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Speaker 3: La Metro has put out quite the challenge. They will
Speaker 3: pay you six hundred dollars if you ditch your car,
Speaker 3: specifically ditch your second car, which is a little easier
Speaker 3: of an ask. And this is a small pilot program.
Speaker 3: I think only two thousand people can sign up for this,
Speaker 3: but they are trying to encourage you instead of the
Speaker 3: stick with the carrot, to get you out of your
Speaker 3: car and onto public transit. And maybe six hundred dollars
Speaker 3: is enough incentive for somebody who lives in an area
Speaker 3: where Metro actually works for them to try it.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 3: But if you live in I don't know, the San
Speaker 3: Fernando Valley, good luck. Because one of the issues that
Speaker 3: immediately came up is, well, if I don't have my car,
Speaker 3: how do I get to the Metro station. Most people
Speaker 3: do not live within walking distance of a Metro station
Speaker 3: because this is not a city. The landscape of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles is so big and so vast. It's why You'll
Speaker 3: constantly hear La Metro tell you that we have the
Speaker 3: largest light rail system in the country, but that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean anything because it's still so big and so vast
Speaker 3: that it doesn't go to a whole lot of places.
Speaker 3: Maybe the whole idea itself is just a little too ambitious.
Speaker 3: Maybe the city and the County of Los Angeles are
Speaker 3: just too damn big, and this whole experiment of having
Speaker 3: two million people live in the suburbs that have to
Speaker 3: all commute into the city every single day doesn't make
Speaker 3: sense anymore.
Speaker 2: Actually, I don't know if it ever made sense. Now.
Speaker 3: I'm not a Metro hater. I want the best for
Speaker 3: public transit, for La Metro. I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 3: if Metro was convenient and safe, I would ride it,
Speaker 3: because I hate driving. I'm on the four or five
Speaker 3: every single day. It takes up, you know, on my
Speaker 3: workday is now around twelve hours with all the extra
Speaker 3: work that I do for the video streaming.
Speaker 2: I get up at six am.
Speaker 3: I do my show prep between six and seven, then
Speaker 3: I go to pilates my saving grace. Then let's say
Speaker 3: I get back at eight. Between eight and ten, I'm
Speaker 3: doing more show prep getting everything ready to go. Then
Speaker 3: from ten thirty to eleven thirty, I'm sitting on the
Speaker 3: freeway in Hell. I do the show from noon to three.
Speaker 3: From three to four, I'm sitting on the freeway in Hell.
Speaker 3: Then I have a little lunch, prep for this show,
Speaker 3: do this show, get off the air, get all the
Speaker 3: podcasts up. I'm done by like seven o'clock. It is
Speaker 3: a very long day, and it drives me crazy that
Speaker 3: of all the things that I have to do, that
Speaker 3: two hours of it are wasted sitting on the freeway.
Speaker 3: You know, I used to be like, oh, well, that's
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna do my show prep. I don't even
Speaker 3: do that more because I get my show prep done
Speaker 3: so early that, you know, I've gotten much more efficient
Speaker 3: at this that I'm usually done with all my stories
Speaker 3: before i even head to work. So I'll either listen to,
Speaker 3: you know, podcasts or what have you. Maybe I'll listen
Speaker 3: to some music. But I'm not even making good use
Speaker 3: of my time. I would love to be sitting somewhere
Speaker 3: where I didn't have to drive that was faster than
Speaker 3: the hour each way to go seventeen miles. I would
Speaker 3: love it, but it doesn't exist. For me, and it
Speaker 3: doesn't exist for so many people. This system will never
Speaker 3: be built out to the point where it's actually convenient
Speaker 3: for so many people. They're talking about maybe putting a
Speaker 3: shovel in the ground for the Sepulvida line in what
Speaker 3: ten fifteen years is when that project will start. That project,
Speaker 3: if it ever finishes, will not finish within well.
Speaker 2: I plan to live a long time.
Speaker 3: It will definitely not finish by the time I'm still
Speaker 3: living in this city and in this county, and every
Speaker 3: single day covering the news of Los Angeles. My timeline
Speaker 3: to get the hell out moves up. Now. I'll still
Speaker 3: cover LA, but maybe I could cover it from you know,
Speaker 3: the South Bay or Orange County or San Francisco or
Speaker 3: San Diego. LA is the worst part of the state
Speaker 3: by far, and part of the reason is the traffic
Speaker 3: is unbearable and there really is no other alternative. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give Metro some props. They have made some improvements.
