#PacificWatch: #Tesla culture in Green California. @JCBliss
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🗓️ 28 October 2023
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#PacificWatch: #Tesla culture in Green California. @JCBliss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/asia/gavin-newsom-china-xi.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelors. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. And Pacific |
| 0:11.0 | Watch is green as is the rest of California. How is green doing in the state that is |
| 0:17.1 | more important than any other for trends in America, at least for the last 50 or 60 years. |
| 0:22.9 | Jeff, the Governor of California, visiting China, talking climate change. That reminds |
| 0:28.9 | me that there are mandates, rules, guidelines in California for when and if everybody's |
| 0:35.1 | going to be EV, electric vehicle. You've been watching electric vehicles on the roadways |
| 0:41.6 | in California. You live in Orange County. So let us go to what you see. You tell me |
| 0:46.8 | you see EVs from Tesla. Do you see any other companies driving by? |
| 0:53.0 | Good evening, John. Yes. You see other ones. They're nowhere near the same numbers as |
| 0:59.3 | Teslas. Teslas are you, practically ubiquitous. Where you go in the state and see one in front |
| 1:05.9 | of you, one beside you, one behind you. They're really that popular. And you see them being |
| 1:11.0 | used by rideshare folks like Uber. Matter of fact, I wrote in one the other day to an event |
| 1:16.5 | I went to. It was a great ride. Very smooth and quiet. But the other cars you see are |
| 1:22.5 | cars like the Chevy Volt. You see a Mercedes EV model and Porsche. The Porsche EV models |
| 1:29.7 | become quite a bit more popular. Still not outpacing the typical Porsches, the real, |
| 1:36.1 | you know, the running gun Porsches. But you know, some of those cars are coming up on |
| 1:40.1 | the luxury side, but still the stalwart is the Tesla. It really is everywhere. I mean, |
| 1:46.5 | sometimes I'll look across a roadway in front of me a freeway. And if there are dozen |
| 1:51.1 | cars there, maybe eight or ten of them are Teslas. The really that many out there. |
| 1:55.8 | Is there a culture building up about Teslas and recharging at the recent charging stations? |
| 2:01.3 | Now the example I offer is that I'm pretty sure as a teenager before I was 16, I could |
| 2:07.2 | walk by a gasoline station on the corner. And there would be several really hip looking |
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