March 28, 2025 • 37 mins
When seconds count in roadside emergencies, having the right information can save thousands in damages and prevent dangerous situations. The EV Clever app has revolutionized how professionals handle electric and hybrid vehicles by transforming what would be 60,000 printed pages of technical documentation into an instantly searchable tool that delivers precise information in under 30 seconds.
Created by Kim Holcomb and Wesley Wilburn of the American Towing Recovery Institute, the app emerged from real-world challenges faced by towing operators trying to navigate unwieldy technical manuals while working on the roadside. Through multiple development cycles, they've built an intuitive interface that allows users to quickly search for specific vehicles and access critical details through "quick links" - including battery locations, towing points, lifting instructions, and safety protocols.
The database currently houses detailed specifications for over 3,490 passenger vehicles, 2,094 heavy-duty trucks, and 1,517 electric scooters, with new models added daily. Each entry includes vehicle recognition photos, component diagrams with pinch-to-zoom capability, and manufacturer-specific guidance. The app even features a built-in EV charging station locator that instantly displays nearby options.
While primarily designed for towing professionals, the EV Clever app has become essential for firefighters, auto glass technicians, recyclers, body shops, and even parking facilities dealing with the unique challenges of electric vehicles. At just $19.99 annually (equivalent to $1.66 monthly) after a 30-day free trial, it offers extraordinary value considering the potential costs of improper vehicle handling. Download it today from Apple or Google Play stores and experience how this pocket-sized resource is transforming safety and efficiency across multiple industries.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome one and all to the American Towing Recovery
Institute podcast.
I want to remind all of youthat the American Towing
Recovery Institute aims topromote professionalism, safety
and education within the towingand recovery industry.
Remember, we provide trainingand certification programs for
towing operators.
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We also advocate for industrystandards and best practices,
support research and develop allnew techniques, including
research and development ofelectric and alternative fuel
vehicles With extensive research, with the EV Clever app,
available now on Apple andGoogle Play stores, Foster
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Please, if you need to contactus, we're always at wwwamtowri G
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Now here is Towing.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
News Now.
Dj, thanks for the greatintroduction.
Wes is not here this week.
He's taking the day off becausehe just finished up a class and
it's the springtime of the year, so we are on full ramp.
So I decided this week to lethim sit it out, and me and Kim
are going to take over thepodcast station.
It's Women's Day.
(01:27):
It's Women's Day.
It's Women's Day, yes, so myweek has been great.
Like I said, wes is busy, sowe're busy too, trying to get
all these classes pulledtogether and all the preparation
that it takes for that.
So happy to be busy.
For that, so happy to be busy.
Um, and then I've got kim hokumhere, who's gonna chit chat
(01:47):
with us a minute about how she'sbeen doing since the last time
we talked to her, which was, Ibelieve, how long ago kim was it
that was september inchattanooga yeah, right at the
toe show yeah sure was, which Ibelieve we're going back to
again this year yep october.
This year october better withthe leaves will change.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, we'll have those issues of the hurricanes.
Yeah, Hopefully.
You know all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Fingers crossed about that Right.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But we will be planning on it so and what you
been up to since then.
I don't know just gettingthings going and working on all
this, the updates and stuff thatwe're doing here, and of course
brings our big time to startthings up new and all that.
So we've got a lot of stuffwe're working on so we're just
really busy over here.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and Kim is a big part of everything that we
do.
I'm answering the phone and Wesis doing the classes, so people
seldomly hear from her or seeher, but a lot of the stuff that
happens, she's human resource.
What else do you do, kim?
I mean like everything, right,I do everything with the
training.
I'm just kidding about that youknow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just backbone of all the internal stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's a back and she's not bragging.
She is the backbone of theinternals.
We don't need to get ospreyosiswith Kim around.
I'm going to tell you thatright now, because we'll be in
trouble if we do.
But, dj, I'm glad to hear you.
Your voice sounds really goodand strong.
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'm doing fine.
Listen.
I want to tell you about KimHolcomb to all our listeners.
We have over 18,000 listenersand growing because of Kim
Holcomb.
Kim Holcomb to me me is likeyour Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
She is our tech support.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
She is your tech support and she is there all the
time and she makes this EBClever app the app of the future
and the app of now.
So it's one of these things Ialways think I refer to her as
your Elon Musk, because that'swhat I think she is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a very good perspective, but let's not pump
her up too much.
We've got to keep her online alittle bit, DJ, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, she'll be asking for it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, we need her to raise, I'll send.
Asked your first.
Oh, we need to erase, I'll sendin my shoot.
So, anyway, backed up by DJHarrington.
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
She has a reference now, so oh.
God, that's been our week.
So, dj, you want to take us toa break?
Yeah, because we do have Kim,who is with us this week, as it
(04:35):
so happens, to talk about thisapp.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, that'd be perfect.
So let's do this, april.
I'm with you Folks.
We're going to take a real fastbreak and when we come back,
we'll listen to April Wilburnand Kim Holcomb and talk about
the brand new, most improved EVClever app.
So hold tight, we'll be rightback.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
For electric and other alternative fuel vehicles.
We have developed an app thatgives you all the manufacturers
411 for when that 911 happens.
Whether you are a fire tow orpolice, we got you covered To
find the EV Clever app.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Go to your Apple or Google Play store for a 30-day
free trial.
We also offer the National TowOperator Certification an
independently sourced virtualtesting program covering light
duty, heavy duty, electric andalternative fuel vehicle.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Welcome back listeners.
You know you're listening tothe new Towing News Channel and
this is really the segment thatwe have bringing on a guest.
But I want to remind all of youwe're available.
This podcast is available everyweek.
Make sure you download andlisten.
We're available on Spotify,itunes, pandora, stitcher,
(05:59):
iheartmedia, amazon or whereveryou get your podcasts.
So let me bring it back toApril Wilburn, the host of
Hostess.
April, I turn it on over to you.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
DJ, as always.
Thank you so much for bringingus back from the break and, as
reported, I have Kim Holcombhere and who just came in the
door, wesley, wilburn, wesley,say hello to everybody.
Hey, everybody, that'severybody.
Wesley say hello to everybodyhey everybody, that's everybody,
everybody say hello to Wesley.
So this app, kim, this appthat's taken over a big part of
(06:36):
your life, how did that conceptcome into being?
How did this come into being?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
come into being?
How did that?
How did this?
How did this come into to be?
Well, first of all, we were, um, wes has been teaching the
hybrid classes way before the evstuff come out really well.
So we've always been on the um,that's always been in our view,
and we've been working on thatpart.
You know a small part, but it'sbeen good.
And then now we're at thispoint where, um, there's so many
evs out there, everybody had tobuy them and you, you know all
that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I think there was and I think it's been revoked, but
there was an electric vehiclemandate.
Like by 2030,.
You couldn't buy a combustibleengine car.
That's all you had.
Now that's been repealed, butthe interest for the electric
vehicle still seems to besomething that's prevalent,
(07:25):
which is a good thing.
