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Electric Future: Navigating EVs with Confidence · Towing News Now

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  Speaker 2: Dj, thanks for the great introduction.
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  Speaker 2: Wes is not here this week.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: He's taking the day off because he just finished up a class and it's the springtime of the year, so we are on full ramp.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: So I decided this week to let him sit it out, and me and Kim are going to take over the podcast station.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: It's Women's Day.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: It's Women's Day.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: It's Women's Day, yes, so my week has been great.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Like I said, wes is busy, so we're busy too, trying to get all these classes pulled together and all the preparation that it takes for that.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: So happy to be busy.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: For that, so happy to be busy.
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  Speaker 2: Um, and then I've got kim hokum here, who's gonna chit chat with us a minute about how she's been doing since the last time we talked to her, which was, I believe, how long ago kim was it that was september in chattanooga yeah, right at the toe show yeah sure was, which I believe we're going back to again this year yep october.
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  Speaker 2: This year october better with the leaves will change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have those issues of the hurricanes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: You know all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Fingers crossed about that Right.
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  Speaker 3: But we will be planning on it so and what you been up to since then.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know just getting things going and working on all this, the updates and stuff that we're doing here, and of course brings our big time to start things up new and all that.
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: So we've got a lot of stuff we're working on so we're just really busy over here.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kim is a big part of everything that we do.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: I'm answering the phone and Wes is doing the classes, so people seldomly hear from her or see her, but a lot of the stuff that happens, she's human resource.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: What else do you do, kim?
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: I mean like everything, right, I do everything with the training.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding about that you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just backbone of all the internal stuff.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: She's a back and she's not bragging.
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  Speaker 2: She is the backbone of the internals.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to get ospreyosis with Kim around.
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you that right now, because we'll be in trouble if we do.
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  Speaker 2: But, dj, I'm glad to hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Your voice sounds really good and strong.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing fine.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you about Kim Holcomb to all our listeners.
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  Speaker 1: We have over 18,000 listeners and growing because of Kim Holcomb.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Kim Holcomb to me me is like your Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: She is our tech support.
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  Speaker 1: She is your tech support and she is there all the time and she makes this EB Clever app the app of the future and the app of now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's one of these things I always think I refer to her as your Elon Musk, because that's what I think she is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very good perspective, but let's not pump her up too much.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: We've got to keep her online a little bit, DJ, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll be asking for it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we need her to raise, I'll send.
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  Speaker 3: Asked your first.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we need to erase, I'll send in my shoot.
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  Speaker 3: So, anyway, backed up by DJ Harrington.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: She has a reference now, so oh.
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: God, that's been our week.
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  Speaker 2: So, dj, you want to take us to a break?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we do have Kim, who is with us this week, as it so happens, to talk about this app.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that'd be perfect.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: So let's do this, april.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I'm with you Folks.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to take a real fast break and when we come back, we'll listen to April Wilburn and Kim Holcomb and talk about the brand new, most improved EV Clever app.
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  Speaker 1: So hold tight, we'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
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  Speaker 1: So let me bring it back to April Wilburn, the host of Hostess.
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  Speaker 1: April, I turn it on over to you.
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  Speaker 2: DJ, as always.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for bringing us back from the break and, as reported, I have Kim Holcomb here and who just came in the door, wesley, wilburn, wesley, say hello to everybody.
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, that's everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Wesley say hello to everybody hey everybody, that's everybody, everybody say hello to Wesley.
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  Speaker 2: So this app, kim, this app that's taken over a big part of your life, how did that concept come into being?
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: How did this come into being?
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  Speaker 3: come into being?
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  Speaker 3: How did that?
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  Speaker 3: How did this?
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  Speaker 3: How did this come into to be?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we were, um, wes has been teaching the hybrid classes way before the ev stuff come out really well.
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  Speaker 3: So we've always been on the um, that's always been in our view, and we've been working on that part.
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  Speaker 3: You know a small part, but it's been good.
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  Speaker 3: And then now we're at this point where, um, there's so many evs out there, everybody had to buy them and you, you know all that.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was and I think it's been revoked, but there was an electric vehicle mandate.
