1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Ronan Ian Hyundai is now requiring their dealers to build 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: a storage facility to house their the lithium batteries for 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: the electric vehicles, something akin to a bomb shelter grate. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna you know, fewer ships have that bomb shelters 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: to be saved bomb the Car Doctor. Do you eat 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: cal cuts? Do you like sandwiches? When you go to 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: the deli? What do you usually get? Roast beef turkey those? 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Do you like bologney? It's okay, I like it better 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: than as long as you're enjoying it, because you're getting 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: it at two dollars a pound, brother, because that's what 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: that is. That's a bunch of boulogne. Welcome to the 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: radio home of ron Ananian the Car Doctor, since this 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you 15 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: the garage to orders are open, but I am here 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: to take your calls at five six and now running. 18 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: All right, Look, I'm in a generous mood, so I 19 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: think we're gonna start off this hour by stating that 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: this hour or next hour, next week whenever. But I've 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: opened up the prize closet again. We're giving away a 22 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: copy of the Ford Mustang book sixty four and a 23 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: half through I think present day, Um all about the 24 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: Ford Mustang from its inception, what it's all about. We've 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: given away a few of them. Let's give away another one. 26 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: It's time. We're getting into that time of year where 27 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: people need things for grads and holidays and dads and 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: men moms. You know we can do that. So to 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: a caller of Tom Ray's choosing, I'll leave it up 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: to my executive producer, the great one and only, no bologning, 31 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: not a phony. Tom Ray, Um, you know, is the 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: one who has to be in trouble well because you 33 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: know it's it's your the troublemaker. I read your high school, 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: your book. I know I know who you are. Um, 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: so we're gonna do that this hour, um, next weekend 36 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: while I have you because I haven't said a load 37 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: to you today. Um. Next weekend is Memorial Day weekend. 38 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: So um, we're going to resurrect Uncle Steve next weekend. Hey, Um, 39 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: does that mean you get the trouble and I drive 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: or what no, that means so no, that's this Uncle 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: Steve earned his wings. Um, so he's he's flying high now. 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, let's let's do Uncle Steve next weekend. I 43 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: actually think I have a clip that we've haven't aired 44 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: in probably ten years. Um, I'm gonna get that to 45 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: you and let's see if we can. I'm not sure 46 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: because we did it when we were on another radio 47 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: station and I'm not sure what we mentioned. And um, 48 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: un uncle, even even the stuff that we've had before. 49 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking about him, uh this past week. 50 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: It must be on my mind coming up a Memorial 51 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: Day because it's just not the same without him. And 52 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: you know, he exemplified that whole generation of Ken Do 53 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: you know, That's that's what it was all about. They 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: didn't you know, he could have been I always think 55 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: there's a cartoon of the uh of the frog that's 56 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: in the pelican's mouth and the frog a struggling to 57 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: get out, and you know, never give up, don't don't 58 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: stop the fight. And that was Uncle Steve down to 59 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: the left. You know, he just uh he remember him 60 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: telling me, I said, what was it like when you 61 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: went overseas? And he goes, I felt sorry for the Germans. 62 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: He says, we were just going to kick the crap 63 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: out of him. UM, and he just you know, facing 64 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: overwhelming odds. You know, UM, no flight plan, no ideas, 65 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: what the heck today, We're gonna beat him up. Okay, 66 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: good Uncle Steve. I and that permeated through his entire life, 67 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: it really did. But anyway, that'll be coming up next week. 68 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: We'll do, we'll do, we'll do a reappearance of Uncle 69 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: Steve with a uh, with an interview. UM recent article 70 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: and UM, listen, I'm not here. I'm not making up 71 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: the news, folks. I'm just kind of reporting. If this 72 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: comes to us from clean techniqua out on the web. 73 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: A quarterball all electric vehicle chargers don't work. Half of 74 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: car trips are less than three miles, written by Steve Hanley. 75 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: It's goes on to say we don't need cars with 76 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: five miles of range, we need chargers that work. You know, 77 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: I went to I attended the UM, I attended the 78 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: conversion of my future son of los batched the last weekend. Then, 79 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: as it turned out, sitting at the table next to me, 80 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: and I think they might have done this on purpose, 81 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: was a gentleman. His initials were CEJ because that's that's 82 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: all I know him, as he was kind of anonymous. 