Eventually these things will beso good that you won't want I
don't think that you'll want acombustible engine car because
it would be so convenient.
I really do, and it's nice tohave a choice and not to be made
to do something.
But that's me on my little highhorse for one second.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
All right, kim, go ahead so we were gathering all
of the electric vehicle guidesthat we could for all the
vehicles that were up, and wewere compiling those into a PDF
and that was getting large, verylarge.
We were getting 500, 600 pages.
(08:02):
We were submitting these to ourdrivers, our tollers and you
know all the people that wereusing it Well, tollers not
really people and it was gettingto be hard to flip through a
PDF on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, I think initially you were trying to
print it out and give it to them, and then it was like how many?
Packs of paper do you have todo for a pasta.
Yeah, so that's where it camein.
And then it was like how manypacks of paper do you have to do
for a class?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
of 30?
Yeah, so that's where it camein.
Yeah, you could search on thePDF, but, being on the side of
the road in an instant, there isso much information not what
you need.
So we pinpointed and tried tofind out what can we do?
How can we change these pagesto put into an app where
everyone has in their pocket toflip out on the side of the road
(08:47):
doing searches and find whatthey need?
So that's where we went.
It did take many cycles to getthrough it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And then, what part did Wesley have to play in that
brainstorm idea that you guyshad?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We had to figure out, first of all, how do you
actually create an app.
So we did that.
We went online and found it.
Wesley found an app, a program.
Wesley want to talk about theapp that you.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, I mean, I have no experience developing at all,
so I just researched for a lotof services and I found this
thing called Adelo and basicallyin my time working I created
the first interface for it withjust from complete nothing.
And so, yeah, so Wesley?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm just going to say this one thing about Wesley
okay, wesley doesn't knowanything about anything until
because why would you need toknow how to build an app?
An average person doesn't needto know how to do that.
He researched it, he learnedhow to do it and he's like he
said he started the firstinterface for it.
The other thing that Wesleydoes is and I'm just going to
(09:55):
sidetrack for one second withall the if you come to Wesley's
class and you see a PowerPointand you see a video or anything
like that, wesley didn't knowanything about that either, but
now Wesley does that.
So Wesley is very ingenuitive.
If Wesley doesn't know how todo something, he knows there's
somewhere to learn how to do itand he goes and learns how to do
it.
And now he also makes ourcommercials.
(10:15):
How much experience did youhave making our commercials for
the classes before Wesley?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Not a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So you had some experience.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, but how to create a new way of marketing
videos?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
instead of just personal videos.
Exactly so, wesley is also abig part of what we do.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Sorry to interrupt you, kim, go ahead.
So we were getting up to the600 pages then it was just
becoming, you know, useless.
What was the point?
You know it's not helping saveanything.
So that's where we movedforward on that.
Wesley hit that and we worked onit.
We did have a lot of, wewatched a lot of YouTube videos
and how to do this and that, andthen, of course, we went
(10:59):
through two or three differentplatforms where, started out,
there was a lot of problems withit, but you know, again, we
don't have experience and so wewere working through it as we
could.
So we tried to fix them as wecould and worked around it.
And then we had a few people, acouple professionals, that kind
of helped on some insight thatwe didn't, so that we can move
from having it on the websiteonly being able to access it to
(11:23):
the website, to actually beingable to go onto Apple or Google
on your phone and downloading itand having it right there at
your fingertips.
So we have gone through.
Our third thing we're at 3.0,where we have made our final
platform update, where we haveit now that we are happy with it
(11:47):
.
Um, we're continuing to growwith it.
We don't have any more umissues with it that we know of
Um.
So we're working through thoseto keep those where they are and
then, but keep it on updating,because every day the phone,
your phone app, should have moreon it every day, so because the
cars keep coming and so we needto have as many as we will have
.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, as of right now on this app, this is a different
mix of models.
Okay, we have 3,490 cars,vehicles.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Passenger cars.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Thank you.
Passenger cars that's exactlyhow your dad would have said it
to you, wesley.
We have 2,094 trucks, and howwould your dad say that?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Heavy duty.
There we go, the big rigs andstuff.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Okay, he doesn't have a fancy way of saying scooters.
We have 1,517 scooters as oftoday's date and every day there
is more and more added to itthere is more and more added to
it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, we have our research and development team,
which is basically Jake andmyself.
Jake does most of the updateson them, he adds them, he
searches for new cars, makessure there's nothing missing
that we haven't hit on, there'sa year or a different model or
something like that.
So we're trying to includeeverything.
So we hope that you will findany vehicle that you have on
(13:12):
there and if there's anythingthat you never find, if you
could just let us know.
We don't, if we don't know,because we don't use it every
day like you guys do.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The one thing and we're going to go to a break
after I say this the one of themost helpful things for us have
been somebody calling and sayingI'm looking this up or I'm
trying to find this and I can'tfind it, or I can't open it up,
and that lets us know thatthere's something that we need
(13:38):
to address, and that's actuallybeen the biggest outside help
that we've gotten.
Most people, when they see aproblem, they'll just complain
about it and put the phone backin their pocket and we'll never
know, and us knowing that we canjump on it immediately and get
it solved.
That's where we're at with thisapp Now.
What we're going to do now isgo to a break and when I come
(14:00):
back we're going to talk abouthow convenient this app is,
because that's the thing rightthere If it's inconvenient.
The reason why we made this appis because that's the thing
right right there.
If it's inconvenient, the reasonwhy we made this app is because
that pdf was inconvenient.
It became too cumbersome to tryto go through and try to search
a vehicle.
This app is so convenient thatin 20 seconds you've you've
(14:20):
you've found exactly what you'relooking for.
So once we come back from thebreak.
We're going to go into that.
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Speaker 1 (15:44):
Welcome back listeners.
You know you're listening tothe new Towing News Channel.
This is a great segment on theEV Clever app.
I want to remind all of you tolike, review and share
everywhere here on the newTowing News channel.
(16:06):
Just dial our hotline number atthe podcast center 706-409-5603
.
We're privileged to have TimHolcomb, wesley, wilburn Wes's
son he's a smart young man andApril Wilburn.
I want to remind all ourlisteners now, if you are a
(16:27):
teller or you work for a firedepartment or a rescue
department, grab your pen andpencil Special.
You know response teamrecyclers.
If you're in the recyclingbusiness, you need to get this
app Body shops, storagefacilities, ems, police.
Even if you have a parking lot,you know a paid parking
(16:48):
facility auto glass companiesand, of course, if you own a
truck company, you need to getthe app.
So, without further ado, thesmart choice, of course, is the
EB Clever C-L-E-V-E-R app andwithout further ado, april, I'll
turn it back over to you, kimand Westley.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
DJ, thank you for the very robust bringing us back.
Okay, so I have.
I said this before we left thebreak If something is
inconvenient and it's hard touse, people will not do it.
They will not use it, they willjust put it aside.
