1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,066 Hi. I need to get to Cincinnati and it's really cold outside. 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:07,966 It's eight degrees Fahrenheit, which is about -13 Celsius right now. 3 00:00:08,533 --> 00:00:11,366 And I have one of those electric cars. 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,366 This is a Hyundai Ioniq 5, it's a 2022. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,133 I've had it for four years at this point, and I'm going to document 6 00:00:18,133 --> 00:00:21,633 what the process looks like for driving in very cold weather, 7 00:00:21,633 --> 00:00:23,400 because there's still a lot of people out there 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,100 who thinks this is either impossible or very hard. 9 00:00:26,533 --> 00:00:29,000 And I'm going to do this entirely manually. 10 00:00:29,433 --> 00:00:30,933 I'm not going to have my car 11 00:00:30,933 --> 00:00:32,700 tell me how to get to where I'm going. 12 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:34,666 I'm not going to have my car pick chargers for me. 13 00:00:35,133 --> 00:00:36,033 I'm just going to do this 14 00:00:36,033 --> 00:00:37,466 all on my own, and I'm going to show you 15 00:00:37,466 --> 00:00:39,766 what my process for doing that is like. 16 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:42,566 I've decided to make this video in two parts. 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,200 First, I'm just going to show you the charging stations that I stopped at 18 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,866 on the way there and on the way back 19 00:00:47,866 --> 00:00:49,766 as well as how long I spent charging 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,766 to give you a sense of how this trip actually went. 21 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:55,466 But then I'm going to start over and walk 22 00:00:55,466 --> 00:00:57,833 you through the process of choosing chargers 23 00:00:58,066 --> 00:01:00,600 and how to verify through the information 24 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,866 the car shows you that you're going to be able to make it to that charger. 25 00:01:04,366 --> 00:01:06,766 I am not having the car make these decisions for me. 26 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,866 I'm doing this entirely manually because quite frankly, 27 00:01:09,866 --> 00:01:11,900 I can do a better job than it can. 28 00:01:12,233 --> 00:01:14,766 But it is something to think about that 29 00:01:14,766 --> 00:01:16,766 a lot of people aren't necessarily used to yet. 30 00:01:16,766 --> 00:01:18,466 And so I'll show you that process. 31 00:01:18,466 --> 00:01:20,300 But again, first I'm just going to show you 32 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:22,166 the actual end result of the trip. 33 00:01:22,533 --> 00:01:23,900 So let's get started. 34 00:01:24,433 --> 00:01:28,033 I started this trip with my car fully charged to 100%, 35 00:01:28,033 --> 00:01:31,766 which isn't something I typically do, but because the weather is so cold, 36 00:01:31,966 --> 00:01:34,500 I wanted to squeeze all the range I could out of it 37 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:38,433 to hopefully make it to Lafayette, Indiana as my first charging stop. 38 00:01:38,433 --> 00:01:40,300 And I made it just fine. 39 00:01:41,166 --> 00:01:44,033 Believe it or not, the charger activated on the first try, 40 00:01:44,033 --> 00:01:47,033 which for Electrify America is actually pretty amazing. 41 00:01:47,033 --> 00:01:49,200 So it has not started charging yet, 42 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:51,300 but it should any moment now. 43 00:01:51,966 --> 00:01:53,966 It just takes a while for these chargers 44 00:01:53,966 --> 00:01:55,800 to start talking to the car because they're old. 45 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:57,133 There we go. 46 00:01:57,133 --> 00:01:58,533 So now the question is 47 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:01,200 how fast are we going to charge? 48 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,800 The car is estimating it will take 25 minutes to get to 80%, 49 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,333 which is slower than it should. 50 00:02:06,333 --> 00:02:08,100 It should be able to do that in 18. 51 00:02:08,733 --> 00:02:10,400 But 25 is still not bad. 52 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,766 Okay, for those who may not have any familiarity 53 00:02:12,766 --> 00:02:15,000 with charging an electric car on a road trip, 54 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,566 let me explain the 80% thing. 55 00:02:17,966 --> 00:02:22,833 You'll see that my car is quoting a remaining time of 25 minutes to 80%, 56 00:02:22,833 --> 00:02:26,200 but almost twice as long to get to 100%. 57 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:28,500 Every electric car is like this. 58 00:02:28,533 --> 00:02:32,866 That's because the higher the state of charge a lithium ion battery is, 59 00:02:33,166 --> 00:02:36,700 the more slowly it can accept additional charge. 60 00:02:37,066 --> 00:02:40,100 And so the advice is always unplug at 80% 61 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:41,766 and just accept that you aren't 62 00:02:41,766 --> 00:02:44,566 getting quite as much range as your car is capable of, 63 00:02:44,833 --> 00:02:48,766 simply because it's much faster to do it that way. 64 00:02:49,133 --> 00:02:51,933 My car is actually exceptionally quick 65 00:02:52,066 --> 00:02:54,166 at charging from 80 to 100%. 66 00:02:54,433 --> 00:02:57,333 Most other EVs can take 30, 40, 67 00:02:57,333 --> 00:03:00,900 sometimes up to an hour just to get that last 20%. 68 00:03:01,233 --> 00:03:04,666 My car only takes another 20 minutes or so if conditions are right. 69 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:07,600 But still, why sit there for 20 minutes to gain 70 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,233 just a little bit more battery charge? 71 00:03:09,466 --> 00:03:11,733 Just unplug and go to the next charger. 72 00:03:11,866 --> 00:03:12,966 So that's what I'm doing here. 73 00:03:12,966 --> 00:03:16,200 I just wanted to explain one thing with charging 74 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,866 EVs on road trips is you're never really going to fill them up. 75 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,266 You can if you want to, but you'll waste a lot of time. 76 00:03:23,266 --> 00:03:26,566 So you really just want to unplug at 80% and get going. 77 00:03:27,233 --> 00:03:27,766 Okay. 78 00:03:27,766 --> 00:03:30,033 I just finished eating my sandwich 79 00:03:30,033 --> 00:03:33,200 and I have found out where the next charging stop is going to be. 80 00:03:33,666 --> 00:03:35,566 And we're already at 74%. 81 00:03:35,566 --> 00:03:38,400 And actually, I can safely unplug right now 82 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,500 because the next charger is only 86 miles away. 83 00:03:41,633 --> 00:03:43,800 As you may have seen from the dash cam clock, 84 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:50,100 I pulled into this charging station at 11:17 its time and I'm pulling out at 11:46, 85 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,333 so total time spent here was about 29 minutes. 86 00:03:53,633 --> 00:03:56,266 I think the car was charging for 25 minutes of that. 87 00:03:56,266 --> 00:03:57,533 Pretty much exactly what it said. 88 00:03:57,533 --> 00:04:00,100 But between charger activation and programing 89 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,033 in the next destination in my car 90 00:04:02,333 --> 00:04:04,533 spent an extra five minutes at the charging site, but 91 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:09,633 our next and last charging stop is in Shelbyville, Indiana. 92 00:04:09,933 --> 00:04:12,300 And as I already said, it's not even 90 miles away. 93 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,166 Shelbyville is just outside of Indianapolis, and, well, I'm 94 00:04:16,166 --> 00:04:19,900 actually only recording this because I don't want to cut up the time lapse. 