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Speaker 1: the car Doctor, Well, let me ask you this question,

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Speaker 1: though ted, how do you know it doesn't need that

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Speaker 1: that the rear wheel drive transmission does not have a

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Speaker 1: wire with that. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: calls at eight five and now he running. I thought

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Speaker 1: i'd start today by given you one from the Bays

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Speaker 1: Bays that we're kind of interesting, different type of repairs

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Speaker 1: and and and they stress a lot of what we

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Speaker 1: We had a two thousand eleven buiclescern that was towed

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Speaker 1: and we we went through our usual course of normal diagnostics.

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Speaker 1: Now you know what do I always say to you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I always tell you that all diagnostics have to begin

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Speaker 1: It's a lot like bowling. If you can learn how

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Speaker 1: what auto repair diagnostics are all about. It's it's going

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Speaker 1: I really have no fuel pressure. I have no fuel pressure.

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Speaker 1: I then went plug the scan tool, pulled codes. There

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Speaker 1: abbreviation for everything, right, So um, you know, it turns

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Speaker 1: doesn't cause the O rings or any of the seals

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Speaker 1: inside to break down and affect any of the smaller passageways.

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Speaker 1: That would be my educated guess that's the only thing

430
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Speaker 1: I could think of that would uh you know, literally

431
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Speaker 1: cause that problem. Fuel is such an issue, Curt. I've

432
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Speaker 1: got to tell you it's funny. This morning at the house,

433
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Speaker 1: I finally got around that taking all the fuel out

434
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Speaker 1: of my lawnmower. We had a snowstorm this week. I said, well,

435
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm done cutting the grass this year. So, uh,

436
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: I actually ran both mowers down until they ran out

437
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Speaker 1: bone draws. This way three or four months from now,

438
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Speaker 1: if I ever get the chance to starting back up again,

439
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: they'll work because I can't leave the fuel in there

440
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Speaker 1: for any length of time because uh, you know, it's

441
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Speaker 1: it's just not gonna work. So what's this I hear about?

442
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: Does any truth to the rumors? Sinocco has what they

443
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: call sport fuel in your area? Have you heard of this?

444
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: You know? Uh? I have not the only fuel that

445
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: I can get here that airplane fuel. That's it. The

446
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: rest of it, it it don't sell. Okay, Tom just shot

447
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: me a note. It says he says Sinocco has sport fuel.

448
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: They may have it in your area. Um do you

449
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Speaker 1: have Do you have Sinoco stations in your area? Not

450
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Speaker 1: that I know of? Okay, Well, if you can find one,

451
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: they may have something called sport fuel, which is the

452
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: same idea as the true fuel. It's straight gas, no ethanol.

453
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: Probably pay more for it. They probably can't dispense it

454
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Speaker 1: out of the pumps because there's probably ten thousand regulations

455
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Speaker 1: against it. Uh, you know. But it's the the issue

456
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Speaker 1: with gasoline today is it loses its pop number one

457
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Speaker 1: and number two. The ethanol creates havoc with the O

458
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Speaker 1: rings and seals inside the carburetor. I mean about the

459
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Speaker 1: only other thing you know you could try is and

460
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Speaker 1: if you want to get into you know, using um

461
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Speaker 1: different levels of ethanol based fuel. But keep in mind

462
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Speaker 1: your motorcycles are from a different generation, right, Kurt, they're

463
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: fifty years old, now they're forty years old. It was

464
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Speaker 1: it was made with with a different, different type of

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Speaker 1: fuel in mind. And I'm not saying that it's still

466
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Speaker 1: not going to have be able to run, but you know,

467
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Speaker 1: is there something different we have to approach or can

468
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Speaker 1: we approach this differently to still keep them running on

469
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Speaker 1: the road. Trust me, when they want to get rid

470
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Speaker 1: of all these things, they will. They're gonna let me

471
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: make gasoline altogether, which is the next big thing. So

472
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, well I put the fuel stabilizing and

473
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Speaker 1: it works fairly well. But if I forget boy, yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: I got to rebuild the carburetor, right, it becomes havoc.