83 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: He owned a Tesla, and we had this really great 84 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: conversation and I warned him. I said, you know, I 85 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: told him who I was, I told him what I do, 86 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,799 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, understand, if you say something 87 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: to him me technically on the press, I'm going to 88 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: report on. He said, that's fine. I said, I may 89 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: even put you up on air, because he actually said 90 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: to me. We got through the whole conversation and I said, 91 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: would you buy another one? He said, honestly, no, it's 92 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: just a lot of work to have to deal with it, 93 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: with the range issues and the plug in. He said, 94 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: my wife would want another one. But my wife doesn't 95 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: have to deal with any of it. I do all 96 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: the work and she just gets in the car and drives. So, 97 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: you know, it was just kind of an interesting take 98 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: on it. He said. He he he enjoys the acceleration. 99 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: Um it's you know, zero to sixty and three seconds. 100 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: He said. The range is of pain in the neck. 101 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: He said it was something else, but can't say that 102 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: on family radio, uh, he said, And he doesn't understand 103 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: how it really is the car for everybody, because his 104 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: TESTA three was sixty one dollars, and he said, and 105 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: that's got a three hundred mile range, almost three hundred 106 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: and fifty depending upon what electrical components he uses. They're 107 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: coming out with one that will do four hundred miles. 108 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: But it's a ninety thousand dollar car. And you know, 109 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: he said to me, he said, Ron, I just don't 110 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: see where we're gonna go with this, that it's going 111 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: to become practical, you know, anytime in the next couple 112 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: of years. He said, I understand why. It just I 113 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: just don't understand the need. I just don't think we 114 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: have the technology to do it, and it seems like 115 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: we're doing it blindly. And then I stumbled across this 116 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: article courtesy of Research Kathy. She's been at it. I 117 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: haven't mentioned her for a while. She's still down there 118 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: in the library and the research dungeon where we where 119 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: we keep her. And um, you know, she's she's doing 120 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,559 Speaker 1: what she has to do. Uh. Figures lie in lies figure. 121 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: So make your own judgment about the following statistics. This 122 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: is the article from Clean Techniqua, who provide some insight 123 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: into electric vehicle revolution when recent studies suggests a quarter 124 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: of all public home chargers don't do what they're supposed 125 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: to do. What what are needed? The articles kind of 126 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: chopped up here. What are needed? Are charges that work? 127 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: The California Air Research Board did her survey recently California drivers, 128 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: regarding the ratitudes about electric vehicles and at of owners 129 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: said concerns about finding charges that worked was making them 130 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: hesitant to drive an electric vehicle. Another major concern was 131 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: to how to pay for charging stations. Electric vehicle sites 132 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: like read it or filled with stories of people who 133 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: couldn't get electric vehicle charges to work or didn't have 134 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: accounts with the companies which operate the charger see. I 135 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: want to know I have to tread lightly on this topic, 136 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: but you're gonna take a thirty three thousand dollars supercharger 137 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: and leave it in parts of the country that you 138 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: know aren't exactly leave it to Beaverville, all right, I'm 139 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: dating myself by that. All right, you know it's not 140 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: gonna be you know, non crime written good parts of 141 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: the country. You're gonna leave this big tower filled with 142 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: copper and electronic boards. What are the odds it's gonna 143 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: be there when you need it. What are the odds 144 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: it's gonna work? Um? You know, it'd be interesting to 145 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: go back and look at pay phones. Remember pay phones. 146 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: I remember pay phones. I'm old, I'll admit it. I 147 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: don't care, all right. I remember when payphones dotted the 148 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: landscape and you would get the certain parts of town 149 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: and the pay phone. The booth was ransacked, the receiver 150 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: was gone, the phone book was ripped in half, the 151 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: door was half off the thing because of vandalism. And 152 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: what are they going to do to prevent vandalism on 153 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: electric vehicle charging stations? But we don't need to worry 154 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: about that. Somebody's got that figured out. The article goes 155 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: on to say, no one has any problem paying for 156 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: gas at the pump. That's true, because you get a 157 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: credit card or cash. But finding a charger that works 158 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: and we'll accept payment for electricity used is often a crapshoot. 