95 00:04:20,133 --> 00:04:22,233 I want you to see the whooole thing. 96 00:04:22,666 --> 00:04:23,733 Is that important? 97 00:04:23,733 --> 00:04:25,600 Not really, but, Yeah. 98 00:04:25,633 --> 00:04:27,800 So, we're almost there. 99 00:04:28,033 --> 00:04:30,500 This went by a lot slower in person, let me tell you. 100 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,166 Okay. We're almost there. 101 00:04:32,333 --> 00:04:33,800 We're almost to Shelbyville. 102 00:04:34,066 --> 00:04:35,417 We're almost there. 103 00:04:35,417 --> 00:04:37,833 Aaaaaaaaannnnnnd 104 00:04:37,833 --> 00:04:38,333 okay we're there. 105 00:04:38,534 --> 00:04:41,133 I was really hoping my dash cam would record 106 00:04:41,133 --> 00:04:43,200 audio much better than it turned out to. 107 00:04:43,266 --> 00:04:47,400 I even tried that AI voice enhance thing, and it just, uh, it's real bad. 108 00:04:47,633 --> 00:04:50,466 So I have to rerecord a lot of everything. 109 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:51,400 It's great. 110 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,733 But anyway, this is a Pilot/Flying J station that I'm about to plug into here, 111 00:04:55,933 --> 00:04:58,933 and then I'll just give you a quick update as far as the charging speed 112 00:04:58,933 --> 00:05:01,066 I get once we're plugging in and how long I'm going to be here. 113 00:05:01,566 --> 00:05:03,833 Okay. I just got back from using the bathroom. 114 00:05:03,833 --> 00:05:07,433 We are not getting the best charging speeds, 115 00:05:07,433 --> 00:05:08,633 but we're getting pretty good. 116 00:05:09,166 --> 00:05:11,666 16 minutes to 80% means, realistically, 117 00:05:11,666 --> 00:05:15,233 this is going to be about a 20 minute charge stop total. 118 00:05:16,033 --> 00:05:19,366 So I can definitely get to my destination 119 00:05:19,566 --> 00:05:22,100 once we are at 80%, meaning 120 00:05:22,566 --> 00:05:24,933 I spent, I think I looked it up. 121 00:05:24,933 --> 00:05:27,600 The total drive time was just shy of five hours, 122 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:30,500 and we spent 45 minutes charging. 123 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,033 I don't think that's a very big deal myself. 124 00:05:35,633 --> 00:05:39,533 You can disagree, but extending a five hour drive 125 00:05:39,566 --> 00:05:43,982 by 45 minutes is really not that big of a deal, guys. 126 00:05:43,982 --> 00:05:46,566 The first charging stop, I was eating my sandwich 127 00:05:46,566 --> 00:05:49,266 and by the time I was done, I was ready to move on. 128 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:53,333 This charging stop, I'm not eating anything so I will be waiting on the car, 129 00:05:53,766 --> 00:05:56,966 but I'm only waiting about 15, 20 minutes. 130 00:05:57,366 --> 00:05:58,466 No big deal. 131 00:05:58,466 --> 00:06:00,833 As before, I'll point out the dash cam showed 132 00:06:00,833 --> 00:06:05,966 the time was 1:05 when I pulled in to charge, and it's showing 1:26 as I'm leaving. 133 00:06:05,966 --> 00:06:09,033 So I spent pretty much 21 minutes at this charging stop, 134 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:12,000 and now I am on my way to my destination. 135 00:06:12,133 --> 00:06:15,447 Well, I made it 38% state of charge still. 136 00:06:15,447 --> 00:06:18,700 That is a very pessimistic number, 59 miles of range. 137 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:20,700 But it has been a very pessimistic day. 138 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:24,700 But we did manage to click up to 2.4 miles per kilowatt hour. 139 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,700 So we're getting a little bit better efficiency in this last 90 mile leg. 140 00:06:29,066 --> 00:06:31,200 But I am here and, 141 00:06:31,266 --> 00:06:34,733 I saw a couple of chargers on the way here. 142 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,866 So I am totally set no matter what happens. 143 00:06:37,866 --> 00:06:40,333 So I'm going to check in with you tomorrow morning 144 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,566 when I head back, but for now. 145 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,133 Mission accomplished. 146 00:06:44,133 --> 00:06:47,200 Now, when it comes to where I'm going to charge at my destination, 147 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,833 well, there are many different options available, 148 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:52,166 but the one I chose was this: 149 00:06:52,466 --> 00:06:54,066 Hello and good morning. 150 00:06:54,266 --> 00:06:57,133 I did end up staying at a hotel, and I looked for a hotel 151 00:06:57,133 --> 00:07:00,766 that had EV chargers as a perk, and this one does. 152 00:07:01,166 --> 00:07:02,900 Did you know hotels have electricity? 153 00:07:03,166 --> 00:07:04,300 It's pretty wild. 154 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:09,266 And the smarter hotel managers out there are getting electricity from their hotel 155 00:07:09,466 --> 00:07:11,800 out to at least a few parking spots. 156 00:07:12,033 --> 00:07:14,566 That way, people like me who have electric cars 157 00:07:14,566 --> 00:07:16,600 are more willing to stay at this hotel. 158 00:07:17,033 --> 00:07:20,766 They probably lost about $10 on me from the electricity that I used, 159 00:07:21,033 --> 00:07:24,466 but they gained 150 bucks from me for the room rate. 160 00:07:24,466 --> 00:07:27,400 So, you know, they got 140 bucks out of me 161 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,100 that they would not have if they didn't have those chargers. 162 00:07:30,766 --> 00:07:34,366 So... just pointing that out, that smart business people 163 00:07:34,466 --> 00:07:38,800 that like money and people to give them money 164 00:07:40,266 --> 00:07:41,633 should be offering perks 165 00:07:42,366 --> 00:07:44,200 like electric vehicle charging. 166 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,633 But anyway, because I stayed here overnight, 167 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:49,766 my car is now at 100%. 168 00:07:50,733 --> 00:07:52,900 Well, I went out to put something back in the car 169 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:54,300 and it was at 98%. 170 00:07:54,633 --> 00:07:57,400 But at this point, it is now at 100% for sure. 171 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,633 I didn't even need it to charge that high, 172 00:07:59,633 --> 00:08:02,133 because I just need to get back to. 173 00:08:02,166 --> 00:08:02,700 What was that, 174 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:03,933 Shelbyville, Indiana? 175 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:06,600 But, you know, I might as well, 176 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,733 because then that shortens the charging time in Shelbyville. 177 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:12,933 I might only be charging there for ten minutes 178 00:08:12,933 --> 00:08:15,400 this morning or this evening. 179 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,633 I'm not leaving until around four, but we'll find out. 180 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,166 Yeah, that was a little optimistic. 181 00:08:21,333 --> 00:08:23,033 I'm not going to bother showing all the time 182 00:08:23,033 --> 00:08:24,533 lapse footage on the reverse trip, 183 00:08:24,533 --> 00:08:26,866 because it literally is just the reverse trip. 184 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:30,000 Although there's a small twist which I will get to in a moment. 185 00:08:30,366 --> 00:08:34,833 But I just want to point out that I spent 20 minutes charging here. 186 00:08:34,833 --> 00:08:36,633 It still wasn't a very long time at all. 187 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:40,700 And then I moved on to a different charging station 188 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,466 than the one that I stopped at on the way back, because, well, 189 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,333 you'll see soon that the weather is getting worse. 