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  Speaker 2: Like by 2030,.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't buy a combustible engine car.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you had.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's been repealed, but the interest for the electric vehicle still seems to be something that's prevalent, which is a good thing.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: Eventually these things will be so good that you won't want I don't think that you'll want a combustible engine car because it would be so convenient.
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  Speaker 2: I really do, and it's nice to have a choice and not to be made to do something.
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: But that's me on my little high horse for one second.
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  Speaker 3: All right, kim, go ahead so we were gathering all of the electric vehicle guides that we could for all the vehicles that were up, and we were compiling those into a PDF and that was getting large, very large.
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  Speaker 3: We were getting 500, 600 pages.
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  Speaker 3: We were submitting these to our drivers, our tollers and you know all the people that were using it Well, tollers not really people and it was getting to be hard to flip through a PDF on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think initially you were trying to print it out and give it to them, and then it was like how many?
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  Speaker 2: Packs of paper do you have to do for a pasta.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's where it came in.
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  Speaker 2: And then it was like how many packs of paper do you have to do for a class?
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  Speaker 3: of 30?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's where it came in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could search on the PDF, but, being on the side of the road in an instant, there is so much information not what you need.
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  Speaker 3: So we pinpointed and tried to find out what can we do?
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  Speaker 3: How can we change these pages to put into an app where everyone has in their pocket to flip out on the side of the road doing searches and find what they need?
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  Speaker 3: So that's where we went.
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  Speaker 3: It did take many cycles to get through it.
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  Speaker 2: And then, what part did Wesley have to play in that brainstorm idea that you guys had?
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  Speaker 3: We had to figure out, first of all, how do you actually create an app.
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  Speaker 3: So we did that.
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  Speaker 3: We went online and found it.
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  Speaker 3: Wesley found an app, a program.
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  Speaker 3: Wesley want to talk about the app that you.
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I have no experience developing at all, so I just researched for a lot of services and I found this thing called Adelo and basically in my time working I created the first interface for it with just from complete nothing.
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: And so, yeah, so Wesley?
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to say this one thing about Wesley okay, wesley doesn't know anything about anything until because why would you need to know how to build an app?
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: An average person doesn't need to know how to do that.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: He researched it, he learned how to do it and he's like he said he started the first interface for it.
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: The other thing that Wesley does is and I'm just going to sidetrack for one second with all the if you come to Wesley's class and you see a PowerPoint and you see a video or anything like that, wesley didn't know anything about that either, but now Wesley does that.
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  Speaker 2: So Wesley is very ingenuitive.
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  Speaker 2: If Wesley doesn't know how to do something, he knows there's somewhere to learn how to do it and he goes and learns how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And now he also makes our commercials.
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  Speaker 2: How much experience did you have making our commercials for the classes before Wesley?
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  Speaker 5: Not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So you had some experience.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but how to create a new way of marketing videos?
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  Speaker 2: instead of just personal videos.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly so, wesley is also a big part of what we do.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Sorry to interrupt you, kim, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: So we were getting up to the 600 pages then it was just becoming, you know, useless.
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: What was the point?
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: You know it's not helping save anything.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: So that's where we moved forward on that.
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  Speaker 3: Wesley hit that and we worked on it.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: We did have a lot of, we watched a lot of YouTube videos and how to do this and that, and then, of course, we went through two or three different platforms where, started out, there was a lot of problems with it, but you know, again, we don't have experience and so we were working through it as we could.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: So we tried to fix them as we could and worked around it.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: And then we had a few people, a couple professionals, that kind of helped on some insight that we didn't, so that we can move from having it on the website only being able to access it to the website, to actually being able to go onto Apple or Google on your phone and downloading it and having it right there at your fingertips.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: So we have gone through.
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  Speaker 3: Our third thing we're at 3.0, where we have made our final platform update, where we have it now that we are happy with it.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Um, we're continuing to grow with it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have any more um issues with it that we know of Um.
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: So we're working through those to keep those where they are and then, but keep it on updating, because every day the phone, your phone app, should have more on it every day, so because the cars keep coming and so we need to have as many as we will have.
