Time to recharge in very, very cold weather and the results are exasperated.
The last two or three winners, we've had somewhat of a mideld winter,
but right now it's kind of back to normal in which we have a cold
spell of under zero when it comes to the wind show and the fact that
there's not enough charging stations publicly to handle the demand means that it can take
two to four hours to a recharge your vehicle. And of course, according
to the experts on CNBC this morning is Dale Donovan knows that when it's below
twenty degrees that the batteries lose twenty to forty two percent of their ability to
take a charge because of cold temperatures. Once again, the man, the
myth, the legend, the man who owns Mcenteewall country Club, soon to
change his name the Donovan country Club is the one Dale Donovan, Dale Donovan
under a hood somewhere in pleasant Ridge. This afternoon. Welcome to the Bill
Cunningham Show. Dale Donovan. How are you, good, Willie? How
you doing doing well? Let's go the four or five issues. How's that
golf game? You know golf ball won't go as far either in the cold
weather either. What goes better when it's zero? I think nothing except ice
fishing. But over the last twenty thirty years, you've seen it all and
you've done it all. You've built a great small business. You employ a
lot of people. You've been under more hoods than Robin. You know exactly
where the bodies are buried, from pleasant Ridge to Blue Ash. What you
do is fixed cars and work hard, work smart with your hands and with
your head. You have dozens of employees that repair these things, including evs.
Give me the two or three reasons from Dale Donovan's book as to why
not to buy an EV. You know this is a great question, Willie.
First of all, think about it. When you buy an EV,
all right, the best scenario is you better have a garage to keep it
in, okay, because those things. You know, if you've got an
EV and it's sitting outside and it's sitting in that you know, nice cold
weather in the wind, and it's got ice on it. And then you
know that a lot of the tessels out there have the automatic door handles that
pop up also you're charging. When you go to charge it, you got
to pop the little door open. And if there's ice all over that that
won't work. You have to start your car up first, and you gotta
let it warm up before you can even do any of those. Okay,
So you got to make sure that you have the ideal situation where you're gonna
keep your EV car in a garage, So you gotta make sure that you
got the space. So that's one disadvantage. A lot of people don't have
garages and then they keep their cars outside. So you've got to make sure
that you know, and I would highly advise if someone's gonna have an electric
car, then you've got to go ahead and put the charger on as well.
You got to put the charger on at your house. Now that can
get quite expensive depending on how far away they got to run that service from
their electrical box, so that can get kind of expensive as well. So
you know, there's just there is a lot of negatives, and people did
not realize any of that because when they were talking to the salesperson then they
were getting the great deal on the car, and test to lower their price
on a lot of their cars, and they go ahead and snatch them all
up, and then all of a sudden, we got a nice cold winter
snap just like you said. I mean, you know where were they selling
these things and making these things? Or out of California. By the way,
I did get I got a picture of a guy today sent to me.
It's a picture of a plant where they're making batteries here in America or
parts of the battery or something. And man, you should have seen the
pollution that thing was pumping out a lot, a lot. Well, I'm
looking at a study by something called the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Maybe that's
one of your favorite reading books at night. The Journal of the Industrial ecologe
Ecology adjusted for the effect of temperature and fuel efficiency, tracking vehicles over a
twenty five year lifetime, categorizing every vehicle by size, range, and type,
accounted for different evy charging behaviors, exploring the call of ownership, and
fourteen cities across America that they want to over an eighteen month period examine ten
thousand cars and then made twenty percent of it to be EV's. They wanted
to know if, according to University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, whether
it is cheaper to own and ev than a gas powered vehicle. They came
to the conclusion it's not cheaper. It's more expensive to own when you take
into account all the elements of car ownership that all of us are familiar with.
I spoke to a car dealer in call Your County, Florida, who
told me that a Ford dealer they do not take in evs anymore in trade.
And I said, why not hurts because hurts? How many hurts?
Twenty thousand evs have hurts. They've dumped into the system saying nobody wants them.
