WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.089 --> 00:00:02.870 So I apologize for the shakiness, this is kind of an unplanned video. 00:00:02.870 --> 00:00:07.950 It's not often that you see me outside, but I'm actually gonna be borrowing the Bolt again 00:00:07.950 --> 00:00:10.650 today to do a little video for you. 00:00:10.650 --> 00:00:11.520 It is... 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:12.120 hot today. 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:17.640 It is about--it is currently 86 degrees and it'll go up to a high of 96 which is... 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.490 this Celsius. 00:00:19.490 --> 00:00:24.840 And I'm going to take the Bolt EV back to my place, to work, and back which will be 00:00:24.840 --> 00:00:27.289 a total of 184 miles. 00:00:27.289 --> 00:00:28.289 All highway driving. 00:00:28.289 --> 00:00:29.550 And we'll see how it does. 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:32.720 But before we go, I want to show you one thing here. 00:00:32.720 --> 00:00:36.399 Because it's so warm outside I'm gonna have the Bolt precondition itself. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:41.040 And I wanted to show--this is the charging station that it's on. 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:45.010 And as you can hopefully see the charging station is not supply power to the car 'cause 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:46.010 it's fully charged. 00:00:46.010 --> 00:00:50.230 So I'm going to use the remote to remote start the car and then the charging station will 00:00:50.230 --> 00:00:51.220 click on. 00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:55.320 [Clunk of contactor inside EVSE] 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.360 Hear that big thunk? 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:03.600 So now that orange light indicates that the charging station is sending power to the car. 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:10.619 And very soon you'll hear the air conditioning running. 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:20.040 [sound of A/C compressor spinning up] 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.420 The Bolt has a variable speed A/C compressor--same 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:29.700 as the Volt with a 'V', it's just more efficient that way and it can run any amount of refrigerant 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:30.990 it needs to. 00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:35.219 So I'm gonna let the car run like this for about five minutes to get nice and cool. 00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:39.419 That way, right now it's pulling power from the grid; it's not using its battery at all. 00:01:39.419 --> 00:01:42.700 So by preconditioning the cabin like this we're gonna get a little bit better battery 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:43.880 range. 00:01:43.880 --> 00:01:46.079 And then once it's cooled off, I'm gonna get in the car. 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:48.739 We'll use my dashcam and I'll show you a bit of the drive that I'm taking. 00:01:48.739 --> 00:01:53.969 OK one more thing before I get going--I'm sitting inside and it's nice and cool in here 00:01:53.969 --> 00:01:56.860 but the car is not actually on and it is still plugged in. 00:01:56.860 --> 00:01:58.869 So I'm gonna turn it on 'cause I want to show you one thing. 00:01:58.869 --> 00:02:00.689 Some people are worried about this. 00:02:00.689 --> 00:02:05.160 [warning chimes as vehicle starts up] 00:02:06.620 --> 00:02:08.240 So I wanted to show you--notice how it says 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.069 the charge cord is connected 'cause I'm still plugged in? 00:02:11.069 --> 00:02:13.319 It will not let me shift into gear. 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:14.880 If I try... 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:16.520 [warning chime] 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:18.040 "Conditions not correct for shift" 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:19.700 [warning chime] 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:22.569 "Charge cord connected" So a lot of people freak out about what happens 00:02:22.569 --> 00:02:24.680 if you move your car while it's still plugged in. 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:25.860 The answer is nothing! 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:27.099 Nothing happens. 