What People Have To Say About Electric Vehicles

I'm pretty excited to talk about this. I think it's a good subject. In the end, I think will be something people are gonna be like, oh yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah.

Excited about the topic a lot.

So speaking about electric cars and the idea, are electric cars going to be the demise of service departments?

Fair question.

And so when you go down this, this path, we did a survey on LinkedIn just trying to kind of understand where, where you were at and what you were thinking. And so the question that we asked is, will you be the owner of an electric vehicle in the near future? Now, 42% of you said yes and 55% said no. And now let's go through some of the comments and just kind of set the stage for the climate out there. So do you have your. I mean, I don't know. There's probably over a hundred comments here, right?

There are, yeah, I've got, I've got little notes next to many, many of them. But.

So Scott Higgins, who is a service manager at a BMW dealership, said, I won't buy an electric vehicle yet because the infrastructure for charging stations is not there yet. I live 50 minutes away from the dealership and there are none between us. So that, that makes sense. Scott. Then another Scott. Scott Hansen.

The power grid in this country has enough of a job powering what it already, what is already in use G guarantee. The more electric cars going on it, the bigger the strain and the cost of electricity is going to go through the roof. Those aren't my favorites, but those are kind of, kind of. Those are pretty accurate to what the rest of them are. Right?

Yeah, there was definitely a lot of infrastructure things about I liked. It wasn't an answer to the question. But I also thought that there were things that I hadn't really thought about before. Was same page. Danny Fulton just asked some really good questions. Like thinking about it just in general with EVs, what's the longevity of them? How long does an EV last? What do you do at the end of that thing? And then they started to kind of get into the batteries. Hard to recycle. Are we trading cleaner air for polluted soil and groundwater? So maybe kind of going the environmentalist route. I thought some of those were good questions. I never even thought about that before. Like how long does one of those things last? I mean, in 15 years. Are they junk? I guess is what I was thinking.

David Rogers here, who's the president of Shop4D, would that be like Shop Four Wheel Drive?

Oh, I was thinking four dimensional four dimensional.

So president of Shop Four Dimensional. And then he has. He's a leader, an innovator and a founder. Pretty strong title. Maybe we should work on my title. What does my title on LinkedIn say?

The number one most effective fixed ops trainer and dealer coach in the world. We should trade. We should change mine to leader, innovator, founder.

I like founder.

So anyways, Mr. Rogers here said people didn't ask for this technology. It's being forced upon us by politicians and not to save the planet as the propaganda pushes. So Mr. Rogers, he's a little in favor of conspiracies there. You're scared to say anything about any of these because last time we talked about people's comments, they were like, I'm never listening to the show again. So we lost two listeners and. Right.

But we picked people up.

You're watching your. I don't know.

I was.

I don't care. By the way, I told you, I'm getting old and I have no patience.

Totally understand that. No, I just.

You're trying to be politically correct.

I think.

See it in your face.

No, I just think that it's interesting. I don't think that there's a. That electric solves all the problems of the environmental issue. I think it's just about what technology is in transportation and what it's going to become.

Shane Rut says, the way I see it, batteries don't do well in the cold. What happens when the power goes out? What is this going to do to the grid?

The power will be out.

James Yano says, where are people in apartments going to recharge? And then I hope that Scott desart here is a Seahawks fan. But he says in eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, the infrastructure simply isn't close to supporting electric vehicles. There's simply no way you could drive across these states without it being a large burden of stress trying to find stations. Then Carolyn Marie says the batteries are harmful to the environment and cannot be recycled.

Oh, Robert Day.

That's a story.

You know who Robert Day is? No, that's Vicky's old boss that owned Concord.

Oh, wow.

He is a. He's a pretty smart guy. But look at this. So I'm just going to read a part of what Robert wrote. But the. They have very few moving parts will certainly change service department needs as they become a bigger part of the mix. On the other hand, electric cars are not more environmental. When you include all of the mining, smelting, shipping and waste from electric cars and electric production, it is marginally worse than internal Combustion.

And then here we go. Bob Hellwig.

Yeah, it looks good.

How else would you say that?

Last night I'm. I'm Hellwig all the way.

Hellwig. Yeah. He lit Hila wig. What about Hela wig?

Not doing it.

I like Hela wig. If the current current feds pushing EVs ever get up and turn around to look, they would see the Beggs power. That's one I didn't understand. Is that a typo?

I think so.

They would see the Begg's power comes from what they are trying to remove. Could you interpret that for me?

What is Hela trying to say?

They would see that the biggest power comes from what they're trying to remove. I don't know.

Greg Hopkins. Too much range anxiety. I take long trips. Rick.

Hold on. Let's talk about that for a second. So. So range anxiety. So that's when you're driving somewhere and you're worried that you're going to run out of charge.

So I wonder if it's kind of the same thing on the combustible engine side. Now you drive a really economical vehicle. What is it again?

A Prius.

What's the other one?

Can you imagine me in a Prius? No.

I feel like you'd be like that.

Every time I go to get in.

Yeah, but you drive a Range Rover, right?

Is it a Land Rover or a Range Rover?

Land Rover's the manufacturer. Range Rover's the model.

Oh, okay. I always get confused.

But you drive a Range Rover super economically.

It says Range Rover on it.

