Glitch in the matrix. He was looking for agents.

That was crazy 😂😂😂💀

Lol the editing was great 😉

When? Time stamp?

@@wedontexist369 1:16

More like Me: my car is broken Kardoctor: you should get it fixed Lol

@@Money_J_KC take it for an MOT

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

ME My electric car's broken down CAR DOCTOR: You need a longer extension lead.

SILLIEST BUSINESS IDEA EVER

I was just thinking that and trying to check the date it was launched. Even now they're talking about exchangable batteries as a game changer!

Kind of proof that it was a silly idea that wouldn't have worked

He’s car is £12,000 But a new electric corsa costs £29,999

agree 100% , chageable Battery.... this time the Dragon was .... on the wrong way ^^

@@fusiliers1 He could make much more of it, but it was an Idea for everyone. Damn this, they should had accepted....

I went to school with you

@@jamie2866 did u actually?

@@ishraqzamee9479 so did I

@Jason Pinto *Money can buy youth. Peter is worth nearly half a BILLION pounds. He may never age.*

@@ishraqzamee9479 😻

The guy hit low power mode

🤣🤣

404.

This comment really made me laugh!! 🤣🤣

Peter: 'But...' *Man pulls a gun* 'I said: Jump. In.'

@@jphenry3404 Exactly - it's the Spruce Moose

Hahahaha

😂😂😂

He's a nerd not a designer it looks good to him

To be different

@@trainwithmrlee one way of putting it i guess 🤣

It looks alright

He had designers help

I don't think anyone would have guessed otherwise.... poor guy

??

@Colin W Link please.

@@foddyfoddy THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT

@@foddyfoddy Wow, thanks for sharing the article! Voller is truly a serial investor killer!

I think it happened after the show. It's not very entertaining to look into the details.

Free advertising

@@lil_jong-un6668 If anyone agrees to invest, they have a proper meeting where they go through all the details. But if nobody wants ot invest, that's the end of it.

There's no need to have a "real business men meeting with details." He thinks he can develop a new car and bring it to market for £10M. That's clearly not possible, no meeting is needed to establish that, and no amount of detail can change it.

Did you think that up yourself? That was pretty lame

@@da3v1ls93 You're pretty lame

@@da3v1ls93 man, if he's lame what are you then? pathetic? worthless? an absolute waste of human life? absolutely uninvestable, that's what...

Im theo I'm out

haha that gave me a chuckle

Watch him get excited then take away his bone

They chop the footage, it’s possible more was said and he really was interested.

And he would have lost the equivalent of double his valuation.

(if it had been a realistic proposition, and not just a pie-in-the-sky ambition)*

I've seen the crack calling him "Theo the Fetus" but what does it mean? From a curious American.....

@@Blueguy72 I'm an American too. I think of Theo as a fetus who lived to be very old through sorcery.

@@Blueguy72 a foetus is a baby growing in the moms stomach. His name is Theo Pavitus, so the joke is a play on words! :)

@@camoflash7621 Paphitis. At least get the name right.

@@Blueguy72 a curious American ffs

Maybe she walked “out “ the door

That was outstanding

Out and out and great comment

I'm in, I'm in... No, out. Sorry.

she's "out" there somewhere...

I’m going to assume that you’re here in the US. Honestly, how many Rivians have you seen on the road? Your comment is from three years ago and between then and now, I can honestly say that I’ve seen less than 10 Rivian’s and I’m an over the road truck driver and spend 99.9 percent of my time on the road in my semi.

Oops

he tried. Many cannot brag about this type of small success.

@@dimspacha Not sure about successfulness mate, he lost tons of investors money.

@@dimspacha That's really not good enough when you're talking about millions of pounds.

@@btlv lost investor money from idiots the barrier to entry for car industry is far to high you need 100 of million just to get in the door Elon musk is a prime example he was already a billion air before tesla

Their website is still online

Definitely the case with Deborah 😂

Talking sh1t kid.

They didn't want to invest in this one because it's ridiculous to believe that you can develop a car company from scratch for £10M.

it's not their money so they don't care. you and me all pay for a bloated useless government.

About to have dinner. Technology is finally working!

Same here . breakfast

Same here, just sat down to take a dump!

Seen this comment around 100 times now🙄

@@alanhock5760 it is what it is and that is all it is innit?

Am oot

He got arrested in usa for fraud, and for charging prostitutes as a business expense. His company was basically smoke and mirrors took the funding and blew it all.

@@zurie35 source?

Electric cars have been around since 1960. He isn't ahead of anything.