Speaker 3: There was a story yesterday we did not get time
Speaker 3: to cover it, but homeless incidents are way down on Metro.
Speaker 3: Crime is way down on Metro. Things got really, really,
Speaker 3: really bad after COVID and during COVID when Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: said let's make transit free, and that turned every single
Speaker 3: transit system into a gigantic homeless shelter, and God help
Speaker 3: you if you're one of those cities.
Speaker 2: That's the end of the line.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at you, Santa Monica, because that's where they
Speaker 3: get off at the middle of the night. But they've
Speaker 3: come back from that. I think Janis Hahn was a
Speaker 3: pretty good Metro director. I think Fernando Dutro was a
Speaker 3: pretty good Metro director. And there was a lot of
Speaker 3: focus on lowering crime, having visible presence of police officers,
Speaker 3: even though it's going to take forever and I don't
Speaker 3: know how exactly they're going to hire enough people for it.
Speaker 3: Maybe this program of having Metro's own police department something
Speaker 3: that Bill Scott quit the San Francisco ped to go run.
Speaker 2: Maybe this will work.
Speaker 3: Now we're still wasting money on ambassadors and a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of other nonsense, but things you're looking bright for
Speaker 3: Metro except for and I guess, a bid to make
Speaker 3: her look more important so she survives her reelection bid.
Speaker 3: Karen Bess getting the baton once again to become La
Speaker 3: Metro director and Karen Bess, the horrible mayor of Los Angeles, announcing,
Speaker 3: maybe because she's trying to outrun Nthia Rahman to the left,
Speaker 3: that she wants to make transit free in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: And while some people may have a pie in the
Speaker 3: sky idea of hey, we should make it free, it
Speaker 3: should be a public good. It will encourage so many
Speaker 3: more people to ride. We've seen what happens when you
Speaker 3: make transit free and you make no barrier to getting
Speaker 3: on there, you make it really hard to get people
Speaker 3: off of there, which include dudes when these things turned
Speaker 3: into the drug dens. So I don't want to see
Speaker 3: that happen again. But at least for right now, things
Speaker 3: are looking better on the crime front. On the safety front,
Speaker 3: there's definitely less incidents in the news about incidents on
Speaker 3: La Metro.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I think there's a distinction between the buses and the trains,
Speaker 3: and I think there's a lot of people that they
Speaker 3: may get on a train, they may not get on
Speaker 3: a bus, And I totally understand why. For instance, remember
Speaker 3: when Janis Hahn was in charge of La Metro a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. Oh, of course you do, because
Speaker 3: we would play this drop incessantly. I love the bus driver,
Speaker 3: and she said I'm going to actually ride the system,
Speaker 3: which was groundbreaking because of the members of the Board
Speaker 3: of Supervisors, the mayor, City Council, the other cities that
Speaker 3: are involved, very few of these people actually ride the system,
Speaker 3: which should tell you something. It's not convenient and it
Speaker 3: doesn't go anywhere. That jannishn was a big deal that
Speaker 3: she was going to ride it once a month to
Speaker 3: the Metro board meeting. But she came up with some
Speaker 3: interesting ideas, including like weapons detection systems at Metro stations,
Speaker 3: and that might be a really good idea for Seventh
Speaker 3: Street and Metro for Hollywood and Highland Hollywood and Vine
Speaker 3: Union Station. But how do you exactly do you police
Speaker 3: the hundreds and hundreds of bus stops for people with
Speaker 3: weapons where the bus drivers kind of on their own
Speaker 3: to do anything about it. That being said, I would
Speaker 3: even consider getting on a bus if that was convenient,
Speaker 3: but it's not because for the most part, the buses
Speaker 3: share the same exact roads as the rest of us.
Speaker 3: And I'm not advocating for bus only lanes. I think
Speaker 3: they're kind of a joke, and I've seen how they
Speaker 3: operate in places like Culver City, where I commute to
Speaker 3: every single day, where there is just jammed up traffic
Speaker 3: on the car lanes and empty lanes sitting completely doing
Speaker 3: nothing with the bus only lane, maybe we need a
Speaker 3: share the road kind of situation. You know, it's wild.