159 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: Their words, not mine. Imagine if drivers of ordinary cars 160 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: had a deal with such issues every time they needed 161 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: to fill up. You know, I was talking to Mark 162 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: Mills not too long ago, and we we kind of 163 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: went over his testimony in front of Congress and he 164 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: brought this up again, the commentary about take a ten 165 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: unit or a ten pump charging station somewhere anywhere in 166 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: the city, out in the country. And that ten pump 167 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: charging station, if it takes ten minutes to charge up 168 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: a car, you know a give or take that, that 169 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: pump can do six to eight cars an hour. But 170 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: an electric vehicle charging station with a supercharger that takes 171 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: forty minutes to fill the tank. And by the way, 172 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: my contact, my inside man, CJ, who drives the Tesla, 173 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: said yeah, he says that forty minutes is really more 174 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: like an hour. He goes, in forty minutes, you'll get 175 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: about an eight charge. He said, you really have to 176 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: leave it there for a while longer to get a 177 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: full charge. Um, how are we going to charge all 178 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: these cars? Are we gonna have hundred unit charging stations? 179 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: And where will they fit? Is the entire landscape going 180 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: to be made up of electric vehicle charging stations? It 181 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me, Dave Rymple points out, 182 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: and closing the article says, as a retired professor of 183 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley and a member 184 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: of Cool the Earth, no nonprofit focused on cutting carbon emissions. 185 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: According to Business Insider magazine, members of that organization went 186 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: to a one public fast charging locations in the San 187 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: Francisco Bay area and tested six d and fifty seven 188 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: individual plugs. They found only sev the charges were operational. 189 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: The connector was labeled functional if it's successfully charged an 190 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: EV for two minutes, or if the volunteers observed an 191 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: electric car was already charging. Tesla superchargers were excluded from 192 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: the study since they are only available to Tesla drivers 193 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: and work of the time. You know, listen, let's let's 194 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: call it what it is. How's how's this gonna work out? Um? 195 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Somebody has to explain this to me. I don't understand. 196 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: So when I come back, somebody give me a call. 197 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: If five five zero, If you've got thoughts about electric fields, 198 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: if you're an electric vehicle owner, I'd like to hear 199 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: from you today. Come on, open mind, open form, let's 200 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: talk about it. Are they really practical? Were knee deep 201 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: in these things? You see them everywhere? Now? Is everybody 202 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: is happy with an electric vehicle? And I guess the 203 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: ultimate question is would you buy another one? Okay, if 204 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: you had the option today? If so, why and if not, 205 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: why not call me eight five five five zero nine 206 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: nine zero zero Ron and nating the Car Doctor at 207 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: your service. I'll be right back. That's right. If you 208 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: call and we're not live, you can leave a message 209 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: and we'll call you back to get you on the 210 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: air with Ron. Eight five five zero nine nine zero zero. 211 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: Speaking of Ron, here he is. By the way, I 212 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: should point out I've been trying to get car Doctor 213 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: T shirts made. Do you know there's a did you 214 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: know there's a supply shortage? Yeah? There is. I can't 215 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: find the T shirts that I want, so I may 216 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: not be able to do him this season, but it 217 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: is on my mind. I do seem to be having 218 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: a burgeoning supply of snap On T shirts, and we'll 219 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: start giving some of those away just for the heck 220 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: of it, even though snap On has got nothing to 221 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: do with the show. But my wife says, you can't 222 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: put all those things in the closet. It's uh, it's just, 223 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: you know, there's only so much room in the house. 224 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: I'm starting to give things away now. I've reached that age. Anyway, 225 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: Let's go over to Chris and Wisconsin talk about electric vehicles. Chris. 226 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. Sir, how can I help? Hey, 227 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Well, I'm calling in on the 228 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: electrical vehicle topic. I do not have an electrical vehicle. 229 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: But the reason why I'm calling in is I am 230 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: a developer and we have a development going right now 231 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: and in the state of Wisconsin. They are making us 232 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,119 Speaker 1: put in tens of thousands of dollars where the electrical 233 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: equipment that normally we would not have to put in 234 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: because of we have to build the grid so each 235 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: and every house can be supported for an electric vehicle. Well, 236 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: so wait and so, so you're building the house and 237 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: you're putting the charger right into the price of the house, 238 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: whether they want it or not. Actually, no, we're we're developing. 239 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: We're putting in the roads, the streets, the electrical grid. 240 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: We're actually getting the development ready or builders. But we 241 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: have to have the grid designed for every home to 242 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: be able to support that load. Because part of the 243 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: puzzle that nobody is looking at. For easy numbers, and 244 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: this is from our electric company. For easy numbers, let's 245 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: say a grid of homes in these fifties old neighborhoods. 