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:29.620 Because it knows its plugged in and it won't let you move. 00:02:29.620 --> 00:02:35.269 So I want to apologize for the dashcam footage because the dashcam that is in this car-- 00:02:35.269 --> 00:02:39.650 I got dashcams for my mom and dad for Christmas one year, and it's the same one as in my car--and 00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:42.060 it's a wedge style dashcam. 00:02:42.060 --> 00:02:46.980 And there's a blue windshield tint on the Bolt and so it's looking through that a little 00:02:46.989 --> 00:02:47.989 bit. 00:02:47.989 --> 00:02:50.670 So everything looks pretty blue, and I'm gonna do my best to correct that. 00:02:50.670 --> 00:02:56.780 So this Bolt unlike probably many Bolts EVs spends a lot of time in rural areas on country 00:02:56.780 --> 00:02:58.510 roads like this one. 00:02:58.510 --> 00:03:00.430 This is IL-29. 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:04.209 I'm heading North to get to I-180 to take me to I-80. 00:03:04.209 --> 00:03:08.519 My parents live South of I-80 and North of Peoria. 00:03:08.519 --> 00:03:14.769 And, well, we're just entering Bureau county right now so this EV spends a lot of time 00:03:14.769 --> 00:03:17.890 in a rural setting not anywhere near a city. 00:03:17.890 --> 00:03:21.390 We are about 120 miles away from Chicago right now. 00:03:21.390 --> 00:03:26.609 And part of why I want to make sure people understand that is because even for people 00:03:26.609 --> 00:03:30.650 in a rural setting, if they have access to a home charging station which can recharge 00:03:30.650 --> 00:03:37.150 the car in about 10 hours from empty... you know this car works for a LOT of people. 00:03:37.150 --> 00:03:41.870 I see so many comments about EVs "They're city-dwelling car's only, you can't take them 00:03:41.870 --> 00:03:43.030 outside of the city". 00:03:43.030 --> 00:03:46.170 This car doesn't even live in the city most of the time! 00:03:46.170 --> 00:03:52.890 It either spends some time with me in the suburbs or a lot of the time out here! 00:03:52.890 --> 00:03:54.720 This is not the city! 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:04.069 So I have cruise control set to 70 MPH which is how its gonna stay for a good portion of 00:04:04.069 --> 00:04:05.120 this trip. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:11.639 70 MPH is actually not idea for an EV's range because generally you want to stay to 65 or 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.879 less, but I'm intentionally keeping it at 70 because I don't want to paint the picture 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.560 that I am trying to hypermile here. 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:20.560 I'm really not. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.750 I'm gonna keep up with traffic as best I can. 00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:29.980 And according to the car it is 89° outside, so we've got some nice toasty warm weather. 00:04:32.820 --> 00:04:37.150 This part here getting to I-80 is one of the most challenging parts for this car as far 00:04:37.150 --> 00:04:41.360 as range goes because--if you can hopefully tell in the dashcam--we're actually going 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.020 at a pretty significant incline. 00:04:44.020 --> 00:04:47.950 Where my parents live is one of few areas in Illinois that aren't completely flat. 00:04:47.950 --> 00:04:52.139 It's still pretty flat but there are some river valleys around here. 00:04:52.139 --> 00:04:56.139 And, uh, so there's some pretty wild changes in elevation. 00:04:56.139 --> 00:05:04.330 Right now to go up this hill maintaining 70 it's taking 37-38 kW which is a lot of power. 00:05:04.330 --> 00:05:10.820 But now we are back to flat land as far as the eye can see. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:23.000 By the way, just as common courtesy you should do that. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.199 Like, if someone's on the side of the road for whatever reason move over for them. 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.830 The person behind me didn't, and there's no one around me. 00:05:31.830 --> 00:05:33.310 Don't be a jerk. 00:05:33.310 --> 00:05:38.590 And by the way in Illinois if that's a cop or an emergency vehicle you HAVE to get over 00:05:38.590 --> 00:05:41.639 and if you don't you will get pulled over. 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.690 Just ask my dad about that. 00:05:43.690 --> 00:05:46.980 Here we are on I-80, everybody's favorite. 00:05:46.980 --> 00:05:51.880 Big East-West Interstate, going from New York to California, all the way across. 00:05:51.880 --> 00:05:54.740 I think it's New York, maybe it's New Jersey. 00:05:54.740 --> 00:05:57.550 Uh, anyway, I'm not going to try and hypermile, remember? 