Speaker 3: I was just in Toronto and I kind of miss it.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. Toronto's an interesting place.
Speaker 3: So Toronto has cable cars that go all throughout the downtown,
Speaker 3: but they don't have their own dedicated lane. You kind
Speaker 3: of have to share the road with them, and sometimes
Speaker 3: it can be a little confusing, but for the most part,
Speaker 3: people make get work. So I don't love the idea
Speaker 3: of the bus only lane. That being said, building tunnels
Speaker 3: and building trains in the city and County of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles is so slow. It is taking so long, big
Speaker 3: massive accomplishment. That we finally got the D line going,
Speaker 3: how long did that take?
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Sky, I'm about to ride the D.
Speaker 2: And it's still not finished.
Speaker 3: And we're talking about this new line that they approve
Speaker 3: that's going to go from the Wilshire area all the
Speaker 3: way up through the Brea and the Hollywood Bowl and
Speaker 3: they're going to break ground for that in five years,
Speaker 3: and maybe it'll be done in fifteen years. Like this
Speaker 3: stuff is taking too long to have any real difference
Speaker 3: on our traffic system. You know, it makes me wonder
Speaker 3: how did we build all these roads to begin with. So,
Speaker 3: while I don't love the idea of a bus only lane,
Speaker 3: if your goal is to have transit that is actually
Speaker 3: faster than cars, that seems like a faster way to
Speaker 3: get to that goal. Because building these tunnels and building
Speaker 3: I don't understand why we're building so much light rail.
Speaker 3: Light Rail is slow. Light rail is not even you know,
Speaker 3: at least the subways. It may take a lot long
Speaker 3: time to dig those tunnels, but the subway theoretically goes fast.
Speaker 3: These light rail systems do not go fast at all.
Speaker 3: So I think our system's kind of a joke. Most
Speaker 3: people don't take it seriously. Most people don't ride it.
Speaker 3: And while the six hundred dollars incentive is a nice idea,
Speaker 3: I just tried to picture how I would use it,
Speaker 3: you know, if I really was trying to live where
Speaker 3: I live, which actively every day thinking about getting out
Speaker 3: of the San Fernando Valley because I am not built
Speaker 3: for the suburbs. Born and raised in the suburbs, and
Speaker 3: at the ripe old age of forty one, I am
Speaker 3: thriving to live in somewhere that's walkable, whether that be
Speaker 3: a city, whether be a fund, something that has stuff
Speaker 3: to do that I don't have to be in my
Speaker 3: car because I don't like being in my car. So
Speaker 3: I got to get out of where I am. But
Speaker 3: right now I am where I am Popeye, And there
Speaker 3: are so many people like me who do not live
Speaker 3: anywhere near transit. So if I get if I wanted
Speaker 3: that six hundred dollars, how am I getting to my
Speaker 3: pilates every day?
Speaker 2: How am I getting to the grocery store?
Speaker 3: Do they expect people to take transit to the grocery store?
Speaker 3: Because typically when I go to the grocery store, I'm
Speaker 3: buying more food than I can carry.
Speaker 2: So how exactly is all this supposed to work.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people are actually going to
Speaker 3: take La Metro up on this offer six. I think
Speaker 3: it's only limited to like two thousand people, because ultimately
Speaker 3: the system is so inconvenient for so many people, and
Speaker 3: with all the money that we spend on it, it's
Speaker 3: not getting any more convenient for anybody anytime soon. I
Speaker 3: just feel like by the time they fully build out
Speaker 3: this system, transportation will have completely changed. And I'll give
Speaker 3: you a perfect example. I've talked about them before. I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of them. I think in the next decade,
Speaker 3: maybe decade and a half, the weaimo revolution is going
Speaker 3: to completely change the way most regular car trips are.
Speaker 3: Of course, you can still have a car, and of
Speaker 3: course you probably want a car for road trips what
Speaker 3: have you, But for commuting, for that trip to the
Speaker 3: grocery store, for going to Pilate's class, what have you.