246 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 1: Let's say so the grid of homes is a hundred homes, 247 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: so only twenty of them get an electric vehicle, that 248 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: grid will no longer support the load that is being 249 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: put on just because of those electric vehicles being charged overnight. Wow, 250 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: So what if everybody has an electric vehicle? Then what 251 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: do you do? Well, then then each and every neighborhood, 252 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: the electrical uh system underground in our area would have 253 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: to be updated to what we're putting in today in 254 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: this in this development. Now keep in mind, in our 255 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: development it was an open, big old farm, so we're 256 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: putting in everything. Can you imagine going into these hundred 257 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 1: and two hundred year old neighborhoods in the cities and 258 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: putting in an entire new electrical grid to support the 259 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: demand that's going to be required, And in some areas 260 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: they already have brown outs, so they can't do the 261 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: demand now. And let alone the electrical grids underground that 262 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: support each and every home. You know, if if they 263 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: cross over to there's no way it's going to it 264 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: won't support the loads. So there's just no absolute way 265 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: for this tourk. So So let me ask this question. 266 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: If you have this answer, the average home and I 267 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: was talking with someone this week about it. So let's 268 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: say the average house has a two amp service, that's 269 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: you know central air, you know computers, this, that TVs, 270 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: you know, a four bedroom center hall, colonial kind of thing. 271 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: It's got a two hundred amp service. What how big 272 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: of how big of an addition to that service do 273 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: they need for an electric car charging station another hundred 274 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: ams to be safe? Um? I don't know the answer 275 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: to that specifically, but like the older neighborhoods, a lot 276 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: of the homes are seventy and a hundred and fifty 277 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: amp service, so they they'll have to update the home 278 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: no matter what. It's the outside grid that won't support 279 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: it right well, and then that's my next question. Then, So, 280 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: like in your scenario, you're saying that in your development, 281 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: you're setting it up so that in your development you're 282 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: putting up the homes will be equipped to charge electric vehicles, 283 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: right If I understood you correctly, UM, I'm sorry, it 284 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: must not have explained it by by the new requirements 285 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,119 Speaker 1: we have to have. We had to have the electrical 286 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: system designed for each and every home to have one 287 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: where did that We had to put in the proper 288 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: wires in the ground to support that kind of demand, 289 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: whether or not, whether they're going to have an electric 290 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: vehicle or not. Their anticipate for the future in there. Okay, 291 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: so then you've got the grid in place. Let's say 292 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: you build your development and you've got the grid in place, 293 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: and thanks for clearing that up, Chris. Now, now that 294 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: you've got the grid in place, I got asked, as 295 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: you said, where does the electricity come from? Does does 296 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: this is Wisconsin? Does the Wisconsin Power Utility have the 297 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: ability to support that development and other developments like it? Yeah? 298 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that. We're just required 299 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: to to make it happen. So if it does go electric, 300 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: we don't have to replace the wires underground. Again, Wow, 301 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: but I can't imagine that they do. You know, does 302 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: Wisconsin have any power ballouts or shortages? Now? Not today? No? No? Right. 303 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: You know. I was talking to someone the other day 304 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: and we were talking about this very thing as well, 305 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: and we were talking about Texas because I think two 306 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: weeks ago in Texas, Texas was under a heat wave 307 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: and they were having problems with brown outs already that 308 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: the governor of Texas was making some changes and talking 309 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: about some mandates that he was going to put in 310 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: place to help support or you know, build the electrical 311 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: grid to the point that it could at least support 312 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: current demand. I can't imagine now having to increase that. Um. 313 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: So can I ask you something, Chris? How old are you? Okay? 314 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: Do you do you? Do you consider an electric vehicle 315 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: in your future? I do not? Why not? Um? In 316 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: my future? Maybe many many many years, But in today's world, 317 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: I do not. I think the card is not only 318 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: before the horse, but the card is three blocks ahead 319 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: of the horse. And they haven't even got the horse 320 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: out of the barn yet, right right? Do you happen 321 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: to know? Off off, off hand? Air Wisconsin gets its 322 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: electricity from? Like, what do you guys do to generate it? 323 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: Is it coal? Is it natural gas? Is it nuclear? 324 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: What are you doing to generate all your electricity? Any idea? Well, 325 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: we used to have a small nuclear um years ago, 326 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: but they closed it out almost fifty years ago, and 327 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: now they took the whole thing down. But it's it's 328 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: more than likely coal from up north. And we do 329 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: have some wind now rum, but it's that's not as 330 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: dependable obviously if the winds are not blowing. So yeah, 331 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: um I was speaking with you know, I'm not sure 332 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: if you've heard him or remember it's been about a 333 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: year since we had him on the show. He had 334 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: James Lebreck on the show, who was the energy advisor 335 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: to the Governor Remain at one point a M I T. 336 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: Graduate Civil engineer, et cetera, and we had a conversational exchange. 