So our goal on this app was tomake something that you could
get onto the side of the road,look up what you needed and have
(17:33):
that within 20 to 30 seconds.
Kim, can you talk about whatyou guys have done with this app
to make that a possibility?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, first of all, april I don't know if you know
or not, I know I mentioned 600pages a while ago.
Yeah, if you pick up the appright here that we have on the
phone, that you have on yourphone, correct?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, I do I do and I pay for it.
Oh, you did, okay, cool, yeah,I pay for it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
If you go ahead and print all the pages that are in
there, do you know how manypages?
We think it should be prettymuch, DJ.
Do you have an?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
answer I'm going to say 873.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Ages Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm going to say 27,000.
27,000.
Okay, you're closer, dj.
That wasn't bad, ah, butApril's a little closer.
She may have seen the pages,that's why.
But we're probably closer toextending 60,000 pages.
So can you imagine having to gothrough those on the side of
the road?
60,000 pages?
(18:35):
Okay, so this app is reallywith the search.
If I'm looking for a Honda CRXI don't even know if they have
one, but just off the top of myhead, 75, they didn't have them.
But just all that, I can do itthat short and it'll give me the
results.
And um, and it just showseverything.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I can pinch and zoom on each c, h, little section, um
well, we're going to talk aboutthe sections in in just a
minute, um, but but you, you goone for right now, kim.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I mean, you don't have to.
You're only seeing things thatare on this 1977 Honda CRX.
You're not seeing stuff on theFord.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know all that and this 1977 Honda CRX is in like
a futuristic movie from way backin the day that they wasn't
even making electric vehicles.
For if I, if there was that carwhen there was an existence of
that car, I can go to this app,type that in, it will pull up.
(19:39):
And then when I pull it up,like let's just say, okay, I've
got this phone to put up.
I got a jeep wrangler uh, fourby four hybrid, this is a hybrid
um up.
But I got a Jeep Wrangler, a,four by four hybrid, this is a
hybrid Um.
When I do that, how convenient.
What do I have to look at onhere to, let's just say I'm a
toer, that's, that's a world,I'll go to that first.
Okay, if I'm a toer, where do Igo to look at for, uh, the, the
(20:03):
towing points and things likethat?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
once you find your vehicle, um, you search your
vehicle, you, if you look at thevery bottom, that's when you
open the app, everyone will.
It's just it looks the sameevery time.
You don't have to log in everytime.
I could do some apps.
It's just there, um, but it'llshow it, um.
And then on the bottom row, youhave a option to click on car,
heavy duty, scooter or evstation, um, and then, if you
(20:29):
know you're looking for a car,just click on that really quick
and it'll give you all of themodels that we have, makes that
we have, and then that's whereyou'll start.
April.
You said you had a JeepWrangler.
Yeah, so you just click on Jeepand then it'll give you all the
Jeeps that we have currentlyavailable under Jeep and it
shows the image of each one,what it looks like, the front
(20:51):
and the back, because that's oneof the things is, you know,
being able to recognize an EVfrom a regular.
So we have those so that youcan recognize it when you pull
up.
So you know exactly what you'redealing with.
Click on it, the Jeep Cherokeeyou will have.
First of all, you have thedifferent links under it.
If you click on it, it showsyou can do the EV recognition.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I think the quick links are the key to
everything, right there.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, the quick links are the thing that makes this
so wonderful.
So what question did you haveabout it, April?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
If I wanted to look for the tow points, or how to or
where to find the tow points,at what would I look at on here?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Well, you have towing and then you have lifting
points.
Okay, so you can click oneither one of those and it'll
kind of show you the one Towingis going to give you how they
want you to tow it.
Some of them are really smalland it just says put it on the
back of a flatbed with, you know, the eight-point tie-down.
So if you have that, or youhave some that have a, this
vehicle right here actually hasa lot of information about
towing on it details, but thelifting points where you would
(21:56):
actually lift it would beunderneath and it does show a
diagram of it.
It's a scale of a car and itshows exactly how it looks as
far as where the points are.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, I see, and then a little detail.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You are, yeah, and then a little details.
You can't read those detailsthough.
They're small, your phone'ssmaller, you can actually put
two fingers on it and zoom itout all the way.
Yeah, that pension zoom, thatpension zoom makes it.
Yeah.
So I said for towing, becausethat's our world.
But and then, dj, you mentionedthe recyclers.
Um, and I don't know how manyelectric vehicles that are being
recycled right now.
There's probably not as manyyet, but that is going to be
something as time goes on andthere's more cars out there.
(22:36):
Knowing where the batterylocation for that car probably
is, I'm going to guess this isjust a guess what's.
If he was here, he could tellus more.
That's probably like the mostcritical thing for them as far
as the recyclable part of it, um, and there's, there's battery
location.
On this, the quick links forfire um, which is another thing
(23:02):
that really could use an applike this, because more and more
they're going to startresponding to these.
Even if it's just an accidentthey pull up and it's not a fire
um itself um, they're going toneed to know where the um, how
to access, how to access theoccupants and how to get the um.
You know, and that's in heretoo.
This app is just so wonderfuland it's so well thought out.
(23:26):
And how did you guys come upwith doing these quick links,
kim?
What?
What made you think about that?
well, most of the quick linksare readily available on those
guides that we download um, sowe went through all those and
added most of the ones that weneed, and so yeah, but when I
look at other apps and know weall have a million apps on our
(23:48):
phone and some of them are likethe silly little game things but
some of them are information, Idon't really see the links like
that.
It's just something that youhave and you open it up and
you've got to know where to findyour information at.
And even if you know where tofind it, you have to figure out
where it's at in that portionwhen you open it up Right, as
opposed to these quick links.
(24:09):
When you open that one, let'sjust say it's battery location,
which probably the most lookedat thing more than likely is
right there.
It shows the image of it whereit's at exactly on that car.
Not in general is it ingenerally here is on that car,
that car Pacific.
Yeah, now you can go online andyou can find this information.
(24:33):
You could Google it.
How many ads do you have to gothrough to find it?
How much information do youhave to read to get to it, to
isolate the exact thing that youneed?
The same reason why we stoppeddoing the PDF.
It becomes inconvenient and itbecomes too time consuming when
you're on the side of the roador when you are, uh, you know, a
(24:57):
firefighter or anything that'sresponding to these, um, these,
these car situations.
You need to be able to accessthat information right now, and
that's what this has done,absolutely.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Now, kim, can I ask this?
You used to have a test drive,so if they went on to
wwweb-clebercom they could takelike a test drive for 30 days,
do you still?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
have that?
Of course we do.
Yeah, and as soon as you go.
If you have an Apple or youhave a Google or Android phone,
you go to your app store,download it and you get it 30
days for free, and that is afull version.
That's not just like half ofthe information, that's the
entire information.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's the other thing that sets us different,
because we've all got those appswhere you get this much for
free, you can look at it, but ifyou want to see the other part
of it, like the thing that youneed, you've got to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So we give it to you for 30 days.