Speaker 3: There definitely can be a future where we have made
Speaker 3: autonomous ride hailing so affordable and so cheap that well,
Speaker 3: you don't need to own a car, because owning a
Speaker 3: car is expensive. Even if you have an electric car,
Speaker 3: you still have the cost of keeping that car on
Speaker 3: the road, registration fees, you still have tires, and you
Speaker 3: got to deal with when you pop one of those,
Speaker 3: which happens constantly. Never ever, ever drive on Veno and
Speaker 3: Boulevard in the Lake Balboa area, just don't do it.
Speaker 3: It's so many potholes. You're definitely going to damage your tires.
Speaker 3: Sometimes my Apple maps will tell me that's the faster
Speaker 3: way to say to go home. Never do it. It's
Speaker 3: a It is a mess. And if it ever rains
Speaker 3: vano and floods like crazy, you have insurance, which is
Speaker 3: incredibly expensive. You know, there's just owning a car costs
Speaker 3: a lot of money. Even if you own the car
Speaker 3: outright now, a lot of people don't because cars have
Speaker 3: gotten very, very expensive. So it would be nice if
Speaker 3: there was another option. But for the most part, this
Speaker 3: city wasn't built for transit, which is a very funny
Speaker 3: thing to say because you go on YouTube and there
Speaker 3: are so many channels of people who advocate for public
Speaker 3: transit that would love to point out, and it is true.
Speaker 3: La used to be the public transit capital of the country.
Speaker 3: The red car system was huge, but that's when Los
Speaker 3: Angeles had a much smaller footprint. And while so many
Speaker 3: people demonize urban sprawl, it's what we have, it's how
Speaker 3: we have it. And you cannot build a public transit
Speaker 3: system that can conveniently get people from the valley unless
Speaker 3: you live specifically in North Hollywood on Lancasham to the
Speaker 3: rest of the other side of the hill. And until
Speaker 3: you can do that, all of this is just Pie
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Speaker 3: I got a special edition because this actually showed up
Speaker 3: on my feed after I published the news blitz. But
Speaker 3: it is something very important to me as an electriccar owner.
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom had a big announcement today that EV rebates
Speaker 3: are back, and you know what, I don't have a
Speaker 3: huge problem with this now, just full disclosure. When I
Speaker 3: bought my electric car in twenty twenty two, after the
Speaker 3: electric car that I had before that got totaled in
Speaker 3: an accident and that one was used, I didn't get
Speaker 3: any rebate. I well, my wife helped me pay for
Speaker 3: the car that I am driving. Now, I didn't get
Speaker 3: a rebate. Now, there was a manufacturer discount because at
Speaker 3: the time, Chevy didn't qualify for the federal rebates or
Speaker 3: the state rebates because we only wanted to incentivize the
Speaker 3: smaller companies to get one. So, you know, vinfest when
Speaker 3: that goes out of business, good luck, is that still
Speaker 3: a thing? I know they had a shore room at
Speaker 3: Westfield Topanga or the Tapega or the Tapanga Plaza. No
Speaker 3: What is it called Tapega Village? My goodness. There's the
Speaker 3: Westfield Topanga, which is also called the Tapanga Plaza, and
Speaker 3: they have a food hall called Tapega Social, but the
Speaker 3: outdoor mall across the street is called the Tapanga Village.
Speaker 3: Too much Topanga.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They had a showroom for Vinfest and that's gone. Is
Speaker 3: vin Fast still a thing? I know? They're still lucid.
Speaker 3: And there's a Rivian. You got a neighbor of mine
Speaker 3: that's getting a Rivian. They're very excited.
Speaker 2: What have you? I like my Chevy.
Speaker 3: But Gavin Newsome when talking about these rebates, and I
Speaker 3: think it's like thirty five hundred dollars for a new
Speaker 3: EV and seventeen hundred dollars for a used EV. Okay
Speaker 3: incentivize more people to get these. That still compared to
Speaker 3: how much they cost, quite a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Now there is savings.
Speaker 3: I I wonder if I could do the math, Let's
Speaker 3: find out on average I was spending probably two hundred
Speaker 3: dollars a month on gasoline. No, it had to be
Speaker 3: less than that. Let's say let's say let's round down.
