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Now, here's John Paul, The Car Doctor.
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And good Sunday morning everyone and welcome to another edition of the Car Doctor program
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on award-winning 959 WATD.
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My name's John Paul, The Car Doctor here to help you with your car problems on this Sunday morning
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where there's going to be showers and embedded showers.
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I don't know what that means.
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Embedded downpours.
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Embedded downpours.
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Great show planned for today.
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We're going to be reviewing the Hyundai IONIX 6, I think one of the best electric vehicles
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And we're also going to be talking about a little bit about some tools I've been testing
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and also of course your calls, questions and comments you can give us a call.
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But right now we have on the phone Justin Lundy from, he's actually calling from England
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and he is the founder and CEO of Everati and we'll let him explain what Everati
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Justin, good morning, afternoon and thanks for joining the Car Doctor program.
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Lovely to be here with you.
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So we are a business based in the UK and we take some of the world's most iconic cars
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and we completely remake them.
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So we redefine them as EVs and then they are used generally speaking as dailys for
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many of our kind of high net worth or high net worth clients.
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So essentially we're entirely remaking these cars right back down to the frame,
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the chassis and then remaking them as an EV.
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And I was looking at some of the ones you do, especially the Porsches you do and you're
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doing everything from sort of classic 911s to newer wide body cars, right?
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So the most popular cars that we have today generally are of the Porsche 964 generation
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which is kind of late 80s into very early 90s.
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We also do the generation just prior to that and the latest model we've just launched is
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based on the Porsche 993 which is kind of into the late 90s essentially.
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So that's one range and then we have others in terms of classic Landrovers and Mercedes
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So essentially we do a range of different vehicles that are just gorgeous to look
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at and obviously to drive as well.
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Do the cars after they have the electric conversion mimic or exceed the performance of the gasoline
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I'm thinking the Mercedes for instance, those were fantastically classic cars.
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They weren't necessarily fast but they just stood out in style.
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Do you make them better than they were?
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So perhaps but perform better?
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So the thesis that we work to essentially is we are trying to maintain as much of the
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character as the original vehicles so we're very, very tight on things like, so my engineering
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team for example is X McLaren, it's X Formula One, it's X Bentley, it's X Lotus, they're
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very, very high-end engineering team here in the UK and the key thesis is essentially
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to retain as much of that character as the car as you possibly can so that includes making
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sure that the overall weight is correct so we're not trying to over weight these cars.
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The weight distribution is correct, the centre of gravity is correct and then in terms
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of performance, something like our Pagoda is about 1.5 seconds quicker do we say
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or faster than the original 280 SL would have been but still very much in keeping
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with that car so we're not making it a super car, you know it's still around 7 seconds
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and braking to take that additional performance but again it's all about safety, it's all
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about balance, it's all about enjoyment essentially so being able to use these as a daily
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car when actually generally speaking they might be tucked away in a garage
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somewhere because they are not so easy to live on a daily basis put it that way.
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And the cars themselves are those cars that you source or do customers bring the cars to you?
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Yeah so generally speaking we sell a dream as I always like to say on electric dreams so we will
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sell that dream about let's say that electric Mercedes-Benz Pagoda. Generally speaking the client
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will not have the original so we will help them find and source that original what we call a
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donor vehicle or donor car so that is then sourced and that is a vehicle that is you know registered
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in their name that then comes to us that is entirely stripped down right to the bare bones so it
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doesn't really matter to us what condition that car starts in it, it has to have the original
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chrome and various other things but essentially it goes all the way back to the chassis to the
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frame everything is restored or renewed depending on what's required and really it's the end of
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the process it comes out you know with brand new interiors brand new dials brand new gauges brand new
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switch gear new air conditioning systems if you wish things like seat heating audio bluetooth
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but it's all fully integrated so to the untrained eye this comes out of our process looking like
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a better than new Mercedes-Benz Pagoda that's been beautifully restored but of course then we've
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got a very appropriate powertrain for that vehicle such that it makes it absolute an absolute pleasure
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majority drive. Who are your customers for these cars I mean I'm saying I'm thinking especially
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you know your electric Porsche 911 which I just went on your website they're they're
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astoundingly quick zero to 60 in three seconds range somewhere around 200 miles or so
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and all of that in in quiet clean performance who's who's buying them what's what's the customer
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like and I guess the other question is what else do they have in their garage do you know
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yes a great question so yeah typically we're a British company but we are very
