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are the holy grail, or just another polish piece of jump metal? i'm 50 and you're watching the cost of everything. where today we're going to dig deep into the controversy of electric vehicles. wine is some say that they're more trouble than they're worth. and are there any dirty little secrets about those and the c m. i on batteries. you're not going to want to miss this is going to be electric. the let's get into it. today. we have the good, the bad, and the downright ugly side of electric vehicles. and to discuss today we have our guest hosts leak abdul radio host and political strategist. well happy to join you for sure. you know, on a, on a special day i get to actually sit beside you. so thank you so much for having and i'm looking forward to the discussion. absolutely, we're really excited. so 1st up, we're gonna have the good. and there is a lot of good to be set about ease there,

eco friendly and with gas and literally $6.00 a gallon. there really wallet friendly as well. but is there anything else good about is aside from that, well, it's, it's, you know, on the radio show and we were talking about the have a lot of people come on. i think the, the, this, the initial claim that evolves that many people are making that for one, especially the administration, whether it's said under the joe biden administration, or whether it's in california or otherwise. there is this assumption that everyone loves this a well, not exactly. and it depends on exactly where you are. i think that there is a benefits, you know, we've moved beyond just the hybrid vehicles. we're now into the, the territory. and i think we're seeing now with the difficulty, even with the infrastructure. that whether it's here in washington dc because we had an issue trying to get those e b stations actually even billed. but the cost of even building bills. i was not aware of the cost of actually building even single

e v station is the cost of just astronomical. and i don't think that people are factoring that into their support for avi's. although i do support the vehicles for sure. but the cost factor is a big issue nowadays. absolutely. and that really is the bad people aren't thinking about those costs. and for me, i live in california and we all know that it is pretty much dominated the california market that. but the bad thing is that they literally just put up a supercharger, a couple blocks away from where i live. and ever since that supercharger went into effect in march, we've just had rolling blackouts all summer long. and it's basically like living in africa. so it's crazy, we've never had that before. what is it? so is it that and you know, my experience is not as sure and not as great as yours, but what is it is the issue that you just pull so much energy from the grid like how was it like you're having rolling blackouts? how to because i'm assuming they weren't the case, it wasn't the case before they installed the station or facility or what have you.

is it that it pulls so much off the energy grid? is that why we have it all so much optic energy grid and the grid base? and it wasn't designed to put that much energy out in the 1st place, so that we didn't have the capacity, like you said, that's an infrastructure problem. and that's a long term problem that we're gonna have to solve if we want to push this e v adoption narrative. and that's really going to be a big challenge because right now we're dealing with blackouts all summer. i'm probably in the winter if people start using a heat, even though like if it's going to be a cold winter and everybody starts using heating and all. and then we're going to have the exact same problem this summer and got so bad that the governor of california, they actually encourage people to not charge their electric vehicles overnight. and it's like how does that make sense? we want people to use an electric vehicle, but now they can't get to work. yeah. in any. and that is the thing that is, you know, in, i'm all for a new technology. i believe. i don't think we should be living in the dark ages when it comes to technology, but we have to be at

a point where we're willing to have the type of conversations to understand that maybe we're not there just. yeah, and it's one thing to have this ideal within 10 years, this is what we're expecting to happy to. you may have known driving cars on the road, you know it's x number of non driving cars on the road within a team year span or what have you. but you have to have the mechanisms in place. you have to have the infrastructure in place to support that and we're saying that's not the case if you're somewhere in for instance, montana. well, how does that work in montana because it gets very cold in montana. i believe it was just recently snowing on just last month in montana. how does that work? if we're going to have this large p v footprint? what, what if, if i'm assuming, as you say, they don't necessarily perform well in colder weather? how does that work in areas that naturally don't have just the natural infrastructure to support it? this is aside from a place like a california or other places like that who may build these type of in, you know, systems. but for those who don't have it,