We want you to try it outbecause it is new and you don't
know if it's going to work foryou because there's zillions of
different apps.
So we're proud of it.
We love it.
Um, I'm excited about itbecause, secretly, I know this
is off the record but when Igraduated years ago high school,
that's what I want to do was todo app work and back in the
(26:22):
website back in the 1900s baby.
but on the record also, I am thesecond to the youngest, so I'm
not putting in the room.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That we had an auto glass person.
You know one of those like asafe code where you put the auto
glass in after the glass wasbroken, and it was for a hybrid.
Oh, and the the guy, thetechnician, was so paranoid he
went to the clever app andthat's how we took advantage of
(26:57):
it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, my grandmother used to say God rest her soul,
measure twice, cut once.
And this app is a version ofthat, because you could think
you know and you have a goodidea and you're probably right,
but looking at this app willverify.
He was paranoid, but I bet youhe, I bet you when he looked at
it, it just validated what hewas thinking to do.
(27:19):
Um, this is just anothermeasure and extra measure to
have something to say okay, thisis where it's at, or no?
This, thank goodness, I lookedat it because it wasn't there,
it's right here instead.
And if you damage one of iswhere it's at, or no, thank
goodness, I looked at it becauseit wasn't there, it's right
here instead.
And if you damage one of thosecars, it's thousands and
thousands and thousands ofdollars.
We're going to talk about moreupcoming features.
(27:40):
Well, currently, what'shappening with the app, and then
upcoming features that we'regoing to be adding one to it.
Wesley, I know you've beenpretty silent throughout most of
this, but do you have anythingto add to what's going on with
this app?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We could talk about the blogs of new feature we're
having.
We'll be talking about newthings happening in the electric
vehicle world, tips on how todo better in your job for
operating and dealing withcustomers, and I think we have
(28:15):
some about recalls yeah, we'regonna start doing recalls too,
and wesley's um excellent atdoing like, um, like research
and getting information.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Actually, he helps us with these podcasts a lot by
getting get getting us some newsarticles and videos and things
like that, so he's developedquite a niche for it.
So his contribution to this,you know, yes, he helped build
the back page of it, but thiswhole thing is always going to
be something that we're workingon, researching and improving
(28:46):
and adding to.
It's going to be continuouseffort and excellence that we're
doing and Wesley's a big partof that.
As I said before, we have 3,490passenger vehicles Is that
right, wesley?
Is that how you say it?
2,094 heavy-duty trucks and1,517 scooters.
(29:10):
This has been added to everyday.
We're actually safe five days aweek, monday through Friday.
If anything happens on theweekends, we'll catch up with it
on Monday.
If any new cars are added to it, we'll catch up with it on
Monday, and I've got Kim herewith me who's going to talk
(29:30):
about some of the new upcomingthings that we're going to be
doing with this app.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, as Wesley has stated, the blogs is a big thing
.
We have them there, but we'renot using it right now because
we're focusing mostly on theupdates.
So we are getting to that,we're working on that part now
and there's going to be a lot ofuseful things that you can read
on.
That may be helpful.
Like you said, vehicle recallsum, and then I know we focus on
(29:55):
towing a lot and we should, asthat is our industry, but we are
.
We are um also.
This app is as a benefit, as abeneficial for other areas of um
emergency response or whatnot.
That, um, you know, we'reputting in, we're giving them,
we're trying to pull them in aswell, because we we do like um
(30:17):
to uh kind of with our crosstraining that we do, we try to
work with the different fire andwhatnot, emergency and
everything.
So we're going to pull somesafety, um, fire articles or
whatnot for that and then towingarticles.
And then we also are upcomingwith some shows and supports or
(30:38):
sponsorship or whatnot.
So that's something that'sworking on.
We don't have any informationon that, but you can definitely
call and let.
If you want any information onit, we can give it to you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So what that is just in brief, and like Kim says
she's working on it is thatyou'll have your.
If you want to be a sponsor,you'll have your company badge
on the app.
So when somebody opens it up orlooks at it, then your company
is advertised with that.
But that's something thatthey're working on right now too
.
But that would be somethingthat hundreds of people would
(31:10):
probably look at every day whenthey're on the side of the road
or their company.
Like we have companies thatwill go and buy one of these for
every one of their employees'phones.
That are doing towing and if youare in recycler or you are in
(31:33):
fire or in towing or any of theother industries that deal with
even a car salesperson, I meanhonestly knowing when they get
that EV in.
I'm sure there's a run throughwith where the stuff is on the
car, but just having that appwhen they're out there with the
person to look at it.
But it's a work in progress,it's a labor of love.
It is something that, like Isaid, will continuously be
(31:56):
worked on.
There will never be a time whenwe're not doing something with
this app and research is notbeing done for it.
That is true.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, also, a lot of people may not realize that on
this app there is actually a EVstation locator on there, that
on this app there is actually aev station locator on there, and
I just clicked it where I'msitting and it immediately
showed me where the closest evstation for me to charge, you
know.
So that is a very good and it'sjust up.
You don't have to have anythingextra that you do to it, it's
just automatically there.
So it's just a good feature onthere, but it really is, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, but everybody and anybody that's on Apple and
Google Play stores.
You get a 30-day free trialwith this.
Check it out and just see howeasy and simple this is to use
and how much better your life isif you are dealing with
(32:49):
vehicles at all whatsoever, andhow much better your life is if
you are dealing with vehicles atall whatsoever.
So, kim, we have talked atlength about this app and
everything that it entails andall the work that we've done on
it and everything that it has.
This has got to be acrazy-priced, expensive app.
I know it's probably worth it.
I know it's probably worth it,but let's go ahead and just
(33:10):
brace yourself and talk abouthow much this cost well, april.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Um, as DJ mentioned, were asked about the 30-day
trial, if we still had that, andthat definitely isn't into
place.
But when you, once you sign upafter the 30-day trial, you have
the option to sign up monthly,which would be be $2.99 USD, or
you can sign up yearly for$19.99.
(33:37):
At $19.99, that is $1.66 amonth.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
That is crazy low.
Considering what it does, thatis incredible.
That is a great value For $20,being on the side of the road
and being able to whip thatphone out and just having it at
your fingertips easy easy sale,right, exactly, so that is what,
um, and we're there and we haveto charge it because we have to
.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Continuously, we're doing these updates you know,
and it does so we want to um.
We want this to be the bestvalue for you, so yeah, all
right, everybody you heard ithere sign up dj.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I'm gonna throw it back to you and we're gonna wrap
this thing up yeah, I just wantto remind all our listeners
that if you're in tow and firerescue body shop even you know
people laugh about this astorage facility could actually
take full advantage of this.
If you have a hybrid orelectric vehicle on your
(34:34):
property that somebody hadstored, it's vital to have this
information at your fingertipswithin seconds.
So the phone number right atthe company 950-910-747-9000.
And just go to wwwev-cleverC-L-E-V-E-R just like it sounds,
(34:57):
com.
