Making the 1st Electric Snowmobile: Taiga Motors
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
While more and more electric cars are hitting the streets, Taiga Motors is about to bring the world’s first commercial electric snowmobiles to the backcountry and ski areas. So we talked with Taiga Motors CEO & co-founder, Sam Bruneau, about taking the electric snowmobile from a college project to an actual business, and the long process of designing electric sleds from the ground up. Then we get into the specifics of charging a Taiga, and how these electric sleds measure up against gas-powered snowmobiles in terms of power, torque, weight, range, and performance in harsh temperatures.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Background: What is Taiga Motors? (3:10)
- From fun college project to actual business (3:30)
- Evolution of the product: from TS1 to TS3 (15:02)
- Power & Instant Torque (20:40)
- Temperature Performance — Cold & Hot (23:35)
- Range (28:19)
- Charging / How long does charging take? (33:17)
- Weight & ‘real-world’ comparisons (37:22)
- Pricing & Options (43:06)
- Production Launch: When & What? (45:30)
- Taiga’s current Pre-Order: Details (47:18)
- Electric Cars: thoughts on the current landscape (53:13)
- What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (55:35)
- Taiga’s next big thing (58:13)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors, and a bunch of other stuff we like. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.3 | While more and more electric cars are hitting the streets, |
| 0:21.4 | Taiga Motors is about to bring the world's first commercial electric snowmobiles |
| 0:26.2 | into ski areas and into the backcountry. |
| 0:30.2 | Tyga has been on my radar for a few years now, |
| 0:33.1 | and here in Crested Butte, my conversations with reviewers and friends |
| 0:36.8 | frequently end up coming back |
| 0:38.7 | around to the topic of electric sleds. I personally am extremely excited about this development. |
| 0:46.4 | Others in our group are probably best described as cautiously optimistic, and then there are a few |
| 0:52.4 | folks who are simply quite skeptical. |
| 0:54.9 | So I figured it was time to go right to the source and try to get as much information and |
| 0:59.6 | as many details as I could from Tyga Motors co-founder and CEO Sam Brunow. |
| 1:06.2 | Plus, Tyga is currently running a pre-order for their TS3 Sleds, so the timing of this conversation |
| 1:13.5 | is even more relevant. |
| 1:15.8 | It's also a really interesting conversation for anyone interested in sleds, of course, |
| 1:20.9 | but more broadly, anyone who is interested in innovation in any area is going to find |
| 1:26.7 | this conversation pretty compelling. |
| 1:29.5 | Sam and I talk about the Taiga backstory, which basically involves three buddies working on a |
| 1:34.6 | fun college project, and what it was that caused those three friends to believe that there was an |
| 1:39.9 | actual business here. Sam also discusses the long process of designing electric sleds from the |
| 1:46.3 | ground up, the specifics of charging a taiga, and how taiga's electric sleds measure up against |
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