190 00:08:47,333 --> 00:08:49,900 It's getting much colder, and the winds are picking up. 191 00:08:50,366 --> 00:08:52,200 And the fact that it took 192 00:08:52,833 --> 00:08:56,566 almost all the battery pack for me to get from home to Lafayette meant 193 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:59,566 it would not work to get from Lafayette back home, 194 00:08:59,966 --> 00:09:02,400 so I ended up charging at a charger 195 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,266 farther away from here in Shelbyville. 196 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,666 That way I wouldn't have to stop twice. 197 00:09:09,166 --> 00:09:12,100 Except ultimately I did make two charging stops, 198 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:13,566 but not because I needed to. 199 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,333 I did it just in case. 200 00:09:15,733 --> 00:09:16,833 I'm going to talk more about this 201 00:09:16,833 --> 00:09:18,933 in the second half of the video, but Plug Share, 202 00:09:18,933 --> 00:09:21,533 which is the app I'm using to find these chargers, 203 00:09:21,766 --> 00:09:24,466 had indicated that there was an issue with the charger 204 00:09:24,466 --> 00:09:27,066 in Remington, Indiana, which is where I wanted to stop. 205 00:09:27,533 --> 00:09:30,733 And although the app showed me that they were all online right now, 206 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:36,033 given the weather, I was a little bit paranoid and I decided to stop in Lafayette 207 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,100 to give myself enough charge to where if I got to Remington 208 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:42,200 and it turned out those charges weren't working, 209 00:09:42,533 --> 00:09:45,866 I wouldn't be stuck there because the gap between Remington 210 00:09:45,866 --> 00:09:48,566 and Chicagoland is quite large. 211 00:09:48,933 --> 00:09:51,133 So if I were stuck in Remington, 212 00:09:51,133 --> 00:09:53,400 if those chargers weren't working, I would have been stuck. 213 00:09:53,633 --> 00:09:56,666 So I decided to stop in Lafayette to give myself enough charge 214 00:09:56,666 --> 00:10:00,966 to get to Remington and back, just in case there was an issue. 215 00:10:01,233 --> 00:10:02,766 Turned out there wasn't an issue, 216 00:10:02,833 --> 00:10:05,633 so I didn't need to stop in Lafayette after all. 217 00:10:05,866 --> 00:10:07,466 But I did just in case. 218 00:10:07,866 --> 00:10:09,100 Okay. Good news: 219 00:10:09,133 --> 00:10:12,766 We made it here to, Remington. 220 00:10:13,066 --> 00:10:15,100 This is actually a canopy charging site. 221 00:10:16,733 --> 00:10:19,533 The car is plugged in, and it's just still negotiating the charger. 222 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,400 Bad news: 223 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:25,233 I saw the worst efficiency I've ever seen on this leg in this car. 224 00:10:25,466 --> 00:10:28,166 It was down to 1.8 miles per kilowatt hour. 225 00:10:28,433 --> 00:10:31,500 This is the stretch with all the wind turbines, and it is windy. 226 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:35,633 And of course, they are facing the wrong direction now. 227 00:10:35,666 --> 00:10:37,133 I'm driving into the wind again. 228 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:39,433 So we are charging 229 00:10:40,666 --> 00:10:43,766 and it thinks it's only going to be 20 minutes to 80%. 230 00:10:43,766 --> 00:10:45,866 So the battery pack must be pretty warm. 231 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:47,333 Let's see where we get. 232 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:50,466 We're over 100 already. 233 00:10:54,366 --> 00:10:55,566 That's pretty good 234 00:10:55,866 --> 00:10:57,833 for only 20 minutes to 80%. 235 00:10:57,866 --> 00:11:01,166 That's very close to this thing's max charging speed. 236 00:11:02,333 --> 00:11:05,500 So I really can't complain about the charging speed. 237 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:09,333 It's just the range has dropped a lot because of how cold it is. 238 00:11:11,933 --> 00:11:13,466 But now I think I'm only 239 00:11:13,466 --> 00:11:15,800 about 100 miles from my home. 240 00:11:16,833 --> 00:11:19,633 And so long as I'm only 100 miles from home, 241 00:11:19,633 --> 00:11:21,200 80% is... 242 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:23,900 quite safe. 243 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:25,600 I cannot imagine a situation 244 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,400 where an 80% charge can't get this car to go 100 miles. 245 00:11:29,933 --> 00:11:33,533 That would effectively be a 50% range drop 246 00:11:34,133 --> 00:11:35,333 'cause 100%... 247 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,533 what would that be 120 miles, basically? 248 00:11:38,533 --> 00:11:39,254 So yeah. 249 00:11:39,254 --> 00:11:42,666 I cannot imagine if I get to 80% 250 00:11:42,666 --> 00:11:44,633 I'm not going to be able to get home just fine. 251 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:47,700 So I'm just going to sit here until we're at 80%, 252 00:11:48,466 --> 00:11:50,266 and then I'm going to get going. 253 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:51,466 I will see you, probably 254 00:11:51,466 --> 00:11:52,833 I'm just going to check in when I'm home. 255 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,333 Unless there are issues. 256 00:11:54,766 --> 00:11:56,233 Were there issues? 257 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,366 Nope! 258 00:11:57,366 --> 00:11:58,700 Made it home just fine. 259 00:11:58,933 --> 00:12:02,233 And I arrived with 21% state of charge. 260 00:12:02,233 --> 00:12:04,900 I ended up charging up to 85% in Remington 261 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,033 just to give me that extra buffer, because, you know, 262 00:12:07,033 --> 00:12:09,233 the weather was really bad, 263 00:12:09,433 --> 00:12:11,466 but that wasn't even necessary. 264 00:12:11,633 --> 00:12:14,833 I got home with 21%, and because I have a charging station, 265 00:12:14,833 --> 00:12:17,700 I'm just going to plug into that, walk inside and go to bed. 266 00:12:18,233 --> 00:12:20,600 But now let's rewind to the start 267 00:12:20,833 --> 00:12:23,466 so I can explain what I'm going through 268 00:12:23,466 --> 00:12:26,066 as I make this happen. 269 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,900 And I'm going to start by addressing battery preconditioning, 270 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:32,500 because this is the weak spot of EVs, 271 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:35,933 and it is particularly a weak spot of my car. 272 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,033 So first, what is battery preconditioning? 273 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:41,633 Well, if you were picking up on me, 274 00:12:41,666 --> 00:12:44,200 talking about the charging speeds after I plugged in, 275 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:48,700 it is not safe to charge a lithium ion battery pack quickly 276 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:50,800 when the battery cells are cold. 277 00:12:51,166 --> 00:12:55,333 And in weather like this, that means you get an extremely slow charge. 278 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:58,366 Now, engineers are smart, and what they did was 279 00:12:58,366 --> 00:13:00,500 they added a battery pack heater. 280 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:03,733 So the car has the ability to warm up the battery pack 281 00:13:03,733 --> 00:13:06,366 as you are approaching a DC fast charger 282 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,000 to make sure that those battery cells are nice and warm, 283 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,966 and it can charge as fast as possible. 284 00:13:11,666 --> 00:13:14,566 Any decent electric car does that these days, 285 00:13:14,566 --> 00:13:17,633 and that is why the winter road trip is no longer 286 00:13:17,633 --> 00:13:19,000 that painful of a process. 