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Speaker 1: know where all these radio waves are going. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: long here on thank you. So yeah, I have two

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Speaker 1: Let me ask the heart and simple questions. Seven thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's the worst idea. It's not the worst idea. If

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Speaker 1: And and you know this is probably a bad solenoid, okay,

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Speaker 1: Because it's about the relationship and that's what you need

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Speaker 1: you more, alright, alright, you'd be safe, take good care. Um, yeah, listen,

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Speaker 1: You know? And then I said that Danny, I said,

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Speaker 1: and gets into an accident, gee, who plugged the tire?

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Speaker 1: Oh that guy? That guy run up the street. Oh well,

426
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 1: you know, the guy'll be living in my house all right,

427
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: or his wife will after the estate after he has

428
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Speaker 1: a fatality. You know, you gotta think like that with

429
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Speaker 1: auto repair. There are two ton missiles going down the road.

430
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Speaker 1: You've got to just be so careful. It's just the

431
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Speaker 1: way of the world. So let's pull over and take

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Speaker 1: an early pause for the cause I'm run in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. We'll be back right after this. Welcome back

434
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Speaker 1: round naming the car doctor at your service at five

435
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Speaker 1: five zero is the phone number. Let's get over to

436
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Speaker 1: Jim and Georgia. Oh six four three, Jim, how can

437
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: I help run an Adian? At your service? Well, I

438
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: yuh have this van and uh it had a lot

439
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: of play in the steering. So we took it to

440
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: a mechanic and they replaced all the front end pacts

441
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Speaker 1: because it's got seventy a hundred and seventy six thousand

442
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Speaker 1: miles on it. So they gave it new ball joints, tyrods,

443
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Speaker 1: all the front end parts. And now we got it back.

444
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: And when we turned the wheel, it wants to stay turned. Uh,

445
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: you have to manually bring it back to straight. So

446
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: whatever direction you turn the wheel, Uh, if you let

447
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: go of it, it's gonna stay turned like that. It's

448
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: like everything's too tight. Did he did did you take

449
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: it back to him and show it to him? Well,

450
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: he knew about it. He told me it was like that,

451
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: and he told me it was a lot worse before

452
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Speaker 1: he returned it to me. He told me, well, it's

453
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Speaker 1: better now. Uh, and as you drive it it may

454
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Speaker 1: loosen up because it's all new parts and everything and

455
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: they're probably tight. So uh, if it doesn't loosen up

456
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: after you drive it a while, let you know about it.

457
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: Was it like and it wasn't like that beforehand? Correct? Well,

458
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: beforehand it had a lot of play in it. You

459
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: could turn the steering wheel, you know, from kind of

460
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: clock to two o'clock and it would keep going straight.

461
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: There a lot of play in the steer but that's

462
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: why we took it in. But play in the steering

463
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Speaker 1: wheel is different than return ability. If we can add

464
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Speaker 1: that word to the English dictionary. Right, it would still

465
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Speaker 1: if you if you made if you made a far

466
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Speaker 1: left turn, the wheel would come back to approximate center. Correct,

467
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Speaker 1: it would return on its own. Yeah, okay, so yeah,

468
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Speaker 1: let's not confuse where with with how it returns. So

469
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Speaker 1: two things come to mind. The first is, well, three, actually,

470
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Speaker 1: did he replace the steering box or just steering steering

471
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Speaker 1: linkage like ball joints and tyrods. He did not replace

472
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: the steering box. That's fine, that's fine. So you know

473
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: that's good because that eliminates one possibility. Second, you know,

474
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: is could be castor. Castor is a measurement of wheel

475
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Speaker 1: alignment if it has If it has incorrect castor set

476
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Speaker 1: up in the system, it will affect how well the

477
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: wheel returns. Did he happen to give you a print

478
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Speaker 1: out after the alignment? Um? I don't know if I

479
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: got a print out of that. But he did do

480
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Speaker 1: an alignment, Okay, so you know, and I'm not saying

481
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Speaker 1: he did or didn't. I don't know what kind of