what does it mean for them and the market, which is why they don't do well in places that aren't like a california or florida or other places like that. exactly. and the big question is, who's actually going to go out and build all these infrastructures? because right now, like we were talking about, it's literally just mainly tesla, who's building out the tardy stations. and the super targeting stations. there's very few other companies going out and doing this. do you see that? let me ask you then, because all the point right there, the fact that it's really just tesla, minot for lising this. how does it work with getting other companies even? is it because i'm imagining it's a cost issue for those companies as well, easier maybe for a task low because tesla has, you know where that is to try to do the non driving cars or even of the hybrid vehicles. it was one of the 1st ones to actually roll out that type of system as far as the car is concerned. but then how do other companies get into that market if they don't have the same sort of,

i guess historical background as far as those of e vehicles or this email technology, like how do other cars get on board and i guess best buy exactly. exactly. and that's going to be the big question. a lot of that, even though they say a lot of their technology is open source, they're saying that a lot of the superchargers, they're not going to be fully compatible with the other vehicle. the other areas that are coming out because it's got, it's going to be a different chart. so apparently their battery, it's bad to use a supercharger on other brands because they're batteries are not just compatible with the way the supercharger is mark. and that's going to decrease the lifespan of other brands. batteries. yeah. and, and i that point. and because i was reading, i think it is that the batteries there, but they're much heavier than your standard. the look, your standard automated automatic vehicles that they're much heavier and that the cost of even replacing the battery. i believe. i think that the cost of even replacing the battery is very expensive. now i would love to be in a day where we could, you know,

i would feel comfortable driving the vehicle from one spot to the other. but i don't know if we're there yet and i wouldn't necessarily trust in e b. i've got to take a road trip using an ac because i may not have a charging station between here. if i'm going to florida between here in florida, i may not have access to the charging stations. yeah. yeah, but them aside from the infrastructure problems, i do think there is some good t v. 's and a lot of people are buying eaves because it seems to be a lot cheaper than your are traditional vehicles and is much easier to fill up at a gas station. so right now we're pay over a $100.00 to fill up regular metro diesel at a gas station. and that doesn't even last the whole week for me. and the other thing is that the torque, the torque is actually pretty neat on the abs, cuz that's a really exciting thing. really. if you don't have a launch on a regular car, there's no such thing as a launch. so for people who've never experienced an 80 or driving in and it really

the torque is actually a really neat thing. the launch pad is a really, really cool feature of this, like an exciting little thing to get people like onboard. so it's a very neat experience, but aside from those like neat experiences of the fact that it's cheaper, i don't know what else is good about a these are what is driving this easy adoption? well, on the car, even on the cost issue, i wasn't aware that until i was doing the research, i'm planning for the show that in some instances it actually is cheaper to get into a vehicle than your standard vehicle. that is a benefit to that. but if you find someone, for instance who, you know, may have a job, they may live in a, you know, and a lot of people in this area they commute in, you know, from whether it's west virginia. there are people i know who i worked with and when i was in government they drove all the way from west virginia. it may not be necessarily practical for you. so i do think as much as people express all of the challenges with e v. i still think that we should be supportive of that type of technology because

at the end of the day, the technology is not changing. we can do things to benefit, to, you know, to basically work around the edges to make sure that it works for a larger group of people. but i don't think, you know, even though i hear people now, but again the, you know, is just going to follow. no, i don't think we should even encourage this notion that somehow, you know, it should be the end of the vehicles. i think that that type of stuff is important, but i just think that there needs to be additional, some more research in some more honesty on whether or not we're ready for it at this point. and we shouldn't have government so which is what we're saying or even state govern pushing easy vehicles when we're not just there yet. i think we need to have more honest assessments about where we are not just on the infrastructure side. we need to have more assessment of where we are in from what i'm saying. we're not there yet. maybe 10 years from now. absolutely not yet. i like those needs to be honest assessment because right now the entire industry is being subsidized. mm hm. so what's gonna happen to the industry when suddenly pull the subsidies away and they have to subsist naturally on their own?

