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Are you tired of putting high-priced gasoline in your car? Are you considering buying an electric car?  Many people are – and National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has been looking at the increasing number of electric vehicles sold over the past year.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael Del Chono.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
If you're not feeling good about yourself, Rory shows up
so that you can see yourself as the loser you
really are. No, I'm kidding when it comes to electric
versus gas vehicles, because I know the question is are
retired of paying high prices for gasoline? They're we be
more open to electric than ever. I am not one
of those. It somehow has become like a partisan argument,

(00:26):
and it's stupid to be one. If you want an
electric cargo, get one. I personally haven't found enough advantage
to make the move, and I haven't seen one so
irresistible that it forced me to make the move. But
where is America in the balance of this, Because it
really didn't matter how much it was pushed on them, incentivized,
just really hasn't taken off. Is it starting to?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, that's what the numbers seem to show these days,
and we need to make some points perfectly clear. The
day that comes as the Auto Show gets on the
way in Detroit, and what it shows is that last year,
twenty percent of the vehicles sold were either all electric
or hybrid. So what we're really seeing is the surge
and the hybrid vehicles out there. Three point two million

(01:11):
of the so called electrified cars were sold last year.
Of those, one point nine million more hybrids, one point
three all electric.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah so, and by the way, didn't it did it
seem like hybrid was the sensible solution all along? Well,
probably the transitional boy partner this punt, the transitional vehicle
that made the most sense, right, Yeah, it's the.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Trans vehicle I suppose of this whole thing. And it's
interesting because the adoption they thought would be a little
bit faster, but it seems to be catching on now
as the infrastructure is rolling out. There are more charging
stations out there, the technology is improving for faster charging.
And then people are saying, well, wait, we could make

(01:56):
the second car an electric and still have the suv
for with a gas engine when we want to go
visit Grandma. And you know, people are sort of running
the numbers. But because gas prices have been relatively stable,
a little high, but stable, there may not be as
much pressure to make the jump either.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
What's I did talk to one guy who was a
general manager of an auto dealership that provided half that's
fleet in electric form. He looked at me and goes
I'd never buy one, is ever an EMT. I want
to have gasoline to get the hell out of here,
so I mean without the fringe, you know, like that.
By and large, what has held it back is the
cost differential, the battery replacement cost and maintenance extra cost.

(02:36):
I think you could make a case by the time
you get everything done in your garage to charge it,
if you keep it long enough, in which you would
have to to make up for the higher cost going in,
you'd have the high maintenance in between. And the battery
replacement range was an early issue that's not as much
of an issue anymore. And you mentioned great strides in
the infrastructure and charging stations. So but I don't know

(02:58):
that they've come up with any thing to offset the
cost difference. Although all cars are so expensive now it's
not quite as noticeable. They're all ridiculous. You can't get
anything fronder eighty grand. Yeah, it's almost that bad, But yeah,
I think so.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
There is an all electric leaf out there you can
get for around thirty grand. Would probably be the lowest
entry point on all electric. But we're also seeing more
of the electric cars like the Tesla's hit the secondary market,
so people are sometimes picking them up there, and of
course that has pluses and minuses, as you said with
the cost of battery replacement. But look, it's a the

(03:36):
market is doing its thing and that's really what we
want out of all this. Right.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, I'm glad, but I'm so old. I was just
gonna say, I'm so glad you saw through and because
I'm thinking you need to leave right now, but you
saw through that this is coming out of the thirty
seconds or this is coming out of the Detroit Auto Show.
Because listen, as an industry BMW Mercedes, a lot of
people want ball in and lost their you know whats.
So I think they're trying to sell something and they
certainly got a lot of inventory sitting out there, but

(04:04):
there is some change. Look, I got a friend, Chess
Corzon loves his Tesla, loves it with all his heart,
and I say, God, bless you. There just hasn't been
one that's wooed me into buying it yet. And then
I would love to see research in the future how
many families are doing one EV and keeping one gas.
I bet that's a high number. Two great reporting, or
he's gonna be back in the third hour, we're gonna
get an update on that Israeli Hamasi spire.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
will miss you. It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.
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