00:05:57.550 --> 00:05:59.389 I'm keeping speed set to 70. 00:05:59.389 --> 00:06:03.259 If I pass a truck I pass a truck, if a truck passes me, a truck passes me. 00:06:03.259 --> 00:06:05.349 I'm not gonna follow one. 00:06:05.349 --> 00:06:11.210 I'm trying not to present this as a "you have to be careful to drive an EV" thing, I want 00:06:11.210 --> 00:06:13.960 to show you what it's like if you're just driving it like you would a car. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:18.120 So I've got cruise control set to 70 MPH, which is the speed limit. 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:22.300 Yeah, you might be going a little higher than that on average but I will at least do that 00:06:22.301 --> 00:06:23.889 much. 00:06:23.889 --> 00:06:28.460 Well, that's not hypermiling by any stretch of the imagination but I will at least do 00:06:28.460 --> 00:06:31.560 that--get that little bit of range out of it. 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:36.720 But now, we're on this road for the next 60 miles or so. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:43.380 We have just under 100 miles left in this journey and we'll see where we are when we get there. 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:50.270 The temperature reading on the car is now 94°! 00:06:50.270 --> 00:06:52.060 It's going up! 00:06:55.140 --> 00:06:57.780 Did you know that in Illinois there's a warp tunnel to Peru? 00:06:58.660 --> 00:06:59.700 It's right there. 00:06:59.700 --> 00:07:01.810 Just take that exit, you're in Peru. 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:05.680 They even have a Menards in Peru. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:16.340 Oh you know, I should probably say I have the cabin temperature set to 71° F, so I'm... 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:22.240 In my winter range test, I kept the cabin temperature pretty cold because I have a heated 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.659 seat, a heated steering wheel and I was bundled up. 00:07:24.659 --> 00:07:26.590 Some people complained about that. 00:07:26.590 --> 00:07:30.550 Well now I have the temperature really comfortable. 00:07:30.550 --> 00:07:36.620 Perfect for driving, it's 94° outside but 71° inside--nice and comfy here. 00:07:39.640 --> 00:07:48.660 As we are moving into the 44th mile of this journey we have use 12.2 kWh which is, uh, 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:50.240 a little worse than average. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:56.300 If we go with the EPA rating, 12 kWh should get us 48 miles. 00:07:56.300 --> 00:08:02.360 But we've used 12.3 and we've only gone 44.7 miles so we're a little bit behind but not 00:08:02.379 --> 00:08:03.690 a whole lot. 00:08:03.690 --> 00:08:07.270 Here in Illinois we also have a warp tunnel to Ottawa. 00:08:07.270 --> 00:08:11.320 Just go that way and find yourself in Canada all of a sudden. 00:08:22.980 --> 00:08:25.600 I'm about to be passed by a Tesla! 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:29.820 I'll give him a nod. 00:08:33.220 --> 00:08:34.740 Hello! 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:37.780 Eh, he seems unimpressed. 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.280 He's also not running a front license plate, tsk tsk. 00:08:48.020 --> 00:08:53.860 OK, so I just noticed that--and I've heard some wind noise but you can see in the trees, 00:08:53.870 --> 00:08:59.320 or I could see in the trees of the right I'll have to back the footage up a bit, but I'm 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:00.840 facing a pretty significant headwind. 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:02.990 Which is weird because I'm going East. 00:09:02.990 --> 00:09:06.210 And usually if I'm going East there's a tail wind. 00:09:06.210 --> 00:09:08.830 But you know, sometimes... 00:09:08.830 --> 00:09:13.500 It seems every single time I want to do a range test in this car the wind condition 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:14.980 is the wrong way. 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:21.720 So we're still gonna be fine but just to give some context, right now wind is not helping 00:09:21.730 --> 00:09:22.730 me. 00:09:22.730 --> 00:09:23.730 It's hurting me. 00:09:23.730 --> 00:09:28.540 So keep that in your head while you're thinking about the range here. 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:40.820 Every time I take this ramp there's a truck at the front going 25 MPH. 00:09:40.820 --> 00:09:42.740 Ugh. 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:55.440 Come on in, Mr. 4Runner. 