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  Speaker 2: So, as of right now on this app, this is a different mix of models.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we have 3,490 cars, vehicles.
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  Speaker 5: Passenger cars.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Passenger cars that's exactly how your dad would have said it to you, wesley.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: We have 2,094 trucks, and how would your dad say that?
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  Speaker 5: Heavy duty.
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: There we go, the big rigs and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, he doesn't have a fancy way of saying scooters.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: We have 1,517 scooters as of today's date and every day there is more and more added to it there is more and more added to it.
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have our research and development team, which is basically Jake and myself.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Jake does most of the updates on them, he adds them, he searches for new cars, makes sure there's nothing missing that we haven't hit on, there's a year or a different model or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So we're trying to include everything.
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  Speaker 3: So we hope that you will find any vehicle that you have on there and if there's anything that you never find, if you could just let us know.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: We don't, if we don't know, because we don't use it every day like you guys do.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: The one thing and we're going to go to a break after I say this the one of the most helpful things for us have been somebody calling and saying I'm looking this up or I'm trying to find this and I can't find it, or I can't open it up, and that lets us know that there's something that we need to address, and that's actually been the biggest outside help that we've gotten.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Most people, when they see a problem, they'll just complain about it and put the phone back in their pocket and we'll never know, and us knowing that we can jump on it immediately and get it solved.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: That's where we're at with this app Now.
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  Speaker 2: What we're going to do now is go to a break and when I come back we're going to talk about how convenient this app is, because that's the thing right there If it's inconvenient.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why we made this app is because that's the thing right right there.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: If it's inconvenient, the reason why we made this app is because that pdf was inconvenient.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: It became too cumbersome to try to go through and try to search a vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: This app is so convenient that in 20 seconds you've you've you've found exactly what you're looking for.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: So once we come back from the break.
• 14:24
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• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
• 15:45
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• 15:48
  Speaker 1: This is a great segment on the EV Clever app.
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• 16:13
  Speaker 1: We're privileged to have Tim Holcomb, wesley, wilburn Wes's son he's a smart young man and April Wilburn.
• 16:23
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• 16:33
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• 16:36
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• 16:44
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• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So, without further ado, the smart choice, of course, is the EB Clever C-L-E-V-E-R app and without further ado, april, I'll turn it back over to you, kim and Westley.
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  Speaker 2: DJ, thank you for the very robust bringing us back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I have.
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  Speaker 2: I said this before we left the break If something is inconvenient and it's hard to use, people will not do it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: They will not use it, they will just put it aside.
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  Speaker 2: So our goal on this app was to make something that you could get onto the side of the road, look up what you needed and have that within 20 to 30 seconds.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Kim, can you talk about what you guys have done with this app to make that a possibility?
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, april I don't know if you know or not, I know I mentioned 600 pages a while ago.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you pick up the app right here that we have on the phone, that you have on your phone, correct?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do I do and I pay for it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did, okay, cool, yeah, I pay for it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: If you go ahead and print all the pages that are in there, do you know how many pages?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: We think it should be pretty much, DJ.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Do you have an?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: answer I'm going to say 873.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Ages Okay.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say 27,000.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: 27,000.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're closer, dj.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: That wasn't bad, ah, but April's a little closer.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: She may have seen the pages, that's why.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: But we're probably closer to extending 60,000 pages.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: So can you imagine having to go through those on the side of the road?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: 60,000 pages?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, so this app is really with the search.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: If I'm looking for a Honda CRX I don't even know if they have one, but just off the top of my head, 75, they didn't have them.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: But just all that, I can do it that short and it'll give me the results.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And um, and it just shows everything.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I can pinch and zoom on each c, h, little section, um well, we're going to talk about the sections in in just a minute, um, but but you, you go one for right now, kim.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have to.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: You're only seeing things that are on this 1977 Honda CRX.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You're not seeing stuff on the Ford.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: You know all that and this 1977 Honda CRX is in like a futuristic movie from way back in the day that they wasn't even making electric vehicles.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: For if I, if there was that car when there was an existence of that car, I can go to this app, type that in, it will pull up.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And then when I pull it up, like let's just say, okay, I've got this phone to put up.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I got a jeep wrangler uh, four by four hybrid, this is a hybrid um up.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: But I got a Jeep Wrangler, a, four by four hybrid, this is a hybrid Um.