287 00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:20,933 However. 288 00:13:20,933 --> 00:13:23,100 although Hyundai equipped these cars 289 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:25,866 with the hardware, they need to warm the battery pack. 290 00:13:26,333 --> 00:13:29,433 The software which controls that feature 291 00:13:29,433 --> 00:13:32,600 is, pardon my French, batshit. 292 00:13:33,133 --> 00:13:36,433 Hyundai needs to fix this because right now 293 00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:39,166 this car is an absolute 294 00:13:39,166 --> 00:13:42,066 pain in the butt to use in this specific case, 295 00:13:42,066 --> 00:13:44,666 because I have to trick it into thinking I'm 296 00:13:44,666 --> 00:13:46,400 going to a charging station. 297 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,000 Let's back up. 298 00:13:49,033 --> 00:13:53,066 So some electric car manufacturers out there 299 00:13:53,066 --> 00:13:57,800 decided that the best approach is to hand hold their drivers, 300 00:13:58,066 --> 00:14:00,666 and you are supposed to just put in a destination. 301 00:14:00,866 --> 00:14:04,233 And because the automaker owns all of the charging network, 302 00:14:04,333 --> 00:14:07,100 it will just pick every single charging stop for you 303 00:14:07,100 --> 00:14:08,766 and you just follow its instructions. 304 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:12,633 Now, because so much of the automotive industry 305 00:14:12,633 --> 00:14:16,700 has decided that they need to copy that approach, that's what Hyundai did. 306 00:14:16,933 --> 00:14:18,500 But you see, 307 00:14:19,333 --> 00:14:22,633 there's all these new chargers that are showing up every day, 308 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,666 and I am no longer paying to connect my car to the internet. 309 00:14:26,666 --> 00:14:27,933 In fact, I've never paid for it 310 00:14:27,933 --> 00:14:29,700 because I think that's kind of a silly thing. 311 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:32,600 I have a smartphone with me, and I can plug it into my car, 312 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,900 and it can take over my car's infotainment screen, and it's really great. 313 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:39,466 We had this technology called Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. 314 00:14:39,766 --> 00:14:43,500 It's great, except GM's trying to kill it because they don't like it. 315 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:44,700 They want anyway. 316 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,700 my point is, I don't want to use the car's navigation system. 317 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:51,000 I want to pick chargers myself. 318 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,166 Because any time somebody builds this feature into a car, 319 00:14:54,333 --> 00:14:56,933 it gets really clunky to do things like say, 320 00:14:57,166 --> 00:14:59,666 oh, I want to prioritize this charging network, 321 00:14:59,666 --> 00:15:02,633 or oh, I don't want to use that specific charger. 322 00:15:02,766 --> 00:15:05,533 So rather than have to go through all that rigmarole, 323 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:08,800 I would rather just decide where to charge. 324 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,966 And so that is what I do. 325 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:15,300 But because the car will not battery pre-condition 326 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,366 unless it knows I am navigating to a charger, 327 00:15:18,366 --> 00:15:20,900 I do have to use its navigation system 328 00:15:21,166 --> 00:15:25,333 and oftentimes I have to enter charging stations which don't exist. 329 00:15:25,533 --> 00:15:26,866 It is incredibly dumb. 330 00:15:27,533 --> 00:15:28,933 Here's an example of what I mean. 331 00:15:28,966 --> 00:15:32,466 I have a friend who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and on the way there, 332 00:15:32,466 --> 00:15:35,233 there is an ion station in Janesville, Wisconsin, 333 00:15:35,233 --> 00:15:37,433 and that's the one that I want to stop at. 334 00:15:37,766 --> 00:15:40,933 But my car doesn't know that charging station is there. 335 00:15:41,133 --> 00:15:45,166 So when I make trips up there in the winter, I have to tell it. 336 00:15:45,166 --> 00:15:48,300 I'm stopping at a blink station near there, 337 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,400 which I'm pretty sure no longer exists, 338 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,866 but that's the only charging station my car knows about. 339 00:15:53,133 --> 00:15:54,233 And this is just so dumb. 340 00:15:54,233 --> 00:15:56,333 I just want a button that I can press 341 00:15:56,333 --> 00:15:58,666 that says start battery preconditioning 342 00:15:58,966 --> 00:16:02,233 because I do not need my car to navigate 343 00:16:02,733 --> 00:16:04,800 on the way to a place I know where to go. 344 00:16:05,033 --> 00:16:08,300 I just want to be able to tell it, start preconditioning the battery. 345 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,533 And in case it's not clear, this is irrelevant in warmer weather. 346 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:14,466 The only reason you have to do 347 00:16:14,466 --> 00:16:16,400 this is because it's cold and warm weather. 348 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,066 You don't bother with this at all, just drive to a charger. 349 00:16:19,066 --> 00:16:23,633 But my car really needs the battery pack to be at least like, 70°F. 350 00:16:23,633 --> 00:16:26,433 So even in the middle of spring, 351 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,166 charging isn't exactly as fast 352 00:16:29,166 --> 00:16:31,333 as it could be unless you battery precondition. 353 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:33,700 And I am just so mad at Hyundai 354 00:16:33,833 --> 00:16:37,266 for selling me a car which has this critical feature 355 00:16:37,533 --> 00:16:41,033 that I have to trick the car into turning on. 356 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,766 It's incredibly dumb. 357 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,966 They deserve a lot of shame for this. 358 00:16:45,033 --> 00:16:49,333 And until they patch the software, which, by the way, we know they can do 359 00:16:49,566 --> 00:16:52,500 because when I got the car, the infotainment system 360 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:54,866 could not turn on battery preconditioning at all. 361 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:57,733 And then it got a software update and now it can. 362 00:16:57,833 --> 00:17:01,233 So it is totally possible for them to add a button, 363 00:17:01,566 --> 00:17:03,733 but they just haven't bothered. 364 00:17:03,733 --> 00:17:06,233 And I'm going to keep getting on their case about this 365 00:17:06,233 --> 00:17:07,700 until they fix the problem, 366 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:12,500 because we really need to stop tolerating any sort of company, 367 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:16,500 but especially car companies selling products that are not finished. 368 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,033 Thanks, Tesla, 369 00:17:18,033 --> 00:17:21,066 you ruined the industry for letting them think that's normal. 370 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,533 But anyway, if you're a person like me 371 00:17:23,566 --> 00:17:26,500 who wants to make his own decisions and use his own brain, 372 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,866 then there is some strategizing when it comes to picking chargers. 373 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,300 And if you don't know where chargers are, 374 00:17:32,566 --> 00:17:34,900 you should check out the Plug Share app. 375 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:36,566 Or I believe they have a website. 