Speaker 3: Let's say it's one hundred and fifty dollars on gas
Speaker 3: times twelve times four. I've saved just in a rough estimate,
Speaker 3: probably seventy five hundred dollars on gasoline that I have
Speaker 3: not had to buy because I've had my electric car
Speaker 3: for four years. That's awesome. Electric bill really hasn't gone
Speaker 3: up because I only charge overnight. But while I love
Speaker 3: my are and I'm lucky I do, because then I
Speaker 3: really would hate driving to work. I know what the
Speaker 3: limitations are of EVS, and Gavin would love to paint
Speaker 3: a different picture.
Speaker 2: But let's tell you the real story. First.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you the thing that I heard Gavin
Speaker 3: say while I was folding laundry that well caused me
Speaker 3: to have to respond to it. This was Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: this morning, as a.
Speaker 4: Guy who you know, two thousand and six' seven was
Speaker 4: a mayor across the bay here with my old SATURN ev.
Speaker 4: One i've long believed in this vision and to see
Speaker 4: it now. Materialize two hundred and sixteen thousand now public
Speaker 4: charging stations In. California that's just public one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty thousand gas novels. Nozzles i'll repeat, that it's only
Speaker 4: one hundred twenty thousand gas. Nozzles there's already two hundred
Speaker 4: and sixteen thousand public charging, places.
Speaker 2: So that was the number that kind of stuck out of.
Speaker 3: Me and of course public charging is different from having
Speaker 3: a charger at your, home and if you add, that
Speaker 3: there's a whole lot of. Them but that sure sounds, Like,
Speaker 3: wow you, know the electric revolution is. Here we have
Speaker 3: built out the. Infrastructure but let me tell you. Why
Speaker 3: AND i know you're not.
Speaker 2: Going to be. Surprised Gavin newsom is full of.
Speaker 3: Crap while there may be technically more public charging stations
Speaker 3: than gas, pumps And i'm guessing he's meant, pumps not,
Speaker 3: stations but, wow you would think there would be. More
Speaker 3: here's the. Thing gas pumps can turn over in about five.
Speaker 3: Minutes and the vast majority of the public charging that
Speaker 3: we have the infrastructure that has been built In, california
Speaker 3: which is supposed to be the leader of the ev,
Speaker 3: Revolution and To gavin's point that he makes later in,
Speaker 3: this it should really be the private sector that's investing
Speaker 3: in these. Things ninety percent of that two hundred thousand
Speaker 3: chargers are level two or. Slower, now if you don't
Speaker 3: know what level two, Is i'll give you an, EXAMPLE
Speaker 3: i have a level two charger in my. Home it
Speaker 3: is sticking outside of my garage as that's where my
Speaker 3: car sits out, there AND i had to get it
Speaker 3: installed with an electrician cost me about five hundred bucks
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i had a. Friend and it's the two twenty
Speaker 3: outlet and it's WHAT i used to charge my car
Speaker 3: overnight and it works okay for. That it charges between
Speaker 3: nine and thirteen miles an. Hour so for having that
Speaker 3: charger at home, overnight, yeah that kind of. Works ninety
Speaker 3: percent of the chargers that we have that are public,
Speaker 3: chargers whether it be at a parking lot of a,
Speaker 3: supermarket a parking lot of a retail, center what have,
Speaker 3: you ninety percent are level two or. Slower in, fact
Speaker 3: the state Of california only has between seventeen thousand and
Speaker 3: twenty thousand fast, chargers something CALLED. Dcfc those are the
Speaker 3: chargers that can go a lot. Faster, NOW i wonder
Speaker 3: how many of those Are tesla which you have to
Speaker 3: if you don't own A, tesla you have to get
Speaker 3: an adapter for it for it to. Work AND i
Speaker 3: cheeped out and tried to buy a not official one
Speaker 3: at home depot and guess what it didn't.
Speaker 2: WORK i did return.