337 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks back. He sent me a note 338 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: that they've calculated now that for every one hundred and 339 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: fifty thousand electric vehicles, you will need one nuclear power 340 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: plant to generate the electricity to charge them. Kind of 341 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: kind of a sobering and staggering number by any stretch 342 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: of the imagination. So that's what we have to look 343 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: forward to. Chris, good luck in your endeavors, and I 344 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: appreciate you taking part and thanks for calling in. UM 345 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: keep us updated as things evolved. We're always glad to 346 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: look at this issue and helped bring the facts to 347 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: the listeners and keep everybody abreast. I'm running any in 348 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: the car Doctor. We'll be back right after this. Hey, 349 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: welcome back right needing the car Doctor here at eight 350 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: five zero. Keep in mind that number seven. You can 351 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: call that number anytime, day or night, leave a message. 352 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: Executive producer, chief cook and bottle washer. Tom Ray, the 353 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: one on only no phone even, not no bologning, not 354 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: a phony whatever. Tom Ray, the best, the best radio 355 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: engineer the ever was. We'll I'll call you back and 356 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: put you in the Q for the next live broadcast. 357 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: Let's go to Kevin in New Hampshire. Kevin, Welcome to 358 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: the car doctice, Sir. What's going on? Yes, called up 359 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: to make my case for why I should get that 360 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: Mustang book. You're one of those guys, Okay, so let's 361 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: give the floor to Kevin. Kevin, why should you get 362 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: the Mustang book? Well, because my Mustang has a little 363 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: bit of a story behind it. Tell us the Mustang 364 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: in the movie Bullet was in nineteen sixty eight three 365 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: ninett and what I have is in nineteen sixty seven 366 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: three nine gt Um, and I got it when I 367 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: was in high school. Boy in the buddy of mine 368 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: and uh. At the same time that I had my car, 369 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: another buddy had a nineteen seventy four fifteen five Stage one, 370 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: New York and he thought my mustangs sen he's fuel. 371 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: So there's only way school Um. The interesting stared about it. 372 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: Is it? Fast forward about nine five. I had the 373 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: vehicles steward behind the gas station where I worked, and 374 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: it got stolen, but Marge perhaps in five and uh, 375 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: I kind of have an idea who they have taken it, 376 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: but I couldn't prove it, so I figured, Okay, well 377 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: that's gone. Um. One of the interesting things that bought 378 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: the collars that it had brushed the luminum door panels 379 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: and brushed the luminum overhead console, and a brushed the 380 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: rouminum dashboard, which was the feature you typically would find 381 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: going on shelves. UM, so that's not December of nineteen 382 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: eighty six. I'm driving in a neighboring town and I 383 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: see my Mushtang go by on the flat bed of 384 00:20:54,080 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: a throw truck brying. Yeah. And he's very extinctive because 385 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: the original call it was with goals and UM. The 386 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: person they had had my friend had bought this cop from, 387 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: had painted at orange, kind of a reddish orange, and 388 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: the inlays around the headlight buzzels were painted god glossy black, 389 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: and the back panel around the fuel filler and the 390 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: tail lighters painted glossy black. So it wasn't just any 391 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: Mustang rolling down the road in the back of the 392 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: flag bed really were able to get it back. I 393 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 1: called the police. They said it unless you have the title, 394 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: you know, which is defining we can do. Went to 395 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: my parents house in fourteen years after the fact. I 396 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,199 Speaker 1: came up with the title, brought it to the police. 397 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,719 Speaker 1: They went, they where the Ki've been told, matched the numbers, 398 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: and I got the combat As we speak now, it's 399 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: um in the back down my back of my house. 