1:00:27 And what news will we have? We'll have nothing but the same old news. No, there'll be new news. There's always news... So yeah too bad I wasn't today because then i could drive you around in a little Forcus electric. Oh is that where your driving now? Well I borrowed one to test it. Right and how was it? I like it except for one thing Here's my conclusion. I've driven the Volt, I've driven the Leaf, I've driven the Focus and a couple others to look at... Wait a minute! Are you writing a book about electric cars? No, I'm going to write a small monograph What's a monograph? It's this small thing that you can sell on Amazon On the Kindle Oh, what is it gonna be called? It's gonna be called What Electric Car Should You Buy Really?!
1:01:12 And the answer is none. Well it's getting close to that, here's the problem if you is a second car for driving around town as these cars are great but there they are incredible There are white knuckle experiences if you're going to take a long trip. Why is this? Well, for example the Ford Focus Electric has got a range of they say... there's some new standard for ranges and it's 76 miles but all you get in the car and you turn it on and still see 83 miles to go then drive down the block now he gets 50 miles to go after you go. Oh! It has like Android battery where before it goes down like that You don't know what its gonna be
1:01:56 And by the way, all the electric cars do this. You drive a little bit this way and it says well you're gonna be out of electricity in two minutes and then you go...you got an hour to go so here's my I took a trip out to Danville which is like 32 miles. Can i ask you question? So like a laptop right if you so if I'm on my my first generation MacBook Air and and I see it has like three hours, but if I have the Screen up brightness up all the way then it'll go to two hours really quickly But if I turn down the brightness It won't go as fast when you're driving And you have your lights on does that make a difference with your battery with your with your radius
1:02:36 I haven't noticed it with using, apparently most of these subsystems are run by a separate battery so it doesn't affect the motor. That's my understanding so no. No okay all right now but here's the deal... How about if you have your screensaver on? That would probably make a difference! So uh so I'm driving to Danville and with a full charge and so it's only 30 miles, 30 something miles. So I get there and then watch the thing drop like a rock and then the worst part of it course is that I take off...I've never seen a focus electric car on the road. I just haven't seen them they're just not around here maybe back east I don't know where they are They just came out
1:03:16 But on the way out to Danville, there's one by the side of the road pulled over. So I'm thinking it is dead. Thinking oh great! Anyway so that's not a good sign. So I'm bombing down and then as I get through the tunnel and next thing you know I've only gone like 10 miles in it shows that have only got 40 miles left saying I chewed up 30 miles. And how many more miles do you have to go? You don't get 20 miles to go. So what was the point of no return? You're afraid you can't get back Yeah, the point of no return on it as far as I'm concerned is... but the problem is that it fluctuates so wildly. And let me explain you this way There's no point in no return on these things So you get there and when I get there and it says 42 miles So it was right when I got there It went from 75 to like 42 is just about right Well thats interesting because now I should be able to go home with no problem
1:04:04 So then I start coming back and then all of a sudden, because i think it's going up the hill or something. I'm down to 22 miles and haven't even gotten to the tunnel yet. Saying 22 miles I called Mimi up saying yeah driving this car only got 22 miles and hitting the Caldecott town. She says well you should be able to limp home no problem. No this is not... You can't ride on... You can coast on fumes Mimi! Yeah so I am going through the tunnel now its downhill So I go about another 7-8 miles, now i've got 62 miles on the gauge. This whole thing is bogative this is stupid! And so I decide to stop at a burrito place and when I get out of there... Wait a minute wait a minute, I just want pictures for second here comes this old geezer in a battery car
1:04:54 Hey, I'm looking for a burrito baby. Hand me one that's hot and spicy So I get back the cars got see so in other words the cars got 64 miles on it now It says so I took to trip all the way down there when it started with 75 miles I've only gone 9 miles according to this gauge. Oh, you know what? This is this is not good. It's not a good experience And by the way, the other cars, the Leaf, the Volt they all do this. I think they all use the same software to gauge battery life and it totally sucks! Gauge it perfectly. I mean not on a Mac now certainly not on the Windows machine Not an iPhone or an Android? I don't think that they're I don't think the technology actually be well because well The thing is if if its if it's constant, if you have a constant load then you can measure and you say okay It'll be this amount of hours, but here here listen to me Yes, sir
1:05:54 You've got the mapping software. Oh, I see what you're saying. You know the altitudes...you know when you're going uphill and downhill. You know the habits of the driver All this can be computerized. You should be able to get the battery down within an hour You're going up a hill, you're going down a hill. This can all be calculated in! This is like the Windows machine... Shhh! Stay and say no more John. We have to patent this. What a great idea you have here I betcha no one has come up with this and the Curry-Dvorak Patent Group are going to patent this idea of having the absolute accurate battery measuring system for electric cars
1:06:32 We'll sell 5,000 units I bet you we can get a sweet little little package of money though from the government. Well now you're talking right? Right I'm reminded of what i was going to say is, I'm reminded when you try it... You know your gonna transfer a hard disk over another hard disk and says copy files three hours and 45 minutes left and then it says 3 hours 30 minutes right out of the sudden down to 2 40 Two hours, hour 15 40 minutes. Just boom boom boom boom This is all a part of our patented drain technology because no one has gotten this right you are so how about downloading? How about just down like our podcast? Downloading our podcast for some people it says eight hours and for some people actually takes eight hours but for others it goes you know it says eight hours then it's then it goes in 10 seconds
1:07:32 This is bad. We have these computers, these are all computers we're dealing with that should be able to deal with these kinds of... But do you understand what I'm saying? That we have an opportunity here to create it. Yes! We need to make this a product. We will productize it but first thing we patent it and I think we start writing the patent right after this show because that's easy. I betcha no one has this I'm gonna, apparently from the looks of it nobody does have it. Right alright well so this would be good this would be very interesting to see your um what do you call it? What's it called a hamlet? A giblet? A focus no no your book The Giblet? A monogram yeah that's right Monogram giblets I think giblets sounds better than monogram monogram all right your monogram was it going to sell $299 on the kindle