@@Jaymiecain1 electric cars were invented before petrol powered cars. They were worried combustion engines would spook horses

@@zurie35 That wasn’t this guy at all. It was the ZapGo chief of US operations, Charles Reznick. A completely different person!

Their webpage is still up, on Wikipedia it says nothing about the company being dissolved and Top Gear reported that prototypes are produced and they will start production soon.

@@GothamClive You may have them confused with a different company. This one was dissolved in 2011

@@GothamClive You're thinking of something else

@@GothamClive Don't go to "Wikipedia" for information, they are not a reliable source and they don't update information either...

@@GothamClive "Their webpage is still up" So?

That is not the problem. The little amount of money is the problem. Whatever you do, big companies can do it better and more importantly CHEAPER. Because they can do it in much much higher quantity than you. That includes marketing. So with his 10million, he was simply trying to enter a market where multi-billion companies are competing with each others.

The point was is that any car company can piss out 10 mil as much as they want and they’re already in the position to create cars and have connections, branding, public awareness. If they don’t have a unique selling point no one will by it because they would buy from a company that has a reputation and will be able to make it cheaper. So unless they’ve got new technology like a driverless car or some battery technology the other companies can’t use. They won’t be able to do it.

@@jaymercer4692 shaddap about USP. u just need better execution to be profitable. cars are still 4 wheels and a chassis.

Also, when someone asks for that much for a business with no usp that the dragons could build themselves.

Peter Jones is. The others would need more than a TV pitch to bet 2.5m

Peter Jones and duncan(600m) are

😂😂😂😂

Nice refernce

They’re still ugly as sin

They're still ugly af!

​@A True Patriot They're not ugly. They're bland and soulless.

Although Tesla’s are better looking than this POS, they are still ugly cars eurgh

@@JV-qh7ix that's a matter of opinion

yep, the placement of the chair has changed, but the position of having one “polite and constructive” dragon was later filled by Nick and Tej and then Sara

That's actually good advice.

This highest investment was actually above 200k, but I know what you mean, dragons den uk is not where the big money is spent, it’s shark tank America where big money is spent

The highest accepted investment was £250,000.

And at the same time the 2.5 million he’s asking for is too little for what he actually needs. You don’t go on a TV show to get the funding for a car company.

@@gmwdim I agree. The dragons are not the best ones for this investment. He needs to pitch to automotive investment funds. But at least, he gets exposure.

@@TheAbuFulaan British pounds is worth more than the US dollar

Like you're mother

How about the Vietnamese car maker VINFAST.

Not, be he is very realistic, there are many companies behind the idea, and the big problem comes with the battery, he will do nothing with that money.

@@MCFC111 this was in like 2007 wasn't it? Not very many at all back then... and of course elon came about and did exactly the same thing and we all know how that went

@@midas6753 what are you talking about. Tesla existed before Elon musk, he didn't create the company.

@@CabbageYe I know he bought the company I meant Tesla became super successful after that time frame where elon bought it.

Theo "Interchangable battery pack cars are not new" pathetics

Yep. That was the first thing I thought of when he said it lol.

Wanted to see the first Elon comment. Second one in!

Umm isn't the model three in the UK like 46 thousand pound, verses what did he say 12 thousand pound correct me if I am wrong. mmmmm if he can produce a modest car for a family I am in, not all vehicles have changeable battery packs, plus model three has in car display issues , paint work and trim. Also Tesla model three has issues in cold climates. I do believe this would be on a watch list for Tesla.

@@roberttammymaisey9397 You are correct.The big barrier with all EV,s are still price.Love them but way outside the average mans pocket still. Batteries still an issue.And a question no one asks is if every vehicle in the world becomes an EV how will electricity demand cope from the grid?I the UK we already import via cable a lot of sparks from France as it is.All their power stations are nuclear.

Hiya,thanks for your comment. It makes a lot of sense in terms of drawing off the Grid.To be honest I assume that EV,s use a 13 amp supply but I may be wrong. Either way EV,s are the future. The internal combustion engine is in its swansong now and battery development is evolving fast.

@@glennpowell3444 Petrol could already have been replaced a long time ago but I guess it hasn't yet because of money. There are a few cars run on gas and I think methanol engines could be mainstream by now if they were really invested in.