400 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: The ten bull top cover transmission and the camshaft and 401 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: the crankshaft and the valve train is all done in 402 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: my basement. The engine blockers in the garage. And uh, 403 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: last time I had enough money to actually do something 404 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: about putting it back together, I went out and bought 405 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: a ninet speech contour instead. Can I Can I tell 406 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: you something, Kevin? Yeah, you had me. You had me 407 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: when you said the movie Bullets. So stand by. Tom's 408 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 1: gonna get your information, and uh, you know you're you're 409 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: a Mustang dude. I can tell you you get it. 410 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: Uh you know it's uh, it's it's good to see 411 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: and good to hear. So stand by, we're gonna be 412 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: sending you out a copy of the complete book of 413 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: Ford Mustang every model since sixty four and a half, 414 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: written by the great Mike Mueller, and they'll be sending 415 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: that out your way. Let Tom get your information. We'll 416 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: send that along. And uh, you know what, it's great 417 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: that you bought a new one put the old one 418 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: back together while you can still get parts, because it's 419 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: just that critical nowadays. So but good stuff. Man, I'm 420 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: glad you got the car back. Nothing worse than seeing 421 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: it's lost. You know, nobody talks about and thanks Heaven, 422 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: that book will get that out this week. Nobody's gonna 423 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 1: talk about electric vehicles like that. Listen to the passion 424 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: in that guy's voice, Listen to the stories, Listen to 425 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: the the the commitment to a vehicle. And you know, 426 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: if you put a bunch of gear heads in a 427 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: room and asked them what was the significance of their 428 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: car at that point in their life they were younger. 429 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: It gave them the ability to experiment and try different things. 430 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: It gave them a feeling of self confidence. That gave 431 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: them the ability to learn how to repair something and 432 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: feel good about it, you know, to take a wrench 433 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: in their hand. It blows my mind when a young person, 434 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: and I blame more us as a generation, blows my 435 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: mind when a young person has a car towed into 436 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: the shop with a flat tire because they don't know 437 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: how to change a flat. I don't think my I 438 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 1: don't think my wife's father would have led her out 439 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: of the house if he knew that I couldn't at 440 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: least change a flat to get us home from wherever 441 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: we were. You know, I just, I just, and I listen, 442 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. We wouldn't let our girls out of the 443 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: house to go out on dates if we didn't know 444 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: they could at least change a flat, which they all can. 445 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: Whether the guy can or not, that's a whole another story. Um, 446 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: probably would have been pretty embarrassing to have the girl 447 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: changed the flat tire instead of the guy. But um, 448 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,719 Speaker 1: you get my points. So Kevin books on its way 449 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: to you, brother, and we'll get that out to you 450 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: this week. This week coming, let's pull over, take a pause. 451 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna go to Brian and 452 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: Virginia and see continue the conversation about electric vehicles. Evidently 453 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: I hit a nerve today eight five five five zero 454 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. The car doctors coming back right 455 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away. That's not pensy. She was there. 456 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: She woke up and took me by the hand. And 457 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: that's all night with me. Welcome back at five five 458 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero the car doctor phone number. 459 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: Let's go over to Brian and Virginia. Brian, what's on 460 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: your mind? By the way round and of your show? 461 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: But I'm calling to uh talk about the electric car um. 462 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have one, but a customer of 463 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: mine has one, and it just so happened while I 464 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: was listening to your shows, and the shop port and 465 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: a set of cylinder heads for him for a y 466 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: block forward and I figured out calling because he brought 467 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: the heads over to me in his tesla. Brian explained 468 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: to everybody, explained to everybody what you're what you're talking about, 469 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: because you and I speak at different language. On the 470 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 1: rest of the people, I know what you're doing when 471 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: you're porting heads. Tell everybody what porting heads is. Oh, 472 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: we're taking a basically a stock casting um then this 473 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: is a head and opening up the ports to give 474 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: a little bit better airflow and a little bit of performance, 475 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: kind of like making you breathe better through your nose. Yeah, yeah, okay, 476 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: go ahead, I just want everybody understand it. Go ahead, brother, 477 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: what are you doing? So anyway, he must have he 478 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: must have figured I was looking at him a little 479 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: bit sideways, I guess, but he said, he said, yeah, 480 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: he said, you know, people wonder I'm doing. I'm rebuilding 481 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: this these rebuild all these cars and restirre these cars 482 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: in my spare time. And I'm running around in the Tesla. 483 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: And he says, basically, it's a really fun car to drive, 484 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: but I have another car for real stuff, because you know, 485 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: you're because of the limited range. Um. Now, his story 486 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: on it was he took it on a longer, long 487 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: enough trip that he had to charge it once at 488 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: a UH and there was a Tesla supercharger there. It 489 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: took him twenty minutes to get it to eight percent, 490 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: and then he got home and then he put it 491 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: on his house charger. Um, I don't know how. I 492 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: don't know what kind of draw is on those house chargers. 