Speaker 1: Stave talk proper now on O two one double full
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Speaker 1: Ernest page of all Things motoring and change cars dot
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Speaker 1: about his latest driving experiences, but more importantly, to help
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Speaker 1: six oh five six seven. Nice to chat to you again, Ernest,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Nice to chat to you.
Speaker 2: To prevent because I'm only on your once a week,
Speaker 2: I feel like saying welcome back to you, but I'm
Speaker 2: sure you've had many.
Speaker 3: Hours on the radio already.
Speaker 4: But that's glad again, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And I've been driving nothing at all for the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, which has been a real pleasure. Host got
Speaker 1: back into my car to find a flat battery and
Speaker 1: I'd kind of forgotten how to do it.
Speaker 2: No anyway, Yeah, but isn't it a pleasure to sometimes
Speaker 2: just not drive?
Speaker 4: For a little while it is. Indeed, it was absolutely lovely.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, all I can say is thank you
Speaker 1: very much the Battery Mobile service. It came out to
Speaker 1: help me yesterday when I found my car would not start,
Speaker 1: and glad to be back on the roads again. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to be driving in South Africa because, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, Ernest, after watching the way they drive on
Speaker 1: the streets of Semenac and Indonesia, I have reconfigured my
Speaker 1: estimation of just how bad our driving is in South Africa.
Speaker 4: I thought it was as bad as it could case,
Speaker 4: and I was wrong.
Speaker 2: No, indeed, I think some of our driving out its
Speaker 2: aren't as bad as reported. I Ever, I think we've
Speaker 2: got problems on our connecting roads, which is the issue.
Speaker 2: And those are high speed connecting roads, and when you
Speaker 2: go to countries like India Indonesia, oftentimes the and reach
Speaker 2: speed is lower. Yes, so they don't have those big
Speaker 2: accidents with a taxi full of people. But it's a
Speaker 2: bit sketchy out there, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It was quite terrifying. I was very very glad that
Speaker 1: I wasn't behind the wheel of anything. I've got to
Speaker 1: be saying, And I was also very grateful to rear
Speaker 1: lies how lucky we are to have as many traffic
Speaker 1: robots and the like to help manage the situation.
Speaker 4: The driver behavior aside.
Speaker 1: Anyways, it was quite an exercise in relative behavior on
Speaker 1: the road, shall we say, Artist, you've of course been
Speaker 1: driving impeccably within the speed limit and obeying all the
Speaker 1: rules of the road. What have you been driving the
Speaker 1: last week or so?
Speaker 2: Well, Look, I haven't always been driving the speed limit.
Speaker 2: In fact, I did two hundred and two kilometers an
Speaker 2: hour yesterday.
Speaker 3: On the race track.
Speaker 2: Okay, but when I'm on the roads, and just before
Speaker 2: I get to the cars i've been driving.
Speaker 3: The Volvo C forty is one of them.
Speaker 2: And then also my colleague Jason Williams, who's working with
Speaker 2: me on multiple projects, he drove the BWT Crust. He's
Speaker 2: reporting on that first. I also just want to touch
Speaker 2: on your battery situation. Yep. I've just sold my my
Speaker 2: BMW project card that I've been working.
Speaker 3: On and either similar issue.
Speaker 2: And I don't even you've seen these USB battery booster backs.
Speaker 2: No by the online Yeah you can, I think online
Speaker 2: for what a thousand, thousand and five hundred and just
Speaker 2: Google boo booster, battery booster, compact battery booster.
Speaker 3: And what it is.
Speaker 2: It's the size of a charging bank, but it's got
Speaker 2: enough juice to actually start the car. And I've used
Speaker 2: this thing multiple times in multiple applications. I've got a company,
Speaker 2: a few companies that I work with, and a few
Speaker 2: friends that I know that actually have those available for
Speaker 2: exactly that situation.
Speaker 3: So Garne, of the days of jumper leads.
Speaker 2: Gone, in the days of having to need another car
Speaker 2: to restart your car, These.
Speaker 3: Little portable battery backs actually do work.
Speaker 2: And it's something I think all of us should have
Speaker 2: available somewhere in the house or somewhere in the network.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating. I didn't know such a thing existed, and
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you told us. Where do you can
Speaker 1: you buy them at any battery center or where do
Speaker 1: you find them?
Speaker 2: Well, I take a Lot's got them. I'm looking online.
Speaker 2: I take a Lot's got one for seven ninety nine.
Speaker 2: In fact, Macro's got one. Macro is the Gizoo one.
Speaker 2: I've used their products before specifically, so that's a very
Speaker 2: reputable one.
Speaker 3: And I know you wouldn't think that would work.