yeah, that's a very fair point because if you don't, those subsidies usually are provided by the government. and when you don't have those subsidies, we've seen similar things where they're within the solar industry where, you know, if there is a lot of rebate options, that if you need it, you know, solar panels and those things are good as well. solar energy, solar energy is great, but a lot of times what we see is that governments begin to push, you know, private corporations and then that kind of follows down to the consumer. but all of these things need to be considered as we talk about our role in the future of what the future looks like. so i think that there is that there are, as you said, there are some good elements for sure with the vehicles. but i think i would probably go with a hybrid vehicle versus before i would just go with the full on the vehicle. i'm not there yet just in my head, but maybe i need to go to california to drive in the vehicle. and my mind may indeed change. all right, fair point. thank you so much on the lake, but stick around with us. and when we come back,

we're going to be joined by or x for guest loren, fixed the car coach to discuss the future of electric vehicles. stick around because you're not going to want to miss the the oh the

the cans was only seemed to increase with each passing day is counter offensive was an utter failure. continued mass and western support is in doubt. zelinski is popularity is on the decline in the military, essentially has few ideas, how to proceed. kim is running out of options. the welcome back is look like they're here to stay, but how to countries and communities plan to implement the infrastructure that will allow for majority ownership of electric vehicles. if that is the state of gold. so for this we are joined by lauren fixed the car coast. thank you so much for being here with us as well. thank you for having me. yeah, there's

a lot of questions i'd like to answer about electric vehicles that i think it's very easy to listen to the main stream media and people think all this is great. everybody's buying electric vehicles. but there's a lot more of that. and the truth is, the numbers are far from what you think. absolutely, but 1st, let's just talk a little bit about e, v. manufacturers who have been caught tweaking their mileage gauges to make their cars seem like they're going further on a single charge than they actually are. and at the center of this is none other than a lot of musk as a research firm has found that tesla develops software so that their cars show a false range. when the battery in their cars is above 50 percent charge. but under 50 percent, that data becomes more real. so to the user, it looks like once he dropped a 50 percent, it empties out a lot faster. so give us a scoop there as well, cuz you mentioned that with the gas tank, you go and fill it up and you're driving along and or going to have tank. and then suddenly, oh, you don't ever have to have a quarter and say, i think there's

a panic involved. i think that would be true with any electric or gasoline powered vehicle with gasoline powered vehicles, it's based on what fuel left in the tank with electricity. it's based on a lot of other factors taken by distance. you've got the climate, do you have the heat on the radio on? are you charging your phone anytime or using any of those additional accessories? it's going to put more of a draw of course temperature. also it was a huge factor. it's really warm outside or if it's really cold outside. both extremes, reduce the batteries life by about a 3rd. and that's important to note whether you're living in montana like you were talking about or whether you're, you know, living in arizona and these are factors. i think that again, aren't considered manufacturers put their numbers together. they are approved by the pe and they're absolutely inaccurate. and now the p a is turning on this manufacturer thing or use and we would get 40 miles out of this car. we're getting $275.00 and it's really off by almost 15 percent. and this is from a study from the society of automotive engineers as to e, which i happened to be

a member of. and this is really important because if you did that with a car and you said, oh, your car gets 52 miles per gallon and you're getting 30, it'd be pretty upset. so you have to keep that in mind. this has to be addressed and they use these numbers called m p g. so when you look at the window sticker, you go, oh wow, 95 n p g or a 101. that's not really a fair value for you to assess it, but it should be based on mileage driven and then all those other factors. where do you live? where are you going? are you idling? waiting? are you running centuries? all that's going to be a huge factor, so it's very difficult to get the, the true numbers on range. absolutely. when i was looking at it, they even told me that if i roll the windows down because then it creates a drag. i get less mileage and i was like, are you kidding me? like if i roll the windows down, i'm not even using any electrical electrical components and it's such a simple little thing, but it's crazy. no wonder range, anxiety exists because it's a real thing. and basically must created all this range exciting people because

then you actually can't rely on the number the sticker that you see at the dealership or even your own dashboard. because you never know if you're going to make it to your destination. if your batteries under 50 percent. so now what is the true range of eaves these days with a technology now as well? the top range is by loose. it is just under 500 miles. have reviewed and tested all those cars. i will tell you that it's, it's far now from rankings, that it's become charging anxiety. and you said you lived in california. i live in new york and you can go places and there are no pass chargers and you don't know when you get there. if somebody is charged there or that charging station doesn't work, whether it be possible or any other brand, and there are a lot of other brand, you've got a charge america, which is partly owned by volkswagen. that was part of a diesel gate thing, which i find them using to the penalty for diesel gate was to invest in electric charging company, which they make money. so again, there's a lot of, there's a blink, there's a bunch of other companies out there. but as far as fast chargers tussles, fast charges can work on other vehicles by the way,