493 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: He said, he really didn't notice much on his power bill. 494 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: But you know that's his that's his case, and you know, 495 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: I think he probably drives a twenty miles a day 496 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: or something to work back and forth and then just 497 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: bloats it in at night. So would you ever buy what, Brian? 498 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: Would you ever? I don't. Do you ever see yourself 499 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: an electric vehicle? Uh? Maybe as a fun car, but 500 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,479 Speaker 1: not I mean, if I want something that's quieter than 501 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: my Mustang, yeah maybe, but um, not as a primary vehicle. Um, 502 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: just because I don't think the infrastructure is going to 503 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: be there for I think I'm gonna be retired from 504 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: the engine business by the time the infrastructure is really there. 505 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: How long you been in the engine business? Um? Well, 506 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: we started this company about five years ago. I had 507 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 1: been in various forms of motorsports, and I grew up 508 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: as a child and a teenager and a another engine 509 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: shop up in Pennsylvania that you know, did forklift engine. 510 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: So I kind of just got back into it, right. 511 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: So so so let me ask you that you know, 512 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: you've been doing this since you were fifteen probably younger. 513 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: How old are you know? Uh? Do you see yourself doing? So? 514 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: Are you sorry the road you took? Are you happy 515 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: with the work that you do? You enjoy it? Right? No? Yeah? 516 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: I like it. I mean I've done other things and 517 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: there was a gap where I wasn't doing this because 518 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: I did other things and kind of came back to 519 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: it because I like it. So what does your shop 520 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: do are you? Are you doing you know, just race 521 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: engine stuff or you're doing just straight engine rebuilds. Um No, 522 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: I was a racer. I know how they pay their bills, 523 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: so um, we tend to do more just straight rebuilds. 524 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: Right now. We do a lot more cylinder head jobs 525 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: than anything because getting parts for full engine rebuilds has 526 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: been a nightmare right now? Is that? Is that a 527 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: problem in the last year, the last five years? When 528 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: did the when did the problems with the complete engine 529 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: rebuild start? Uh? For the most part midway through last year, 530 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: unless it was you know, something some old you know, 531 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: sometimes we'll do uh an antique engine and some of 532 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: those who are parts ran out a lot faster than 533 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: than some other stuff that you know. It's always just 534 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: like one little, one little part that you're waiting on 535 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: for three months or something. How busy? How busy are you? Brian? 536 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: How backed up is the shop? Uh? Backed up? In 537 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: the shop. We've got such a small shop that I 538 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: have to tell people, Hey, I can't take it yet. 539 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: So you know, do you have work for the next 540 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: three months? We might have five or six head jobs 541 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: going and too complete engine builds because I just can't 542 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: keep the shop full of engines and I can't get 543 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: parts for us. You gotta kind of staggered. And so 544 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: do you have work for the next ninety days and 545 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: twenty days next year? You just, uh, I think we're 546 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: good for I think we're good for probably the next 547 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: six months. And you know what part of it? Where's 548 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: where's the shop? Brian? What part of Virginia? And there's 549 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: a reason I'm asking this. I want to I want 550 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: to see some thing here. What part of Virginia it's called. 551 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: It's called Bumpus Virginia. Okay, And what's the name of 552 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: the shop? Give yourself a plug ahead? All right? Words, 553 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: you're on enterprises, And how many shops around you are 554 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: rebuilding engines? You know, how many competitors? Do you have 555 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: other shops like that doing that? Well, we're we're kind 556 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: of in the middle of nowhere. Um, so there's some shops, 557 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: you know, maybe we're forty minutes from anything, and there 558 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: may be there's a couple of race a couple of 559 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: people who do mostly race engine stuff. And there's one 560 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: big shop about fifty minutes away from us that you 561 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: know they'll they'll do just about anything. Would it? Would 562 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: it stagger your mind if I told you in North Jersey, 563 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: anything north of the city of Newark up there probably 564 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: isn't an engine machine shop in that part of the state. 565 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: Is that crazy? Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, nothing is crazy? 