They can't drive. You can't be in Florida or Utah or Michigan and
driving around with these things because you have to stop every two or three hours,
and if it's called, you got to stop for an hour. And
then no one has four hours a day. But he said, the value
of these cars on the secondary market has plummeted. And when they get an
EV, the first thing they do is send it to auction. Explain that
process. Yeah, well, can you imagine this, will you? I
mean, it's hard enough for people getting a rental car, and you know
they're talking about, you know, buying the gas priee when you take an
EV, when you rent an EV. Because I had a friend of mine
rented one and He's like, I'll never do that again. It was,
and he goes, I gotta have a charge. I got to keep getting
a charge. There's no place here to get a charge. And you know
I need to you know, when I return it, it's got to be
so much of a charge left in it. And he says, it's been
an absolute nightmare as far as you know, trying to keep the same charge.
And it's you know, the other thing that you know, these cars
they know everything about you, they know where you are. You know,
Let's say, let's say down the road where everybody's driving their little electric cars.
Someone in the big guy goes, hey, you're driving too much.
What you can't drive that much anymore. We're gonna shut your car down.
We're not going to let you drive. Boy, think that could happen.
I bet it can. Yeah, that's some day it might happen the government
or or or maybe you're driving too fast. Oh we're gonna have to slow
you down. You're driving way too fast. Who needs police officers out on
the roads when you know they can, you know, you know, check
your or slow your car down if they have till right, or secondly,
simply send you a ticket. In the mail saying that such is such a
time you were driving ten above the speed limit, and therefore, here's your
ticket paid immediately. By twenty twenty six, there's a kill switch going to
be mandated by the Biden administration in every brand new car twenty twenty six has
the ability. The government has the ability to shut your vehicle down. They're
tired of police chases. One thousands of one percent of us may go into
police chase. They want to shut the car down, or if you're driving
too fast, they can shut the car down. So the Apartment of Transportation,
which is shut down your car a new one starting in twenty twenty six
to month to your driving. When you had on to Pete Budajedge about two
months ago, I watched him saying that too many Americans have the temperature in
their house too high. It shouldn't be seventy or seventy two, it should
be sixty four degrees. And so that means with these smart thermostats, think
and monitor the temperature inside your house, how fast you drive your car,
what kind of what light bulb to put in a lamp, how much how
many ounces of water to have in your toilet, that's where we are,
because in twenty twenty six, they're gonna have a kill switch on Dale Donovan's
new car. What about that one? Yeah, how do you like that?
That's terrible, isn't it. I mean, you know, just the
freedoms seem to be getting less and less correct. Yes, our freedom.
You know. Here's the other thing is you know, I like, you
know, they're they're okay, there's fine. I mean, there's you know,
Tesla's fine. You know a lot of people have it. The hybrids
are very very nice because you got both the best of both worlds, right,
you know. But you know, these electric cars, you got to
make sure that you take everything into consideration when you buy the It's okay to
have one and use it locally, but man, if you want to take
a long trip, Let's say, let's say you said, all these people
in Chicago, someone's got his wife's pregnant. She goes in blame. Uh
huh, oh boy, you better call a gas powered uber. We'll take
your way to the hospital. Well, the other issue out of out of
Grove Park, Illinois, which is the suburb of Chicago, is at half
the charging stations of Tesla don't work when it's cold, because they get moisture
in the lines, And there's other reasons why I won't hook up. And
it costs a lot of money to recharge your vehicle. But if you wait
an hour or two and you come up and it doesn't work, then get
back in line to the next person. What do you do? What about
towing? I've had some toe operators say we won't tow an EV anymore because
of the additional weight and the fear of some damage and going back and being
sued for thousands of dollars. Explain the towing business when it comes to an
EV. Well, I have you know, I don't see a lot of
them. I know up in Chicago they had a lot of them that had
to be towed. You know that. I have not heard it, but
I would say probably the biggest thing. I mean, they are extremely heavy,
and you know, you know that they've had some problems with some batteries
catching fire, especially with water, right you know, how about if you're
in a flood zone where you know you're EV if it you know, gets
up to the battery which is on the bottom of the car, so as
soon as it goes up, you know, halfway up the wheel. Your
batteries underwater could short out, could cause a fire. So there's another problem.