00:09:58.740 --> 00:10:00.420 Welcome to this lane. 00:10:00.420 --> 00:10:04.680 I bet you knew you needed this lane a long time ago but just now is when you decided 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:06.000 to get in because ya know, 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.420 that's how we do things! 00:10:14.060 --> 00:10:19.740 Oh, and thank you so much for letting me know you were exiting, I really appreciate that signal. 00:10:20.300 --> 00:10:24.360 We really have a model driver in front of us, ladies and gentlemen. 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:32.900 Alright, so. 00:10:32.900 --> 00:10:37.770 We are now back and I'm parked in my garage just because I want to keep the car out of 00:10:37.770 --> 00:10:38.770 the sun. 00:10:38.770 --> 00:10:41.020 Just get that little bit, tiny bit of an advantage. 00:10:41.020 --> 00:10:47.440 But we weren't super efficient this time, we took 31.9 kWh to go 113.4 (miles). 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:55.420 And that's probably...well I'll do the math 12.5% lower than what the EPA estimate would be. 00:10:55.420 --> 00:10:56.470 And, uh... 00:10:56.470 --> 00:11:00.010 I really did not account for the winds today I didn't think it was gonna be that windy. 00:11:00.010 --> 00:11:06.930 So I just want to point out climate settings was only 4% so, and I've said this a lot to 00:11:06.930 --> 00:11:12.110 people--air conditioning is not that big of a load for an electric car. 00:11:12.110 --> 00:11:17.030 So even though it was 94° outside for much of the commute--it got a little cooler once 00:11:17.030 --> 00:11:21.420 I get towards home but it was still about 88--I've been keeping the climate control 00:11:21.420 --> 00:11:28.620 set at either 71 or 72 and that was only 4% of the energy usage for this entire trip. 00:11:28.620 --> 00:11:31.810 So air conditioning is really not a huge deal. 00:11:31.810 --> 00:11:37.530 If we go to the main center cluster you'll see that it's predicting 98 miles of range 00:11:37.530 --> 00:11:39.360 remaining. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.620 And I have 70 miles that I need to go further. 00:11:42.620 --> 00:11:47.800 Now if I were a rational human being who wasn't doing this test I would plug the car in because 00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:52.770 I have 2 hours of charging that would give the car another 40 miles of range at least. 00:11:52.770 --> 00:11:54.780 But I'm not going to do that! 00:11:54.780 --> 00:11:59.080 Because I want to test this range and I really think it's gonna improve for my drive to work 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.920 because I typically go a little bit slower and also we'll be going North-South rather 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:07.400 than East-West, so we'll see what happens. 00:12:15.580 --> 00:12:16.900 Okeydokie. 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:25.800 [Music from car intro screen thingamabob] 00:12:25.800 --> 00:12:28.920 Alright so I did not plug in the car--you'll 00:12:28.930 --> 00:12:31.730 notice it says "Plug in to Charge". 00:12:31.730 --> 00:12:36.740 And our range estimate actually went up by one mile because it realized that we went 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:41.140 into a cooler place. 00:12:41.140 --> 00:12:48.400 So we are still at 31.9 kWh with a distance traveled of 113.4. 00:12:48.400 --> 00:12:53.880 Now we're going to drive 34.2 miles or something like that and then we'll see where that puts us. 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:17.780 [sound of electric acceleration on the on-ramp] 00:13:21.580 --> 00:13:23.740 Alright so the trend line this early into 00:13:23.750 --> 00:13:26.330 this leg of the journey is right in the middle. 00:13:26.330 --> 00:13:33.400 There is no direction going up or down, but as we cut back in here we've gone about 6 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:34.400 miles. 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:35.590 Our max range is 110 and our minimum is 76. 00:13:35.590 --> 00:13:37.510 Currently we're predicted to go 93. 00:13:37.510 --> 00:13:43.860 So I can see that the guess... 