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And good Sunday morning everyone and welcome to another edition of the Car Doctor program

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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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Great show planned for today.

We're going to be reviewing the Hyundai IONIX 6, I think one of the best electric vehicles

out there.

And we're also going to be talking about a little bit about some tools I've been testing

and also of course your calls, questions and comments you can give us a call.

But right now we have on the phone Justin Lundy from, he's actually calling from England

and he is the founder and CEO of Everati and we'll let him explain what Everati

is.

Justin, good morning, afternoon and thanks for joining the Car Doctor program.

Good morning.

Lovely to be here with you.

Yeah, Everati.

So we are a business based in the UK and we take some of the world's most iconic cars

and we completely remake them.

So we redefine them as EVs and then they are used generally speaking as dailys for

many of our kind of high net worth or high net worth clients.

So essentially we're entirely remaking these cars right back down to the frame,

the chassis and then remaking them as an EV.

And I was looking at some of the ones you do, especially the Porsches you do and you're

doing everything from sort of classic 911s to newer wide body cars, right?

Yeah.

So the most popular cars that we have today generally are of the Porsche 964 generation

which is kind of late 80s into very early 90s.

We also do the generation just prior to that and the latest model we've just launched is

based on the Porsche 993 which is kind of into the late 90s essentially.

So that's one range and then we have others in terms of classic Landrovers and Mercedes

Pagoda.

So essentially we do a range of different vehicles that are just gorgeous to look

at and obviously to drive as well.

Do the cars after they have the electric conversion mimic or exceed the performance of the gasoline

version?

I'm thinking the Mercedes for instance, those were fantastically classic cars.

They weren't necessarily fast but they just stood out in style.

Do you make them better than they were?

So perhaps but perform better?

We do.

So the thesis that we work to essentially is we are trying to maintain as much of the

character as the original vehicles so we're very, very tight on things like, so my engineering

team for example is X McLaren, it's X Formula One, it's X Bentley, it's X Lotus, they're

very, very high-end engineering team here in the UK and the key thesis is essentially

to retain as much of that character as the car as you possibly can so that includes making

sure that the overall weight is correct so we're not trying to over weight these cars.

The weight distribution is correct, the centre of gravity is correct and then in terms

of performance, something like our Pagoda is about 1.5 seconds quicker do we say

or faster than the original 280 SL would have been but still very much in keeping

with that car so we're not making it a super car, you know it's still around 7 seconds

and braking to take that additional performance but again it's all about safety, it's all

about balance, it's all about enjoyment essentially so being able to use these as a daily

car when actually generally speaking they might be tucked away in a garage

somewhere because they are not so easy to live on a daily basis put it that way.

And the cars themselves are those cars that you source or do customers bring the cars to you?

Yeah so generally speaking we sell a dream as I always like to say on electric dreams so we will

sell that dream about let's say that electric Mercedes-Benz Pagoda. Generally speaking the client

will not have the original so we will help them find and source that original what we call a

donor vehicle or donor car so that is then sourced and that is a vehicle that is you know registered

in their name that then comes to us that is entirely stripped down right to the bare bones so it

doesn't really matter to us what condition that car starts in it, it has to have the original

chrome and various other things but essentially it goes all the way back to the chassis to the

frame everything is restored or renewed depending on what's required and really it's the end of

the process it comes out you know with brand new interiors brand new dials brand new gauges brand new

switch gear new air conditioning systems if you wish things like seat heating audio bluetooth

but it's all fully integrated so to the untrained eye this comes out of our process looking like

a better than new Mercedes-Benz Pagoda that's been beautifully restored but of course then we've

got a very appropriate powertrain for that vehicle such that it makes it absolute an absolute pleasure

majority drive. Who are your customers for these cars I mean I'm saying I'm thinking especially

you know your electric Porsche 911 which I just went on your website they're they're

astoundingly quick zero to 60 in three seconds range somewhere around 200 miles or so

and all of that in in quiet clean performance who's who's buying them what's what's the customer

like and I guess the other question is what else do they have in their garage do you know

yes a great question so yeah typically we're a British company but we are very

North American focused so about 85 percent of our clients are now in North America

and we're from if you take the smile I guess you're right up into Canada so Vancouver Washington

