Proof Electric Cars are a Scam and the Media is Lying to You

Summary

In his latest video, Scotty Kilmer takes aim at electric cars, pulling no punches as he espouses his belief that they are a widespread scam, masked by media deception. He focuses on the shutdown of Audi's plant in Brussels, highlighting low sales and production issues with the electric Q8 e-tron. Scotty also delves into the controversies surrounding Tesla, including their hesitance to disclose crash data and difficulties in selling the Cybertruck. Furthermore, he warns about the ongoing theft of catalytic converters and highlights the pitfalls of getting a transmission flush for high mileage cars. With his signature frankness, Scotty questions the quality and value of certain vehicles in today's market.

Highlights

• Audi's Brussels plant is shutting down due to low sales of electric cars like the Q8 e-tron. 🚫
• The decision to close the plant is presented as a tough but necessary one by Audi's management. 😢
• There's an emphasis on how expensive and prone to problems some electric vehicles are, including Audi's. 💸
• Tesla's struggle with crash data transparency and Cybertruck sales are spotlighted as industry issues. 🚘
• Catalytic converter thefts remain a significant concern, impacting vehicle owners financially. 🔧
• Scotty heavily criticizes Jeep vehicles and advises viewers to avoid them, citing reliability issues. 🚙

Key Takeaways

• Scotty criticizes Audi's decision to manufacture electric cars, claiming nobody wants them. 🚗
• Audi's Brussels plant closure is used to highlight issues with electric vehicle demand. 🏭
• Tesla's crash data and Cybertruck sales struggles are presented as examples of problems in the industry. 📉
• The video warns about catalytic converter thefts and advises vehicle owners to take preventative measures. 🚨
• Scotty firmly advises against flushing high mileage transmissions, sharing a viewer's cautionary tale. ✋

Overview

Scotty Kilmer doesn't hold back as he dives into the world of electric cars, which he deems a dubious affair marked by misleading narratives. At the center of his scrutiny is Audi, particularly their Brussels plant facing closure. Despite efforts to produce electric vehicles like the Q8 e-tron, demand has waned, leaving Audi to make difficult decisions. With an underwhelming sales record and concerns about the cars' reliability, Scotty isn’t convinced they’re worth the investment.

Tesla isn’t spared from criticism either, with Scotty discussing the automaker's reluctance to release crash data—information crucial for safety evaluations. Their Cybertruck, another point of contention, sees waning interest, forcing Tesla to downgrade its sales strategy. Scotty challenges the perception of these vehicles as innovative, instead highlighting a broader struggle within the electric car market to meet consumer needs and maintain transparency.

The video takes a practical turn as Scotty touches on issues familiar to many car owners: catalytic converter thefts and transmission flushes. He provides cautionary tales and practical advice, urging viewers to consider the real value and longevity of their automotive investments. Whether it’s avoiding certain models or being cautious with maintenance, Scotty’s guidance is aimed at protecting consumers from the pitfalls he perceives in today's auto industry.