00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:49.810 I can see that the trend line is starting to creep up which I expected it to do so, 00:13:49.810 --> 00:13:55.100 especially because I looked outside and the wind around here seems to by dying down. 00:13:55.100 --> 00:14:00.080 I'm no meteorological expert but I did notice it was getting cooler as I headed toward my 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:04.890 place which is closer to Lake Michigan and I'm wondering if there was a high pressure 00:14:04.890 --> 00:14:10.520 area over the lake as it always keeps the air above it colder because it's a big body 00:14:10.520 --> 00:14:15.560 of water, and maybe that was forcing air out towards the West and that's why I had the 00:14:15.560 --> 00:14:16.860 head wind. 00:14:16.860 --> 00:14:18.420 I don't know. 00:14:18.420 --> 00:14:24.171 But in any case the wind is much calmer right now, it's 93° out according to the car, and 00:14:24.171 --> 00:14:29.900 we will be up at my work within the next half-hour or so. 00:14:29.900 --> 00:14:33.880 Also, I should point out that I'm not taking a huge risk here. 00:14:33.880 --> 00:14:36.920 If there are people who are like "Oh my God, range anxiety!!!" 00:14:36.920 --> 00:14:42.530 I know two things, one my boss is fine if I plug in at work so if for some reason I 00:14:42.530 --> 00:14:46.880 get to work and there's way less range than I think I'll plug in, but two--the O'Hare 00:14:46.880 --> 00:14:52.980 Oasis which you keep seeing signs for has both a Level 2 AND a DC Fast Charging charger 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:54.440 available for the car. 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:55.790 So if I needed to on my way back I could just stop at the oasis. 00:14:55.790 --> 00:15:02.940 I've never actually used the DC fast charging on this car--I won't do it unless I need to. 00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:06.380 One day I'm gonna test that, but not right now. 00:15:06.380 --> 00:15:13.300 But it looks like that trend line is creeping up some more and driving conditions seem much 00:15:13.300 --> 00:15:14.740 more favorable. 00:15:14.740 --> 00:15:17.590 Also I'm trying to keep up with traffic in this lane. 00:15:17.590 --> 00:15:22.620 I'm not hypermiling but also people tend to go way faster than I want to on the Tri-State 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:26.460 so I'm not gonna join the left lanes but I will stay here and keep up with the guy in 00:15:26.460 --> 00:15:27.720 front of me. 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.640 I know I said I wasn't gonna hypermile and it may look like I'm hypermiling because I'm 00:15:41.640 --> 00:15:46.610 here in the right lane and everybody's passing me but if you're unfamiliar with the Tri-State...anything 00:15:46.610 --> 00:15:48.240 goes here. 00:15:48.420 --> 00:15:52.900 I am, to put it.... well I'm speeding. 00:15:52.900 --> 00:15:55.030 I'm going a bit over the speed limit. 00:15:55.030 --> 00:15:56.430 Everybody else is... 00:15:56.430 --> 00:15:57.430 Woah! 00:15:57.430 --> 00:16:04.260 Now in Illinois we have laws where you need to follow traffic flow so really I'm going 00:16:04.260 --> 00:16:07.360 under the "speed limit" but, ugh. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:13.820 I'm just in the right lane because I don't want to go a fast as the other people are 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:14.500 going. 00:16:16.860 --> 00:16:19.500 Alright, I am now at work. 00:16:19.510 --> 00:16:26.490 And that is our final, we are actually just at 40 kWh used which is 2/3 of the battery. 00:16:26.490 --> 00:16:32.050 We went 148 miles so that means we could go 50% more assuming we have the exact same average 00:16:32.050 --> 00:16:35.380 efficiency we had so what would that be? 00:16:37.160 --> 00:16:42.920 74 on top of that, so about 221 or so. 00:16:42.930 --> 00:16:46.590 Which is actually right about what it predicted when we first turned on the car. 00:16:46.590 --> 00:16:53.390 So then going over to the speedometer cluster area we are at a minimum of 61 miles, predicted 00:16:53.390 --> 00:16:58.260 75, and if you recall it said that--we started at 100. 00:16:58.260 --> 00:17:04.459 So the range meter only went down 25 miles even though we drove 34 and that's because 00:17:04.459 --> 00:17:08.449 it was just more efficient driving this time and we weren't facing that wind. 00:17:08.449 --> 00:17:15.139 And still, our climate settings have now accounted for 5% of our usage but still that's very 00:17:15.139 --> 00:17:21.770 very little and I'm still keeping myself comfortable even though the temperatures are in the 90's. 00:17:21.770 --> 00:17:23.789 Alright so I just got out of work. 00:17:23.789 --> 00:17:25.610 Yes I work in the evenings. 00:17:25.610 --> 00:17:26.860 It sucks. 00:17:26.860 --> 00:17:32.860 I drew the short straw working this particular time on Memorial Day, but let's see where 00:17:32.860 --> 00:17:36.100 we're at. 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.080 It is showing 78 miles. 00:17:41.080 --> 00:17:44.649 It's not exposed right--there we go. 00:17:44.649 --> 00:17:45.840 78 miles. 