.
“We’re going to follow the market, but we think we have the supply-and-demand (equation) pretty much dialed in,” Bob Carter, senior vice president-automotive operations for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. tells WardsAuto in an interview here.
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Toyota sold 98,866 Prius liftbacks last year in the U.S., down 12.9%. The 5-year-old Prius V wagon and Prius C compact hatchback fell 47.4% and 46.7%, respectively, to 14,840 and 20,452, while sales of the Prius plug-in hybrid were down 40.8% to 2,474.
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Any news on update/refresh of new Prius?
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Honda Reveals Plans For Prius-Fighter, Possible Ridgeline, Pilot Hybrids
Honda Reveals Plans for Prius-Fighter, Possible Ridgeline, Pilot Hybrids - Motor Trend
The unofficial Twitter poll that the author conducted shows that people do want a Pilot or a Ridgeline Hybrid more than an Odyssey Hybrid. -
Plug-in sales growth
First be careful as percentages can be misleading: AD #2028 – BMW Hurting for SUVs, Tesla Cleared in Autopilot Investigation, 2017 Auto Industry Outlook – Autoline Daily
EV’S, PLUG-INS GROW THE FASTEST
Amazingly, despite cheap gasoline prices all last year, the hottest segment in the U.S. market was for electric cars and plug-ins. That segment grew 30% and over 150,000 were sold, with 70,000 being plug-ins and 80,000 electric. Plug-in sales grew the most, largely thanks to some new entrants and by strong growth from the Chevy Volt, the Ford Fusion Energi and BMW X5e. Most EVs are only sold in a limited number of states. They’re not available nationwide. So there’s a lot of upside potential. But before you get too excited they still represent less than 0.8% of the total market.
The problem with percentages and small quantities is it can give the impression of greater growth... -
Prius Challenge Looking For Hyper-Milers
Hey all! Toyota and TRI are putting together an event on March 3rd, at the Sonoma Raceway, specifically for our highly data-minded Prius drivers - and I knew that was something a few of you would be interested in.
It's a competition, in teams of five, to see who can get the highest possible gas mileage out of a 2017 Prius. There will. E a number of leading technical speakers (no announcements yet!), and e'll be providing access to a lot of data analytics about the car's performance for you to play with.
Space is limited, so if you or anyone you know is interested, we encourage you to apply ASAP!
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What Drives Us Podcast - One on One #1 – We Welcome Our Hydrogen Fuel Cell Robot Masters -...
Debuting a brand new show, One On One, where two people wrestle over a recent issue for an in-depth discussion. Today, Danny Cooper and Russell Frost talk about the real future of hydrogen, Toyota, Fuel Cell vehicles and also a little on factory automation and the future of jobs making things. We cite these links […]
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What Drives Us Podcast - #214 A Darker Possible Future - What Drives Us
This week’s news… russell Finally some sense…which, probably won’t last past the 20th russell Tonight we lose viewers in Oklahoma Tony China halts over 100 coal power projects russell The joke that continues to be called faraday future Mark Is a Lithium-Ion battery shortage coming? Paul Prius Prime Being Dumped On By Some Toyota Dealers […]
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EV road tax fees
Source: Yearly “EV fees” to replace lost gas tax revenue are less reasonable than they seem; Indiana the latest to scapegoat EVs | Electrek
Indiana recently became the latest state to suggest the idea of an “EV tax.” As we’ve covered before, several states have implemented additional yearly fees for electric vehicles. Even California floated the idea at one point.
At first glance, it seems almost reasonable – revenue from gas taxes is falling because cars across the board are using less (or no) gas; infrastructure spending is sorely needed but is only getting more costly thus squeezing budgets even more; more efficient cars,... -
2009 Prius more reliable than 2010+?
this is not exactly news (except it's news to me), but i didn't know where else to put it.
Toyota Prius Reliability - Dashboard Light -
A hybrid Jeep Wrangler could be in the cards for new generation
Apparently, FCA is considering a Hybrid Wrangler & a pick-up variant. I dod not see any mention of a Hybrid Pick-up variant, though.
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What Drives Us Podcast - #213 In Colorado You Get $5000 Back And A Car Filled With Weed -...
This week’s news and links… Mark NAIAS wrap up and slideshow (You can watch or listen to the entire 2017 Detroit Auto Show review here) Tony Indiana wants to charge EV owners and this russell I call bullshit on autonomy AND Autonomous cars won’t work russell VW’s ID Buzz is bullshit Evan VW’s Oliver Schmidt […]
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