Speaker 2: You would not think it would work, but I've started
Speaker 2: multiple cars with him. There's one year for one five,
Speaker 2: my friend my neighbor's got the one for two to four.
Speaker 2: Auto Supply Do sells that one, and it's compact. You
Speaker 2: get older in the problem of your hand, and like
Speaker 2: I said, I've seen it work many, many, many times
Speaker 2: to start your average car on your compact, hatchback or sedan.
Speaker 4: Good to know.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for tipping us off on wonder
Speaker 1: If anybody else listening has already purchased and used one
Speaker 1: and wants to give us any feedback on what it's
Speaker 1: been like for you. You welcome to send through a
Speaker 1: voice note or text to seven two five six seven
Speaker 1: one five six seven if you'd like to comment. Right
Speaker 1: before we go to any more motoring talk, there is
Speaker 1: a motoring related voice note that has come in from Dane.
Speaker 1: I believe we've been hearing reports of an oil spill
Speaker 1: on the N one and Dane wants to just update
Speaker 1: us on what he's experienced out there. As an update
Speaker 1: for our listeners. Can we take a listen to that
Speaker 1: voice note?
Speaker 5: Please op South Africa Cape Talk and the listeners guys
Speaker 5: just drove past that pig oil spill that happened on
Speaker 5: the end one just after the yep da yaha. I
Speaker 5: see the guys are busy cleaning that up now, But
Speaker 5: I am actually in that industry.
Speaker 6: Involved in the industrial sales. We do all the street
Speaker 6: sweepers and the municipal trucks and things. The guys are
Speaker 6: really going to have to ensure that that is cleaned correctly.
Speaker 6: That is a massive amount of oil that fell, and
Speaker 6: if it's going to rain this evening and it hasn't
Speaker 6: been done correctly, that's going to cause incidents through the
Speaker 6: evening possibly even tomorrow morning heating but into work.
Speaker 1: Sure, Okay, that's serious stuff, Dan, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for the update.
Speaker 2: That's very good insight from them, because when it comes
Speaker 2: to oil, it actually gets absorbed into the tarmac. So
Speaker 2: when it's dried out and it's been disposed of and
Speaker 2: cleaned up by the chemicals that they use or the
Speaker 2: powders that they used to absorb but then cleaned up,
Speaker 2: it might feel perfectly fine on a dry surface, but
Speaker 2: as Dan said, once it rains, it actually lifts up
Speaker 2: that oil again. And then any racing guy will tell
Speaker 2: you that the day that it rains is that the
Speaker 2: first day that it drains is the day that the
Speaker 2: fact that is the most slippy, and I'm sure we
Speaker 2: all felt that on the roads with old diesels, falls.
Speaker 3: And things like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they're going to have to make sure that's
Speaker 2: cleaned up properly and be very cautious when going through
Speaker 2: their folks because heating oil, it's such a concerting thing.
Speaker 2: I've seen the best guys panic in these situations simply
Speaker 2: because the cargoes from control to absolutely no control in
Speaker 2: a split second. So it's it's an extreme hazardous situation
Speaker 2: to arrive upon.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks so much for that additional word of warning.
Speaker 1: Please just be extra causus if you are driving in
Speaker 1: that area of the N one after yep, tyaka, Okay,
Speaker 1: So back to what you were driving. You said the
Speaker 1: Volvo C forty, which is the electric suv if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Correct, And I've spent some time with a few of
Speaker 2: the Volvo products, excuse me, and a few electric products,
Speaker 2: and the Volvo has been one of the best sellers
Speaker 2: in South Africa with electric cars.
Speaker 3: They've realigned themselves and some know, some people might not agree.
Speaker 2: With their strategy, but they've gone fully electric and now
Speaker 2: they're moving towards fully electric, and the CE forty Recharge
Speaker 2: is just one of those cars that I think combines
Speaker 2: good design with ev tech, but at the same time
Speaker 2: doesn't look like a car that's electric.
Speaker 3: It looks like a normal care And that sounds like
Speaker 3: such an.
Speaker 2: Obvious thing, but I do enjoy electric cars that don't
Speaker 2: pretend to be electric cars. They're just normal cause that
Speaker 2: happened to be electric. Now, the C forty that I
Speaker 2: had was that the twin charge, which is the three
Speaker 2: hundred KILLO version, which goes for about one point two
Speaker 2: eight five and that is a lot of power to
Speaker 2: be having in a Ruanabad car, which I have to
Speaker 2: say seems a little unnecessary. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend
Speaker 2: the C forty because one of our colleagues actually made
Speaker 2: a very interesting observation that in Europe, a lot of
Speaker 2: these cars that are European cars that offer sell in
Speaker 2: South Africa have to be all things to everybody. You've
Speaker 2: got minimal space in Europe, you're parking your expensive corn
Speaker 2: the street potentially, and now you've got to have this
Speaker 2: card that's fast but also economical, but also stylish, but
Speaker 2: also electric.
