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79. Elon to Add Lasers to Cars, ICE leaves India, EVs enter, James Eats Fake KFC Chicken

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Episode notes

EV laggard Toyota claims to be going all in on electric and reducing battery costs by 50%. Big advancement in electric airliner engines, James is disappointed in the latest Tesla FSD beta 10, and an Indian mega factory producing electric two-wheelers will clean up the air in that developing country.

  1. James gets ICE'd at home!
  2. Brian tells grampa stories about paper straws back in the early 70s.
  3. Toyota goes big on EVs or is it greenwashing? Regardless, they say they're investing 13 billion in batteries and will reduce the price by half.
  4. Tesla News including lasers to clean windshields
  5. Ola Electric opens its scooter factory in India, the largest two-wheeled market in the world with 15 million sold annually. 
  6. The Chevy Bolt EV is banned from San Francisco parking lots.

  7. Wright Electric, an American startup company, has got a new 2MW motor that is 2x more energy output dense than other motors.

    It is the largest propulsive aerospace motor in existence – about 2x larger than other propulsive motors in testing. It will be a key for making larger passenger jets.

    The new engine will be incorporated into the propulsion plant of the “Wright 1” passenger plane, though it is also working hard to ensure that its engines can be retrofitted into existing aircraft.

  8. Ford pulls out of India and takes a 2 billion dollar loss and this has everything to do with the electric transition.

  9. Is the new iron battery from Tesla up to cold weather? In spite of one report, we think it just might be.

  10. New York State bans the sale of gas vehicles by 2035

    Kia Niro EV Leads Netherlands To 30% Plug-In Share In August 2021

    Electric vehicles as a percentage of all U.S. car sales: 7.8%: (Q1 2021) one in thirteen 4.8%: (Q1 2020) one in twenty (analysis by Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book)

  11. Planted based meats will disrupt agriculture and help save the planet so James tried fake chicken at KFC. The results will surprise you.
  12. The Lightning Round!

 

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