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:49.600 So let's turn it on. 00:17:53.120 --> 00:17:54.560 That's better. 00:17:54.900 --> 00:17:55.740 Alright. 00:17:56.620 --> 00:18:01.900 So we have 34 or so miles ahead of us. 00:18:01.909 --> 00:18:03.220 I'm sure we'll make it. 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:10.260 OK now that we are back on the Tri-State headed southbound, I normally keep my speed to 68 00:18:10.260 --> 00:18:15.340 on this segment and then I slow down a little bit as I get towards home. 00:18:15.340 --> 00:18:20.659 I don't have traffic to keep up with because it's late at night so I'm just setting the 00:18:20.660 --> 00:18:22.620 speed that I always do. 00:18:22.620 --> 00:18:27.750 And again, I'm not trying to hypermile here I'm not gonna follow a truck. 00:18:27.750 --> 00:18:33.060 Yeah I'm going a little bit slower than the average person, but really not that much slower. 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:37.260 And we will see what sort of range we have when we get home. 00:18:37.260 --> 00:18:41.400 So, uh, we'll do a bit of a time warp. 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:57.840 So I took us out of warp speed because I wanted to explain for those who have never been to 00:18:57.840 --> 00:19:03.039 Illinois--the oasis that I was mentioning that has the charging station that we're about 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.130 to go under, it's more obvious what it is at night. 00:19:06.130 --> 00:19:10.200 I don't know...they've been around for many decades, in fact there's a Williams pinball 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:17.669 machine from I believe the 1960's called "Highways" which has one of these oases on its backglass. 00:19:17.669 --> 00:19:20.220 There's some trivia for you. 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:26.060 But anyway, these highway oases are on the tollway here and it's got restaurants and 00:19:26.060 --> 00:19:27.060 stuff. 00:19:27.060 --> 00:19:29.440 And it's built above the tollway as an overpass--it's kinda cool. 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:33.669 So you can see Auntie Ann's and Starbucks maybe in there. 00:19:33.669 --> 00:19:37.010 And, so... do other states have those? 00:19:37.010 --> 00:19:38.650 I don't know. 00:19:38.650 --> 00:19:43.620 Not all of them in Illinois are built over the road like that, some of them are just 00:19:43.620 --> 00:19:44.620 off to the side. 00:19:44.620 --> 00:19:49.659 But the ones that are built over the road, you know you uh... depending on which direction 00:19:49.659 --> 00:19:52.070 you're going you enter through one door or the other. 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:57.539 And you can't turn around which kinda stinks but you wouldn't really need to in most circumstances. 00:19:57.539 --> 00:20:03.990 But anyway, that's what the highway oasis was and over there by the Mobil gas station 00:20:03.990 --> 00:20:06.300 there is a DC fast charger. 00:20:06.300 --> 00:20:11.140 I have not used it myself but I have seen it and people on Plugshare have rated it so 00:20:11.140 --> 00:20:13.320 that would've been there as an option. 00:20:13.320 --> 00:20:19.860 But as it stands I'm still showing 56 miles of range remaining and I'm more than halfway 00:20:19.860 --> 00:20:23.480 home so no need to stop. 00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:40.620 Aright, we are now back home and we have gone 183 miles today which took 48.8 kilowatt-hours. 00:20:40.620 --> 00:20:43.990 And the car thinks we will be able to do another 47. 00:20:43.990 --> 00:20:48.400 The trend line was pretty high up towards that max 55 but that's because I was going 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.309 less than 60 MPH for the last bit of this journey. 00:20:52.309 --> 00:20:55.659 But, uh, if we do our little math here... 00:20:55.659 --> 00:21:03.080 Uh, the EPA estimated range of this car is 238 and we are... 00:21:03.080 --> 00:21:05.920 oh man I'm so bad at math in my head. 00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:07.080 ...223... 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:13.460 OK we would have gone 230 so we're actually only 8 miles shy of the EPA estimated range 00:21:13.460 --> 00:21:19.039 assuming that our efficiency stayed what it is because we were going 40... 00:21:19.040 --> 00:21:24.780 If we had 47 left, with the 183 that we did we would be a 240... 00:21:25.540 --> 00:21:28.040 no (guffaw) 230 miles 00:21:28.040 --> 00:21:30.200 so that's only 8 miles off. 00:21:30.210 --> 00:21:32.039 I am bad at this. 