475
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Speaker 1: And what do you find when you take the carburetor apart?

476
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Speaker 1: Is it all gummed up? Yep, it's all gummed up.

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Speaker 1: It's all. I got the lacquer in there and right

478
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Speaker 1: that it works just great. Yeah, And that's that's the issue.

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Speaker 1: So hey, listen. As always a pleasure to talk to you, Kurt.

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Speaker 1: You have a great they have a great west of

481
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Speaker 1: the rest of the weekend. You're very welcome, sir. You'd

482
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Speaker 1: be well, um, yeah, you know fuels are fuel is

483
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Speaker 1: an issue. It really is, um and again we've got

484
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Speaker 1: to just be aware of that. Has changes come on,

485
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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna they're gonna change the face of

486
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Speaker 1: the automobile industry. Did you hear about Maybe this is

487
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: a good point just to talk about this real quick. UM,

488
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Speaker 1: maybe I'll just mentioned it. We'll talk about a little

489
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Speaker 1: bit more. And when I come back, I realized, you know,

490
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Speaker 1: we're national, We're across the country and around the world

491
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Speaker 1: on on the internet on the podcast. Uh. You know

492
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Speaker 1: you heard about the big catastrophe in Virginia where the

493
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Speaker 1: vehicles were stuck for I don't know, twelve fourteen, fifteen

494
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Speaker 1: hours and the electric vehicles were running out of electricity. UM,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what when you can when when when

496
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Speaker 1: we come back, let's pull over, take a pause. I'm Ron.

497
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Speaker 1: Any of the car doctor eight five five zero zero,

498
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Speaker 1: come on back. We'll talk about this and uh ull

499
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Speaker 1: cly and what's going on, because it's a very interesting

500
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Speaker 1: perspective in a way to look at it and what

501
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: actually happened. Don't go away, welcome back, n Any car

502
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Speaker 1: doctor here at five five zero zero should point out

503
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Speaker 1: we've got a great Facebook page, Ron and any in

504
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Speaker 1: the Car doctor. If you're up on Facebook, where we

505
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Speaker 1: try to post daily news stories and things that we

506
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Speaker 1: come across during the course of the week's when we're

507
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: not here talking to you about your car and it's evolution,

508
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: we're up there on Facebook posting stories. We've got some

509
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Speaker 1: good ones up there. We've got another one we're gonna

510
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Speaker 1: put up. Research Kathy just sent me regarding the state

511
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Speaker 1: of New Jersey is now going to eliminate diesel trucks

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Speaker 1: from the roads by and mandate that the state only

513
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Speaker 1: have electric trucks in it. I it might be time

514
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Speaker 1: to move. Um, let's see the Washington Post wrote an

515
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: interesting story, and this is the Washington Post. Charles Lane

516
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Speaker 1: sometimes at three am on Tuesday on the paraphrase this

517
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Speaker 1: an epic forty eight mile a forty eight mile traffic

518
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Speaker 1: jam I Interstate nine five and Virginia dragged on a

519
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Speaker 1: long haul truck from Canada heard a knock at the

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Speaker 1: door of a cab. It was one of the hundreds

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Speaker 1: of other motorists stuck in subfreezing temperature with no food

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Speaker 1: or water. The person was driving a tesla told said

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Speaker 1: the trucker who told the story on Twitter under his

524
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Speaker 1: handle my World through a Windshield, and he's worried about

525
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Speaker 1: running out of power in the cold. It's nineteen degrees fahrenheit.

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Speaker 1: He's a nice guy who's worried about his kids that

527
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Speaker 1: are with him. I gave him some water or spare

528
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Speaker 1: blanket in the thermal blanket as well. My World through

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Speaker 1: a Windshield did not report eventually happened to this driver,

530
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Speaker 1: but the anecdote illustrates an important point. If everyone had

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Speaker 1: been driving an electric vehicles, mess could have well been worse.