Proof Electric Cars are a Scam and the Media is Lying to You Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 rev up your engines well Audi is now shutting a plant down in Brussels and guess what kind of a factory they're going to shut it down February 28th 2025 and guess what they make electric Audi that no one is buying the Q8 rron and the Q8 rron sportb are being wiped out they're shutting a factory down in Belgium where
• 00:30 - 01:00 they make the stupid things I read an article the other day guy said why are they even making Audi They don't serve a purpose for anybody there's no reason to buy an Audi there are fancier cars there are cheaper cars cars that get better gas modage the guy said like Audi or thing of the past why are people even buying them well not are they not buying regular ones they're really not buying these electric ones they're going to stop making them and here's what the head of Audi says quote the decision to close the Brussels Factory is painful personally was the toughest decision
• 01:00 - 01:30 I've ever had to make in my professional career well well well crocodile tears there right not only do people not want electric cars they certainly don't want super expensive ones and everybody knows Audi's are endless money pits so they're starting to get have problems as they break down now they only started to Q8 etron in 2018 so they only been making them for six years now they're not going to make them anymore and they've only been making a Q8 in Brussels since December 2022 so basically they're going to have like a little over a twoe and a
• 01:30 - 02:00 two months and that's it goodbye Factory and BR and goodbye the electric Audi that no one really wants I can't help but laugh stest CEO Carlos staros resigned right and now they're trying to find a new head and here's what they say they want to do of course they never want to solve the actual problem they want to do it by having better relationships right Stana seeks to rebuild relationships with dealers and partners they want a more unified stance on your European carbon targets now
• 02:00 - 02:30 realize Stanis is the fourth largest car maker in the world they make a lot of cars right not very good ones as far as I'm concerned but and of course now they're having meetings in Italy a lot of their stuff's in Italy listen know this the company is pledging to expand output and protect jobs in return for manufacturing conditions and government support for the industry in other words they want government backing yet again they want to make relationships between them and their dealers and things better about
• 02:30 - 03:00 how about making cars that don't cost too much that don't fall apart you make crappy cars delis and they cost too much money and that's why people aren't buying the stupid things and that's why they're in trouble during Corona virus when it ended it was easy because people Wanted cars they hadn't been able to get cars the prices of both used the new cars were Sky High now it's coming down to reality real competition's Coming Out World competition and if you make an overpriced pile of junk guess what too
• 03:00 - 03:30 bad you're going to have problems and having better relationships between the manufacturers the lest and the various dealerships around the world that Ain going to solve problems they're still selling expensive crap and it doesn't matter how many times they rename it it isn't fixing the bottom line problem which is they don't make very good vehicles and they charge too much money for them and all the talking in the world isn't going to fix that stuff and of course being in Italy there they want more government subsidies that's what it comes down to please give us more money
• 03:30 - 04:00 hey we'll do a better job give us more money yeah well all I got to say is that's not a fat chance of fixing a company because they don't make good products and they charge too much for them and unless they do something about making better quality and lowering their price they're going to be in a pickle for a long time to come well it looks like old Elon is getting what he wants supporting Trump because now the Trump team wants to scrap a car crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes when
• 04:00 - 04:30 the Tesla's crash they report the information in right the Trump transition team is now recommending repealing the requirement that companies report automated vehicle crash data hey they should I mean come on now it should be public information they're driving on public roads so when they do get in wreck it should be a matter of public information so people can see what's happening now Elon Musk oppos it because he says this unfairly targets my company Tesla as it stands now Tesla reported more than 1,500 crashes to feder safety
• 04:30 - 05:00 regulators and they don't want that to be reported anymore sweep it under the rug they're saying that this is excessive data collection it doesn't need to be done yeah cuz it makes Tesla look bad right and why don't they like it cuz listen to this the nits of Crash data showed that Tesla accounted for 40 out of the 45 fatal reports of crashes reported to nensa through October 15th so 40 out of the 45 fatal ones that they got information on were Teslas people that were killed and of course nit have
• 05:00 - 05:30 said that this data is crucial to evaluating the safety of emerging automated driving Technologies right of course they want to do that they want to try to do self-driving they need the information but of course it makes Tesla look bad and it also leads to safety recalls the company build cars Tesla included don't like to have to recall anything cuz it loses the money they say it presents the data in a way that misleads consumers about their safety well hey 40 of the 45 fatalities were TS the cars that were it in hey it's giving