I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen. There's a picture
I solve someone tanker bringing taking a bunch of electric cars somewhere and they're all
on fire because water splashed up over the brick and ship and got into the
batteries and caught the cars on fire. All of them burned to the burnt
down. I had another a car salesman tell me they wouldn't buy an EV
because so many catch on fire inside the garage of your own home, that
is, you plug it in. It cost about five thousand dollars the additional
ability to fire it up overnight, and they catch fire to higher numbers than
gasoline powered cars for one reason or another, and this possibility. Like in
California in July and August, they told people, do not use your chargers.
The power grid is being being stressed out here, and don't plug in
your car right now. In Texas they're asking people the power grid is in
jeopardy and they're urging people not to use the electricity right now in the state
of Texas. Well, what happens if there's an emergency and you want to
get in your car and drive somewhere because you have to, and you don't
have a charge. What do you do? You're out of luck, you
know. You know That's the other thing, Willy is you know the Americans
were forced into this whole thinking of buying the electric cars. I mean,
you know, the batteries aren't made here. They're made by child slave labor.
You know the batteries are you know, it's you know, not produced
here, It's produced in China. This is we're giving China jobs, not
American jobs, for the cars. And they do have a but you know
another alternative. I mean, these gas cars are getting unbelievable gas mileage and
they get better and better every single year, and there is other alternatives than
electric cars. Okay that you know that Toyota is working on as well as
you know some of the American manufacturers. So you know, I just I
just don't think that them forcing it down our throats is the right way to
do it. Look at this right, because it's a hybrid at Toyota Siena
from Joseph. Toyota gets about forty miles to a gallon. Forty miles to
the gallon. And you and I grew up in Cincinnati Dale Donovan when there
was pollution everywhere. In fact, we were told do not drink or eat
anything out of the Ohio River, and there was a small constant condition over
the valley between Covington and Clifton because of all the smog. Right now we
have the cleanest air and the cleanest water we've had in one hundred years,
and every year it gets better. And using a hybrid or going to hydrogen
vehicle, which is what Toyota's thinking about doing, makes a whole bunch of
sense, but it doesn't fit the politics of the day. So politics that
is left wing Marxist social politics. Drives the idea that average Americans have to
spend fifty thousand dollars for a vehicle that has no trade in value, that
may set their house on fire and won't work when it's cold. That sounds
like a great government deal to me, just like everything in the government.
Man, they got great ideas' theoretically in theory. In theory, in theory
they And then the other issue is, of course the weight, the cost,
the resale, the charging time, the towing, and it's getting worse,
not better until we have dilithium crystals from Star Trek the next generation.
Unless we find di lithium crystal somewhere, Let's have hydrogen, let's have hybrid,
let's get the bridge over troubled waters. Until we find that miracle source
of cold nuclear fusion. Whatever that's going to take ten to twenty years,
just let it happen, right, Yeah, they will come out with something.
They will come out with it. That's what that's what we do in
America, right, we figure things out. Right. Well, lastly,
you know, lastly, Dale Donovan, you know everything about cars from the
license plate all the way to the back bumper. Would you or your family
member in this climate at this time in twenty twenty four ever buy a fully
electric vehicle. No, I will not do it right now. They're not
there. Maybe in ten years, maybe fifteen years, maybe in ten years,
twenty years, but right now it's just it's just not feasible, you
know, it's just not It's not a good choice right now. So that's
my thoughts. Willie, Well, good luck at the club this summer.
When will you have segment and I over to play golf at the Donovan Country
Club formerly known as Mcinteewah, it's wide open tomorrow. Are you available?
No. In fact, I think it's gonna be colder. I think through
the weekend. I think on Sunday it's gonna be like two with a windshill
of minus fourteen. That's perfect ev weather. Can't wait, can't wait,
Dale, Donovan, good luck during the summertime, Willie. We'll go play
golf. We'll go play golf for money. I'm going to try to win,
try, but we're gonna play golf for money this time, a lot
of money, Dale Donovan, Dale, Donovan Tyre knows all about cars.
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