Or if you've got information,just go to contact at
ev-clevercom.
I think it's a smart choice,it's what you need to do and I
believe there's more hybrid outthere right now than electric
vehicles.
But you know I'm not as smartas Wesley.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
There is hybrid EVs.
There's probably legitimatehybrid gas, but there's a lot
more hybrid EVs out there too,where, if the electric part of
it weans out, then the hybridpicks up.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well, you three guys did a great job April, kim and
Wesley and it's always good tohear Wesley's voice.
You get a college educated guyon here.
It always sounds better.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
He can't hear you because he doesn't have the
headphone on, so he has tolisten to the whole podcast to
hear the nice things that youjust said about him, dj.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And Wes's son is a fine young guy I'm proud to know
.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I can't wait for him to hear you say that.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
All right, Kim April, you guys take it home.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay, thank you guys again for joining us this week
and, like I said, go to Apple Ifyou go to Apple or Google, to
the Play Store and download thisfor a 30-day free trial.
Kim.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yep.
That's it and please keep intouch with us.
If there's any, give usfeedback.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Feedback is what we like.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I know that some people don't like it, but we
need it.
We can't grow and we can't helpyou if we don't know.
So we would love for yourfeedback good, bad or different.
So you can either call us, likeApril or DJs already.
Give us our phone number of910-747-9000.
Or you could email at Wes, atA-M-T-O-W-R-Iorg.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, see everybody next week.
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
News Now.
Dj, thanks for the greatintroduction.
Wes is not here this week.
He's taking the day off becausehe just finished up a class and
it's the springtime of the year, so we are on full ramp.
So I decided this week to lethim sit it out, and me and Kim
are going to take over thepodcast station.
It's Women's Day.
(01:27):
It's Women's Day.
It's Women's Day, yes, so myweek has been great.
Like I said, wes is busy, sowe're busy too, trying to get
all these classes pulledtogether and all the preparation
that it takes for that.
So happy to be busy.
For that, so happy to be busy.
Um, and then I've got kim hokumhere, who's gonna chit chat
(01:47):
with us a minute about how she'sbeen doing since the last time
we talked to her, which was, Ibelieve, how long ago kim was it
that was september inchattanooga yeah, right at the
toe show yeah sure was, which Ibelieve we're going back to
again this year yep october.
This year october better withthe leaves will change.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, we'll have those issues of the hurricanes.
Yeah, Hopefully.
You know all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Fingers crossed about that Right.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But we will be planning on it so and what you
been up to since then.
I don't know just gettingthings going and working on all
this, the updates and stuff thatwe're doing here, and of course
brings our big time to startthings up new and all that.
So we've got a lot of stuffwe're working on so we're just
really busy over here.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and Kim is a big part of everything that we
do.
I'm answering the phone and Wesis doing the classes, so people
seldomly hear from her or seeher, but a lot of the stuff that
happens, she's human resource.
What else do you do, kim?
I mean like everything, right,I do everything with the
training.
I'm just kidding about that youknow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just backbone of all the internal stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's a back and she's not bragging.
She is the backbone of theinternals.
We don't need to get ospreyosiswith Kim around.
I'm going to tell you thatright now, because we'll be in
trouble if we do.
But, dj, I'm glad to hear you.
Your voice sounds really goodand strong.
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'm doing fine.
Listen.
I want to tell you about KimHolcomb to all our listeners.
We have over 18,000 listenersand growing because of Kim
Holcomb.
Kim Holcomb to me me is likeyour Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
She is our tech support.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
She is your tech support and she is there all the
time and she makes this EBClever app the app of the future
and the app of now.
So it's one of these things Ialways think I refer to her as
your Elon Musk, because that'swhat I think she is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a very good perspective, but let's not pump
her up too much.
We've got to keep her online alittle bit, DJ, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, she'll be asking for it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, we need her to raise, I'll send.
Asked your first.
Oh, we need to erase, I'll sendin my shoot.
So, anyway, backed up by DJHarrington.
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
She has a reference now, so oh.
God, that's been our week.
So, dj, you want to take us toa break?
Yeah, because we do have Kim,who is with us this week, as it
(04:35):
so happens, to talk about thisapp.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, that'd be perfect.
So let's do this, april.
I'm with you Folks.
We're going to take a real fastbreak and when we come back,
we'll listen to April Wilburnand Kim Holcomb and talk about
the brand new, most improved EVClever app.
So hold tight, we'll be rightback.
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Speaker 1 (05:33):
Welcome back listeners.
You know you're listening tothe new Towing News Channel and
this is really the segment thatwe have bringing on a guest.
But I want to remind all of youwe're available.
This podcast is available everyweek.
Make sure you download andlisten.
We're available on Spotify,itunes, pandora, stitcher,
(05:59):
iheartmedia, amazon or whereveryou get your podcasts.
So let me bring it back toApril Wilburn, the host of
Hostess.
April, I turn it on over to you.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
DJ, as always.
Thank you so much for bringingus back from the break and, as
reported, I have Kim Holcombhere and who just came in the
door, wesley, wilburn, wesley,say hello to everybody.
Hey, everybody, that'severybody.
Wesley say hello to everybodyhey everybody, that's everybody,
everybody say hello to Wesley.
So this app, kim, this appthat's taken over a big part of
(06:36):
your life, how did that conceptcome into being?
How did this come into being?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
come into being?
How did that?
How did this?
How did this come into to be?
Well, first of all, we were, um, wes has been teaching the
hybrid classes way before the evstuff come out really well.
So we've always been on the um,that's always been in our view,
and we've been working on thatpart.
You know a small part, but it'sbeen good.
And then now we're at thispoint where, um, there's so many
evs out there, everybody had tobuy them and you, you know all
that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I think there was and I think it's been revoked, but
there was an electric vehiclemandate.
Like by 2030,.
You couldn't buy a combustibleengine car.
That's all you had.
Now that's been repealed, butthe interest for the electric
vehicle still seems to besomething that's prevalent,
(07:25):
which is a good thing.
Eventually these things will beso good that you won't want I
don't think that you'll want acombustible engine car because
it would be so convenient.
I really do, and it's nice tohave a choice and not to be made
to do something.
But that's me on my little highhorse for one second.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
All right, kim, go ahead so we were gathering all
of the electric vehicle guidesthat we could for all the
vehicles that were up, and wewere compiling those into a PDF
and that was getting large, verylarge.
We were getting 500, 600 pages.
(08:02):
We were submitting these to ourdrivers, our tollers and you
know all the people that wereusing it Well, tollers not
really people and it was gettingto be hard to flip through a
PDF on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, I think initially you were trying to
print it out and give it to them, and then it was like how many?
Packs of paper do you have todo for a pasta.
Yeah, so that's where it camein.
And then it was like how manypacks of paper do you have to do
for a class?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
of 30?
Yeah, so that's where it camein.
Yeah, you could search on thePDF, but, being on the side of
the road in an instant, there isso much information not what
you need.
