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NASCAR Will Race Electric Vehicles In 2030 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  Yeah. Are you going to The Dells this
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  weekend? Yeah.
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  Hey, let's stop downtown Milwaukee at Potawatomi.
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  Yeah. Then when we get to The Dells,
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  we'll go to Ho Chunk Casino. Don't you know Tuesday?
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  I can't help it. I just love Tuesdays.
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  I get to think about my friends in Milwaukee.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  I'm done. I promise, man.
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  I'll tell you. I'm going to get right to it
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  this morning. Yesterday.
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  Adam Stern reports that John Probst, executive at NASCAR,
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  says that the NASCAR Xfinity Series really doesn't have an
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  identity. Like we really don't know what
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  that series is all about. And that maybe 10 years from
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  now. Well, not even that, he said
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  2030. So five years from now.
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  Four, well, four years from now. Damn, Herman, learn to do your
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  math. That's quicker than I thought.
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  John Probst from NASCAR said 2030 that maybe the Xfinity
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  Series could be running EVs. OK, if you're like me, the word
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  EV stands for electric vehicle. That's like me my whole life.
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  When I was a kid, I'd go down the street and I'd look at the
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  street, the street signs, and they'd say Blvd.
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  I'm like, come to find out later on, it was just an abbreviation
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  for the word Blvd. there. There's these things in life
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  everybody you know I'm I'm sure you've gone through it, but my
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  crazy brain did E VS electric vehicle article goes on to read
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  that our automakers or as they all say OEM.
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  You know I don't even know what this stands for.
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  I I I do some about the people that built the cars just sounds
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  like a lot to say OE MB LVDEV see what I mean it's the way my
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  brain works. Just all these initials just say
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  it electric vehicle car with batteries plug it in.
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  OK, so I see this last night reported by Adam Stern.
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  And I wake up this morning really late.
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  Like my wife comes in the room, she's worried about me.
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  She says, Oh my God, I'm glad you're up.
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  So I get up, it's 958, it's closing in on 10:00 and our
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  complete compound is worried about me because I'm usually the
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  first one up and I'm digging. But yesterday I was I went hard.
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  I went hard yesterday and today I'm I'm paying the price.
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  It's what happens when you get old like me.
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  You go hard one day, you feel it the next day.
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  So I get up this morning and I get on X.
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  And I mean, everybody's lost their ever living minds.
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  Everybody is, you know, talking about what I read about last
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  night. So I know more because I'm the
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  greatest. That's the way social media
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  works, Everybody trying to tell you what they think, you know,
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  because that's the great thing about social media.
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  Well, by God, I'll tell them that I don't like this.
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  And if they if they take that O'Reilly series and they make
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  them electric vehicles, then by God, I'll never watch a NASCAR
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  again. But we're going to have to wait
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  four years or more. But I'm going to get my shot in
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  right now while I can. So here my dumb ass is pile it
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  on. Well, let me give you my opinion
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  about electric vehicles. See how I dumped it down?
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  Let me tell you a quick story about electric vehicles.
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  And I'm right And and I know everything.
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  I hate it that I know a lot because then I got to tell you.
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  And then it looks like I know everything.
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  When I don't know everything. I'll tell you I don't know
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  anything about that. However, remember that little
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  excursion? Remember that little trip I just
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  took over to Europe? Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, yeah. Hold on.
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  I didn't want to get into this when I came back from my trip,
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  but I'm going to let you all in on it because this is what you
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  literally call perfect timing. When I was over in Europe, You
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  know, I was over in Europe just about two weeks ago, and then I
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  was over there last year. I have been privileged.
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  I stopped by Ferrari. I stopped at the Ferrari factory
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  the day Lewis Hamilton came there.
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  Fans were going nuts hanging on the gates all around the Ferrari
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  factory. Then my dear friend Max Pappas
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  gets me hooked up of a tour of a Lamborghini about 20 miles down
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  the road. Oh yeah, Lamborghini and Ferrari
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  about 2020 miles away from each other.
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  And that was last year. This year I go to we go to
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  Porsche and we go to Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart,
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  Stuttgart, Germany, I believe it was STUGARTT, Stuttgart,
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  Germany. Last year was Modena, Modena for
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  Ferrari, Lamborghini and guess what, the number one thing
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  around all of Europe and everything was wooden straws,
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  grass. I got pictures in my phone right
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  now and if they're still in there, I'm going to share them
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  with you. Europe is is aid up with green.
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  They are they are everything you could think of.
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  They are not. I have I have a good time over
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  there, but United States is the greatest of all time.
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  I can promise you I had a good time in Europe.
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  Love Europe, but it's like anything when you dig deep into
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  it, all these motors that they all build over there you got you
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  got the engine you got the engine that runs on gasoline and
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  then they got these damn generators all over the motor
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  and when I went to Ferrari, they they show the red motor and then
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  they show these two green things.
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  Those are the generators. So you start, you start the
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  engine up racing engine, Formula One and then these, these
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  basically alternators, you know, and, but they got them painted
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  green. So you know what you're looking
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  at. So they fire up these generators
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  in and then it charges some batteries and then now we're
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  hybrid. Now we got an engine and we got
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  a little bit of a little bit of battery here and now we got a
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  little bit of electricity to make the car go too hybrid.
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  So I noticed that. And then this year I go on and
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  I, I asked somebody, I don't know if it was no, I was at, I
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  was at, I was up there at Nurburgring.
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  And I asked one of the executives, I said, what's the
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  deal with with Europe? Is the government, does the
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  government, you know, tell the race teams what to do?
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  And they reminded me, they said, Kenny, Mercedes-Benz, they build
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  the cars, passenger cars. Porsche they build passenger
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  cars. So these are automakers that
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  want their cars to use less gas. It's not so much the government,
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  it is a little bit, but I mean everything they do in Europe,
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  everything is about a damn wooden straw or wooden spoon or
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  you know, they're just the automakers are 8 up with the
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  electric vehicles. So in ending, don't blame it all
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  on NASCAR. I can promise you promise you
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  that the automakers are just twisting NASCAR's arm and that's
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  the bottom line. So they're saying maybe four
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  more years the O'Reilly auto parts would be electric.