Speaker 3: It most of these chargers That gavin is touting as
Speaker 3: being on the same level as, having you, know one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety two thousand fuel, pumps they would take
Speaker 3: you all day to charge, them so they don't turn
Speaker 3: over as, fast and they're also not super, feasible even
Speaker 3: the fast, chargers depending on which kind of car you,
Speaker 3: HAVE i don't charge that. Fast for, instance my, car
Speaker 3: and this is one of the THINGS i knew about
Speaker 3: it WHEN i got, it SO i got no one
Speaker 3: to blame but. Me The Chevy bolt THAT i, own
Speaker 3: WHICH i do. Love the car works great for. Commuting
Speaker 3: if you take it on a road trip and you
Speaker 3: go to one of these fast, chargers the fastest it
Speaker 3: can charge is ninety miles in thirty, Minutes so if
Speaker 3: you're road, tripping that's a whole lot of pee. Brakes
Speaker 3: and if you've ever been in a shopping center that
Speaker 3: has some of these fast, chargers sometimes there is a
Speaker 3: very long line because let's say everyone is waiting for
Speaker 3: a half. Hour that's a huge. Problem and The tesla
Speaker 3: network is, good but AGAIN i don't have THE. UH
Speaker 3: i didn't have the adapter for. THAT i really got
Speaker 3: woken up to where this is just a not ready
Speaker 3: for primetime. Event the last time THAT i tried to
Speaker 3: take my car up To Santa Barbara Wine country in
Speaker 3: The Santa Ynez, valley we go up there all the
Speaker 3: time in my wife's, hybrid and we've actually gone there
Speaker 3: quite a few times in my Neighbor's. Tesla and you
Speaker 3: can charge right there at The Bulton.
Speaker 2: Marrion good to.
Speaker 3: Go but what if you're driving an electric car that
Speaker 3: because you were too cheap to buy the official, adapter
Speaker 3: you couldn't use The tesla charging system, Them, well then
Speaker 3: you're caught in a really rough. Situation you drive down
Speaker 3: To Santa ynez to a shopping center that has six
Speaker 3: or Seven Electrify america, chargers only two of those are fast.
Speaker 2: Chargers and here's the thing that they don't tell.
Speaker 3: You another difference between gas pumps and electric charging, stations
Speaker 3: the public ones is to use a gas, pump you
Speaker 3: just need a credit, Card tap, tap, pump, Pump, go
Speaker 3: buy your. Cheetos you're good to. Go in order to
Speaker 3: use all of these other, chargers you need to have
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of. Apps AND i sure hope you
Speaker 3: already had them. Downloaded because let's say you're in a
Speaker 3: place Like Santa Barbara Wine country that has no cell
Speaker 3: reception whatsoever in so many different. Areas good luck trying
Speaker 3: to download the, app get a payment to the app to,
Speaker 3: work and get it to, authorize because that will take
Speaker 3: a very long. TIME a lot of these chargers straight
Speaker 3: up do not. WORK i went up to one of
Speaker 3: my favorite, Wineries fox and they have a charger right
Speaker 3: there on the, property so you could probably get a
Speaker 3: couple hours worth of a level two charger didn't, work
Speaker 3: could not get the thing to go. KEPT i did
Speaker 3: not want to keep wasting the wine tasting room attendance
Speaker 3: time on trying to get it to. Work but it
Speaker 3: just didn't, work and it's happened over and over and over. Again,
Speaker 3: HONESTLY i think if you're a winery and you want
Speaker 3: to offer, that you should just not have the public charging.
Speaker 3: Station just have chargers that you pay for and it's
Speaker 3: like an extra amenity to bring people in. There i'm
Speaker 3: okay with, that but it was such a nightmare trying
Speaker 3: to get around and trying to get this thing. Charged
Speaker 3: and then there is the other aspect Of Gavin newsom
Speaker 3: spiel THAT i always find very interesting because he rightly
Speaker 3: says that we're kind of at The United states kind
Speaker 3: of taking a back seat to the electric revolution that's
Speaker 3: going on around the, world and he Cites china a,
Speaker 3: lot And china has what IS i think at this,
Speaker 3: point let's, see IS byd the largest car manufacturer in the. World,
Speaker 3: no but it's getting up. There it is the world's
Speaker 3: largest maker of plug in electric. Vehicles there are more
Speaker 3: byds around the world Than, tesla's And Gavin newsom will
Speaker 3: tell you, AGAIN i haven't verified it BECAUSE i don't
Speaker 3: live in a country where you can buy, one but he,
Speaker 3: says These chinese byds you can buy for around ten thousand,
Speaker 3: bucks and they have new technology battery that charge in
Speaker 3: about five. Minutes and every single time he brings that,
Speaker 3: up it makes me, wonder, well why don't we also have?