376 00:17:37,066 --> 00:17:40,833 This is a great resource to understand what chargers are in your area, 377 00:17:40,833 --> 00:17:44,400 and you can filter them by connector type as well as their power output. 378 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:48,866 And in the case of my car, I now have the Nax adapter 379 00:17:48,866 --> 00:17:51,466 so I can look for any CC, S1 380 00:17:51,466 --> 00:17:53,566 or next charging station. 381 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,100 However, I do not want to use Tesla Superchargers, 382 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,733 and not just because I have a preference to avoid them, but in my car 383 00:18:01,033 --> 00:18:04,766 they are very, very slow because again, I don't. 384 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,100 A lot of people can't stand that. 385 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:07,900 I sound like I'm Tesla bashing all the time. 386 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:11,133 But seriously, it is 2026 and Tesla now has last. 387 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:13,666 I checked for 800 volt capable 388 00:18:13,666 --> 00:18:15,733 charging stations in the entire world. 389 00:18:16,133 --> 00:18:18,933 And because my car is an 800 volt native car, 390 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,900 it charges very slowly on 400 volt infrastructure, 391 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,633 which is almost everything Tesla has. 392 00:18:25,633 --> 00:18:28,566 They are so behind on charging infrastructure, 393 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,333 but the broader public just doesn't really seem to know that. 394 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:32,533 But anyway. 395 00:18:32,533 --> 00:18:35,000 If you're like me and you want to make your own decisions 396 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,300 and pick your own chargers, 397 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,800 you do need to know how far your car can actually go on a charge, 398 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,400 and that varies a lot depending on the weather. 399 00:18:43,866 --> 00:18:45,966 That's kind of the whole point of this exercise. 400 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,533 But one thing that I would really encourage 401 00:18:48,533 --> 00:18:51,900 you to do is to not dwell so much on this, 402 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,500 because what you can do is just get going 403 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,700 and then see what the conditions are actually like. 404 00:18:57,966 --> 00:18:59,700 And that's exactly what I'm doing here. 405 00:19:00,366 --> 00:19:02,333 I picked that charger in Lafayette 406 00:19:02,333 --> 00:19:04,800 because that's an easy distance for my car 407 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,766 to do in the summer, but it's going to be a little bit dicey today. 408 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:11,466 And I also already was aware of the charging station in Remington. 409 00:19:11,466 --> 00:19:13,033 So that was going to be a bailout. 410 00:19:13,033 --> 00:19:14,866 But that's not even important yet. 411 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:19,166 What is important is I had my car charged at 100%, 412 00:19:19,433 --> 00:19:21,233 and I'm going to get going today. 413 00:19:21,266 --> 00:19:23,766 And after we've been driving for 50 miles 414 00:19:23,766 --> 00:19:26,666 once, once I'm out of, city traffic 415 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:28,733 and I'm on the open road. 416 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,500 It's very easy to assess what sort of range 417 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:33,500 your car is realistically going to get. 418 00:19:33,933 --> 00:19:35,866 There's several different ways to do this, 419 00:19:36,033 --> 00:19:37,833 and I'm going to start with the easiest one, 420 00:19:37,833 --> 00:19:39,266 which isn't the most accurate. 421 00:19:39,933 --> 00:19:41,966 However, you're using a navigation system, 422 00:19:41,966 --> 00:19:45,100 whether that's an app or the car's built in navigation system. 423 00:19:45,566 --> 00:19:47,366 You're going to put in a destination 424 00:19:47,366 --> 00:19:49,933 and you'll have a figure which tells you miles to go. 425 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,933 And the car also has a range estimator, which tells you 426 00:19:53,966 --> 00:19:57,133 how many miles it thinks you can go on this charge. 427 00:19:57,666 --> 00:20:00,966 Now, the very important thing to remember is that is an estimate. 428 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,066 That is why I say this is the least accurate. 429 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,400 But this is actually really useful 430 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,633 because if you compare the difference between those two numbers, 431 00:20:08,633 --> 00:20:11,200 you can just keep track of that distance to see 432 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,833 if you're getting worse energy efficiency 433 00:20:13,833 --> 00:20:16,766 or better energy efficiency than the car expects. 434 00:20:17,366 --> 00:20:19,733 So, for example, if it tells me 435 00:20:19,733 --> 00:20:23,666 I have 150 miles to go until I get to the charger 436 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:26,766 and I have 180 miles of range, 437 00:20:27,066 --> 00:20:30,100 then the difference between those two numbers is 30 miles. 438 00:20:30,466 --> 00:20:33,700 So as I drive, I'm just going to keep watching those two numbers 439 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:37,033 and doing a bit of mental subtraction to see what the difference is. 440 00:20:37,633 --> 00:20:40,333 If the difference between those two numbers is getting smaller, 441 00:20:40,333 --> 00:20:43,900 that means I'm using range up faster than the car expected, 442 00:20:44,233 --> 00:20:47,800 and I might want to slow down, which will increase your range 443 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,133 or consider picking a closer charger. 444 00:20:50,633 --> 00:20:52,900 However, if the numbers are getting farther apart, 445 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:56,700 that means conditions are better than the car expected and you can relax. 446 00:20:57,266 --> 00:20:59,600 I honestly use this method quite a lot, 447 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,166 but particularly with winter driving, 448 00:21:02,433 --> 00:21:05,966 it can catch you off guard because of battery preconditioning. 449 00:21:06,466 --> 00:21:09,433 When the car decides to turn on the battery heater, 450 00:21:09,433 --> 00:21:11,833 which is typically when you're about 45 minutes 451 00:21:11,833 --> 00:21:13,766 to an hour away from the charging station. 452 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,233 That battery heater consumes 4.5kW, 453 00:21:17,233 --> 00:21:20,300 which isn't huge in the context of the car, 454 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:22,266 but it's still quite significant. 455 00:21:22,733 --> 00:21:26,400 And that means your energy efficiency is going to start dropping 456 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,466 quite quickly once it turns on that battery heater. 457 00:21:30,133 --> 00:21:33,166 If the car is doing its own navigation for you, 458 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:34,566 it should account for this. 459 00:21:34,566 --> 00:21:39,733 But you know, I don't really trust any car software these days, 460 00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:42,366 so I am normally watching things pretty closely. 461 00:21:42,366 --> 00:21:44,066 But just to give you some context, 462 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,733 if a 4.5kW heater is running for an entire hour, 463 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:54,200 that only represents about 7% of the car's battery pack capacity. 