482
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: mechanics this gentleman is that worked on the vehicle. But

483
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: some mechanics are stuck on. Well, they'll set toe and

484
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: let it go. You know. Camber and castor is adjustable

485
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: on that vehicle. It would require shims. This should be

486
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Speaker 1: a beam from a beam front axle right and and

487
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: no six three fifty Does that ring any bells? A

488
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Speaker 1: beam style front acts four ball joints did they charge

489
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Speaker 1: you for yes? Okay, so it's a be axel. So

490
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: this should have upper shims that can be replaced to

491
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: said camber and castor. My first question, easy question is

492
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: was that done? Was it done properly? Second and then

493
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: third would be yes, I have seen tight ball joints

494
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Speaker 1: on those vehicles. Um, Sometimes it depends on how they're

495
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: put in. UM, in terms of are they are they

496
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Speaker 1: a little too zealous when they're pressing them in Sometimes

497
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: they can distort the housings. Um, Are they centered? I've

498
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: had occasion where I've got a trick where I will

499
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: center the ball joined in the knuckle, being careful how

500
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: I put it in, so that I don't put any

501
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: extra load on it. It's it's a matter of press

502
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Speaker 1: uh talent, so to speak, for a better way to

503
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: put it. Um. You know, if he were to disconnect

504
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: the steering linkage up in the air and turn the wheel,

505
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: is the wheel really hard to turn? If so, then

506
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: this is a ball joint issue. And you know, if

507
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: he used a good brand joint, it may take some

508
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Speaker 1: time for them to set in. I would give it

509
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: three miles. If in three miles of driving and it

510
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: doesn't get better, then it's got to go back because

511
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: there's got to be a better solution. How long have

512
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: you had the vehicle back from him? We've probably put

513
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Speaker 1: about it. We got it back maybe more. I think

514
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: it's time to go back and say something. You know, Um,

515
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: I will pick on a particular brand and I'll do

516
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Speaker 1: it right. Here because I've had the experience if their

517
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: move ball joints m o o gh in that particular application,

518
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: I've had issues I don't know why, um where I've

519
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: had to be a little fastidious and how I install them.

520
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: I've had to be a little um selective on on

521
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: picking the joint in terms of where did it come from.

522
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: I've had some issues with them, uh, for a variety

523
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: of reasons, but they seem to have straightened them out.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm curious to see what he ended up

525
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: using here because this is the first If this is moved,

526
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: then this is the first time I've heard of the

527
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: problem in two years. And I thought this problem was

528
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: behind the industry. So I go back and talk to him.

529
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: I'd go back and talk to him. You know, it's

530
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's not right. It's it's got

531
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,239
Speaker 1: to get fixed. Um either that or you gotta try

532
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: a different brand of joint. He's not gonna be happy

533
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: hearing that, but that's the reality of it. You know what.

534
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, he just you know, the

535
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: bear eats you and you gotta do it over again

536
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: until you figure out what went wrong. Um So, but

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00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: those those are the three concerns I have. All right, sir,

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Speaker 1: If you all right, if you you're welcome, if you

539
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: need me him here, Thanks for advice. Bye bye bye,

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00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: Joe Jim So, Jim Joe So six and one half

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Speaker 1: a dozen or the other um research. Canthy is hard

542
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,719
Speaker 1: at it again. By the way, See she's gonna get

543
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Speaker 1: me in trouble. She sent me this article that Teslas

544
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: for charging costs have quadrupled overnight. Tesla recently announced that

545
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Speaker 1: it would be opening supercharging US to other brands of

546
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Speaker 1: evs in a bid to increase revenue by billions. This

547
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: is great news for owners of cars like the Porsche

548
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: Porsche I can as the E V Giant has more

549
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: than twenty thousand of these charging stations across the globe.

550
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: This is all part of the brand's aim to expand

551
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: even further on. Everything that brand does always benefits the consumer.