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North American focused so about 85 percent of our clients are now in North America
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and we're from if you take the smile I guess you're right up into Canada so Vancouver Washington
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state quite a few in California Texas Florida we just delivered our first car into the Hamptons
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got one coming into sort of Boston Nantucket area very shortly these tend to be
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high if not very high net worth individuals not necessarily what I would say a gas head
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or a petrol head you know these are people that have a love of design and also a love for
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enjoyment of driving and I think that's that's the key tenet I would say lots of them are
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in tech quite a few of them are looking to maybe take a vehicle that may be maybe important to
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them as a child and then they want something that they can use every day right to two people
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we've got a client at the moment who had a vehicle that their father had and this one
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eventually end up with their daughter so essentially it's a three-generational car
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they're very aware that their daughter is highly unlikely to drive a manual we have stick
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they're also aware that their daughter is probably never going to drive anything other than
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an EV but they want this gorgeous car that's been in their family for generations so it tends
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to be a very personal journey for these individuals and they tend to say to the individuals that
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you know the kind of the top of their game is that these individuals have been successful in
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business in terms of what else they have in their garage it's a real mix there's some people
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maybe only have one or two other vehicles and they tend to use ours either the daily car
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or certainly fairly regularly right through to we have a gentleman you know in North
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America who has over 200 cars and this is probably the one he takes out and shows off
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because again it's much easier to use so it really does have a cross-section and what I've
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also said about 35-35% of our clients are female and successful in their own right which has
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also been an amazing journey you know individuals you know one of one of the certain car maybe
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is their so-called poster car as a kid and now they have the opportunity to build that as a
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fully sustainable EV. You were just recently at Pebble Beach right with one of the cars. That's
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right. Yeah how what was the what was the reception like when people realized it was an
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Evarati Porsche and not a traditional Porsche? Yeah it's interesting so when I first started
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this company back in 2019 there were an awful lot of raised eyebrows and people kind of
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questioning really what I was doing. Roll forward to 2025 and in fact you know a lot we get so much
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appreciation for what we do. Of course not it's not for everybody and of course there are purists
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that would almost say that what we do is that is wrong but I think the key thing that we're
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doing here is taking genuinely speaking a relatively unloved let's take Porsche as an example
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an unloved narrow body tiptonics an automatic Porsche of the late 80s into early 90s
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that actually generally speaking is probably not being used because it's not one of the kind of
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halo cars. We're taking that car and turning it into something entirely different and beautiful to
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look at so when people recognize that we're not taking apart you know the halo the turbos or
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anything that would be deemed as kind of factually should I say we are actually taking cars that are
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generally unloved even the 911s are generally unloved of the kind of tiptonics and the like
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and turning them into something we were essentially having a brand new life and when people recognize
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that most people are very positive and in fact we've had people form Porsche come to visit
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while we're at Pebble Beach and actually very very complimentary about what we do so
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yeah we're in a fortunate spot but you know we're not ruining these cars we're generally
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celebrating them and creating something new out of cars that potentially won't once they're
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left in the first place. You mentioned sort of poster cars and you know somebody who
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you know was probably a kid in the 70s you know you know had a picture of Farrah
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Fawcett and a Lamborghini Countach on their wall have you done any supercars like that?
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So the most kind of supercar-esque vehicle we have done is actually the GT40 so they're literally
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the 66 Le Mans winning GT40 shape. We work with a company down in Florida who has the right
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to rebuild these as tool room copies essentially so they are what's called a continuation
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car so it's on a brand new chassis and then we have engineered an ultra-high performance
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powertrain for that car that is an 800 horsepower beast of an EV and truly a lot of
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fun as you can imagine and again the key thing that people are really shocked you know
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that is lighter than the combustion or the gas powered that it would have been
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it's actually better weight distribution and it's better performance and I think again
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if people can get their heads around this but you know again we're not trying to say that all
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the world needs to be EV but if you want to drive an EV that's cool and exciting this is a pretty
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interesting way to go. Well it's sort of interesting that the cars that you have done
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so far whether it's the Mercedes or the or the GT40 or the Porsches
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could really be labeled as timeless design those design vehicles they will never go out of style
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at least in my opinion I think that's one of those cars that you just look at and go in a hundred
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years this will still be a beautiful car. That's right yeah and I think they're making it
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smart right and that's the key thing you know we're looking to really allow these vehicles
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to be genuinely enjoyed and adored you know hopefully for generations to come and I think