464 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,933 So it's not a gigantic thing, 465 00:21:59,233 --> 00:22:01,833 but it is something that can catch you off guard, 466 00:22:01,833 --> 00:22:04,666 because those efficiency numbers are going to change 467 00:22:04,666 --> 00:22:07,166 as soon as the battery heater kicks on. 468 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,600 Now, the more accurate way to gauge 469 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,933 your driving efficiency is to actually look at the energy efficiency. 470 00:22:13,233 --> 00:22:15,666 Every car is going to have a different way to show you this, 471 00:22:15,666 --> 00:22:18,600 but the important metric is miles or kilometers, 472 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,833 depending on where you are per kilowatt hour. 473 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:23,000 Right here on this screen, 474 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,466 the car is telling me how many miles per kilowatt hour 475 00:22:25,466 --> 00:22:28,400 the car has averaged in the last 89.5 miles, 476 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:33,133 and it's only averaging 2.3, which is really bad. 477 00:22:33,166 --> 00:22:37,033 This was the moment that the car turned on the battery pack heater. 478 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,000 I snapped a photo of it. 479 00:22:39,166 --> 00:22:40,766 Now the efficiency was so bad. 480 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,133 Not really because it's 18°F outside. 481 00:22:44,133 --> 00:22:45,500 That's not that big of a factor. 482 00:22:45,533 --> 00:22:47,900 It was just I was driving into a headwind 483 00:22:48,233 --> 00:22:50,333 and it was quite nasty. 484 00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:54,166 This is why I say just get going and see what the conditions are. 485 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,766 After a while, I going to be able to get a pretty accurate representation 486 00:22:57,766 --> 00:23:00,800 of I'm getting 2.3 miles per kilowatt hour. 487 00:23:01,166 --> 00:23:05,266 And if you want to equate that to actual range, well, 488 00:23:05,566 --> 00:23:08,900 the car has a 75 kilowatt hour battery pack roughly. 489 00:23:09,266 --> 00:23:11,633 So you can multiply a 75 by 2.3. 490 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:13,433 And then that's your answer. 491 00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:16,066 It's going to be 180 ish miles. 492 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:21,166 But remember that is assuming the efficiency stays the same. 493 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:23,266 And since I just turned on the battery pack, well, 494 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,066 since the car just turned on the battery pack heater, 495 00:23:26,566 --> 00:23:28,000 the efficiency is going to drop. 496 00:23:28,433 --> 00:23:31,600 And that is why when we actually got to the charging station, 497 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,633 the actual average energy efficiency 498 00:23:33,633 --> 00:23:36,400 ended up being 2.1 miles per kilowatt hour, 499 00:23:36,466 --> 00:23:39,166 which again is quite poor for this car. 500 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,800 But a good point two of that was simply 501 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,133 because the car was heating up the battery pack. 502 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,933 I haven't mentioned it yet, but the thing about battery 503 00:23:47,933 --> 00:23:51,733 preconditioning is it's to save you time, not energy, 504 00:23:52,066 --> 00:23:55,366 because the car is less energy efficient when it does that. 505 00:23:55,866 --> 00:23:57,800 But if it didn't do that, 506 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,666 I would be plugged into the charger for probably like an hour. 507 00:24:00,866 --> 00:24:02,166 As soon as you plug it into a DC 508 00:24:02,166 --> 00:24:04,600 fast charger, it's going to start heating up the battery pack. 509 00:24:04,866 --> 00:24:08,666 But the fact that it takes almost an hour for that to happen 510 00:24:08,666 --> 00:24:11,666 means you don't get that much help out of it. 511 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,300 So you really want to have the preconditioning start 512 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:17,033 a solid 45 minutes to an hour 513 00:24:17,033 --> 00:24:19,966 before you are expecting to hit the charging station. 514 00:24:20,433 --> 00:24:23,933 Now I'm going to cut to me back then with some thoughts. 515 00:24:25,133 --> 00:24:26,066 got back from the store. 516 00:24:26,066 --> 00:24:28,333 We are charging at nearly 200kW, 517 00:24:28,333 --> 00:24:32,633 which is almost as fast as this car can go, so that's great. 518 00:24:32,633 --> 00:24:35,600 I was a little worried because when I left to go into the store, 519 00:24:36,066 --> 00:24:39,000 the time estimate suddenly became like 32 minutes 520 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,566 and I was like, oh great, is this this charger being bad? 521 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,033 But I don't know why that happened. 522 00:24:44,166 --> 00:24:47,333 The charger is able to sustain 200kW just fine. 523 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:50,033 The reason why I say that is because that's in question 524 00:24:50,033 --> 00:24:52,933 with, good old Electrify America, 525 00:24:52,966 --> 00:24:55,066 especially with this old charging hardware. 526 00:24:55,066 --> 00:24:58,133 But it appears to still be going just fine 527 00:24:58,833 --> 00:25:01,033 and will be out of here probably 528 00:25:01,633 --> 00:25:03,766 when it originally estimated we'll be out of here. 529 00:25:03,766 --> 00:25:06,300 So I also want to point out I'm 530 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,366 going to sit here and eat the sandwich I just bought. 531 00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:12,033 So I'm really hardly waiting at all. 532 00:25:12,366 --> 00:25:13,566 And if I wanted to, 533 00:25:13,566 --> 00:25:15,933 I could turn the car on while it's charging and have it 534 00:25:15,933 --> 00:25:17,133 keep the cabin warm. 535 00:25:17,533 --> 00:25:18,633 I'm not going to bother doing that 536 00:25:18,633 --> 00:25:20,733 just because the cabin's pretty warm as it is. 537 00:25:21,466 --> 00:25:23,966 And there are circumstances where that can slow down. 538 00:25:23,966 --> 00:25:24,833 Charging in my car. 539 00:25:24,833 --> 00:25:26,500 I've never really noticed that happen, but, 540 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:29,200 you know, I'm perfectly fine to 541 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,666 just let it sit here off while I'm in the car 542 00:25:32,466 --> 00:25:33,966 and I'm going to enjoy my sandwich. 543 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,766 And while I'm sitting here, let me flip this around here. 544 00:25:37,833 --> 00:25:41,666 While I'm sitting here, I am now going to plan my next charging stop. 545 00:25:41,666 --> 00:25:43,600 So I know that we were only able 546 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,000 to go about 140 miles in this weather, 547 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,900 starting from 100% charge, and then we got down to 15%. 