but you don't get the fast charge. you get level 2 charging. so there's really, if it's the same as any other charger. fast chargers are out there and many of them don't work. so people have gotten into this. charging anxiety, i get there, i'm in a rush. i can somebody's in the charging station. and jennifer granholm, who's in charge of the department of transportation energy here in the us. she tried to do a trip to prove that it was that it worked, that you can use these past chargers and she thought of the be a p r nightmare as did booted judge. and a couple of the people that have tried to, including jim farley, the president of board, he's in the got to the charging stations either they didn't work there. were somebody already parked there or they had to get someone to go ahead of them to park there with another definitely howard vehicle to save the spot, which caused a political nightmare for them because someone had a baby on board the right of charge. and obviously that's going to be more important than their political games. so it's really important to note, i also should have tended to important to note that in california, the highest percentage of electric vehicles is only 18 percent on the road. that's it. so while you're getting the numbers,

they all everyone's buying electric vehicle, that's not true. it's still only about 4 percent of the marketplace globally. it's more another, some countries versus others. i work on a one car, the or jury. we judge the best cars in the world and in countries it absolutely does not work. india jordan pack a stay in the middle east. there's no place to charge. so when everyone thinks electric vehicles are the only answer on a global basis, it doesn't even work in canada unless you live in toronto. but if you live in the northern territories or nova scotia, you're on luck. yeah, absolutely. what i pay are nightmare. that sounds and even like a personal embarrassment as well. so now, yeah, is there any other hitting costs that we should be aware of when it comes to ease and are they even offset by the cheaper electricity costs compared to gas these days as well? the story is they do cost less, as you said, the top of the show, but the truth is they don't. and here's why. first the costs of the vehicle on average right now, and the prices are gonna go up because of the u. a w straight. the average price of an electric vehicle is $66000.00. yes,

you can buy them left. them don't offer the tax credit any longer. they have to be built in the us and the battery material in the us and is 2024. it's going to be a higher percentage. so more vehicles fall off the left. so tough, what will be on the left? and so he's the only winner in the besides the average cost currently it's $66000.00 and the gasoline power card, $52000.00. you've got higher insurance rates are much higher cuz of the replacement costs on that. you've got higher registration fees. dates are starting to charge for electric vehicles because you're using the roads, but you're not paying the taxes that you'd pay when you pump gas. so they're starting to charge even toxic discharging $200.00 a year, and that could add up pretty quickly. that may be more than you would use in fuel. also, the, the electricity can be hard to find as we talked about, charging times and costs can be high. i've seen it as low as $14.00 in california, and i've seen him as high as a $100.00. so at that point there's, there's gas or electric electricity. it depends on when you charge, there's a lot of factors involved and nothing in life is free. it's you said it's gonna

cost you $1.00 way or the other who's paying for the charging stations that the towns are putting in. you are in your taxes, so you're paying for it twice. also, the method of maintenance free is far from true. the tires were quicker and the reason they do is the vehicles are heavier and this is also true with hybrid vehicles. every 10000 miles, you're gonna need new tires and brake. and although no one wants to talk about it, i'm on a tire industry safety council. i'm on the global brake symposium and i will tell you, we are well aware of it. consumers have no clue. then when you start to replace the tires, they're no longer a $100.00 p. these are low rolling resistant tires design for the heavier load of these heavier vehicles. and you're gonna be dropping close to a $1000.00 every time the tires, every 10000 miles. that adds up and then of course expensive battery replacement, you talked about, the prices are as low as $8000.00 and go all the way up to $5060000.00 plan. we're looking at. then you're also responsible for the disposal of that as you are with tires and you'll be paying that fee. now some manufacturers are including 10 year 100000 mile battery warranties,