Right. But it's a Land Rover. Is the manufacturer. I'm sure of this.

By the way. I love that thing.

It's a pretty cool. I think I can't spoil that. What you're gonna do. But it's gonna look really neat in two months.

Oh, no, I'm getting it wrapped tomorrow. So I'm wrapping that thing like a.

Well, I saw Tyson Fury's Range Rover on the Internet and he had camo. And so I'm doing the same idea but I'm doing it in blue camo and then I'm powder coating the wheels black. But I'll have that back by Monday. I'm pretty excited about that.

It's super creative.

It's gonna look really cool because the interior is like chocolate. So the chocolate with the blue, you know, I'm just trying to fit in and look like everybody else.

Right. And you do that a lot.

But conforming to.

But the truth is that Range Rover has never seen a gas pump. It didn't like.

Yeah. So that's what's interesting when you talk about range anxiety is when I filled that thing up. Well, the first couple times I went to fill it up, when I got it, I couldn't fill it up because the pumps shut off before I could fill it because they have like, they go to 75 bucks and then they shut off here. Why do they do that?

I think that's a credit card limit that happens. That's happened to me before too.

It only happens at certain gas stations around me. But I found a gas station where that doesn't happen and I filled it up so it was completely full, tippy top. And I get in and the little trip computer says that I have a range of like 250 miles now. Now my chick's Tesla, fully charged, has a range of like 389. It's almost 400.

Yeah.

So range anxiety to me is interesting in the sense that the electric cars, or just, you know, in my. In my circle, the electric car goes further than the gas one. But then you can make the case. But there's a gas station everywhere, right?

Yeah, I think you could make that case for sure. But I think that there's a term like, you know, that you got that anxiety about charging anxiety or whatever they just said it was. But. But I think that there's a really good term that the team came up with for what you must have, and it's gas guilt.

You're shit. Because everybody needs to understand that Christian has a Tesla. Christian was the pioneer of people here getting Teslas in the sense you were the first one.

Yeah. And I think that.

And so now, now the snobbery is coming out like, oh, he's better for the environment than me. And so what are you calling me a gas.

What, you have gas guilt?

Gas guilt.

Yeah.

The other thing that I want to tell you is that I don't care how many dolphins I kill, I love straws.

I also love straws.

So not only do I not have guilt about gas, I love straws. Yeah.

And not the paper straws, right?

No, the paper straws feel weird in your mouth.

Well, I just think that it doesn't make sense and it's funny. I was just having this conversation with my 9 year old. My 9 year old. Amazing that he came up with this deduction. We were talking about straws over the weekend and I'm like. Because he lives in Florida. So I'm in Florida and we go to a place and I get a plastic straw and I'm like, man, I love the straws in Florida. And I'm like. He's like, oh, that's right. You have those, those paper ones. He's like, why would someone make a straw to something that can't get wet?

The other thing that I love here in California and I have a friend that when you go somewhere with them that's going to involve beverages or food, they have like this case and you're like, what are we playing pool? Like you think they have a pool cube that metal straws they carry with them so they're reusable metal straws in a case that they like clean it home and then bring. And that's a great, like it's really great that there's people like that out there.

It's so funny.

But that's not me. Okay, now we both had the, the, the same favorite comment on here.

Which was from Daniel Bus. Daniel, you win. The best comment for anybody.

That was so great.

Unless they make one with the V8. Absolutely not.

I love that he had a couple of hahas.

Yeah, he was great. Thank you for that, Daniel. Scott waddle. We own two EVs and do multiple thousand dollar repairs regularly. And then there. So there were a couple of comments in here that had to do with the cost of repairing EVs. And.

Let me get to those.

Okay, so Kim Star said in Norway we have EV sales of 80%. So I believe Norway.

Is the number one Tesla.

Sales or how would you know that? So they have charging stations like they have.

Parking meters. Like they're everywhere there.

Wow.

Sales of 80% the last five years. But as a OEM, you must manage both worlds at the same time. Be good at warranty repairs and be good to get hold of the old car park. That is still a money maker. What does that mean?

That I'm not sure. That might just.

When EVs get out of warranty. It's also a new world to look into as new parts are expensive as hell, used parts can get better income than ever thought. So that's the part, Kim, that, that I thought was really interesting and it made me wonder, should we go into the junkyard business? Should we open a couple of junkyards with just specializing in EVs?

It sounds like it could be a.

Really lucrative idea because if you think about how fast technology changes.

Like if you think about old iPhones, they no longer service them. Right?

Right.

And they're all you're. They're always trying to get you to do the new model there is going to probably be a pretty big market for used parts and that it's, it's a, especially because a lot of these new companies coming out with electric cars that don't have a history or an infrastructure like Ford or GM in their parts supplies, they're not going to warehouse 20 years worth of, you know, parts for the different models that they're going to make. So it is an interesting.

Idea in the sense that it's gonna be different. Thanks so much for watching this clip of Service Driving Revolution. We're uploading new stuff every day, so make sure you subscribe and click the bell icon so you don't miss out. If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the show, call IF 8333 Ask SDR and we'll answer your question on the show. That's 8333 Ask SDR. For special deals on our books and training, head over to offers.chriscollinsinc.com now that's offers.chriscollinsInc.com I'm Chris Collins and I'll see you in the next video.