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what what we're finding means that we're kind of a real following now um you know with some of the
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younger generation who maybe didn't look at these cars before you know and some of these cars um
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maybe are you know what we all do is they're beautiful yeah we are going into the hands of
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the younger and younger people that give you one anecdote when it started beginning of the
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COVID pandemic um I had a few cars and and I'd actually bought in the same stands to go there
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to be some testing and this is still a gas-powered Mercedes to go there um and I had it you know
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in my garage at home my wife said to myself in my then five-year-old son do we go and get some
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food because it was a beautiful day here in London and I was going to go to a shopping
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center and you know with our master on the business COVID um and my five-year-old son uh
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and we had choices he had a Ferrari in the drive had another Mercedes and a Porsche
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for daddy can you please travel in style today can we take the Pagoda and that's the
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five-year-old boy and I think again if you if you just kind of look at that in the round
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some people assume that kids you know they just want the best and newest the kind of
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the best and the kind of fastest supercars out there but the great thing is that these are
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as you rightly say timeless times designs are absolutely beautiful and generally you can turn
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it absolutely anywhere in one and people will you know admire it which is again not not necessary
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to the case with some you know some supercars depending on the you know and the places
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you're going yeah absolutely I remember being at a Porsche event and some in some Porsche family
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member was there and I and I was talking to him and I said to him you must be excited to see all
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of your you know kind of a lot of your history cars here today and he looks at me and says well
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it makes me sad and I said why is that and he said our cars were designed to be driven
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most of these came by trailer and the idea that you have taken that classic design and made
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it easy to drive I see exactly right yeah and and and generally not just in this drug but they are
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there's a real joy to drive and I think that's the thing because words are designed to be driven
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as you rightly say um you know and I think the way we like um what we do is you know let's say
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take the the go that you know it's necessarily Ben's had had the technology available to them
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to create with a go to an EV back in the late 60s we believe this is how they would have done it
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and it's really all about respecting you know respecting the beautiful design respecting the
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way it drives the way it feels um with a very appropriate powertrain but it's also about
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you know the little details so for example if you look at our pagoda and notice the dials you
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know that the speedometer um the dials that show things like what would have been gas range
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but now EV range and various other things we have recreated those almost identically to the
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original so they look like a beautiful watch face they're now showing EV data but they are
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chrome and they are they have styles they have a sweeping kind of um arm as it were and that is
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again the aesthetic is so so important in in what we do um and I think that again just marks out
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people who we have a genuine love and respect for these cars um but we want them to be
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using a door I guess into the future and when it comes to charging are they do they charge like
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most EVs today they're pretty universal style charging either they do yeah yeah yeah they do yes
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they're either home charging uh you know type two um and obviously CCS as well so for example
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the new Porsche we just announced which is the 993 yeah that'll that'll do over 200 miles of range
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which you know by modern modern use standards isn't massive but again people tend to be using these
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not necessarily their long distance cars these are fun um and in around 20 to 25 minutes
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that will go on a fast CCS charger that will charge um from 20 to 80% in about 20 to 25 minutes
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so pretty quick very usable um and of course if you're like me and I drive an EV every day
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I happen to drive a Porsche Taycan as my daily car um I live in you know just outside London
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I drive travel up to Oxfordshire it's about 75 miles each way um I never have to charge that car
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because it's always 100 charge when I leave home in the morning so for me that works really
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really well and that's finally tends to be the case for our clients as well you know they'll
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have a garage they'll charge it overnight and then they'll have you know around 200
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maybe a bit more range in the morning when they get up so that that for me is you know the great
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use case for the EV as well yeah I remember years ago one of the first EVs that I drove
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somebody said oh I have to plug in my car and I and I said to them at the end of the day
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I plug in my laptop my tablet and my phone and I don't think anything of it plugging in the
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the car takes about the same amount of effort as plugging in your phone to charge it up
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and I think once people understand that and you know there's always that concern about range
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anxiety and running out of electricity and and you know we my company I really work for the
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the Auto Club AAA we provide electric vehicle road service and I don't think we have probably
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we do in my area we do about three million road service events per year and I think
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we've done one EV that has run out of electricity people rarely run out of electricity with an EV
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because like you pointed out you start the day with a with a full battery as opposed to people with
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gasoline cars that maybe are leaving how leaving leaving their home on their way to work they're
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a little bit late and they notice the low fuel lights on and they run out of gas on the way to