• 05:30 - 06:00 information that makes them look bad end of story so it looks like they're trying to change the law to sweep under which actually going on at Tesla not a big surprise there well the old cyber truck they're so hard up now trying to sell those things that they are now buffing their Foundation series label off of cyber trucks and selling them as regular trucks originally they said oh we have these fancy Foundation series they're $20,000 more and they have all these added BL blah blah blah blah well guess
• 06:00 - 06:30 what now they're buffing the foundation series off and sell them as regular trucks because nobody's paying the extra money to buy them Tesla's lowered their leasing price they discounted cyber trucks put in their referral program selling them for Less because they can't sell them so now they're taking the fancy ones and they're buffing the fancy name off and sell them as regular trucks at the lower price even their stupid name it's the special Foundation one that means nothing now now in octob Tesla shifted
• 06:30 - 07:00 to only regular cybertruck production they weren't making the fancy Foundation ones but they're still stuck with a whole bunch of the foundation series cyber trucks they didn't sell us so they're taking a s sign of buffing them and sell them his regular on Tesla sending these Foundation cyber trucks to service and collision centers to have everything removed to sell them his regular cyber trucks the wheels are starting to fall off the bandwagon of the Cyber truck they're polishing a fancy off selling
• 07:00 - 07:30 them cheaper hey let's face it they are the dumbest looking vehicles on earth right I saw one the other day when I a Whole Foods and Nashville getting Christmas stuff it was dirty cuz you know there was some soled B on the road that was covering it a plain stupid idea actually built and tried to sell the people and now it's not panning out too well well watch out cuz people are still stealing catalytic converters two men got caught stealing catalytic converters in Houston old Hometown l they got
• 07:30 - 08:00 caught and they're jail now just the other day friend down the Street's Got a Car Lot somebody snuck in and stole the cadal converted out of every single one now yes the price of the precious materials platinum and stuff that's in them is going down but it's still money in both cases people were using those electric saws that have battery packs of course they can't plug them in pardon me could I I'll use your socket while I steal your cars get of look a very course and the saws with diamond blades they cut pretty fast so prettyy easy to
• 08:00 - 08:30 steal them if you want to go and do something like that but you're not going to get that much for them anymore they used to get pretty high dollar now they're lucky if they get 20 bucks or one of those things and imagine they're cutting your Cadillac converter off they're getting 20 bucks and sometimes it'll cost you if you got a Prius or something over a thousand bucks to get a Cadillac converter place so it's not exactly cost effect you feel like saying to the thieves here here's $20 please go away but watch out they're still doing it so park your car in a garage lock it
• 08:30 - 09:00 or put it in some open space where there's lights and cameras so people can see what's happening and have your alarm turned on your car cuz generally if they Jack your car up to get under it the alarm's going to go off that's why they love stealing them from trucks cuz the trucks are ready up in the air they don't have to Jack them up they can slide under and steal them so if you have a car lower to the ground you're going to be pretty safe cuz as long as your alarm's up they're going to have to jack that thing up to get under in which case the alarm would go off and then you could come out and chase him away well
• 09:00 - 09:30 if you don't listen to me warning you about not flushing an automatic transmission listen to what happened to one of you viewers Beverly wartz sends me an email about a corrupt Jeep dealership called shiver Jeep dealership I had a Jeep I bought decades ago it ran perfectly it had 100,000 miles and I took it to shiver deep dealership where they said your transmission needs flushing and it will run much better after I got my Jeep back from the transmission flush I drove to Downtown
• 09:30 - 10:00 LA for a concert in a church and driving home my Jeep stopped on the freeway dead fortunately I didn't get rear ended I got a tow I told now I need a new transmission I told at the shiver who flushed the transmission because they were close so they told me I need a new transmission and I bought a new Jeep instead and now I'm having a problem with the Jeep shaking I took it back twice and they said oh there's nothing wrong with my Jeep don't make the same mistake twice first taking it in and getting it flushed you got a Jeep with $100,000 miles obviously had never been
• 10:00 - 10:30 touched and they said oh it'll run better we'll flush the transmission it stops running the next day and they say oh yeah you need a transmission out these are the same people who told it would run better when it flushed obvious they're cooked about but then they sold their Jeep and it's got problems and they won't fix it cuz they say oh no there's nothing wrong with it do not flush Transmissions when they high mileage there's lots of tiny little holes in transmissions and the flush pressure can jam stuff into those holes and then it will stop working entirely an air case do not buy a modern Jeep
• 10:30 - 11:00 they're junk Chrysler still on a St even a heck of a Time selling Jeep I just had dinner the other day in Clarksville on the Cumberland River and across the streets a Jeep dealer they have Jeeps parked all over the hills past where all their pavement is cuz they got them and nobody wants to buy them so if you want to learn just two things don't flush your automatic transmission it's not a good idea and two do not buy a Jeep product if you value your money so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
• 11:00 - 11:30 remember to ring that Bell