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Speaker 1: And the article then goes on to talk about that

533
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Speaker 1: the electric vehicles, and it it talks about that scientific

534
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: fact that batteries of all kind lose capacity more rapidly

535
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Speaker 1: in cold weather, and that includes the sophisticated lithium ion

536
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: ones used by Tesla's and other EVS. Carmakers can and

537
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: will mitigate cold weather range anxiety through various technologies. Tesla

538
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: is now touting a new heat pump to extend winter range.

539
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: Drivers can save battery power by say, turning off the heat.

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00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: The issue cannot be eliminated, however, as Tesla acknowledges on

541
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Speaker 1: its corporate website, it's a hassle on ordinary winter situations,

542
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Speaker 1: but potentially much worse than on a night like this

543
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Speaker 1: past Monday. And as I read through this, you know,

544
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Speaker 1: it's funny. They talk about gas powered cars ran out

545
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Speaker 1: of gas to right, internal combustion engine cars ran out

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Speaker 1: of fuel. They were stranded for anywhere from twelve to

547
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Speaker 1: fifteen hours, depending upon how long you've been there in traffic,

548
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: and you know, could just escape. And but what they're

549
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: not saying is the they the gas powered cars railed

550
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: to be brought five gallons of fuel, you filled it

551
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Speaker 1: up on the site, and you drove away. They had

552
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Speaker 1: to toe the teslas. Nobody's talking about this, not just

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Speaker 1: the teslas, any of the electric vehicles that ran out

554
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Speaker 1: of power because there's no and we've said this before,

555
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Speaker 1: there's no charging station. There's a forty eight mile span

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Speaker 1: of in Virginia I think of outside of Fredericksburg, I thought,

557
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Speaker 1: or Martinsville. I forget where exactly, they said, but there's

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Speaker 1: no there's no charging stations out on the road. And

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Speaker 1: then when the cars eventually ran out of power, they

560
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Speaker 1: had to be towed. What if every vehicle on the

561
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Speaker 1: road was electric Because they want to take us towards

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna start to take a stand now

563
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: because this is just a you know, if they ever

564
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: built a monumented stupidity, whoever is running the electric program

565
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Speaker 1: is going to be at the top of the statue.

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Speaker 1: How are you gonna do that? All these vieas what

567
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna magically not have traff jams where cars run

568
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: out of power, gasoline or otherwise. Look at how long

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Speaker 1: how long does it take if your car needs to

570
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: jump start? Have you ever notice you ever have your

571
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: battery goes dead and you need to jump start in

572
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Speaker 1: cold weather and it seems to be like you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're like grapes. They come in bunches those moments

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Speaker 1: because everybody needs a battery jump start, and you could

575
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Speaker 1: be waiting three or four hours for the Triple A

576
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Speaker 1: or the road service, whoever it is, to get around

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Speaker 1: to you, just because of the sheer number and volume.

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Speaker 1: How many cars do you think we're stuck on couple

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Speaker 1: of hundred What if that couple of hundred cars we're

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Speaker 1: all electric, we got we got four or flatbeds tow

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Speaker 1: trucks sitting around just waiting to do that. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense, But yet nobody's addressing this. I don't

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Speaker 1: hear anybody talking about this. I saw a blip in

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Speaker 1: the news where they talked about how some of the

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Speaker 1: teslas had to be told because they ran up electricity,

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Speaker 1: But no great conversation about it. We don't want to

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Speaker 1: address it. The article goes on to talk about Norway.

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00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: All right, um. It points out that in Norway, Norway

589
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: has a lot of electric cars. Norway has boosted its

590
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Speaker 1: electric vehicle share of new car sales is six twenty

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Speaker 1: one via massive subsidies, far larger than those contemplated in

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Speaker 1: the current Build Back Better legislation. Washington post words not

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Speaker 1: mine yet it has not repealed the law of physics

594
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: in Norway's winter eats losing average twenty of their range.

