• Motor Mouth with David Booth

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Motor Mouth with David Booth

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  • For three decades award-winning automotive journalist David Booth has informed, inspired and at times outraged readers with his Motor Mouth column in Canada’s National Post newspaper and on Driving.ca Now he’s bringing his profound expertise and pointed opinions to the podcast world with the Motor Mouth with David Booth podcast. Don’t miss his hot takes on the big stories in the automotive world, from electrification to autonomous vehicles, from manufacturing to mining, and from supercars to subcompacts.
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Episodes
  • S02EP06 - EV messaging, PHEV’s future and the new Porsche Taycan

    S02EP06 - EV messaging, PHEV’s future and the new Porsche Taycan
    Feb 7 2024
    This week David Booth tackles some electric vehicle content, beginning with Motor Mouth channeling his inner Marshall McLuhan to explain that the problem with public skepticism about EVs isn’t so much the medium but the messaging. Then we’ll switch gears, or at least powertrains, to find out why David has big praise, and high hopes, for the latest and coming-soon wave of plug-in hybrid models. PHEVs have been making headlines recently, with General Motors announcing they are getting back into the PHEV business, and other automakers doubling down on their efforts to bring all-new Plug-in hybrids to market. Possibly at the cost of new EVs. And finally David will report on a recent trip to Southern California where he became one of the first automotive journalist in the world to drive the all-new Porsche Tie-con. And just as with his experience with the first-gen high-performance all electric sport sedan, he came away very impressed, particularly with some interesting advances in battery pre-conditioning temperatures.
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    55 mins
  • S02EP05 - Fearless EV predictions for 2024

    S02EP05 - Fearless EV predictions for 2024
    Jan 10 2024
    We’re just a couple of weeks into 2024, so David Booth offers up some bold predictions for the year ahead on the hottest and most polarizing topic in automotive now and into the foreseeable future: electric vehicles.  He glimpses into this crystal ball to opine if Chinese EVs will show up in Canada this year, if we’ll see a sub-$30k all-electric in the next 12 months, what a Donald Trump presidential win might mean for Canada’s burgeoning battery manufacturing industry, and what emerging battery technologies will make the greatest leap in 2024.  And it wouldn’t be a Motor Mouth prediction list without a word or two about Tesla, in this case if the much-hyped and polarizing Cybertruck will be a success story over the next 12 months.
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    41 mins
  • S02EP04 - An EV mandate for Canada, and Pierre Poilievre

    S02EP04 - An EV mandate for Canada, and Pierre Poilievre
    Dec 6 2023
    If you caught last week’s Driving to the Future panel, you’ll know there is much uncertainty surrounding Canada’s self-imposed 2035 deadline that mandates the discontinuation of new gasoline vehicles for sale. Other countries are following suit, but the hurdles to get there are numerous and, according to some panelists, insurmountable by that date.  David Booth was part of the panel, and following the discussion decided to come up with his own version of the legislation: call it the Motor Mouth Mandate. He offered up his plan in a column last week that was crafted as an open letter to federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who if the polls are to be believed, could very well have this issue come across his desk at 24 Sussex Drive.
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    34 mins
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