So we pinpointed and tried tofind out what can we do?
How can we change these pagesto put into an app where
everyone has in their pocket toflip out on the side of the road
(08:47):
doing searches and find whatthey need?
So that's where we went.
It did take many cycles to getthrough it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And then, what part did Wesley have to play in that
brainstorm idea that you guyshad?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We had to figure out, first of all, how do you
actually create an app.
So we did that.
We went online and found it.
Wesley found an app, a program.
Wesley want to talk about theapp that you.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, I mean, I have no experience developing at all,
so I just researched for a lotof services and I found this
thing called Adelo and basicallyin my time working I created
the first interface for it withjust from complete nothing.
And so, yeah, so Wesley?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm just going to say this one thing about Wesley
okay, wesley doesn't knowanything about anything until
because why would you need toknow how to build an app?
An average person doesn't needto know how to do that.
He researched it, he learnedhow to do it and he's like he
said he started the firstinterface for it.
The other thing that Wesleydoes is and I'm just going to
(09:55):
sidetrack for one second withall the if you come to Wesley's
class and you see a PowerPointand you see a video or anything
like that, wesley didn't knowanything about that either, but
now Wesley does that.
So Wesley is very ingenuitive.
If Wesley doesn't know how todo something, he knows there's
somewhere to learn how to do itand he goes and learns how to do
it.
And now he also makes ourcommercials.
(10:15):
How much experience did youhave making our commercials for
the classes before Wesley?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Not a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So you had some experience.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, but how to create a new way of marketing
videos?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
instead of just personal videos.
Exactly so, wesley is also abig part of what we do.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Sorry to interrupt you, kim, go ahead.
So we were getting up to the600 pages then it was just
becoming, you know, useless.
What was the point?
You know it's not helping saveanything.
So that's where we movedforward on that.
Wesley hit that and we worked onit.
We did have a lot of, wewatched a lot of YouTube videos
and how to do this and that, andthen, of course, we went
(10:59):
through two or three differentplatforms where, started out,
there was a lot of problems withit, but you know, again, we
don't have experience and so wewere working through it as we
could.
So we tried to fix them as wecould and worked around it.
And then we had a few people, acouple professionals, that kind
of helped on some insight thatwe didn't, so that we can move
from having it on the websiteonly being able to access it to
(11:23):
the website, to actually beingable to go onto Apple or Google
on your phone and downloading itand having it right there at
your fingertips.
So we have gone through.
Our third thing we're at 3.0,where we have made our final
platform update, where we haveit now that we are happy with it
(11:47):
.
Um, we're continuing to growwith it.
We don't have any more umissues with it that we know of
Um.
So we're working through thoseto keep those where they are and
then, but keep it on updating,because every day the phone,
your phone app, should have moreon it every day, so because the
cars keep coming and so we needto have as many as we will have
.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, as of right now on this app, this is a different
mix of models.
Okay, we have 3,490 cars,vehicles.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Passenger cars.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Thank you.
Passenger cars that's exactlyhow your dad would have said it
to you, wesley.
We have 2,094 trucks, and howwould your dad say that?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Heavy duty.
There we go, the big rigs andstuff.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Okay, he doesn't have a fancy way of saying scooters.
We have 1,517 scooters as oftoday's date and every day there
is more and more added to itthere is more and more added to
it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, we have our research and development team,
which is basically Jake andmyself.
Jake does most of the updateson them, he adds them, he
searches for new cars, makessure there's nothing missing
that we haven't hit on, there'sa year or a different model or
something like that.
So we're trying to includeeverything.
So we hope that you will findany vehicle that you have on
(13:12):
there and if there's anythingthat you never find, if you
could just let us know.
We don't, if we don't know,because we don't use it every
day like you guys do.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
The one thing and we're going to go to a break
after I say this the one of themost helpful things for us have
been somebody calling and sayingI'm looking this up or I'm
trying to find this and I can'tfind it, or I can't open it up,
and that lets us know thatthere's something that we need
(13:38):
to address, and that's actuallybeen the biggest outside help
that we've gotten.
Most people, when they see aproblem, they'll just complain
about it and put the phone backin their pocket and we'll never
know, and us knowing that we canjump on it immediately and get
it solved.
That's where we're at with thisapp Now.
What we're going to do now isgo to a break and when I come
(14:00):
back we're going to talk abouthow convenient this app is,
because that's the thing rightthere If it's inconvenient.
The reason why we made this appis because that's the thing
right right there.
If it's inconvenient, the reasonwhy we made this app is because
that pdf was inconvenient.
It became too cumbersome to tryto go through and try to search
a vehicle.
This app is so convenient thatin 20 seconds you've you've
(14:20):
you've found exactly what you'relooking for.
So once we come back from thebreak.
We're going to go into that.
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Welcome back listeners.
You know you're listening tothe new Towing News Channel.
This is a great segment on theEV Clever app.
I want to remind all of you tolike, review and share
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.
We're privileged to have TimHolcomb, wesley, wilburn Wes's
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I want to remind all ourlisteners now, if you are a
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teller or you work for a firedepartment or a rescue
department, grab your pen andpencil Special.
You know response teamrecyclers.
If you're in the recyclingbusiness, you need to get this
app Body shops, storagefacilities, ems, police.
Even if you have a parking lot,you know a paid parking
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turn it back over to you, kimand Westley.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
DJ, thank you for the very robust bringing us back.
Okay, so I have.
I said this before we left thebreak If something is
inconvenient and it's hard touse, people will not do it.
They will not use it, they willjust put it aside.
So our goal on this app was tomake something that you could
get onto the side of the road,look up what you needed and have
(17:33):
that within 20 to 30 seconds.
Kim, can you talk about whatyou guys have done with this app
to make that a possibility?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, first of all, april I don't know if you know
or not, I know I mentioned 600pages a while ago.
Yeah, if you pick up the appright here that we have on the
phone, that you have on yourphone, correct?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah, I do I do and I pay for it.
Oh, you did, okay, cool, yeah,I pay for it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
If you go ahead and print all the pages that are in
there, do you know how manypages?
We think it should be prettymuch, DJ.
Do you have an?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
answer I'm going to say 873.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Ages Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm going to say 27,000.
27,000.
Okay, you're closer, dj.
That wasn't bad, ah, butApril's a little closer.
She may have seen the pages,that's why.
But we're probably closer toextending 60,000 pages.
So can you imagine having to gothrough those on the side of
the road?
60,000 pages?
(18:35):
Okay, so this app is reallywith the search.
If I'm looking for a Honda CRXI don't even know if they have
one, but just off the top of myhead, 75, they didn't have them.
But just all that, I can do itthat short and it'll give me the
results.
And um, and it just showseverything.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I can pinch and zoom on each c, h, little section, um
well, we're going to talk aboutthe sections in in just a
minute, um, but but you, you goone for right now, kim.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I mean, you don't have to.
You're only seeing things thatare on this 1977 Honda CRX.