state quite a few in California Texas Florida we just delivered our first car into the Hamptons

got one coming into sort of Boston Nantucket area very shortly these tend to be

high if not very high net worth individuals not necessarily what I would say a gas head

or a petrol head you know these are people that have a love of design and also a love for

enjoyment of driving and I think that's that's the key tenet I would say lots of them are

in tech quite a few of them are looking to maybe take a vehicle that may be maybe important to

them as a child and then they want something that they can use every day right to two people

we've got a client at the moment who had a vehicle that their father had and this one

eventually end up with their daughter so essentially it's a three-generational car

they're very aware that their daughter is highly unlikely to drive a manual we have stick

they're also aware that their daughter is probably never going to drive anything other than

an EV but they want this gorgeous car that's been in their family for generations so it tends

to be a very personal journey for these individuals and they tend to say to the individuals that

you know the kind of the top of their game is that these individuals have been successful in

business in terms of what else they have in their garage it's a real mix there's some people

maybe only have one or two other vehicles and they tend to use ours either the daily car

or certainly fairly regularly right through to we have a gentleman you know in North

America who has over 200 cars and this is probably the one he takes out and shows off

because again it's much easier to use so it really does have a cross-section and what I've

also said about 35-35% of our clients are female and successful in their own right which has

also been an amazing journey you know individuals you know one of one of the certain car maybe

is their so-called poster car as a kid and now they have the opportunity to build that as a

fully sustainable EV. You were just recently at Pebble Beach right with one of the cars. That's

right. Yeah how what was the what was the reception like when people realized it was an

Evarati Porsche and not a traditional Porsche? Yeah it's interesting so when I first started

this company back in 2019 there were an awful lot of raised eyebrows and people kind of

questioning really what I was doing. Roll forward to 2025 and in fact you know a lot we get so much

appreciation for what we do. Of course not it's not for everybody and of course there are purists

that would almost say that what we do is that is wrong but I think the key thing that we're

doing here is taking genuinely speaking a relatively unloved let's take Porsche as an example

an unloved narrow body tiptonics an automatic Porsche of the late 80s into early 90s

that actually generally speaking is probably not being used because it's not one of the kind of

halo cars. We're taking that car and turning it into something entirely different and beautiful to

look at so when people recognize that we're not taking apart you know the halo the turbos or

anything that would be deemed as kind of factually should I say we are actually taking cars that are

generally unloved even the 911s are generally unloved of the kind of tiptonics and the like

and turning them into something we were essentially having a brand new life and when people recognize

that most people are very positive and in fact we've had people form Porsche come to visit

while we're at Pebble Beach and actually very very complimentary about what we do so

yeah we're in a fortunate spot but you know we're not ruining these cars we're generally

celebrating them and creating something new out of cars that potentially won't once they're

left in the first place. You mentioned sort of poster cars and you know somebody who

you know was probably a kid in the 70s you know you know had a picture of Farrah

Fawcett and a Lamborghini Countach on their wall have you done any supercars like that?

So the most kind of supercar-esque vehicle we have done is actually the GT40 so they're literally

the 66 Le Mans winning GT40 shape. We work with a company down in Florida who has the right

to rebuild these as tool room copies essentially so they are what's called a continuation

car so it's on a brand new chassis and then we have engineered an ultra-high performance

powertrain for that car that is an 800 horsepower beast of an EV and truly a lot of

fun as you can imagine and again the key thing that people are really shocked you know

that is lighter than the combustion or the gas powered that it would have been

it's actually better weight distribution and it's better performance and I think again

if people can get their heads around this but you know again we're not trying to say that all

the world needs to be EV but if you want to drive an EV that's cool and exciting this is a pretty

interesting way to go. Well it's sort of interesting that the cars that you have done

so far whether it's the Mercedes or the or the GT40 or the Porsches

could really be labeled as timeless design those design vehicles they will never go out of style

at least in my opinion I think that's one of those cars that you just look at and go in a hundred

years this will still be a beautiful car. That's right yeah and I think they're making it

smart right and that's the key thing you know we're looking to really allow these vehicles

to be genuinely enjoyed and adored you know hopefully for generations to come and I think

what what we're finding means that we're kind of a real following now um you know with some of the

younger generation who maybe didn't look at these cars before you know and some of these cars um

maybe are you know what we all do is they're beautiful yeah we are going into the hands of

the younger and younger people that give you one anecdote when it started beginning of the