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work absolutely right yeah exactly and you know I am so I in my my EV journey which started around
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my personal journey started around for the 2020 when I've had EV since then I've probably done
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90,000 miles in various EVs during that time I genuinely only needed to charge away from home
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about eight times in that 19,000 miles so yeah it's over 10,000 miles per charge if you look that way
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because I can just like as in as you rightly said I would my my phone or whatever it might be when
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I get home so yeah but for many people not for everybody you know if you're commuting 200 miles
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a day which very few people are but if you were then EV is still a difficult proposition
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for those people but then in reality for most it's a great option you know and I'm a car guy right
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you know I've had many many cars being very fortunate to own some very interesting cars
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but I love I absolutely love our cars I would choose to drive ours every single day if I could
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unfortunately most of the time we've got clients using them but you know they are
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just a joy and certainly I don't miss combustion in any way shape or form
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two last questions before we let you go is there any car that you won't do if somebody came to you
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would say like a Porsche 959 or something is there will you kind of go no I don't want to
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no we can't do that car because we don't want to we don't want to take that car which is so
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special and take it apart yeah to know I don't know if maybe maybe that car came into your head I
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don't know if we have had exactly that conversation with a gentleman from from the United Arab Emirates
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so what you're not divided one of the close states there you did exactly that he had a Porsche
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959 a really low mileage you know something that really shouldn't be touched and he had that exact
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question are we very politely declined you know that that took for us was was too far a journey
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yeah if he'd have found a car that was ultra high mileage and and really needed a full refer
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maybe we would have looked at it but certainly that's something that we that was a set too far
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again yeah we're not mandating this clearly for every car what we're saying is there are certain
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cars that actually suit this really well and again taking the unloved ones and making them
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last quite frankly is where we pride ourselves so you know I look at some of the cars the donor
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cars that come in and they are truly shocking you know these cars have not been driven for
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15 20 years and they're not they're not pretty we have a one of our most popular
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actually funny up on the east coast is our range a Land Rover should I say Land Rover series or the
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Land Rover classic of these these are cars from the late 60s early 70s the one not my favorite one
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of those is a actually gorgeous white or kind of old English white car that genuinely started
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life with France growing out of it when we when it came into us so these are cars that you
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know we're genuinely unloved and we love to take forward are your are your customers for these
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kind of I'm not EV enthusiasts but electric enthusiasts in general do they have like solar
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voltaic on their homes do they have you know battery powered launch boats or something are they
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are are are they do they focus more on that side of the environment or are they just somebody who
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wants something beautiful and unique yeah I think it's a real cross-section but I would say
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generally the latter these are individuals that are they want something special you know
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that to customize the consultation and the kind of commissioning process the full time to do this
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is about 12 months so it's quite an involved process and they want something that's truly
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special and of course we can customize the interiors and we've just done we've just done an addition
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with the Carnegie Club Feeble Carpenter in Scotland we've got their unique carpent
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inserts on the interior of a very very special Land Rover we built with them in mind and I
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think again we can do some really beautiful custom features that really mean that that client has
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something that's really really special some of them of course absolutely are more on the sustainability
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angle and in fact one of the co-founders of Google Nest Matt Rogers is one of our clients
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sitting very much on sustainability tech but actually in the main most people just you know
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they just love a certain design of car and they want to be able to drive that and enjoy it
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as a you know to daily feature their life which they wouldn't you know they wouldn't dream of
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probably driving a you know a mid 60s or late 60s Land Rover on a daily basis because it's really
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hard work whereas you take what we do to it and it makes an enjoyable place to be so
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so yeah it tends to be electric tends to be people that really just want something really
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special both to look at and to drive well just I want to thank you for taking some time
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out of your Sunday and if people want more information it's Everati.com and they can
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they can either look and dream or if they want more information you can get it there right
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absolutely perfect it's been a real pleasure John and yeah we're welcoming you to
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truckers of line come see us at Everati.com and then in the normal places on Instagram Facebook
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LinkedIn as well so please come look us up and yeah we'd love to talk to you all right thank
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thanks again for taking some time out of your Sunday and joining us absolutely pleasure have a
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great day take care bye bye now why don't we take a break pay some bills my name is John Paul
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and welcome back to the car doctor program we had somebody calling during the break
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maybe they texted in i'm not sure uh but they want to know uh evarati's website it is e v e r r a t i
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dot com so evarati dot com and again all the social platforms if you want to see it there