566 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: Yeah in north in North Jersey, we're we're we're in Waldwick, 567 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: New Jersey, all right, which is about I don't know, 568 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen miles twenty miles outside of New 569 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: York City as the crow flies and uh, um, you know, 570 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: if we tell somebody the car needs an engine, they're 571 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: replacing the car. If we tell somebody that, if we 572 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: tell somebody they need four tires in a set of breaks, 573 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: they might replace the car. So around here, an engine 574 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: shop is just something that doesn't exist anymore. That's why 575 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: I wanted you to expand the porting the heads thing, 576 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: because I'm seeing more and more machine shops drop off 577 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: the face, and I think it's a crime. I think 578 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot of value in a machine 579 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: shop and what you guys used to do, um, you know, 580 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: especially I think I think it's becoming more of a 581 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: value today. Just because you can't get stuff right, you 582 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: gotta fix it. You can't get new cars anyway. You 583 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: gotta fix what you got. Ye, Hey, Brian, I gotta go. 584 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: But thanks for being there, man, and I appreciate you 585 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: calling it and sharing your stories, and good luck to 586 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: you in your business. And you do real well. All right, 587 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: be safe, all right, you're very welcome. Bye bye. I'm 588 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: ruing any in the car doctor. We'll be back right 589 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:19,479 Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back, run name the car doctor, um 590 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: real quick. Martin sent this into us a couple of 591 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: weeks back. We had a caller who had in gosh, 592 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: I think it was like a two thousand early two 593 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: thousands something big block Chevy pickup truck that when he 594 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: was loaded up with his snowplow on it and overheated. 595 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: And Martin sent us a note, Hey, Ron, look at 596 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: the plow flow Master snowplow overheating solution. So if our 597 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: listeners still out there, plow flow Master is a device 598 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: that mounts on top of the plow and helps direct 599 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: air back into an across and through the radiator to 600 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: help cool the vehicle down so that the plow isn't 601 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: in such a problem in an obstruction, Uh, Martin, I 602 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: appreciate it. That's about a month old him. I'm late 603 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: getting to it, but let's get it out on the airwaves. 604 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: Um for christ and Wisconsin who called then with his 605 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: comments about the electric vehicles and building the grid, the 606 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: question I failed to ask him, and I apologize for this, 607 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: but I thought about it after the fact. How many 608 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: homes is he putting into that development and at what 609 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: additional cost? And obviously the cost of that has to 610 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: go into the price of the home. It's going to 611 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: raise the price of every home built. And the bigger point, 612 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: if I understood him correctly, his concern and I've said 613 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: this myself, So what are you gonna do in the 614 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: old neighborhoods? What are you gonna do? Go in and 615 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: rebuild everything? You know, I'm thinking we should go down 616 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: and buy home depot stock because you know, all those 617 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: extension cords hanging out the windows have to come from 618 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: somewhere to charge all these things. And uh uh, you 619 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: know it just kind of makes me wonder. Um. You know, 620 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: so evidently the electric car front. Yeah, I'm back on 621 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: it again, folks. Listen, I'm just reporting the news. I'm 622 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: not making it up like some places. Um, the Ford 623 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: Bronco is under scrutiny. You know, somebody was telling me 624 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: that they wanted to purchase their daughter or their daughter 625 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: wanted a new Ford Bronco and they can't get when 626 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: there's like a year backlog on these things. Kind of 627 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: make sure. Wonder this article came out May second of 628 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: this May second, so there's a new article. Uh, this 629 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: is on car Buzz. The Ford Bronco might be one 630 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,280 Speaker 1: of the hottest off rotors at the moment, with demand 631 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: exceeding supply, but you might want to rethink it if 632 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: you had one coming with the two point seven leader 633 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 1: Eco Boost. There's a conversation about the three ten horse 634 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 1: power two point seven twin turbo or V six Eco 635 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: Boost power train. Blowing up first appeared on December last year. 636 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: One blown ng is not a cause for concern, but 637 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: there's been a bunch more and now Ford is saying 638 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: that they've got a problem. They're dropping intake valves. We 639 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: could have asked, we could have asked Brian about this, 640 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: but evidently they're having problems with bad valve stems, a 641 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: bad batch of valves. Ford received from a third party 642 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: supplier that UM is allowing these engines, are causing these 643 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: engines to fail and create all sorts of operating issues. So, uh, 644 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: it seems that the supply chain problem is reaching everywhere 645 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: and it's UM, it's it's just going to continue to 646 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: go on. So we've just got to be aware. So, UM, 647 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: if you're buying a new Broncho and it's got the 648 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: to seven and it asked him, hey, am I getting 649 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: the one with the replacement engine that comes in the 650 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: glove compartment because the first one is gonna blow up 651 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: in a thousand miles because that's how fast they're failing. Um, 652 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: it just never ends. But yet we're gonna make the 653 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: electric car perfect and it will never have a problem. 654 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: You believe that I got some motion from property in 655 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: Arizona to sell you until the next time I'm running 656 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: any of the car. Doc. You're reminding you good mechanics 657 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you