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
Speaker 2: So for me, I would rather not necessarily go for
Speaker 2: the twin charge. There are many other models in the range.
Speaker 2: It starts at about eight hundred and ninety nine thousand.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to electric Volvos or one of
Speaker 2: my favorite brands specifically, I think the lady that I
Speaker 2: was chatting to last week that fault inf you, she
Speaker 2: was mentioning as well that you also loved Volbos journos.
Speaker 2: In fact, most journals, when asked to choose their favorite brand,
Speaker 2: choose Volvo.
Speaker 3: Now, yes there's depreciation.
Speaker 2: All of these things, but just as a driving experience,
Speaker 2: as a well thought out driving experience, Evolvo, and you
Speaker 2: cannot go wrong with the Volva.
Speaker 3: My specific favorite is the Sedan.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to the electric car, it's stylish,
Speaker 2: it's fast, it's got very decent range, you can charge
Speaker 2: eighty percent in as little as I think practically in
Speaker 2: South Africa in under an hour. It's got leather free interior.
Speaker 2: They've got the Google built in, which is not my favorite.
Speaker 2: But I think the younger audience might want to integrate
Speaker 2: the Android phones with the car, because you get integrated completely.
Speaker 3: It's runs on a Google software package.
Speaker 2: Got a pandemic sign through Hormon contown sound system and
Speaker 2: Volvo specifically are known for their ergonomics, the interior ergonomics,
Speaker 2: So you're going to get a car that has got
Speaker 2: very good interior ergonomics and very well thought out interior.
Speaker 2: Now you can get a second end model as well.
Speaker 2: It goes back to twenty twenty four, and as I said,
Speaker 2: you get it. You can get into a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three model of Air for about eight hundred ninety nine
Speaker 2: thousand demo model online and that is the Twin Pure
Speaker 2: So that's that's one of the higher power models. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so there are some options available, and I think with
Speaker 2: these type of cars it does pay to maybe wait
Speaker 2: a little bit and wait for that depreciation heat to
Speaker 2: get taken up by someone else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because one point two million is a difficult one
Speaker 1: to swallow before you've added on any of the bells
Speaker 1: and whistles. That's a very very expensive purchase, and we
Speaker 1: know unfortunately that is the price mind you're playing in
Speaker 1: for electric vehicles the until time as the important fees
Speaker 1: and the tax structure changes, ernest, that's what you're going to.
Speaker 3: Pay exactly, And a lot of people are.
Speaker 2: I think the early adopters, the early adoption phase has
Speaker 2: now gone past. There are more cost effective electric cars
Speaker 2: on the market for as little as as low as
Speaker 2: six let's i'll say a little bit as low as
Speaker 2: six hundred thousand or thereabouts. But this is the premium
Speaker 2: sort of space that you're playing in, playing in, So
Speaker 2: if you want that premium experience, then you know this
Speaker 2: is where you're going to be playing. And I do
Speaker 2: think there is a market foot because the Volvo sales
Speaker 2: of the electric cars has been doing quite well the
Speaker 2: last couple of months.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks for that feedback.
Speaker 1: You have unleashed a wave of questions and comments around
Speaker 1: the little rechargeable battery pack finger Madriggi that you mentioned. Firstly,
Speaker 1: CJ calling in saying she has a device called a
Speaker 1: seat which she bought seventeen years ago from Battery Center
Speaker 1: and has used as her battery booster pack.
Speaker 4: It's never let her down. She wants to know. Is
Speaker 4: that the thing that you are talking about?
Speaker 2: So the sea I'm looking at a seat tech now,
Speaker 2: that's the one that I think this plugs into the mains.
Speaker 2: I think what she's got the seat tech is specifically
Speaker 2: an overnight charger. I think this looks like an overnight charger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it might be a different thing. The one
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about is and maybe se Tech that
Speaker 2: does make a battery charger like that, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but I'm talking about specifically a booster pack of battery
Speaker 2: booster that's got no cables, doesn't plug into the mains.
Speaker 3: That's a jump you can look for jump starter, the Geezuo.