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: When I do that, how convenient.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: What do I have to look at on here to, let's just say I'm a toer, that's, that's a world, I'll go to that first.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, if I'm a toer, where do I go to look at for, uh, the, the towing points and things like that?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: once you find your vehicle, um, you search your vehicle, you, if you look at the very bottom, that's when you open the app, everyone will.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It's just it looks the same every time.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: You don't have to log in every time.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I could do some apps.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: It's just there, um, but it'll show it, um.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And then on the bottom row, you have a option to click on car, heavy duty, scooter or ev station, um, and then, if you know you're looking for a car, just click on that really quick and it'll give you all of the models that we have, makes that we have, and then that's where you'll start.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: April.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: You said you had a Jeep Wrangler.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you just click on Jeep and then it'll give you all the Jeeps that we have currently available under Jeep and it shows the image of each one, what it looks like, the front and the back, because that's one of the things is, you know, being able to recognize an EV from a regular.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: So we have those so that you can recognize it when you pull up.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: So you know exactly what you're dealing with.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Click on it, the Jeep Cherokee you will have.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: First of all, you have the different links under it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: If you click on it, it shows you can do the EV recognition.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the quick links are the key to everything, right there.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the quick links are the thing that makes this so wonderful.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: So what question did you have about it, April?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: If I wanted to look for the tow points, or how to or where to find the tow points, at what would I look at on here?
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Well, you have towing and then you have lifting points.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you can click on either one of those and it'll kind of show you the one Towing is going to give you how they want you to tow it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Some of them are really small and it just says put it on the back of a flatbed with, you know, the eight-point tie-down.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: So if you have that, or you have some that have a, this vehicle right here actually has a lot of information about towing on it details, but the lifting points where you would actually lift it would be underneath and it does show a diagram of it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It's a scale of a car and it shows exactly how it looks as far as where the points are.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, and then a little detail.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You are, yeah, and then a little details.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You can't read those details though.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: They're small, your phone's smaller, you can actually put two fingers on it and zoom it out all the way.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that pension zoom, that pension zoom makes it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: So I said for towing, because that's our world.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: But and then, dj, you mentioned the recyclers.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Um, and I don't know how many electric vehicles that are being recycled right now.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: There's probably not as many yet, but that is going to be something as time goes on and there's more cars out there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Knowing where the battery location for that car probably is, I'm going to guess this is just a guess what's.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: If he was here, he could tell us more.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That's probably like the most critical thing for them as far as the recyclable part of it, um, and there's, there's battery location.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: On this, the quick links for fire um, which is another thing that really could use an app like this, because more and more they're going to start responding to these.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Even if it's just an accident they pull up and it's not a fire um itself um, they're going to need to know where the um, how to access, how to access the occupants and how to get the um.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You know, and that's in here too.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: This app is just so wonderful and it's so well thought out.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: And how did you guys come up with doing these quick links, kim?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: What?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: What made you think about that?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: well, most of the quick links are readily available on those guides that we download um, so we went through all those and added most of the ones that we need, and so yeah, but when I look at other apps and know we all have a million apps on our phone and some of them are like the silly little game things but some of them are information, I don't really see the links like that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It's just something that you have and you open it up and you've got to know where to find your information at.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And even if you know where to find it, you have to figure out where it's at in that portion when you open it up Right, as opposed to these quick links.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: When you open that one, let's just say it's battery location, which probably the most looked at thing more than likely is right there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It shows the image of it where it's at exactly on that car.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Not in general is it in generally here is on that car, that car Pacific.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you can go online and you can find this information.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You could Google it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: How many ads do you have to go through to find it?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: How much information do you have to read to get to it, to isolate the exact thing that you need?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: The same reason why we stopped doing the PDF.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It becomes inconvenient and it becomes too time consuming when you're on the side of the road or when you are, uh, you know, a firefighter or anything that's responding to these, um, these, these car situations.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You need to be able to access that information right now, and that's what this has done, absolutely.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Now, kim, can I ask this?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You used to have a test drive, so if they went on to wwweb-clebercom they could take like a test drive for 30 days, do you still?