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they have some great videos they have a lot of videos of the vehicles moving and being used
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and sort of the work that goes into making them they are phenomenal looking cars and i
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i really like the idea that they use the sort of the classic gauge designs and things
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rather than you know it would have been very easy to put a digital cluster in but you don't
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you don't put a digital cluster in a misades pagoda which is this beautiful little convertible
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and uh the the other thing is i like the idea they have um and they don't really need it but i
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was just watching one of the videos because i just want to make sure i spelled evarati right e v e r
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r a t i and you actually like turn a key as if when you go to start it almost like a ignition
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key rather than you know what's basically an on or off button so uh but they're pretty cool and
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i want to thank uh justin lani for joining us it is um about five hours later so he's in the afternoon
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he's probably what do english people have a gin in the afternoon jesse you probably know this you're
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worldly is it gin you drink in the afternoon tea it would be tea at all hours oh okay no gin
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is gin a big english drink i don't know i think so i think so well i was over there last year it
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was a lot of beer a lot of beer all right okay all right well i'm going i'm going with gin and i have no
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idea why other than um one of the guys from top gear apparently has his own gin now so
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any is british it is yes all right i'll take it all right so uh the hunday ionic six and this
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happened to be the long range version of the ionic six um kind of in a world where electric vehicles
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seem to be mostly suvs even you know when you look at something like tesla you know they have the s in
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model three in the in the y but um you know the y sort of an suv the x is sort of an suv
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and not sort of really is i guess um but the ionic six i wrote about this
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a year ago i think and you know i kind of did it and kind of you know this looks like the car of
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the future and now i'm i'm the more i look at it's kind of a retro futuristic design um it has an
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epa estimated range of 361 miles pretty impressive 361 miles on an ev is really good and it isn't just
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another ev i think it's one of the most compelling sedans and its price range electric are not i
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mean it's a really nice sedan um like i said i've tested this car before and i thought you know if
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the jetsons had roads instead of flying cars this is what they would drive um it's low slung
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it's streamlined uh it's reminiscent of a classic Porsche sort of meets a sci-fi movie sort of idea
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um real kind of departure from traditional style three box you know square box with a square roof
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with a square trunk um it has a lot of curves and shapes to it i mean it is made to slice through
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the air i did a little bit of research it says it has a drag coefficient of point two two which is
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one of the slipperiest cars on the road i think um so that really helps with design um
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you know we talked we talked with justin about you know a little bit about range anxiety
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361 miles of range you know when i used to commute back and forth to work it was a hundred
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ish miles round trip if i had to leave work go do an event somewhere you know 50 75 miles 100
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miles away i could still do that and then come back to work and come home and kind of do that with
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this range um real world driving uh yeah charging it up on level one which is all i have i don't
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have a level two charging system at my house i just plug it into the same plug that i plug
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everything else in and um that slow charge really does bring the range up even a little higher than
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what's saying um when the car was delivered to me i assume it was charged somewhere uh on either
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the night before or maybe the previous person we had it it showed up with about 80 percent range
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which was about eight which was about 300 miles i've been driving the car mostly locally i'll get
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into why i haven't really gone anywhere this week in a little bit but um it has it has what
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could be pretty aggressive regenerative braking so when you take your foot off the accelerator
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you almost don't have to use the brake pedal because it just slows the car down the
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the electric motors become generators and they recharge the battery and for some reason the
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kind of driving i've been doing it's been bringing the battery up and i think this morning i plugged
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it in i think it had more range in it than it did when i got it um but i'm plugging it in overnight
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because they're going to come and get it tomorrow i don't know where it's going to go tomorrow
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i could go back to the headquarters of auto motion where my cars come from
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um but i always try to leave the cars with you know fully fueled up whether it's fueled up
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with electrons or gas so either way um inside a little bit of a minimalistic feel um
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sort of seems Scandinavian by design maybe because um it does have um it does have
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this kind of interesting kind of minimalistic feel the dashboard is certainly got two seamless
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large screens kind of under a single curved glass it gives it kind of a high-tech look
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the materials um you know i'm a Hyundai owner i've been a Hyundai owner off and on for
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quite a while it seems like um they really stepped up with the interior in this all
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soft touch surfaces um custom custom customizable ambient lighting which
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it's interesting but you know make it work um but it's a good place to spend time the cabin is
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really comfortable this is a car that you could certainly take long distance and feel comfortable
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in it um ride quality is really good soaks up bumps uh i took it a couple times away the other
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day where they're doing a sewer construction project so the road's horrible um and it's comfortable ride