548 00:25:50,633 --> 00:25:53,233 I'm only charging up to 80% right now, 549 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,700 so I'm going to look for a charging station, 550 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:58,133 which is a something like 100 miles away. 551 00:25:58,133 --> 00:25:59,933 And I'm going to as I said earlier, 552 00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:02,100 I'm going to plan a bail out station, 553 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,566 which is even closer than that, just in case 554 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,533 the weather really is this bad the whole way. 555 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,400 I don't expect it to be, but it could be. 556 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,900 I'm just surprised because I'm going southeast 557 00:26:13,900 --> 00:26:15,633 and I appear to be going into the wind. 558 00:26:16,466 --> 00:26:18,066 So what's almost certainly going to happen 559 00:26:18,066 --> 00:26:19,433 is on my way back, 560 00:26:19,666 --> 00:26:22,066 I'll be going into the wind again because that's just my luck. 561 00:26:22,066 --> 00:26:24,600 But regardless, the whole point I'm 562 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,900 trying to make with this video is that I'm being slowed down 563 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,933 a little bit on this trip with this cold weather 564 00:26:32,933 --> 00:26:34,266 is really not that significant. 565 00:26:34,266 --> 00:26:37,866 The biggest issue is just dealing with my cars very bad software, 566 00:26:37,866 --> 00:26:39,833 which Hyundai should be royally ashamed of, 567 00:26:39,833 --> 00:26:41,533 and I'm going to keep being a thorn in their side 568 00:26:41,533 --> 00:26:43,433 about until they give us that button. 569 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:44,633 Okay. 570 00:26:44,633 --> 00:26:46,900 I just finished eating my sandwich 571 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,066 and I have found out where the next charging stop is going to be. 572 00:26:50,533 --> 00:26:52,433 And we're already at 74%. 573 00:26:52,433 --> 00:26:55,266 And actually, I can safely unplug right now 574 00:26:55,266 --> 00:26:58,366 because the next charger is only 86 miles away. 575 00:26:58,966 --> 00:27:01,733 I am going to now program that in. 576 00:27:02,033 --> 00:27:02,600 Let's see. 577 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,133 It was in Shelbyville, Indiana. 578 00:27:04,133 --> 00:27:06,366 This is the terrible nonsense I have to do. 579 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,833 I'm going to go ahead and cancel this route. 580 00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:14,866 Let's see. 581 00:27:18,033 --> 00:27:21,200 Let's just pick somewhere in Shelbyville, Indiana. 582 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,866 Is there maybe a Walmart there or something? 583 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:29,500 Let's just. 584 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:31,266 Look, I just have to search for a place there. 585 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:33,000 Sure. 586 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,200 I'm going to tell the car, take me there. 587 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,366 But then as it's routing, I'm going to say, let's add a stop. 588 00:27:40,733 --> 00:27:42,633 And then we're going to add a stop. 589 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:46,566 The nearby charging station by the destination. 590 00:27:47,133 --> 00:27:47,500 Okay. 591 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,000 I ended up picking a charging station in the wrong spot. 592 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,566 So that's why I'm starting over here. 593 00:27:51,566 --> 00:27:54,266 But I just want to chime in and say I am 594 00:27:54,266 --> 00:27:57,033 not sure this is the way you have to do this, 595 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,433 but any time I have selected to 596 00:27:59,433 --> 00:28:02,433 just take me to a charger like I did this twice 597 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,766 and it did not start preconditioning, both times. 598 00:28:05,966 --> 00:28:09,833 So the only way that I have made sure it always starts preconditioning 599 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,200 is to navigate to somewhere near 600 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,566 to a charger that I know exists 601 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,400 and then say add, stop and search for a close by charger, 602 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,566 which is at least 150kW. 603 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,300 It's so bad. 604 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:28,100 But anyway, that's what I'm going through here, 605 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,766 and I have to find the charging station that I meant to look for. 606 00:28:31,766 --> 00:28:33,200 I just picked the wrong town. 607 00:28:33,466 --> 00:28:35,600 Yeah. It was. 608 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,500 I picked a pilot station, which wasn't where I wanted to go. 609 00:28:39,233 --> 00:28:40,466 Well, this is what we're doing. 610 00:28:41,966 --> 00:28:43,333 This is the closest EV 611 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:46,000 charging station to where I want to know that it knows about. 612 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,866 And it's a high enough speed of charging that it should precondition. 613 00:28:50,133 --> 00:28:53,266 So I'm going to tell it I'm going to add this charging station, 614 00:28:53,266 --> 00:28:54,766 which may or may not even exist, 615 00:28:54,766 --> 00:28:56,833 but we're going to add that charging station to the route. 616 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,066 We're going to have it take us there. 617 00:28:59,366 --> 00:29:00,933 And I'm not going to listen to the car. 618 00:29:00,966 --> 00:29:03,200 I'm going to have Waze or Google Maps 619 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,600 or whatever you want to use on my phone, actually navigate me 620 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,666 to the charging station we're going to, which is a flying game. 621 00:29:08,666 --> 00:29:10,233 But at this point we can unplug. 622 00:29:10,233 --> 00:29:12,033 We're actually at 82% already, 623 00:29:12,433 --> 00:29:13,366 and I'm going to move on 624 00:29:13,366 --> 00:29:16,966 to the next charging stop, which is either going to be the last or second 625 00:29:16,966 --> 00:29:18,866 to last, depending on what things look like. 626 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,566 I'll let you know in a moment. 627 00:29:20,566 --> 00:29:25,000 And now enjoy the lovely dash cam audio for this segment. 628 00:29:25,633 --> 00:29:26,633 Oh, this is the exit. 629 00:29:26,633 --> 00:29:29,133 Does that sign show EV charging on there now? 630 00:29:30,033 --> 00:29:31,166 It does. 631 00:29:31,166 --> 00:29:33,233 Good. I've noticed they're putting that on there. 632 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,200 That's good to know. 633 00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:37,933 I would love to have, like, 634 00:29:38,233 --> 00:29:41,600 the sign that shows you the gas and diesel price to tell you 635 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,566 the price in miles per kilowatt hour, but 636 00:29:44,266 --> 00:29:46,200 I mean, dollars per kilowatt hour cents. 637 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,733 Really like one mile. 638 00:29:48,466 --> 00:29:49,400 We're not there yet. 639 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,700 We'll get there soon and Okay, 640 00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:53,000 so what I was saying earlier, 641 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,600 the car is going to keep being mad at me is that this can absolutely 642 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,366 be my last charging stop before my destination. 643 00:30:00,033 --> 00:30:04,733 The question just becomes, where do I want to charge when I'm there? 644 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:06,466 And can I? 645 00:30:06,466 --> 00:30:08,666 Because I may be able to charge overnight. 646 00:30:08,666 --> 00:30:11,100 I am spending the night in Cincinnati, 647 00:30:11,466 --> 00:30:13,933 but I am not entirely sure yet 648 00:30:13,933 --> 00:30:15,133 where I am staying. 