TMCP #497: Ask Rick – Which Modern EV Company will Stand the Test of Time? Plus, a History of the Batmobile!

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Robert Kibbe

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! With the launch of a new month it's time to bring Rick Schmidt back on for another session of Ask Rick. As you may have noticed, in the premier marketing event of the year (i.e. the Super Bowl) all of the car companies focused solely on advertising their new electric offerings. Chevy went quite far on their new EV Silverado with some - admittedly - really engaging advertisements (we are suckers for Austin Powers).

As this trend seems inevitable, and with the proliferation of new electric car brands popping up all over, and I wanted to get Rick's opinion on whether we were about to see a new round of automobile manufacturers join the market as they did when electric cars existed with various companies in the early 20th Century. History does tend to repeat itself, right? Should we make a speculative bet on buying and holding any of these new cars for future collector value?

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 497.
0:05.0	This week, Rick Schmidt is here for Ask Rick, and we're going to talk about the trends of crazy money in car auctions lately, driving up the values, you know, all the fun stuff.
0:14.3	But we're going to start somewhere different.
0:16.4	You may have noticed that there are a lot of new brands out there today making cars that you haven't
0:21.7	heard of maybe till lately.
0:23.2	They're in the electric car game.
0:25.0	Now, judgment aside on electric, I wanted to know Rick's take on whether all of these
0:29.8	new companies are here to stay or just a flash in the pan.
0:32.8	You know, 100 years ago, there were dozens of car companies.
0:35.4	Are we there again now?
0:36.5	I think the only reason that Tesla is standing is because they were doing the electric thing
0:41.5	when nobody else was really competing with them for it. So they were able to get to a critical
0:47.9	mass and grow their own roots into the ground while everybody else is kind of snus in.
1:01.0	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:04.0	Brought to you by National Parks Depot. This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:10.0	Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring,
1:13.2	or even racing them, this is the place for you. Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby.
1:20.5	Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. So here we go. First
1:26.5	show of March, another fun one. We'll have Rick Schmidt on
1:29.2	for the Ask Rick segment. We're going to sort out all the electric car brands decide which ones
1:34.5	are going to be standing in 10 years. We're going to debate all the crazy money hitting the
1:38.4	auctions that drive in prices up, review soon, you know, all the fun stuff. I'm sure Rick has no opinion and will make
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