Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Greetings, welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number is 8779779773-725 if you want to be on the program. I'm happy to have you. I actually want to go see if Bud is back on the line here and take his call before I move on. Bud, you there? I am, Eric. How are you doing today? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing wonderful. I was listening to your comments about hybrid vehicles. Let me tell you, my wife's car got totaled, and we bought a hybrid vehicle for her.

And shortly after I did some research on these vehicles, I decided to trade it in and get a plug-in hybrid.

And the cool thing about the plug-in hybrid, like you mentioned, your friends,

is it's got a dedicated battery for when you first start out in the morning,

it'll give you 40 miles.

Then after that, it switches over to the hybrid package,

which is a separate battery and the gasoline engine. And that works until the next time

you get home and you plug it in and you take off again with your electric power from the first

battery. The cool thing about the first battery is you can program that as to when you want to

utilize that. So you can utilize the first thing when you leave in the morning,

or if you're going up in the mountains and you have a plug-in hybrid Jeep or something like that,

you can go up into the mountains in your hybrid unit and then use your battery to go quietly

through the woods. So there's some cool things about it, but the, the coolest thing about it is

once a month we put gas on that thing. See, now I could go along

with something like this. And again, I'm not opposed to electric vehicles. They're just not for

everybody, but something like this really sounds impressive to me. If I can get my Denali in that

way without the garbage GMC interface that doesn't use car play.

That's another story.

I mean, I would gladly do something like that.

Well, you mentioned the Toyota.

You know, Mr. Toyota has stepped down, and they've got a younger guy at the helm right now,

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