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:38.110 So this is gonna cost me about $5.50 in electricity, so not bad. 00:21:38.110 --> 00:21:42.120 We did 183 miles of driving on $5.50. 00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:45.370 I also wanted to show you the experience of plugging it in. 00:21:45.370 --> 00:21:48.529 Because, you know, people feel like this is so hard. 00:21:48.529 --> 00:21:50.789 There's the charge port. 00:21:50.789 --> 00:21:55.590 I actually have like the hardest way to plug in of anybody because my charger's all the 00:21:55.590 --> 00:21:56.590 way over here. 00:21:56.590 --> 00:21:59.860 And I gotta unfurl the cord. 00:22:02.360 --> 00:22:05.880 And we're just gonna walk back to the car... 00:22:09.620 --> 00:22:11.800 And, plug it in. 00:22:11.809 --> 00:22:15.090 And just for your enjoyment you're gonna hear a bunch of sounds. 00:22:15.090 --> 00:22:21.450 You're gonna hear some relays clicking, you're gonna hear the actual charging station back 00:22:21.450 --> 00:22:25.500 there make a big THUNK, and the car's gonna make a couple other weird noises. 00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:27.620 And then, it beeps. 00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:30.600 Just push that in. 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:31.480 [click] 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:32.380 [THUNK] 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:34.440 [other odd sounds] 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:35.960 [beep] 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:38.559 So incredibly complicated. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:43.510 And then the car will tell you when you open the door when it will be done charging. 00:22:43.510 --> 00:22:48.320 Its estimate is going to move up a little bit. 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:50.500 Oh, I have found a bug. 00:22:50.500 --> 00:22:52.200 Let me close the door. 00:22:53.429 --> 00:22:57.800 [startup music] 00:22:57.800 --> 00:23:00.840 It does that a lot. 00:23:00.840 --> 00:23:01.840 OK. 00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:06.420 So it says that the charge will be done by 8:30 AM and, uh. 00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:12.639 Often times that estimate will go up a little bit as I plug in because this is a 32 amp 00:23:12.639 --> 00:23:15.429 charger but it's only on 208 volts. 00:23:15.429 --> 00:23:19.880 So it's actually a little bit slower than my parent's charger even though the charger 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:26.299 itself--the Clipper Creek HCS-40--is a larger charger. 00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:30.429 It's on 208 rather than 240V so it charges a little more slowly. 00:23:30.429 --> 00:23:35.999 So maybe they actually--the car's software was updated over the air recently and I don't 00:23:35.999 --> 00:23:38.720 know if it affects the instrument cluster but maybe it did. 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:45.240 In the past it used to be you would open it after I plug in and it say "charge complete 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:50.300 by 7:00...7:15...7:30...7:45" as it realized it was on a lower voltage but today it didn't 00:23:50.309 --> 00:23:51.620 do that. 00:23:51.620 --> 00:23:55.570 So I hope you enjoyed this video on the Chevy Bolt EV’s summer driving range. 00:23:55.570 --> 00:23:59.600 Although it missed the EPA estimate by just a hair, I think it’s still pretty impressive 00:23:59.600 --> 00:24:04.510 since for much of my drive the car was facing a headwind, and all of the miles were strictly 00:24:04.510 --> 00:24:05.679 highway. 00:24:05.679 --> 00:24:10.080 Unlike a conventional car, an EV does better in stop-and-go city driving because it can 00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:11.720 use regenerative braking. 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.669 On the highway, there’s no braking going on so its range will drop. 00:24:15.669 --> 00:24:20.039 This partially explains why the EPA range estimate for Electric Vehicles is so much 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:24.559 more conservative than the european or asian estimates for the same vehicle--being so spread 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.269 out in the US, highway range is more important here. 00:24:27.269 --> 00:24:30.429 Anyway, thank you very much for watching, please check out my Twitter feed if you’re 00:24:30.429 --> 00:24:34.119 into that, and a peek at my Patreon page would be much appreciated if you’d like to support 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:35.280 what I do on this channel. 00:24:35.280 --> 00:24:36.479 I’ll see you next time.