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: have that?
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Of course we do.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and as soon as you go.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: If you have an Apple or you have a Google or Android phone, you go to your app store, download it and you get it 30 days for free, and that is a full version.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That's not just like half of the information, that's the entire information.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That's the other thing that sets us different, because we've all got those apps where you get this much for free, you can look at it, but if you want to see the other part of it, like the thing that you need, you've got to pay for it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: So we give it to you for 30 days.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: We want you to try it out because it is new and you don't know if it's going to work for you because there's zillions of different apps.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So we're proud of it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: We love it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Um, I'm excited about it because, secretly, I know this is off the record but when I graduated years ago high school, that's what I want to do was to do app work and back in the website back in the 1900s baby.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: but on the record also, I am the second to the youngest, so I'm not putting in the room.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: That we had an auto glass person.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: You know one of those like a safe code where you put the auto glass in after the glass was broken, and it was for a hybrid.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, and the the guy, the technician, was so paranoid he went to the clever app and that's how we took advantage of it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my grandmother used to say God rest her soul, measure twice, cut once.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: And this app is a version of that, because you could think you know and you have a good idea and you're probably right, but looking at this app will verify.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: He was paranoid, but I bet you he, I bet you when he looked at it, it just validated what he was thinking to do.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Um, this is just another measure and extra measure to have something to say okay, this is where it's at, or no?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: This, thank goodness, I looked at it because it wasn't there, it's right here instead.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And if you damage one of is where it's at, or no, thank goodness, I looked at it because it wasn't there, it's right here instead.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: And if you damage one of those cars, it's thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about more upcoming features.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Well, currently, what's happening with the app, and then upcoming features that we're going to be adding one to it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Wesley, I know you've been pretty silent throughout most of this, but do you have anything to add to what's going on with this app?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: We could talk about the blogs of new feature we're having.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: We'll be talking about new things happening in the electric vehicle world, tips on how to do better in your job for operating and dealing with customers, and I think we have some about recalls yeah, we're gonna start doing recalls too, and wesley's um excellent at doing like, um, like research and getting information.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Actually, he helps us with these podcasts a lot by getting get getting us some news articles and videos and things like that, so he's developed quite a niche for it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: So his contribution to this, you know, yes, he helped build the back page of it, but this whole thing is always going to be something that we're working on, researching and improving and adding to.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: It's going to be continuous effort and excellence that we're doing and Wesley's a big part of that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: As I said before, we have 3,490 passenger vehicles Is that right, wesley?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Is that how you say it?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: 2,094 heavy-duty trucks and 1,517 scooters.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: This has been added to every day.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: We're actually safe five days a week, monday through Friday.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: If anything happens on the weekends, we'll catch up with it on Monday.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: If any new cars are added to it, we'll catch up with it on Monday, and I've got Kim here with me who's going to talk about some of the new upcoming things that we're going to be doing with this app.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Well, as Wesley has stated, the blogs is a big thing.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: We have them there, but we're not using it right now because we're focusing mostly on the updates.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: So we are getting to that, we're working on that part now and there's going to be a lot of useful things that you can read on.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: That may be helpful.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Like you said, vehicle recalls um, and then I know we focus on towing a lot and we should, as that is our industry, but we are.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: We are um also.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: This app is as a benefit, as a beneficial for other areas of um emergency response or whatnot.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: That, um, you know, we're putting in, we're giving them, we're trying to pull them in as well, because we we do like um to uh kind of with our cross training that we do, we try to work with the different fire and whatnot, emergency and everything.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: So we're going to pull some safety, um, fire articles or whatnot for that and then towing articles.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: And then we also are upcoming with some shows and supports or sponsorship or whatnot.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: So that's something that's working on.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: We don't have any information on that, but you can definitely call and let.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: If you want any information on it, we can give it to you.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: So what that is just in brief, and like Kim says she's working on it is that you'll have your.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: If you want to be a sponsor, you'll have your company badge on the app.