You're not seeing stuff on theFord.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know all that and this 1977 Honda CRX is in like
a futuristic movie from way backin the day that they wasn't
even making electric vehicles.
For if I, if there was that carwhen there was an existence of
that car, I can go to this app,type that in, it will pull up.
(19:39):
And then when I pull it up,like let's just say, okay, I've
got this phone to put up.
I got a jeep wrangler uh, fourby four hybrid, this is a hybrid
um up.
But I got a Jeep Wrangler, a,four by four hybrid, this is a
hybrid Um.
When I do that, how convenient.
What do I have to look at onhere to, let's just say I'm a
toer, that's, that's a world,I'll go to that first.
Okay, if I'm a toer, where do Igo to look at for, uh, the, the
(20:03):
towing points and things likethat?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
once you find your vehicle, um, you search your
vehicle, you, if you look at thevery bottom, that's when you
open the app, everyone will.
It's just it looks the sameevery time.
You don't have to log in everytime.
I could do some apps.
It's just there, um, but it'llshow it, um.
And then on the bottom row, youhave a option to click on car,
heavy duty, scooter or evstation, um, and then, if you
(20:29):
know you're looking for a car,just click on that really quick
and it'll give you all of themodels that we have, makes that
we have, and then that's whereyou'll start.
April.
You said you had a JeepWrangler.
Yeah, so you just click on Jeepand then it'll give you all the
Jeeps that we have currentlyavailable under Jeep and it
shows the image of each one,what it looks like, the front
(20:51):
and the back, because that's oneof the things is, you know,
being able to recognize an EVfrom a regular.
So we have those so that youcan recognize it when you pull
up.
So you know exactly what you'redealing with.
Click on it, the Jeep Cherokeeyou will have.
First of all, you have thedifferent links under it.
If you click on it, it showsyou can do the EV recognition.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I think the quick links are the key to
everything, right there.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, the quick links are the thing that makes this
so wonderful.
So what question did you haveabout it, April?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
If I wanted to look for the tow points, or how to or
where to find the tow points,at what would I look at on here?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Well, you have towing and then you have lifting
points.
Okay, so you can click oneither one of those and it'll
kind of show you the one Towingis going to give you how they
want you to tow it.
Some of them are really smalland it just says put it on the
back of a flatbed with, you know, the eight-point tie-down.
So if you have that, or youhave some that have a, this
vehicle right here actually hasa lot of information about
towing on it details, but thelifting points where you would
(21:56):
actually lift it would beunderneath and it does show a
diagram of it.
It's a scale of a car and itshows exactly how it looks as
far as where the points are.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, I see, and then a little detail.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You are, yeah, and then a little details.
You can't read those detailsthough.
They're small, your phone'ssmaller, you can actually put
two fingers on it and zoom itout all the way.
Yeah, that pension zoom, thatpension zoom makes it.
Yeah.
So I said for towing, becausethat's our world.
But and then, dj, you mentionedthe recyclers.
Um, and I don't know how manyelectric vehicles that are being
recycled right now.
There's probably not as manyyet, but that is going to be
something as time goes on andthere's more cars out there.
(22:36):
Knowing where the batterylocation for that car probably
is, I'm going to guess this isjust a guess what's.
If he was here, he could tellus more.
That's probably like the mostcritical thing for them as far
as the recyclable part of it, um, and there's, there's battery
location.
On this, the quick links forfire um, which is another thing
(23:02):
that really could use an applike this, because more and more
they're going to startresponding to these.
Even if it's just an accidentthey pull up and it's not a fire
um itself um, they're going toneed to know where the um, how
to access, how to access theoccupants and how to get the um.
You know, and that's in heretoo.
This app is just so wonderfuland it's so well thought out.
(23:26):
And how did you guys come upwith doing these quick links,
kim?
What?
What made you think about that?
well, most of the quick linksare readily available on those
guides that we download um, sowe went through all those and
added most of the ones that weneed, and so yeah, but when I
look at other apps and know weall have a million apps on our
(23:48):
phone and some of them are likethe silly little game things but
some of them are information, Idon't really see the links like
that.
It's just something that youhave and you open it up and
you've got to know where to findyour information at.
And even if you know where tofind it, you have to figure out
where it's at in that portionwhen you open it up Right, as
opposed to these quick links.
(24:09):
When you open that one, let'sjust say it's battery location,
which probably the most lookedat thing more than likely is
right there.
It shows the image of it whereit's at exactly on that car.
Not in general is it ingenerally here is on that car,
that car Pacific.
Yeah, now you can go online andyou can find this information.
(24:33):
You could Google it.
How many ads do you have to gothrough to find it?
How much information do youhave to read to get to it, to
isolate the exact thing that youneed?
The same reason why we stoppeddoing the PDF.
It becomes inconvenient and itbecomes too time consuming when
you're on the side of the roador when you are, uh, you know, a
(24:57):
firefighter or anything that'sresponding to these, um, these,
these car situations.
You need to be able to accessthat information right now, and
that's what this has done,absolutely.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Now, kim, can I ask this?
You used to have a test drive,so if they went on to
wwweb-clebercom they could takelike a test drive for 30 days,
do you still?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
have that?
Of course we do.
Yeah, and as soon as you go.
If you have an Apple or youhave a Google or Android phone,
you go to your app store,download it and you get it 30
days for free, and that is afull version.
That's not just like half ofthe information, that's the
entire information.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's the other thing that sets us different,
because we've all got those appswhere you get this much for
free, you can look at it, but ifyou want to see the other part
of it, like the thing that youneed, you've got to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So we give it to you for 30 days.
We want you to try it outbecause it is new and you don't
know if it's going to work foryou because there's zillions of
different apps.
So we're proud of it.
We love it.
Um, I'm excited about itbecause, secretly, I know this
is off the record but when Igraduated years ago high school,
that's what I want to do was todo app work and back in the
(26:22):
website back in the 1900s baby.
but on the record also, I am thesecond to the youngest, so I'm
not putting in the room.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That we had an auto glass person.
You know one of those like asafe code where you put the auto
glass in after the glass wasbroken, and it was for a hybrid.
Oh, and the the guy, thetechnician, was so paranoid he
went to the clever app andthat's how we took advantage of
(26:57):
it.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, my grandmother used to say God rest her soul,
measure twice, cut once.
And this app is a version ofthat, because you could think
you know and you have a goodidea and you're probably right,
but looking at this app willverify.
He was paranoid, but I bet youhe, I bet you when he looked at
it, it just validated what hewas thinking to do.
(27:19):
Um, this is just anothermeasure and extra measure to
have something to say okay, thisis where it's at, or no?
This, thank goodness, I lookedat it because it wasn't there,
it's right here instead.
And if you damage one of iswhere it's at, or no, thank
goodness, I looked at it becauseit wasn't there, it's right
here instead.
And if you damage one of thosecars, it's thousands and
thousands and thousands ofdollars.
We're going to talk about moreupcoming features.