552
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: The company has been constantly hiking the price of the

553
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: number of its vehicles, and now the price it costs

554
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: you to charge your vehicle has been hiked too. But

555
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: it's not entirely a bad thing. This was in uh

556
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Speaker 1: car buzz dot com. To understand the pricing update. We

557
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: first need to understand what the previous structure was like

558
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: and why it needed updating. And it goes on to

559
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: site how Tesla is charging their permanent rates split into

560
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Speaker 1: two tiers and now there's four tiers, and they're just

561
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, justify why they're going to quadruple

562
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: the cost of supercharging an electric vehicle over the period

563
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: of time. So something to look forward to. Hey, the

564
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: price of gas goes up, I guess the price of

565
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: electricity has to go up to. It's not like we

566
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: can get around cheap or for free, not anymore. So

567
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: five zero nine zero running any of the car Doctor,

568
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: I'm back right after this. Don't go away, Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: run name of the car Doctor. Let's do some readings

570
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: off the Facebook page I see is that Wills Wills

571
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: are is writing and Hey, Roun, how do you feel

572
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: about the plug in a FM the lead on Chevy trucks.

573
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: I personally have an oh eight five point three Leaders

574
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: Silver Road a hundred sixty thousand miles no problems. What

575
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Um? Listen, I'm not a fan of

576
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: advanced fuel management where GM is dropping off cylinders in

577
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: their V eights to make them run like four cylinders,

578
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: six cylinders and so forth. I think it's a little

579
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: bit of chicanery. I would go to great lengths me

580
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: personally myself to avoid a vehicle such as that. So

581
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: if you've got a delete kitten, there's a bunch of

582
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: them out there that has a good track record that works,

583
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: I'd say give it a shot. I think it's less

584
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: wear and tear on the vehicle. And if fuel economy

585
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: isn't your thing, and it still passes and meets the

586
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: emission standards or whatever they required, that we're not breaking

587
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: any laws, then I say do it. Um. You know, again,

588
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: it depends on which kid exactly you're using. There's a

589
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: ton of choices, which tells me the market thinks like

590
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: I do and that they those systems are problematic. Uh.

591
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: The the modulated displacement of GM vehicles UH from an

592
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: eight down to a four and a six cylinder. So

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00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: by all means don't be don't be gunshoy um just

594
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: something to do um without a doubt. So um, you know,

595
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: just my way of thinking. I just want to touch

596
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: on somebody else's as commenting about the article we just

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00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: put up on the Facebook page about Toyota. UM, take

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Speaker 1: note when you read that that came out last month,

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Speaker 1: October one, and it is an article that discusses some

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Speaker 1: comments made by the Toyota Chief scientist Gil Pratt at

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Speaker 1: the Reuters event the Automotive Summit. His comments during a

602
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: discussion of electric vehicles are pretty much in line with

603
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: those made by Toyota President Toyota t O y O

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Speaker 1: d a um Akio Akio. If I'm saying that right,

605
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: I apologize. If not. Toyota and other company officials have

606
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Speaker 1: said that electric vehicles will play a greater role in

607
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: reducing emissions, but other solutions should be used. Toyota's guests

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Speaker 1: and electric hybrid models are hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicles. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, I gotta think Toyota knows something about cars.

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00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: They've been around a while doing it and they make

611
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: some good points. So, UM, I guess the electric vehicle

612
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: future is here. UH. It's a question of how smoothly

613
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: will it go and will they be able to come

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00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: up with all the answers that we expect them to have.

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00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: UH in what is now a very short thirteen or

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Speaker 1: fourteen years. It's not far off for the state of California.

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00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: That's where it will hit first. Um. The article that

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Speaker 1: we put up on Facebook also points out Toyota has

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Speaker 1: invested thirteen and a half billion with a B dollars

620
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Speaker 1: on electric vehicle batteries through the year, which is modest.

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Speaker 1: The article points out in comparison to GM and Ford,

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Speaker 1: which are spending around thirty billion dollars each through to

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Speaker 1: electrify their vehicle line. So you gotta wonder they're spending

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Speaker 1: at all. I hope it works. I'm running any in

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Speaker 1: the card doctor, reminding you until the next time. Good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you