COVID pandemic um I had a few cars and and I'd actually bought in the same stands to go there

to be some testing and this is still a gas-powered Mercedes to go there um and I had it you know

in my garage at home my wife said to myself in my then five-year-old son do we go and get some

food because it was a beautiful day here in London and I was going to go to a shopping

center and you know with our master on the business COVID um and my five-year-old son uh

and we had choices he had a Ferrari in the drive had another Mercedes and a Porsche

for daddy can you please travel in style today can we take the Pagoda and that's the

five-year-old boy and I think again if you if you just kind of look at that in the round

some people assume that kids you know they just want the best and newest the kind of

the best and the kind of fastest supercars out there but the great thing is that these are

as you rightly say timeless times designs are absolutely beautiful and generally you can turn

it absolutely anywhere in one and people will you know admire it which is again not not necessary

to the case with some you know some supercars depending on the you know and the places

you're going yeah absolutely I remember being at a Porsche event and some in some Porsche family

member was there and I and I was talking to him and I said to him you must be excited to see all

of your you know kind of a lot of your history cars here today and he looks at me and says well

it makes me sad and I said why is that and he said our cars were designed to be driven

most of these came by trailer and the idea that you have taken that classic design and made

it easy to drive I see exactly right yeah and and and generally not just in this drug but they are

there's a real joy to drive and I think that's the thing because words are designed to be driven

as you rightly say um you know and I think the way we like um what we do is you know let's say

take the the go that you know it's necessarily Ben's had had the technology available to them

to create with a go to an EV back in the late 60s we believe this is how they would have done it

and it's really all about respecting you know respecting the beautiful design respecting the

way it drives the way it feels um with a very appropriate powertrain but it's also about

you know the little details so for example if you look at our pagoda and notice the dials you

know that the speedometer um the dials that show things like what would have been gas range

but now EV range and various other things we have recreated those almost identically to the

original so they look like a beautiful watch face they're now showing EV data but they are

chrome and they are they have styles they have a sweeping kind of um arm as it were and that is

again the aesthetic is so so important in in what we do um and I think that again just marks out

people who we have a genuine love and respect for these cars um but we want them to be

using a door I guess into the future and when it comes to charging are they do they charge like

most EVs today they're pretty universal style charging either they do yeah yeah yeah they do yes

they're either home charging uh you know type two um and obviously CCS as well so for example

the new Porsche we just announced which is the 993 yeah that'll that'll do over 200 miles of range

which you know by modern modern use standards isn't massive but again people tend to be using these

not necessarily their long distance cars these are fun um and in around 20 to 25 minutes

that will go on a fast CCS charger that will charge um from 20 to 80% in about 20 to 25 minutes

so pretty quick very usable um and of course if you're like me and I drive an EV every day

I happen to drive a Porsche Taycan as my daily car um I live in you know just outside London

I drive travel up to Oxfordshire it's about 75 miles each way um I never have to charge that car

because it's always 100 charge when I leave home in the morning so for me that works really

really well and that's finally tends to be the case for our clients as well you know they'll

have a garage they'll charge it overnight and then they'll have you know around 200

maybe a bit more range in the morning when they get up so that that for me is you know the great

use case for the EV as well yeah I remember years ago one of the first EVs that I drove

somebody said oh I have to plug in my car and I and I said to them at the end of the day

I plug in my laptop my tablet and my phone and I don't think anything of it plugging in the

the car takes about the same amount of effort as plugging in your phone to charge it up

and I think once people understand that and you know there's always that concern about range

anxiety and running out of electricity and and you know we my company I really work for the

the Auto Club AAA we provide electric vehicle road service and I don't think we have probably

we do in my area we do about three million road service events per year and I think

we've done one EV that has run out of electricity people rarely run out of electricity with an EV

because like you pointed out you start the day with a with a full battery as opposed to people with

gasoline cars that maybe are leaving how leaving leaving their home on their way to work they're

a little bit late and they notice the low fuel lights on and they run out of gas on the way to

work absolutely right yeah exactly and you know I am so I in my my EV journey which started around

my personal journey started around for the 2020 when I've had EV since then I've probably done

