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. Thank you, Dale. Let's continue with more. The line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand or pounds seven hundredth new at and T Bill cunning under Great American with your every day You're home with the bear Cats who charging the court, Xavier winning again and maybe
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