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: So when somebody opens it up or looks at it, then your company is advertised with that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: But that's something that they're working on right now too.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: But that would be something that hundreds of people would probably look at every day when they're on the side of the road or their company.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Like we have companies that will go and buy one of these for every one of their employees' phones.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: That are doing towing and if you are in recycler or you are in fire or in towing or any of the other industries that deal with even a car salesperson, I mean honestly knowing when they get that EV in.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a run through with where the stuff is on the car, but just having that app when they're out there with the person to look at it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: But it's a work in progress, it's a labor of love.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: It is something that, like I said, will continuously be worked on.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: There will never be a time when we're not doing something with this app and research is not being done for it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: That is true.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, also, a lot of people may not realize that on this app there is actually a EV station locator on there, that on this app there is actually a ev station locator on there, and I just clicked it where I'm sitting and it immediately showed me where the closest ev station for me to charge, you know.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: So that is a very good and it's just up.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: You don't have to have anything extra that you do to it, it's just automatically there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So it's just a good feature on there, but it really is, yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but everybody and anybody that's on Apple and Google Play stores.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: You get a 30-day free trial with this.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Check it out and just see how easy and simple this is to use and how much better your life is if you are dealing with vehicles at all whatsoever, and how much better your life is if you are dealing with vehicles at all whatsoever.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: So, kim, we have talked at length about this app and everything that it entails and all the work that we've done on it and everything that it has.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: This has got to be a crazy-priced, expensive app.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I know it's probably worth it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I know it's probably worth it, but let's go ahead and just brace yourself and talk about how much this cost well, april.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Um, as DJ mentioned, were asked about the 30-day trial, if we still had that, and that definitely isn't into place.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: But when you, once you sign up after the 30-day trial, you have the option to sign up monthly, which would be be $2.99 USD, or you can sign up yearly for $19.99.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: At $19.99, that is $1.66 a month.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: That is crazy low.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Considering what it does, that is incredible.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: That is a great value For $20, being on the side of the road and being able to whip that phone out and just having it at your fingertips easy easy sale, right, exactly, so that is what, um, and we're there and we have to charge it because we have to.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Continuously, we're doing these updates you know, and it does so we want to um.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: We want this to be the best value for you, so yeah, all right, everybody you heard it here sign up dj.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it back to you and we're gonna wrap this thing up yeah, I just want to remind all our listeners that if you're in tow and fire rescue body shop even you know people laugh about this a storage facility could actually take full advantage of this.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: If you have a hybrid or electric vehicle on your property that somebody had stored, it's vital to have this information at your fingertips within seconds.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: So the phone number right at the company 950-910-747-9000.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: And just go to wwwev-clever C-L-E-V-E-R just like it sounds, com.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Or if you've got information, just go to contact at ev-clevercom.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's a smart choice, it's what you need to do and I believe there's more hybrid out there right now than electric vehicles.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But you know I'm not as smart as Wesley.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: There is hybrid EVs.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: There's probably legitimate hybrid gas, but there's a lot more hybrid EVs out there too, where, if the electric part of it weans out, then the hybrid picks up.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you three guys did a great job April, kim and Wesley and it's always good to hear Wesley's voice.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You get a college educated guy on here.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: It always sounds better.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: He can't hear you because he doesn't have the headphone on, so he has to listen to the whole podcast to hear the nice things that you just said about him, dj.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And Wes's son is a fine young guy I'm proud to know.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I can't wait for him to hear you say that.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: All right, Kim April, you guys take it home.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you guys again for joining us this week and, like I said, go to Apple If you go to Apple or Google, to the Play Store and download this for a 30-day free trial.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Kim.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: That's it and please keep in touch with us.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: If there's any, give us feedback.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Feedback is what we like.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I know that some people don't like it, but we need it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: We can't grow and we can't help you if we don't know.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: So we would love for your feedback good, bad or different.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: So you can either call us, like April or DJs already.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Give us our phone number of 910-747-9000.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Or you could email at Wes, at A-M-T-O-W-R-Iorg.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: All right, see everybody next week.