which is nice. but if you buy the car use down the road, you still don't know if someone charged all the time if it wasn't charges, just like maintenance on any vehicle, there's a lot of factors involved and people really need to think about. does this make sense? and that's why leasing these electric cars is probably your best choice. absolutely, and that was an excellent point about the tires. i totally didn't know that i'm like, i drive definitely more than 10000 miles every single year. so that is good to know . and now remember when everyone said that electric vehicles where the car, the future by 2020 and that everybody we drive it one. well now that obviously hadn't happened, but there are a lot more. he's on the road these days. eventually things that will come to a nice happy mix where there will be like a certain percentage of eaves and those like stable. * eyes and a certain percentage of petro power cars as well. right now we have reached the tipping point. and the tipping point is that what you think it is, uh, those people that were early adopters who one and one, they got one, and now you're seeing vehicles that i'm a lot. so if you, we have what's called a roll over. so we know how long carpets on a lot,

so typically by 30 days and carson that long the dealers makes money and manufacturers produce more product, they fill those blog. here's the problem. we've got vehicles like the jaguar, i paste sitting there for $373.00 days. that's not selling that for years or on a lot and they're paying finance charges on that. uh chevy volt dvd's go pretty good because they're lower cost point for many of these vehicles, mercedes audi. the ford lightning are sitting there for 6 months before they're sold. i went to the local dealers in our area. there was a nissan, we've kind of been sitting there 9 months and when i showed interest, i thought it was going to bought it. the toyota, b z for x has been a total disaster. the volkswagen id for the just not selling or sitting on life. and consumers are not coming and asking or asking for hybrid vehicles like the toyota prius. that's a really popular car. you're getting almost 60 miles per gallon. you can get a plug in hybrid or just a hybrid. and people kind of like not having to plug it in. absolutely. well,

thank you so much. lauren and fix car coach. thank you a while now. welcome back to the league that was super insightful, but let's just continue on. the law must bashing training just a little longer go for so as learn mentioned, maintenance is a very big expense when it comes to a lifetime of your vehicle. while your average joe can work on a petrol power vehicle because the motor, the basic motor hasn't changed in centuries, but e is, are basically specialized computers and require software and agents to actually work on this quickly add up to $800.00 to a $1000.00 a year in maintenance, and fortunately if you bought it from tesla must even has their version department so that they actually cancel a lot of these appointments. so there's a wait time to even get your vehicle surface my, these companies eagle on my skin, the monopoly. is that what you're referring to here in foreign makes a very good point about the um, the, the costs that actually because it's not just the initial cost of the vehicle.

typically when you purchase a petro vehicle, it is, you know, you may say, okay, well, every now and again, i'll have to get some type of maintenance. i'll have to get, you know, maybe the engine or something flushed or something like that, but the cost is so much more exorbitant when you're talking about eaves and again, cost will always be an issue for the consumer. it's not always an issue for the actual um, the manufacturer, but it costs will always be an issue for consumers. and as we see, even with for us is the tesla vehicles they've had now these much lower price models for the tests look because they realized that they are more expensive model that they came out with. initially, the people simply cannot afford that. but if you can afford the basic maintenance on the vehicle, it is not going to encourage you to go out and purchase the purchase the vehicle and you won't believe what may be manufacturers for. i'd say these marketers say that everybody's in. so you know, everybody's entity is, know,

everybody's not into it and i think there needs to be more testing. there needs to be more done to actually bring the costs down on the maintenance side. because if you have an eli and must have an a monopoly over it, not whether that sharing technology or not, you don't even have the maintenance technician, you know, you go to school, you could actually, um, the like a trade school or something. you could focus on, for instance, things like you're being able to operate on cars, whether that's at a toyota plan or bmw station or anything like that. but with easy, there is no such thing. and so we have to catch up even on the education front as well. absolutely. excellent point. thank you so much, really for being here with us today. thanks for having me. so much fun. and despite all of this a, these are continuing to grow in popularity as social media and heavy marketing continues to show the screen agenda down our throats. now i'm all for going green, but i'm also about practicality and easiest us are practical for everyone. yet the

current city grid isn't built to handle it. and despite all of this, automakers are all competing to create the flashes most high tech, easy with the most teachers take from light body. and we're talking about augmented reality, windshields and cars that practically drive themselves. so very cool stuff, but it seems to me that it's all pretty packaging and extra frills meant to distract you. i'm christy. i. thanks for watching. and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything the,

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