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it's not hypercar fast um it does have instant torque it's still fast um more than quick enough for
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you know merging passing all that kind of stuff effortless road trips um not it's not meant to
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be on a track it doesn't have a track setting although it does have a does have a sport
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setting which makes it feel quicker it takes away probably five percent of the distance uh
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steering's light accurate easy to park easy to drive uh when you do need to recharge it um
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dc fast charger similar to the everadi cars you can go from 10 to 80 percent uh in this car
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in about 18 minutes so you say you're on a long distance trip you go into a fast charger
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whether it's you know tesla conversion type thing or any level three that can do uh high output
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charging um go in grab a cup of coffee you know spend 20 minutes your car's ready to go with another
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300 or so miles um trunk's a little on the small side styling might not be for everybody
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and like every ev on the road i would like to see a spare tire of some sort and not just a tire
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mobility kit because i work for triple a we want to go out and change flat tires we don't have to
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we don't want to tow cars because they got flats so uh it'd be nice to see a spare tire bottom line
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the hunday ionic six long range to me it really sets the benchmark of what a affordable and
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electric car is on cheap but sort of affordable electric car uh i think it delivers some of the
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best in class range stunning efficiency you either love or to hate it people either looked at this car
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and were amazed by it or looked at this car and scowled at it um so you either it's that style
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um but if you're uh if you're somebody who's looking to go electric the ionic six
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it isn't just one of the options i think it's one of the options to beat i think they did
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a really good job with them uh i i like the car a lot um our phone number seven eight one
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eight three seven forty nine hundred seven eight one eight three seven forty nine hundred let's
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talk to mike and hang them michael hey how are you doing thank you for taking my call
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question for you actually first thought how much how long did it take to charge a house car
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i take it's 120 oh that house car i mean if it's just if i've been driving around for the day
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you know putting 15 20 30 miles 40 miles on it i plug it in overnight it comes you know it's
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fully charged if i went 300 if i went 300 miles and and plugged into 110 volts uh it would probably
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be fully charged by wednesday okay okay yeah yeah now with 240 volts if i plugged it into like a
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electric dryer outlet or something like that eight hours overnight it would be recharged again i never
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thought of that you're right the electrical you right i got 220 downstairs i never thought of that
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you just wanted a large extension cord i guess i have an electrician put one outside you know yeah
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you could hey my base question was have you looked at any of these two or crowns yet i mean
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the only nice car it is a nice car they did a really nice job on it the one that i drove
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was not the sedan it was the signia which is sort of the they want to call it an sgv it's a
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station wagon it's not an sgv but if i had to look at that car as it compares to the sedan
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and if the build quality the interior quality the functionality is the same which i assume it is
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it's a winner i would put you know the crown to me it's not going to take the place of the avalon
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you know they tried to say that that you know it's an avalon replacement the avalon was a
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separate car on its own kind of a it was it was toyota's version of a buick um
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you know i like the avalon a lot um but the crown the crown they did a really nice job
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just fit and finish is good um it all all around and fuel economy fantastic you can get the crown
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sedan with the more powerful i think 360 horsepower engine combination but um the signia that i drove
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plenty of performance and 40-some-odd miles and a gallon so yeah better than the 12 i'm getting
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in that boat i drive around yeah yeah but you know that's a beautiful car it's a you you drive you
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drive a beautiful v8 car that is was kind of the last of an error it was it's a great car
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yeah it is hey well thank you very much for taking my phone call and great hearing you every sunday
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well i i appreciate i appreciate you being there and listening on sunday so thanks thanks thanks
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on the world's future and all i i appreciate i i appreciate that too because uh i actually
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i didn't mention you by name but somebody said somebody said to me would you buy a nissan
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it would and specifically the morano and i said i said one of my radio family sends me articles
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from the wall street journal how it looks like nissan is going to go out of business if they
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don't get some help pretty soon so uh so i appreciate that okay thank you all right take
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care my bye bye our phone number 781-837-4900 if you would like to join us and talk about cars
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and car problems and all that kind of stuff the one car we are not going to talk about today is um
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is not a car at all uh i was sent a while back and i maybe maybe i am too old for it
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but i was sent a while back an electric scooter you don't stand up scooter
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and i've written it a little bit and i don't feel as if i'm super comfortable on it jesse have you
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ever been on an electric scooter yes what'd you think uh they were pretty fun yeah we were out in
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austin texas and those things are available everywhere yeah yeah so yeah so um i've i've
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written it around a little bit i really would like to almost put a rear view mirror on it because i want
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to know what's coming up from behind me um but uh that's going to be a review coming up in a couple
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weeks because it's uh it's been sitting here and i've been riding it a little bit and uh
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remembering my sense of balance yeah you don't need the rear view mirror if you just ride it