Speaker 3: It's called the jump starter.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's available at MACRAA. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: And our listener Robert mailing in to say, I'm messaging
Speaker 1: in to say there's a Cape Town based company that
Speaker 1: sells a very good quality power back jump starter called
Speaker 1: red E red dash E and he said they've worked
Speaker 1: really well for him. Excellent quality, highly recorded me. And
Speaker 1: that's also it's built as a portable jump starter. So
Speaker 1: redah E dot co dot z is the one that
Speaker 1: Robert is recommending tech that from whence it comes and
Speaker 1: so that's good to know. And then let's see what
Speaker 1: else we've got here. Penelope saying my car battery was
Speaker 1: flat over the weekend and a man from high Q
Speaker 1: came on Monday started it immediately with one of those
Speaker 1: battery packs and it has worked perfectly and quickly.
Speaker 4: Penny, thanks for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in my case, my battery was actually
Speaker 1: officially dead, but it had reached the end of its
Speaker 1: lifespan and it was due for replacements soon. I knew
Speaker 1: that was coming, so it was just my it was
Speaker 1: it was bound to happen. So yeah, I was very
Speaker 1: lucky that Battery Mobile Service could come to me with
Speaker 1: a replacement battery and sought me.
Speaker 3: On a grudge purchase.
Speaker 2: It's so expensive, Like every time I buy a battery,
Speaker 2: I'm always just surprised at how expensive it is these days,
Speaker 2: because the average price I think has between one and
Speaker 2: off and two and off thousand and for batsy.
Speaker 1: Now I got it for just on one thousand round
Speaker 1: including the labor. I've got to be honest. I was
Speaker 1: very very happy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I need to dress smaller cars charity.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Yeah, there is that one of the big bonuses
Speaker 1: of being in my little jazz. Okay, before we run
Speaker 1: out of time, let's let's move away from the battery
Speaker 1: packs to a question that's coming on voice note from
Speaker 1: somebody who is struggling to decide between two different vehicles.
Speaker 4: I think let's take a listen.
Speaker 7: Papa, and you know is the car fundy. My wife
Speaker 7: and I are struggling to decide between a Cherry to
Speaker 7: Go Pro for for pro and the Hyundai Venue. Could
Speaker 7: it please help me decide, give me advice to convince
Speaker 7: my wife to go either way. Thanks so much. I
Speaker 7: know this is not necessarily what you're discussing this afternoon,
Speaker 7: but I'll appreciate.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on that one.
Speaker 7: Ernest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a chicky one because you've got present cons
Speaker 2: on both sides. DA is slightly more compact, it's got
Speaker 2: decent boot space. It does lack power when compared to
Speaker 2: the Cherry Tigo, but it also has Apple cor play
Speaker 2: depending which model you get. And yeah, it's a compact
Speaker 2: car that has less features. And this is the common
Speaker 2: comparison that we're getting nowadays that we know what we're
Speaker 2: getting when it comes to the Undi venue.
Speaker 3: But Cherry has been around for long time now, the
Speaker 3: Cherry ti Go for Pro has been around for a
Speaker 3: long time now.
Speaker 2: It's got lots more features, it's got lots more power,
Speaker 2: it's got more space, it comes with, as I said,
Speaker 2: a lot more features. So that for me is the
Speaker 2: biggest key, The Cherry is going to use more fuel,
Speaker 2: but how much more fuel is worth the luxury that
Speaker 2: you're going to be getting for that? So you know,
Speaker 2: I would probably go for and I do like the Hyundai.
Speaker 2: I do like the Venue, but to me, the Venue
Speaker 2: is a lot more of a basic car. If you
Speaker 2: want something that's more going to be in like a
Speaker 2: knock about and the kids are going to be spelling
Speaker 2: ice cream in it every day, or whatever your lifestyle is,
Speaker 2: maybe the Venue is a good option. But I'm thinking
Speaker 2: if you want the features and all the bells and whistles,
Speaker 2: you're going to get all of that with a Cherry
Speaker 2: Tiger For.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: The Cheddi Tiger for has been around long enough for
Speaker 2: us to now start trusting it.
Speaker 4: Thanks Ernest.
Speaker 1: One closing comment from Alan, who says, be aware that
Speaker 1: those battery power packs. Most of the biggest shopping centers
Speaker 1: actually have a version of them at the security or
Speaker 1: parking office, and they really do work very well.
Speaker 4: So if you get to your.
Speaker 1: Car in the shopping center when the battery's gone flat,
Speaker 1: you can go and ask security whether they've got one
Speaker 1: and can jumpstart you on the spot. Isn't that fabulous?
Speaker 3: To know did not know that. That's great to know you.
Speaker 1: Learned something new every day. Alan in Bealville, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. And Ernest host car Fundy Guy as of
Speaker 1: Osboys don't called you. Always appreciate your input and we'll
Speaker 1: try to get next week Wednesday chat.
Speaker 3: Then Purple always pleasure
Speaker 4: Drive safety, so then please