90,000 miles in various EVs during that time I genuinely only needed to charge away from home

about eight times in that 19,000 miles so yeah it's over 10,000 miles per charge if you look that way

because I can just like as in as you rightly said I would my my phone or whatever it might be when

I get home so yeah but for many people not for everybody you know if you're commuting 200 miles

a day which very few people are but if you were then EV is still a difficult proposition

for those people but then in reality for most it's a great option you know and I'm a car guy right

you know I've had many many cars being very fortunate to own some very interesting cars

but I love I absolutely love our cars I would choose to drive ours every single day if I could

unfortunately most of the time we've got clients using them but you know they are

just a joy and certainly I don't miss combustion in any way shape or form

two last questions before we let you go is there any car that you won't do if somebody came to you

would say like a Porsche 959 or something is there will you kind of go no I don't want to

no we can't do that car because we don't want to we don't want to take that car which is so

special and take it apart yeah to know I don't know if maybe maybe that car came into your head I

don't know if we have had exactly that conversation with a gentleman from from the United Arab Emirates

so what you're not divided one of the close states there you did exactly that he had a Porsche

959 a really low mileage you know something that really shouldn't be touched and he had that exact

question are we very politely declined you know that that took for us was was too far a journey

yeah if he'd have found a car that was ultra high mileage and and really needed a full refer

maybe we would have looked at it but certainly that's something that we that was a set too far

again yeah we're not mandating this clearly for every car what we're saying is there are certain

cars that actually suit this really well and again taking the unloved ones and making them

last quite frankly is where we pride ourselves so you know I look at some of the cars the donor

cars that come in and they are truly shocking you know these cars have not been driven for

15 20 years and they're not they're not pretty we have a one of our most popular

actually funny up on the east coast is our range a Land Rover should I say Land Rover series or the

Land Rover classic of these these are cars from the late 60s early 70s the one not my favorite one

of those is a actually gorgeous white or kind of old English white car that genuinely started

life with France growing out of it when we when it came into us so these are cars that you

know we're genuinely unloved and we love to take forward are your are your customers for these

kind of I'm not EV enthusiasts but electric enthusiasts in general do they have like solar

voltaic on their homes do they have you know battery powered launch boats or something are they

are are are they do they focus more on that side of the environment or are they just somebody who

wants something beautiful and unique yeah I think it's a real cross-section but I would say

generally the latter these are individuals that are they want something special you know

that to customize the consultation and the kind of commissioning process the full time to do this

is about 12 months so it's quite an involved process and they want something that's truly

special and of course we can customize the interiors and we've just done we've just done an addition

with the Carnegie Club Feeble Carpenter in Scotland we've got their unique carpent

inserts on the interior of a very very special Land Rover we built with them in mind and I

think again we can do some really beautiful custom features that really mean that that client has

something that's really really special some of them of course absolutely are more on the sustainability

angle and in fact one of the co-founders of Google Nest Matt Rogers is one of our clients

sitting very much on sustainability tech but actually in the main most people just you know

they just love a certain design of car and they want to be able to drive that and enjoy it

as a you know to daily feature their life which they wouldn't you know they wouldn't dream of

probably driving a you know a mid 60s or late 60s Land Rover on a daily basis because it's really

hard work whereas you take what we do to it and it makes an enjoyable place to be so

so yeah it tends to be electric tends to be people that really just want something really

special both to look at and to drive well just I want to thank you for taking some time

out of your Sunday and if people want more information it's Everati.com and they can

they can either look and dream or if they want more information you can get it there right

absolutely perfect it's been a real pleasure John and yeah we're welcoming you to

truckers of line come see us at Everati.com and then in the normal places on Instagram Facebook

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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and welcome back to the car doctor program we had somebody calling during the break