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backwards like i do oh well see i hadn't thought about that yeah but yeah safety first yeah
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of course yeah or on the wrong side of the road i suppose you could do that yeah that works too yeah
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everything's right in front of you yeah yeah so when you're about ready to get run over you can see
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it all happen in slow motion oh yeah so that's that's one of the things that you know we're
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gonna uh we're gonna talk about that in a while so um but uh it's one of those things that just
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sort of shows up every once in a while and um and i like to talk about it uh the uh speaking
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of things i would talk about the uh um the hybrid um scan tool i used it the other day on a neighbor's
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car uh and uh i i'm getting more and more used to it and trying to find and finding more and more
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functionality in it which um we just need more practice with it we like it uh so we're gonna
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we're gonna play with that a little bit more over the next few weeks more than we did
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when we talked about it last week or so uh somebody somebody wrote to me who is sort of a
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i a long distance listener i suppose he says i drive a 2022 Ford Escape SUV to patrol
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for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department must be like one of those sheriff volunteers
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when we patrol we usually drive at 13 or 15 miles per hour at that speed the car bucks constantly
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we send it back to the dealer several times but each time i get it back the bucking issue has
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not been resolved well there's an issue um you know you send it somewhere and you get it back
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and it still does the same thing it did before you sent it there but he says i i listened to
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your program online and thought maybe you could have a suggestion what to do um and the problem is
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i guess you don't expect the local Ford dealer to drive at 12 to 15 miles an hour on the beach or
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wherever this thing is getting driven um so you know but the best way to do it would be to do it
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that way and hook up a scan tool and see what's going on uh with some the ability to do uh
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data recording at the same time so you could see what's going on um the other thing um
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um you know i i don't get all the technical service bullets i use all data i use Mitchell
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and now i have a subscription to motor um which came with the icon scan tool and i did find a
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technical service bulletin that had to do with the rear drive unit um that could get contaminated
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due to water entering the unit uh it would cause chattering at low speeds especially when turning
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so maybe that uh it's the other possibility of transmission itself is acting a little bit weird
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the transmissions in these cars have been somewhat problematic so the dealer should
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hopefully not just go take a for a ride and go it seems fine
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but they should check for all the software updates that are possible
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check for mechanical updates that are possible and then if all else fails that's
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when they should try to um hook up their scan tool and do do a road test in low mileage and see
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which is see what you're going to do our phone number 781-837-4900 let's talk to tom and kinkston
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tom you're going to buy an electric powered portion 911 no i'm going to go down get some
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batteries instead every ready batteries put them in there and where we go yeah there we go yeah
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i remember there was a there was a uh a video and it was um the actress who played um whatever her name
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was on uh jerry fine sign felt show whatever her name was uh yeah julia louis drifus yeah and uh
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there was something about she went over to an electric Mercedes i think and opened the door
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and five million double a batteries fell out
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oh these people that write these shows incredible i like that and i like uh everybody loves raymond
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oh yeah yeah that one's a classic and it's like 20 some odd years ago when it first came out but
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i still watch it and there's always a show that i missed and and and i don't know why
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but some people think that i remind them of him oh yeah because of my weird sense of humor
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which is not a bad thing i suppose yeah no that's a compliment i suppose i just found out this
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morning the government's finding out a new way to tax people on their cars i'm i'm starting to run
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i'm starting to run out of ways to pay the government yeah well they figured these people
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with electric cars they're getting out of paying the road tax right right and up in the northwest
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corner of the united states i think it's in aragon or aragon depending depending where you're from
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yeah yeah exactly or let's see i'm in missouri or miss ira yeah um that they're going to start
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finding a way to tax the electric cars by the mile yeah and and then i mean you're paying that now
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you're doing that with gas tax sure um when you fill up your car with gasoline um you know there's
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state gas tax and federal gas tax and in theory um you know all the gas tax goes to fixing the
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bridges and the roads and and not solely because it also fixes it also does bike trails and all
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that sort of you know and and you know mass transit and all that sort of stuff but it all goes
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towards that and when you have an electric car um you're not paying any of that so this is when
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something i've been waiting to see for quite a while that when you get an electric car there will be
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some sort of either flat fee that you pay that you know you pay a few hundred dollars a year
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because you have an electric car and you don't pay gas tax or there's going to be some way
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that they're going to track your mileage and you'll just get like a excise tax bill in the mail
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so this doesn't what surprised me is it took this long to happen exactly yeah well they want to get
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people used to the electric car thing for us and i said this is exciting i just plug it in and
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i'm all set yeah yeah so you know and and for you know for electric car you know and i got in