Speaker 3: That like even you, know, okay my car is a
Speaker 3: few years, old but how is the current year model
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, six the twenty twenty sevens for EVERY ev
Speaker 3: maker out there not utilizing whatever this technology is where
Speaker 3: you can charge the battery in five, Minutes because once
Speaker 3: you can charge that battery in five, minutes that's a game.
Speaker 3: Changer then it really is on par with what we're
Speaker 3: doing at gas stations and gas. Pumps but even Though
Speaker 3: i'm supportive of this, REBATE i like my electric.
Speaker 2: CAR i think it's a nice thing to.
Speaker 3: HAVE i think getting us off the dependence of oil
Speaker 3: is a good, thing whether you believe in it for
Speaker 3: the environment or, not or you just don't want it
Speaker 3: to be. Dependent in all the insanity that goes on
Speaker 3: with these never ending wars in The Middle east that
Speaker 3: are all about, oil.
Speaker 2: It makes, sense.
Speaker 3: Of, course how do we power the. Electricity that's another
Speaker 3: story for another. Day but our charging infrastructure is not
Speaker 3: surpassing gas. Pumps it is not even on par with
Speaker 3: gas pumps because the vast majority of these public chargers
Speaker 3: that are out there are completely. Unusable and if it
Speaker 3: really is true that we're just setting the conditions and
Speaker 3: it's private industry that needs to build these private, chargers
Speaker 3: why outside Of, tesla why aren't They why aren't they
Speaker 3: building these? Things it's just something to think. About it's
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Speaker 3: writes in on the subject of fast, Charging, randy the
Speaker 3: problem with fast charging is that it runs very.
Speaker 2: Hot in this.
Speaker 3: Country it is considered a fire hazard until new technology
Speaker 3: will allow for cooler. Recharging that can be a big.
Speaker 3: Problem if we can't have the fast chargers because they're
Speaker 3: a fire, hazard then this technology in the form that
Speaker 3: we want to adopt. It Where gavin wants to ban
Speaker 3: the sale of gas powered vehicles by twenty thirty five
Speaker 3: is not feasible until we have a way where you
Speaker 3: can charge these things in five.
Speaker 2: Minutes it's just not the.
Speaker 3: Same you can say there are more chargers than gas,
Speaker 3: pumps but it is completely. Different but this is where we,
Speaker 3: are this is the state Of. California you know what
Speaker 3: we probably should be. Doing AND i think a lot
Speaker 3: of the auto manufacturers know this, too like it'd be
Speaker 3: great for everyone to go to ALL. Ev but you
Speaker 3: know what is kind of. Fascinating it's a fantastic. Technology
Speaker 3: they're very, expensive but boy are they. Nice the pev.
Speaker 3: Hybrids you've got a car that has a gas engine
Speaker 3: but has a plug in. Battery my mother in law
Speaker 3: has one of, these The VOLVO xc. Sixty the plug
Speaker 3: in battery gets forty, miles and if you're just driving around,
Speaker 3: town forty miles is.
Speaker 2: Great forty miles gets you pretty.
Speaker 3: Far and it got to a point where she used
Speaker 3: the gasoline so rarely that she actually got a warning
Speaker 3: that the fuel in her car was old and needed
Speaker 3: to get. Used so she only will fill it up
Speaker 3: like a quarter of a tank at a time because
Speaker 3: she almost never uses. It but if they want to
Speaker 3: use it for a road, trip like when they're driving
Speaker 3: From dallas To Santa, fe well then they can use.
Speaker 3: That maybe that's where we need to lean into and
Speaker 3: encouraging more people to charge at. Home but, again end
Speaker 3: charging at home is a luxury if you have a
Speaker 3: single family. Home how exactly are you charging at home
Speaker 3: if you're in an apartment building something that we also
Speaker 3: have to think. About that's where a lot of the people, like,
Speaker 3: WELL i GUESS i got to use a public. Charger,
Speaker 3: well the public charging infrastructure it's not ready for. Primetime,
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