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

dot com so evarati dot com and again all the social platforms if you want to see it there

they have some great videos they have a lot of videos of the vehicles moving and being used

and sort of the work that goes into making them they are phenomenal looking cars and i

i really like the idea that they use the sort of the classic gauge designs and things

rather than you know it would have been very easy to put a digital cluster in but you don't

you don't put a digital cluster in a misades pagoda which is this beautiful little convertible

and uh the the other thing is i like the idea they have um and they don't really need it but i

was just watching one of the videos because i just want to make sure i spelled evarati right e v e r

r a t i and you actually like turn a key as if when you go to start it almost like a ignition

key rather than you know what's basically an on or off button so uh but they're pretty cool and

i want to thank uh justin lani for joining us it is um about five hours later so he's in the afternoon

he's probably what do english people have a gin in the afternoon jesse you probably know this you're

worldly is it gin you drink in the afternoon tea it would be tea at all hours oh okay no gin

is gin a big english drink i don't know i think so i think so well i was over there last year it

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

idea why other than um one of the guys from top gear apparently has his own gin now so

any is british it is yes all right i'll take it all right so uh the hunday ionic six and this

happened to be the long range version of the ionic six um kind of in a world where electric vehicles

seem to be mostly suvs even you know when you look at something like tesla you know they have the s in

model three in the in the y but um you know the y sort of an suv the x is sort of an suv

and not sort of really is i guess um but the ionic six i wrote about this

a year ago i think and you know i kind of did it and kind of you know this looks like the car of

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

epa estimated range of 361 miles pretty impressive 361 miles on an ev is really good and it isn't just

another ev i think it's one of the most compelling sedans and its price range electric are not i

mean it's a really nice sedan um like i said i've tested this car before and i thought you know if

the jetsons had roads instead of flying cars this is what they would drive um it's low slung

it's streamlined uh it's reminiscent of a classic Porsche sort of meets a sci-fi movie sort of idea

um real kind of departure from traditional style three box you know square box with a square roof

with a square trunk um it has a lot of curves and shapes to it i mean it is made to slice through

the air i did a little bit of research it says it has a drag coefficient of point two two which is

one of the slipperiest cars on the road i think um so that really helps with design um

you know we talked we talked with justin about you know a little bit about range anxiety

361 miles of range you know when i used to commute back and forth to work it was a hundred

ish miles round trip if i had to leave work go do an event somewhere you know 50 75 miles 100

miles away i could still do that and then come back to work and come home and kind of do that with

this range um real world driving uh yeah charging it up on level one which is all i have i don't

have a level two charging system at my house i just plug it into the same plug that i plug

everything else in and um that slow charge really does bring the range up even a little higher than

what's saying um when the car was delivered to me i assume it was charged somewhere uh on either

the night before or maybe the previous person we had it it showed up with about 80 percent range

which was about eight which was about 300 miles i've been driving the car mostly locally i'll get

into why i haven't really gone anywhere this week in a little bit but um it has it has what

could be pretty aggressive regenerative braking so when you take your foot off the accelerator

you almost don't have to use the brake pedal because it just slows the car down the

the electric motors become generators and they recharge the battery and for some reason the

kind of driving i've been doing it's been bringing the battery up and i think this morning i plugged

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

because they're going to come and get it tomorrow i don't know where it's going to go tomorrow

i could go back to the headquarters of auto motion where my cars come from

um but i always try to leave the cars with you know fully fueled up whether it's fueled up

with electrons or gas so either way um inside a little bit of a minimalistic feel um

sort of seems Scandinavian by design maybe because um it does have um it does have

this kind of interesting kind of minimalistic feel the dashboard is certainly got two seamless

large screens kind of under a single curved glass it gives it kind of a high-tech look

the materials um you know i'm a Hyundai owner i've been a Hyundai owner off and on for

quite a while it seems like um they really stepped up with the interior in this all

soft touch surfaces um custom custom customizable ambient lighting which

it's interesting but you know make it work um but it's a good place to spend time the cabin is

really comfortable this is a car that you could certainly take long distance and feel comfortable

in it um ride quality is really good soaks up bumps uh i took it a couple times away the other

day where they're doing a sewer construction project so the road's horrible um and it's comfortable ride

it's not hypercar fast um it does have instant torque it's still fast um more than quick enough for

you know merging passing all that kind of stuff effortless road trips um not it's not meant to

be on a track it doesn't have a track setting although it does have a does have a sport

setting which makes it feel quicker it takes away probably five percent of the distance uh

steering's light accurate easy to park easy to drive uh when you do need to recharge it um

dc fast charger similar to the everadi cars you can go from 10 to 80 percent uh in this car

in about 18 minutes so you say you're on a long distance trip you go into a fast charger

whether it's you know tesla conversion type thing or any level three that can do uh high output

charging um go in grab a cup of coffee you know spend 20 minutes your car's ready to go with another

