From affordability to range anxiety and charging infrastructure,
consumers have concerns about electric vehicles.
We asked viewers to send in their questions about E
VS and we received many and luckily we have someone
here who's pretty good at this and has some answers.
Ladies and gentlemen, Vince Arone,
VP of Sales and Marketing at Jewel is joining us
in studio.
Vince, good to see you again.
Good to see you too.
Last time we spoke you were much colder than I.
We've even the playing field he was outside now we
fixed.
Great to see you today.
See you too. Thank you for having us.
We have a ton of questions.
I have a ton of questions,
but let's start with Jewel for for those not familiar,
what does it do? How long has it been in
operation?
Let me just start by saying Jewel is a Canadian
success story.
We're just getting ourselves out there.
It is an energy management system that helps
with the grid by providing storage using battery technology,
propriety proprietary technology which allows us also to fast charge
electric E VS with no impact on the grid.
OK. So yeah, they they know this kind of stuff
is what that means.
So we're glad that you're here.
All right, we got a ton of questions.
Let's get right to him because I know people have
already made the jump.
I'm thinking about making the jump,
but some have some as hesitation and hopefully we can
clear that up today.
Question from Eileen. First off,
how will our grid support millions of E VS when
it can't support ACS running in the summer?
Vince, how did you react to that?
That's a great question. That's one of the reasons why
Jewel exists,
because if we left it all to the grid to
go directly,
we would have a power issue.
There wouldn't be enough power,
but by putting a battery storage technology,
it mitigates that need for the power.
The power is all residing in the batteries
And how long would you say it takes to charge
a normal sized EV? Like what are we looking at?
Excellent question. So if you're doing it at home,
which tradition is a level 2 charger,
it could take anywhere from 2 hours to 8 if
you use our fast chargers.
Anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes.
OK, I thought it was a little longer than that
actually that's good to know.
Another question here, from a viewer,
what is the typical range for an EV?
Can that be boosted? The typical range cars that you
can buy right off the lot nowadays can go anywhere
3,
four, 450 kilometers. But we're seeing vehicles that are going
500,
even 600 kilometers on a full charge.
That's a lot. OK. Question from Mary.
Mary, ask, how affordable are E VS?
Will the prices go down in the future?
What would you say to that?
I would say they're very affordable.
One of the cars that I'm really looking forward to
seeing is the Fiat 500 starting at
$39,000, which will be out very shortly and prices will
go down like all things.
Once we get a higher volumes out in the market,
you'll see prices continue to drop.
OK. A question from John,
because we got a lot,
we got a ton come in as you can see.
John asked is it true that an E VS range
can vary according to weather?
Vince, this is a big one here.
Obviously, wait 5 minutes. The weather will change in this
country.
It's that situation has been for all of our lives.
How much of A concern is that?
Well, like all things, it's not necessarily weather dependent.
It's going to be on temperature.
So in the cooler temperatures,
-5, -, 10, -, 20,
you're going to see a degradation in the battery chemistry,
which means that we'll need more power to to work.
But that's no different than
combustion engines that need more gas in the winter months.
We just don't see it because we just keep filling
the tanks but they do drop maybe 10 to
25%. So OK, there's there's there is a difference,
there is a difference but not the drop that you
would expect if it gets super cold.
That's what you're saying. OK,
good to know. And finally here question from Rima who
writes how common is it for EV batteries to need
replacing before vehicles end of life and what would the
cost of that? Well, this I think is a great
question.
A lot of people worry about that,
but most manufacturers offer an 8 year,
160,000 kilometer warranty. Most people won't even reach that
distance. However, the odd case it does happen,
but if you buy from a reputable manufacturer,
they'll take care of it.
I wouldn't worry 160,000 clicks,
that's a lot. That's a lot.
So how? OK, because I'm close to kind
of jumping into the pool.
That's the more we talk.
It's funny, I get closer and closer.
Zed will be in an EV by this time next
year.
I, you know what, I hope you're right.
I hope you're right. And because I'm the neurotic one,
let's let's have a real conversation.
Absolutely. I'm the neurotic one who is concerned about Chargers,
who is concerned about the time in between work and
whatnot.
And I got family up a new market and you
know,
it's not always kind of close to home
for, for for the person like me out there who
knows this is the right move and it's going to
get there eventually.
How do you push us to that point?
Well, first thing is you have to try it.
If you haven't tried it,
then it's hard to make an opinion in that regard.
But I'll tell you this much.
I've moved fully electric as of
last fall. I plug my car in in the evening
and I have about 400 kilometers every morning.
I don't use 400 kilometers a day.
So I don't have that issue.
However, I've also taken electric cars to Buffalo,
Albany. I've gone to King Card in Ottawa without any
hesitation.
We have almost 30,000 charges in this country and they're
continuing to grow for public use.
Sold.
He's good. Vince Aron from Jewel.
Thank you very much for being here.
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Keyword is electric vehicle and Vince,
great to see you. Thank you,
Sid. Appreciate it. Thank you very much and in a
controlled environment as well.
Alright, we're gonna take.