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The Erick Erickson Show

S12 EP113: Hour 2 - No One Wants EVs

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two.

0:12.7

Greetings Conversationalists. It is Eric Erickson here. It is my show, and I'm delighted to be with you.

0:18.5

The phone number is 877-97-973-7-4-25.

0:24.3

Should you wish to be on the program?

0:27.2

Oh, we're going back to a topic that I know you all love.

0:32.7

Seriously, the amount of phone calls with people who have strongly held views on electric vehicles, there's actually a relevant story today.

0:42.6

You know, so Rivian, General Motors, Ford, it sounds like they're all moving towards the Tesla charging connection.

0:52.6

Because Tesla has this charging supercharger network around the country.

0:59.0

So, for example, if you have a Tesla, you can drive pretty much coast to coast and stop at Tesla charging stations, high-speed charging stations,

1:15.6

and those high-speed charging stations can charge your car pretty rapidly.

1:23.2

I mean, I'm just looking at the map now.

1:26.4

I've got it pulled up on Tesla, and they've got superchargers nationwide that you can,

1:36.7

let me just turn off all the other ones, but you've got a supercharging network nationwide with high speed chargers.

1:49.0

So you can go, for example, from Key West Florida and you can drive up I-75, go cut across

1:58.0

Kansas, Colorado, you get all the way to California, get all the way to Washington

2:01.7

State stopping at Tesla superchargers.

2:04.6

And those superchargers charge quickly.

2:08.6

The problem is that they are of limited supply.

2:14.5

You got a lot of people in Tesla as well.

2:16.1

You're going to be waiting a while.

2:17.5

So I've mentioned this on the program a while back.

2:20.9

My CFO for my company has a Tesla and needed to go to rural Kentucky for a funeral and wound up flying.

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