300 or so miles um trunk's a little on the small side styling might not be for everybody

and like every ev on the road i would like to see a spare tire of some sort and not just a tire

mobility kit because i work for triple a we want to go out and change flat tires we don't have to

we don't want to tow cars because they got flats so uh it'd be nice to see a spare tire bottom line

the hunday ionic six long range to me it really sets the benchmark of what a affordable and

electric car is on cheap but sort of affordable electric car uh i think it delivers some of the

best in class range stunning efficiency you either love or to hate it people either looked at this car

and were amazed by it or looked at this car and scowled at it um so you either it's that style

um but if you're uh if you're somebody who's looking to go electric the ionic six

it isn't just one of the options i think it's one of the options to beat i think they did

a really good job with them uh i i like the car a lot um our phone number seven eight one

eight three seven forty nine hundred seven eight one eight three seven forty nine hundred let's

talk to mike and hang them michael hey how are you doing thank you for taking my call

question for you actually first thought how much how long did it take to charge a house car

i take it's 120 oh that house car i mean if it's just if i've been driving around for the day

you know putting 15 20 30 miles 40 miles on it i plug it in overnight it comes you know it's

fully charged if i went 300 if i went 300 miles and and plugged into 110 volts uh it would probably

be fully charged by wednesday okay okay yeah yeah now with 240 volts if i plugged it into like a

electric dryer outlet or something like that eight hours overnight it would be recharged again i never

thought of that you're right the electrical you right i got 220 downstairs i never thought of that

you just wanted a large extension cord i guess i have an electrician put one outside you know yeah

you could hey my base question was have you looked at any of these two or crowns yet i mean

the only nice car it is a nice car they did a really nice job on it the one that i drove

was not the sedan it was the signia which is sort of the they want to call it an sgv it's a

station wagon it's not an sgv but if i had to look at that car as it compares to the sedan

and if the build quality the interior quality the functionality is the same which i assume it is

it's a winner i would put you know the crown to me it's not going to take the place of the avalon

you know they tried to say that that you know it's an avalon replacement the avalon was a

separate car on its own kind of a it was it was toyota's version of a buick um

you know i like the avalon a lot um but the crown the crown they did a really nice job

just fit and finish is good um it all all around and fuel economy fantastic you can get the crown

sedan with the more powerful i think 360 horsepower engine combination but um the signia that i drove

plenty of performance and 40-some-odd miles and a gallon so yeah better than the 12 i'm getting

in that boat i drive around yeah yeah but you know that's a beautiful car it's a you you drive you

drive a beautiful v8 car that is was kind of the last of an error it was it's a great car

yeah it is hey well thank you very much for taking my phone call and great hearing you every sunday

well i i appreciate i appreciate you being there and listening on sunday so thanks thanks thanks

on the world's future and all i i appreciate i i appreciate that too because uh i actually

i didn't mention you by name but somebody said somebody said to me would you buy a nissan

it would and specifically the morano and i said i said one of my radio family sends me articles

from the wall street journal how it looks like nissan is going to go out of business if they

don't get some help pretty soon so uh so i appreciate that okay thank you all right take

care my bye bye our phone number 781-837-4900 if you would like to join us and talk about cars

and car problems and all that kind of stuff the one car we are not going to talk about today is um

is not a car at all uh i was sent a while back and i maybe maybe i am too old for it

but i was sent a while back an electric scooter you don't stand up scooter

and i've written it a little bit and i don't feel as if i'm super comfortable on it jesse have you

ever been on an electric scooter yes what'd you think uh they were pretty fun yeah we were out in

austin texas and those things are available everywhere yeah yeah so yeah so um i've i've

written it around a little bit i really would like to almost put a rear view mirror on it because i want

to know what's coming up from behind me um but uh that's going to be a review coming up in a couple

weeks because it's uh it's been sitting here and i've been riding it a little bit and uh

remembering my sense of balance yeah you don't need the rear view mirror if you just ride it