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trouble saying this years ago um i said i think the future is going to be the hybrid garage
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where you're going to have a gasoline car and you're going to have an electric car an electric car
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might do 80 or 90 percent of everything you do in life but that 10 percent of the time you have
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your gasoline car to go on that long family vacation with you know and that could be a
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who knows a Chevy suburban you know something crazy but it's something that you know you're like well
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i don't know i'm going to be in a rural area i don't want to take the electric car because i
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don't know where electric vehicle charging is but you know 80 90 percent of the time you don't want
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to go back and forth to work there's i'm fine or if i do long distance i go to new york there's
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plenty of charging stations along the way that i can charge up and it works for me um but i want to
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keep in and i was called a an elitist because i guess people thought that big word i that's what i
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thought yeah and people call me big word names i'm kind of flattered because they had to think
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about it a little bit so um but you know i'm you know but the idea of having that well that
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could you know could could be i mean i don't have i don't have a garage so i'm not even
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that much of an elitist so you know um so i have to i have to deal with they still want to talk about
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putting a toll route coming up from the cape on roof three now that i that that failed pretty quick
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i think but who knows you know if they want to replace bridges now so right yeah so maybe i thought
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they'd be stimulating a little more talk up there and yeah no i haven't i haven't heard of that
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for a while so um but uh you know this this bridge construction project you know somehow they managed
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to build this sagamore born bridge in in two years you know if you drive over it and you look up it's
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like you know started in whatever 19 and i'm making it up i don't 22 when it was finished in 24 or 25
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you know and um and i'm sure these new bridges are going to take way longer you know i you
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know what the uh you've heard of bermuda triangle oh yeah i do the united states triangle we were traveling
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from massachusetts to arizona arizona to florida florida back up mass and depending which way we're
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going to go and i was kind of surprised when it got to oklahoma they have a toll road there
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when the only ones we came across other than coming to the northeast area
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it was the will roger's toll highway or something like that and you had to pay a toll
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but all the other states and everything else nothing compared to what we have from pennsylvania
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up yeah yeah i mean we have we sir yeah you know when i drive up from florida and i don't take 95 i
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take i don't know something else and uh and i have a you know easy pass thing and uh and i look to
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where it pinged me um for tolls and um and i'm like oh well at least i kind of knew you know where it was
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and you know in in rhoda island they had the uh they had the idea that they were going to they
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put all these toll things up and they were going to they were going to toll just trucks and then that
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failed the last i know i don't think that i don't think that kept going um but uh and there was a
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lot of concern about all truck drivers are going to get off at 95 and they're going to take city
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city streets and it's going to clog up the city streets and um you know to me and again i don't
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know anything it's like okay they're going to tax trucks which do the most damage to roads
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but on the other hand anything to get delivered gets delivered by truck um and you know it's just
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going to raise the fees but on the other hand maybe it does help make the roads better
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but it's just just a way to get used to uh you know we ran out of money so now we need to
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put tolls on cars i don't know so um you know you kind of look at all of that i was kind of kind
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of a funny story i was up in uh i was up in new hampshire on the vermont border okay and yeah and
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i don't remember exactly where i was but there was a road to get from new hampshire to vermont
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and it was a toll road and i handed the guy you know some tokens and he goes no tokens and come to
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find out it was a private toll road and it was oh and it was his road did he ever truck done
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he probably did probably did in the toll booth uh but take cans right yeah yeah yeah yeah so uh
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because afterwards i said who i said what's the deal with the toll you know they don't take
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and i had a you know i had a you know cup holder full of tokens because i used to have to go to
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new hampshire a lot and they go oh that's uh that's jimmy and that's his private toll road
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i'm like yeah but it's the only road that really goes across the river that goes to vermont
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where i was going and they're like oh yeah yeah he knows that right yeah yeah so crazy stuff
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crazy stuff exactly quickly i'll tell you down florida we had that toll rule that i was going
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i forget where i was going uh i can't forgive it lake land oh yeah in that area yeah and
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they wanted 35 cents this is so many years ago whatever it was x amount of change i didn't
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carry any change no place to stick a credit card oh yeah yeah it's like what do you do
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and i beat the hawn and everything else because somebody come out from somewhere nobody
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no i said i'll go through and the bell's going off me me me me me me i said oh crap so um i just
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kept on going and i got to the next toll booth and i said hey listen uh i was back there and
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i was supposed to pay but there was nobody to pay i didn't have any change can i pay you here
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and lady laughs you go nope but here's an envelope yep make sure i'll submit it put it in
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hey tom we got to get going we still had a break that i didn't take and uh i'm in trouble
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week so why don't we take that break uh really quick and when we come back we'll say goodbye
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