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Speaker 1: According to the Norwegian Automobile Federation, internal combustion models still

596
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Speaker 1: account for eight vehicles on Norway's roads, partly because those

597
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: Norwegians who body vs generally did so in addition to

598
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: an internal combustion engine car there everybody owned, and the

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00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: government is planning to scale back. It is interesting the

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Speaker 1: Norwegian government has planned to scale back electric vehicle purchasing

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Speaker 1: centers because of the cost which reached three point four

602
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,479
Speaker 1: billion one because even Norway, which is accumulated at one

603
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: point four trillion sovereign Wealth Fund through fossil fuel exports,

604
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: can't afford unlimited green subsidies. By the way, did you

605
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: see the article we put up on the Facebook page?

606
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: And if you if you go there for anything else,

607
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: go look at the article we put up on the

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Speaker 1: Facebook page about the government subsidies. We found I believe

609
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Speaker 1: it was was it fed World, dot government, dot govern

610
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: or something, But it's on our Facebook page where it

611
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: talks about the government subsidies of electric vehicles and the

612
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: incentives you can get by purchasing one. And who do

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00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: those incentives come from? You and me? Brother, That's why

614
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: we've got a reason in a voice to speak our

615
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: mind and make sure if we're gonna go electric, we

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Speaker 1: go and do it right. If that's possible. Zero nine zero,

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Speaker 1: What the heck, Tom, I'm coming out of the closet.

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Speaker 1: Let's go with this full force. It's it's just getting ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome

620
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: back on the name of the car doctor. So let's

621
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: see Tom is writing me a message. There was a caller,

622
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to go on the air of Apparently

623
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: the TV show Shark Tank recently had someone on it

624
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: with a business idea to lease stacks of Tesla or

625
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: other batteries to towing companies for situations similar to the

626
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: were electric vehicles were running out of juice. A chuck

627
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: would show up and give the ev just enough juice

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00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: to get to a charging station and lease it to

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Speaker 1: the likes of a company like Triple A. Great idea,

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Speaker 1: but what happens when there's five hundred disabled vehicles? How

631
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: long will it take to clear five hundred disabled electric

632
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: vehicles from a major roadway. It's it's the point of impracticality. Now, Okay,

633
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Speaker 1: you're gonna come back to me with the argument that

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Speaker 1: Ron there won't be five hundred on the road that

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Speaker 1: many anytime soon. Yeah, but there will be in fifteen

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Speaker 1: years according to the federal government, because we're not going

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Speaker 1: to have internal combustion engine vehicle sales. What part of

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00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: this of my missing where you're telling me one thing

639
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing something different. I don't know. Maybe I

640
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: need to get my glasses fixed. I see that idea working.

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Speaker 1: Here's how the idea works, all right, they need to

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Speaker 1: design the electric vehicle where they can add an additional

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Speaker 1: add on power pack, something that will provide an extended

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Speaker 1: range of say twenty five or thirty miles. So it'll

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Speaker 1: be a bolting all right. The vehicle will have an

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Speaker 1: external port and external plug. You're gonna bolt this battery

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Speaker 1: pack on. However, You're gonna attach it to the vehicle,

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Speaker 1: and that will tie into the vehicle's main system. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I should give this away on air toom.

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Speaker 1: This might be the million dollar idea. Somebody wants the

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Speaker 1: thought of this and that battery pack, that bolt on

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Speaker 1: battery pack will supply enough power to get that vehicle

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Speaker 1: to where it's got to go for a full charge.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that would kind of make sense to me,

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Speaker 1: because you've got to clear the road. That's my point.

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Speaker 1: You've got people stuck. You've got to clear the road,

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Speaker 1: not make everybody wait hours while they're being charged from

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Speaker 1: a couple of toe trucks. Come on, it's gotta make sense.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm runingating in the car, doctor. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts and your input until the next time.

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Speaker 1: Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless, see you one. She was

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Speaker 1: sti