backwards like i do oh well see i hadn't thought about that yeah but yeah safety first yeah

of course yeah or on the wrong side of the road i suppose you could do that yeah that works too yeah

everything's right in front of you yeah yeah so when you're about ready to get run over you can see

it all happen in slow motion oh yeah so that's that's one of the things that you know we're

gonna uh we're gonna talk about that in a while so um but uh it's one of those things that just

sort of shows up every once in a while and um and i like to talk about it uh the uh speaking

of things i would talk about the uh um the hybrid um scan tool i used it the other day on a neighbor's

car uh and uh i i'm getting more and more used to it and trying to find and finding more and more

functionality in it which um we just need more practice with it we like it uh so we're gonna

we're gonna play with that a little bit more over the next few weeks more than we did

when we talked about it last week or so uh somebody somebody wrote to me who is sort of a

i a long distance listener i suppose he says i drive a 2022 Ford Escape SUV to patrol

for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department must be like one of those sheriff volunteers

when we patrol we usually drive at 13 or 15 miles per hour at that speed the car bucks constantly

we send it back to the dealer several times but each time i get it back the bucking issue has

not been resolved well there's an issue um you know you send it somewhere and you get it back

and it still does the same thing it did before you sent it there but he says i i listened to

your program online and thought maybe you could have a suggestion what to do um and the problem is

i guess you don't expect the local Ford dealer to drive at 12 to 15 miles an hour on the beach or

wherever this thing is getting driven um so you know but the best way to do it would be to do it

that way and hook up a scan tool and see what's going on uh with some the ability to do uh

data recording at the same time so you could see what's going on um the other thing um

um you know i i don't get all the technical service bullets i use all data i use Mitchell

and now i have a subscription to motor um which came with the icon scan tool and i did find a

technical service bulletin that had to do with the rear drive unit um that could get contaminated

due to water entering the unit uh it would cause chattering at low speeds especially when turning

so maybe that uh it's the other possibility of transmission itself is acting a little bit weird

the transmissions in these cars have been somewhat problematic so the dealer should

hopefully not just go take a for a ride and go it seems fine

but they should check for all the software updates that are possible

check for mechanical updates that are possible and then if all else fails that's

when they should try to um hook up their scan tool and do do a road test in low mileage and see

which is see what you're going to do our phone number 781-837-4900 let's talk to tom and kinkston

tom you're going to buy an electric powered portion 911 no i'm going to go down get some

batteries instead every ready batteries put them in there and where we go yeah there we go yeah

i remember there was a there was a uh a video and it was um the actress who played um whatever her name

was on uh jerry fine sign felt show whatever her name was uh yeah julia louis drifus yeah and uh

there was something about she went over to an electric Mercedes i think and opened the door

and five million double a batteries fell out

oh these people that write these shows incredible i like that and i like uh everybody loves raymond

oh yeah yeah that one's a classic and it's like 20 some odd years ago when it first came out but

i still watch it and there's always a show that i missed and and and i don't know why

but some people think that i remind them of him oh yeah because of my weird sense of humor

which is not a bad thing i suppose yeah no that's a compliment i suppose i just found out this

morning the government's finding out a new way to tax people on their cars i'm i'm starting to run

i'm starting to run out of ways to pay the government yeah well they figured these people

with electric cars they're getting out of paying the road tax right right and up in the northwest

corner of the united states i think it's in aragon or aragon depending depending where you're from

yeah yeah exactly or let's see i'm in missouri or miss ira yeah um that they're going to start

finding a way to tax the electric cars by the mile yeah and and then i mean you're paying that now

you're doing that with gas tax sure um when you fill up your car with gasoline um you know there's

state gas tax and federal gas tax and in theory um you know all the gas tax goes to fixing the

bridges and the roads and and not solely because it also fixes it also does bike trails and all

that sort of you know and and you know mass transit and all that sort of stuff but it all goes

towards that and when you have an electric car um you're not paying any of that so this is when

something i've been waiting to see for quite a while that when you get an electric car there will be

some sort of either flat fee that you pay that you know you pay a few hundred dollars a year

because you have an electric car and you don't pay gas tax or there's going to be some way

that they're going to track your mileage and you'll just get like a excise tax bill in the mail