(27:40):
Well, currently, what'shappening with the app, and then
upcoming features that we'regoing to be adding one to it.
Wesley, I know you've beenpretty silent throughout most of
this, but do you have anythingto add to what's going on with
this app?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We could talk about the blogs of new feature we're
having.
We'll be talking about newthings happening in the electric
vehicle world, tips on how todo better in your job for
operating and dealing withcustomers, and I think we have
(28:15):
some about recalls yeah, we'regonna start doing recalls too,
and wesley's um excellent atdoing like, um, like research
and getting information.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Actually, he helps us with these podcasts a lot by
getting get getting us some newsarticles and videos and things
like that, so he's developedquite a niche for it.
So his contribution to this,you know, yes, he helped build
the back page of it, but thiswhole thing is always going to
be something that we're workingon, researching and improving
(28:46):
and adding to.
It's going to be continuouseffort and excellence that we're
doing and Wesley's a big partof that.
As I said before, we have 3,490passenger vehicles Is that
right, wesley?
Is that how you say it?
2,094 heavy-duty trucks and1,517 scooters.
(29:10):
This has been added to everyday.
We're actually safe five days aweek, monday through Friday.
If anything happens on theweekends, we'll catch up with it
on Monday.
If any new cars are added to it, we'll catch up with it on
Monday, and I've got Kim herewith me who's going to talk
(29:30):
about some of the new upcomingthings that we're going to be
doing with this app.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, as Wesley has stated, the blogs is a big thing
.
We have them there, but we'renot using it right now because
we're focusing mostly on theupdates.
So we are getting to that,we're working on that part now
and there's going to be a lot ofuseful things that you can read
on.
That may be helpful.
Like you said, vehicle recallsum, and then I know we focus on
(29:55):
towing a lot and we should, asthat is our industry, but we are
.
We are um also.
This app is as a benefit, as abeneficial for other areas of um
emergency response or whatnot.
That, um, you know, we'reputting in, we're giving them,
we're trying to pull them in aswell, because we we do like um
(30:17):
to uh kind of with our crosstraining that we do, we try to
work with the different fire andwhatnot, emergency and
everything.
So we're going to pull somesafety, um, fire articles or
whatnot for that and then towingarticles.
And then we also are upcomingwith some shows and supports or
(30:38):
sponsorship or whatnot.
So that's something that'sworking on.
We don't have any informationon that, but you can definitely
call and let.
If you want any information onit, we can give it to you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So what that is just in brief, and like Kim says
she's working on it is thatyou'll have your.
If you want to be a sponsor,you'll have your company badge
on the app.
So when somebody opens it up orlooks at it, then your company
is advertised with that.
But that's something thatthey're working on right now too
.
But that would be somethingthat hundreds of people would
(31:10):
probably look at every day whenthey're on the side of the road
or their company.
Like we have companies thatwill go and buy one of these for
every one of their employees'phones.
That are doing towing and if youare in recycler or you are in
(31:33):
fire or in towing or any of theother industries that deal with
even a car salesperson, I meanhonestly knowing when they get
that EV in.
I'm sure there's a run throughwith where the stuff is on the
car, but just having that appwhen they're out there with the
person to look at it.
But it's a work in progress,it's a labor of love.
It is something that, like Isaid, will continuously be
(31:56):
worked on.
There will never be a time whenwe're not doing something with
this app and research is notbeing done for it.
That is true.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, also, a lot of people may not realize that on
this app there is actually a EVstation locator on there, that
on this app there is actually aev station locator on there, and
I just clicked it where I'msitting and it immediately
showed me where the closest evstation for me to charge, you
know.
So that is a very good and it'sjust up.
You don't have to have anythingextra that you do to it, it's
just automatically there.
So it's just a good feature onthere, but it really is, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, but everybody and anybody that's on Apple and
Google Play stores.
You get a 30-day free trialwith this.
Check it out and just see howeasy and simple this is to use
and how much better your life isif you are dealing with
(32:49):
vehicles at all whatsoever, andhow much better your life is if
you are dealing with vehicles atall whatsoever.
So, kim, we have talked atlength about this app and
everything that it entails andall the work that we've done on
it and everything that it has.
This has got to be acrazy-priced, expensive app.
I know it's probably worth it.
I know it's probably worth it,but let's go ahead and just
(33:10):
brace yourself and talk abouthow much this cost well, april.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Um, as DJ mentioned, were asked about the 30-day
trial, if we still had that, andthat definitely isn't into
place.
But when you, once you sign upafter the 30-day trial, you have
the option to sign up monthly,which would be be $2.99 USD, or
you can sign up yearly for$19.99.
(33:37):
At $19.99, that is $1.66 amonth.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
That is crazy low.
Considering what it does, thatis incredible.
That is a great value For $20,being on the side of the road
and being able to whip thatphone out and just having it at
your fingertips easy easy sale,right, exactly, so that is what,
um, and we're there and we haveto charge it because we have to
.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Continuously, we're doing these updates you know,
and it does so we want to um.
We want this to be the bestvalue for you, so yeah, all
right, everybody you heard ithere sign up dj.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I'm gonna throw it back to you and we're gonna wrap
this thing up yeah, I just wantto remind all our listeners
that if you're in tow and firerescue body shop even you know
people laugh about this astorage facility could actually
take full advantage of this.
If you have a hybrid orelectric vehicle on your
(34:34):
property that somebody hadstored, it's vital to have this
information at your fingertipswithin seconds.
So the phone number right atthe company 950-910-747-9000.
And just go to wwwev-cleverC-L-E-V-E-R just like it sounds,
(34:57):
com.
Or if you've got information,just go to contact at
ev-clevercom.
I think it's a smart choice,it's what you need to do and I
believe there's more hybrid outthere right now than electric
vehicles.
But you know I'm not as smartas Wesley.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
There is hybrid EVs.
There's probably legitimatehybrid gas, but there's a lot
more hybrid EVs out there too,where, if the electric part of
it weans out, then the hybridpicks up.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well, you three guys did a great job April, kim and
Wesley and it's always good tohear Wesley's voice.
You get a college educated guyon here.
It always sounds better.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
He can't hear you because he doesn't have the
headphone on, so he has tolisten to the whole podcast to
hear the nice things that youjust said about him, dj.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And Wes's son is a fine young guy I'm proud to know
.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I can't wait for him to hear you say that.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
All right, Kim April, you guys take it home.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay, thank you guys again for joining us this week
and, like I said, go to Apple Ifyou go to Apple or Google, to
the Play Store and download thisfor a 30-day free trial.
Kim.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yep.
That's it and please keep intouch with us.
If there's any, give usfeedback.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Feedback is what we like.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I know that some people don't like it, but we
need it.
We can't grow and we can't helpyou if we don't know.
So we would love for yourfeedback good, bad or different.
So you can either call us, likeApril or DJs already.
Give us our phone number of910-747-9000.
Or you could email at Wes, atA-M-T-O-W-R-Iorg.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, see everybody next week.
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