It means he memorized his presentation, I mean they all do practice but if it's your product and you know it from inside out may be they should not stick to a memorized presentation because then they froze because of nerves and it doesn't look good at all. Given my social anxiety, I just can’t talk in public without getting nervous and I had this ugly moments. First I tried to memorize everything like a poem and then tell it all and be done with it, but it kept happening because as I follow a mental index of my discourse if I froze I may not remember where I left or repeat the last phrase. So now when I do presentations of some college work I do prepare a speech but try not to repeat it word per word just have the main structure and then just explain them without memorizing it given it's something I worked on and I known about what I'm talking it's more difficult to have this ”I froze” moments as they really happen because you are extremely nervous and try to recite a monologue you memorized word by word and if you forget one you just don't know how to follow.

If Boris didn’t try to introduce a flawed track and trace system, he’d be criticised. When he did release this flawed system (in par with other European countries) he gets criticised. People never satisfied nowadays.

@@Venom-xd9st even if it had been better than European countries it still wouldn't be "good enough"

@@Venom-xd9st Found the sycophantic, "I've always voted Tory even though they've never done anything for me" voter.

@@oxymoron02 your about 6 months too late for me to care buddy :)

hahahahahahahahahaha

Rub some cream on it first mate

It's impossible to tell sarcasm on the internet.

Hahaha

@@Hopecycle12345 It was a joke. A Christmas joke.

@@Hopecycle12345 thanks for pointing that out

hahahahaha

£10 million (GBP) not $10 million (USD).

@@andrewjones-productions thanks for pointing that out

Of course it's peanut that's the point they were making, that it's not enough to compete with the budgets of multi-billion dollar corporations. Unique design is very easily copyable, too. So not being first to market + microscopic budget + no automotive experience = no chance it would succeed even with their money.

@St Cloud Tesla is losing hundreds of millions every year

Exactly. Would like to see Theo get his toolkit out and quickly swap a Tesla battery over. But the bloke pitching here was still a complete chancer, he thinks he's going to take on global car brands and get ahead of them with a total budget that probably wouldn't keep some of their big plants operational for a week.

And for some surprising reason that one in 1 million is most likely not going to be British 99 out of 100 times. Wonder what went wrong

I have worked for two of these automotive companies in the electrical domain. These automotive bigwigs are OEM's which means they essential integrate systems and hardly anything of value on there (except engine for few) is made by the oem's. They buy off suppliers and employ thousands of engineers to do the paperwork, liability, testing etc. Decades of experience means didly squat if the best R&D they can still come up with is a combustion engine which at best is 20% efficient when car drive in straight line with no resistance which means 80% of energy is lost. That's why i love tesla. When tesla came out i was working for this one british oem and I remember the director saying in passing that look at the audacity of tesla trying to compete with us and laughing. Now who's laughing! They are all playing catch up with tesla electric tech. Don't forget that as smaller companies with unique offering you have first mover advantage and low overheads which means you can sell for less.

Would have...

@@stargazer2856 thanks

@@graham9352 no worries. X

Would'of

Lol she doesn't even have 2.5 million

Which shows how difficult it is. It won't work for £10m

Bro yes ,😂😂🤣

Doubtful, but anyone with shares in it did, the usual way

Stephen was the only shareholder, and the last set of accounts before the voluntary strike-off show accumulated losses of £32,776.

OnStar (very popular system to connect with outside system) came out in the 90s. Also if you can afford an electric car, you own a cellphone which already has 3G. If you own a laptop (quite expensive back then) you also probably work in IT and are supplied a mobile internet card already.

He didnt mention the specifics about his pitch at all. If he described this battery he may have had a USP.

@@Thomastm33 He did and Theo said all the major car companies offer it already

So ahead of its time that it went nowhere

Hey; Newton, Edison and Franklin all worked from home centuries ago and invented tech still used today. 🤝

Sorry what

He's so heavily invested. He's looking at walking away from the half a million he has already sunk in if he listens to their advice.

Thing is though. The dragons spew out these bold claims and opinions based on very limited conversation. If all it takes is a few words for people to give up on what they're doing, nothing would get done. I mean wtf do the dragons know about it? perhaps they do know but perhaps they don't is all i'm saying. You just can't give up because someone thinks you're wrong.

@@garnhamr Don't forget that he has probably been in there for a couple of hours. And deep down he probably knows he doesn't have enough money. The dragons will know a lot about it; they are experts in the mechanics of business and investment. And even me, with my limited knowledge of the car industry, knows that in this particular industry £10 million is diddley squat. I think most people will cling to their dream no matter what advice to the contrary they receive. Human nature to make your own mistakes, and not learn from them.

Plenty of crap advice given on this show. The "dragons" are just people, many got rich by being very lucky as well. They have a long list of failures themselves.

@@infiltr80r yeah the harder they worked the luckier they got!

UK is already an acronym, so you'd include the K as well.