so this doesn't what surprised me is it took this long to happen exactly yeah well they want to get

people used to the electric car thing for us and i said this is exciting i just plug it in and

i'm all set yeah yeah so you know and and for you know for electric car you know and i got in

trouble saying this years ago um i said i think the future is going to be the hybrid garage

where you're going to have a gasoline car and you're going to have an electric car an electric car

might do 80 or 90 percent of everything you do in life but that 10 percent of the time you have

your gasoline car to go on that long family vacation with you know and that could be a

who knows a Chevy suburban you know something crazy but it's something that you know you're like well

i don't know i'm going to be in a rural area i don't want to take the electric car because i

don't know where electric vehicle charging is but you know 80 90 percent of the time you don't want

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

plenty of charging stations along the way that i can charge up and it works for me um but i want to

keep in and i was called a an elitist because i guess people thought that big word i that's what i

thought yeah and people call me big word names i'm kind of flattered because they had to think

about it a little bit so um but you know i'm you know but the idea of having that well that

could you know could could be i mean i don't have i don't have a garage so i'm not even

that much of an elitist so you know um so i have to i have to deal with they still want to talk about

putting a toll route coming up from the cape on roof three now that i that that failed pretty quick

i think but who knows you know if they want to replace bridges now so right yeah so maybe i thought

they'd be stimulating a little more talk up there and yeah no i haven't i haven't heard of that

for a while so um but uh you know this this bridge construction project you know somehow they managed

to build this sagamore born bridge in in two years you know if you drive over it and you look up it's

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

you know and um and i'm sure these new bridges are going to take way longer you know i you

know what the uh you've heard of bermuda triangle oh yeah i do the united states triangle we were traveling

from massachusetts to arizona arizona to florida florida back up mass and depending which way we're

going to go and i was kind of surprised when it got to oklahoma they have a toll road there

when the only ones we came across other than coming to the northeast area

it was the will roger's toll highway or something like that and you had to pay a toll

but all the other states and everything else nothing compared to what we have from pennsylvania

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

take i don't know something else and uh and i have a you know easy pass thing and uh and i look to

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

and you know in in rhoda island they had the uh they had the idea that they were going to they

put all these toll things up and they were going to they were going to toll just trucks and then that

failed the last i know i don't think that i don't think that kept going um but uh and there was a

lot of concern about all truck drivers are going to get off at 95 and they're going to take city

city streets and it's going to clog up the city streets and um you know to me and again i don't

know anything it's like okay they're going to tax trucks which do the most damage to roads

but on the other hand anything to get delivered gets delivered by truck um and you know it's just

going to raise the fees but on the other hand maybe it does help make the roads better

but it's just just a way to get used to uh you know we ran out of money so now we need to

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

of a funny story i was up in uh i was up in new hampshire on the vermont border okay and yeah and

i don't remember exactly where i was but there was a road to get from new hampshire to vermont

and it was a toll road and i handed the guy you know some tokens and he goes no tokens and come to

find out it was a private toll road and it was oh and it was his road did he ever truck done

he probably did probably did in the toll booth uh but take cans right yeah yeah yeah yeah so uh

because afterwards i said who i said what's the deal with the toll you know they don't take

and i had a you know i had a you know cup holder full of tokens because i used to have to go to

new hampshire a lot and they go oh that's uh that's jimmy and that's his private toll road

i'm like yeah but it's the only road that really goes across the river that goes to vermont

where i was going and they're like oh yeah yeah he knows that right yeah yeah so crazy stuff

crazy stuff exactly quickly i'll tell you down florida we had that toll rule that i was going

i forget where i was going uh i can't forgive it lake land oh yeah in that area yeah and

they wanted 35 cents this is so many years ago whatever it was x amount of change i didn't

carry any change no place to stick a credit card oh yeah yeah it's like what do you do

and i beat the hawn and everything else because somebody come out from somewhere nobody

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

kept on going and i got to the next toll booth and i said hey listen uh i was back there and

i was supposed to pay but there was nobody to pay i didn't have any change can i pay you here

and lady laughs you go nope but here's an envelope yep make sure i'll submit it put it in

hey tom we got to get going we still had a break that i didn't take and uh i'm in trouble

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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