649 00:30:16,833 --> 00:30:18,466 I haven't even booked a hotel or anything 650 00:30:18,466 --> 00:30:20,966 because I might be staying with friends, but I'm not sure yet. 651 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:23,766 Anyway, what's important 652 00:30:23,766 --> 00:30:27,466 is that if I wanted to charge somewhere else, I totally can. 653 00:30:29,033 --> 00:30:31,533 There are fast charging options near my destination. 654 00:30:32,433 --> 00:30:34,866 So I'm going to look into that while I'm charging here. 655 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:37,800 But here we are at the pilot flying J. 656 00:30:38,166 --> 00:30:40,800 all right, so I just double checked and I am indeed 657 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,800 only about 90 miles from my destination. 658 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,533 So despite the terrible efficiency 659 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,366 we have had on this trip so far, 660 00:30:48,966 --> 00:30:50,233 thanks to all this wind, 661 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,966 I don't need to charge again. 662 00:30:53,533 --> 00:30:56,466 Now. There are several charging options in town 663 00:30:56,466 --> 00:30:58,100 near where I am going to be. 664 00:30:59,233 --> 00:31:01,000 But I don't know yet 665 00:31:01,033 --> 00:31:03,766 whether or not I'm going to exercise those options 666 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,133 because I may be staying overnight somewhere that I can charge. 667 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,466 But I don't know yet for sure. 668 00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:11,766 Really. 669 00:31:11,766 --> 00:31:14,200 This whole trip is very just flying by the seat of my pants. 670 00:31:14,666 --> 00:31:15,933 But I don't need to do that. 671 00:31:15,966 --> 00:31:20,533 Again, the thing that's kind of confusing, and I'm noticing it's almost. 672 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:22,833 It's interesting how as it's getting easier, 673 00:31:22,833 --> 00:31:24,400 some things are getting more confusing. 674 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,466 I can absolutely treat this car like a gas powered car at this point. 675 00:31:28,933 --> 00:31:30,933 If the battery is cold soaked, 676 00:31:30,933 --> 00:31:32,300 like if it's actually cold 677 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:35,300 and I just plug it into a DC charger, it's going to charge 678 00:31:35,966 --> 00:31:38,033 stupidly slow. But 679 00:31:39,133 --> 00:31:40,333 this means that 680 00:31:40,566 --> 00:31:45,000 I can just get to my destination with 30% state of charge. 681 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,900 Pretend it's like a third of a tank of gas, 682 00:31:47,333 --> 00:31:49,666 and I got plenty of range to fart around town, 683 00:31:49,666 --> 00:31:51,900 and then I just need to charge somewhere before I head back. 684 00:31:51,933 --> 00:31:55,133 Or if there's a charging station, like on my way back 685 00:31:55,133 --> 00:31:57,366 just 20 miles outside of town, I'll stop there. 686 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:01,633 But I also have the option to, for instance, 687 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:05,333 stay at a hotel that offers EV charging as an amenity 688 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,600 and I can plug it into a level two charger overnight and charge that way. 689 00:32:10,166 --> 00:32:12,433 And by the way, even if you're parked outside, 690 00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:15,000 if you are plugged into a level two charger 691 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,100 that is like five kilowatts or greater. 692 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:19,933 So that's like virtually any public charger you're going to find. 693 00:32:20,866 --> 00:32:21,966 You're not going to notice it. 694 00:32:21,966 --> 00:32:25,400 It's the battery the car might end up using, 695 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,900 maybe like a kilowatt of power to keep its battery 696 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,066 pack warm in extreme, extreme cold, 697 00:32:30,566 --> 00:32:33,833 but it still has four kilowatts to actually charge the battery. 698 00:32:35,166 --> 00:32:37,566 You're really not going to notice it being slowed down at all, 699 00:32:37,866 --> 00:32:40,400 and the battery doesn't need to be anywhere near 700 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,966 as warm as the car's been trying to get it to charge quickly 701 00:32:42,966 --> 00:32:45,366 just to charge, the fastest 702 00:32:45,366 --> 00:32:48,633 AC charging rate this car supports, which is about 11kW. 703 00:32:49,266 --> 00:32:50,800 In the context of a battery pack. 704 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,000 This big is a trickle. Charge it. 705 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:53,933 It's irrelevant. 706 00:32:53,933 --> 00:32:56,600 It does not matter that it's perfectly safe 707 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,033 to charge the battery at that speed 708 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,000 at practically any temperature. 709 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:03,933 But anyway, I'm just giving you some context there. 710 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,733 The only real inconvenience if I stop somewhere in Cincinnati 711 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:09,666 park overnight and don't charge, 712 00:33:09,666 --> 00:33:12,433 is that if I plug in to a charging station in the morning 713 00:33:12,433 --> 00:33:14,866 with a cold battery, it's going to be very slow, 714 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:16,866 but I can still do it. 715 00:33:16,866 --> 00:33:18,133 And once the car is plugged 716 00:33:18,133 --> 00:33:20,966 in, it's going to start heating the battery pack up as soon as it can. 717 00:33:21,466 --> 00:33:22,900 But I have done this before. 718 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:25,000 The car had battery preconditioning software, 719 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,066 and it does truly become like the theoretical 18 minutes 720 00:33:29,066 --> 00:33:33,566 becomes 45 minutes to up to an hour 721 00:33:33,566 --> 00:33:35,333 if the battery is really, really cold. 722 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,800 But that's the first charge of the day 723 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,300 from then on out, the battery pack is going to be fairly warm. 724 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:41,500 You don't have to deal with that. 725 00:33:42,133 --> 00:33:46,233 I hope that makes sense, but I'm already at 71% state of charge. 726 00:33:46,666 --> 00:33:50,400 Which is enough to get where I'm going for sure, 727 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,133 but I will let it get up to 80% just to give me that 728 00:33:53,133 --> 00:33:54,333 bit of buffer. 729 00:33:54,333 --> 00:33:57,100 Since the winds today have just been awful. 730 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,566 Awful, awful. 731 00:33:58,566 --> 00:34:02,433 The last leg averaged just 2.1 miles per kilowatt hour, which is 732 00:34:03,533 --> 00:34:05,766 I thought it would improve because it's getting warmer 733 00:34:05,766 --> 00:34:08,733 and we had a little bit of snow there, but it's also getting sunnier. 734 00:34:09,166 --> 00:34:12,100 But it's just I'm driving almost directly into the wind right now, 735 00:34:12,233 --> 00:34:13,633 which stinks. 736 00:34:14,833 --> 00:34:16,633 That does mean every other car out 737 00:34:16,633 --> 00:34:18,233 there is getting significantly worse 738 00:34:18,233 --> 00:34:20,833 fuel economy, but they don't necessarily notice it 739 00:34:20,833 --> 00:34:24,700 because it doesn't impact the range as drastically as it impacts this car. 740 00:34:25,366 --> 00:34:27,166 But again, I'm just going to say, as I've said 741 00:34:27,733 --> 00:34:29,266 probably dozens of times now 742 00:34:30,333 --> 00:34:33,566 for five hours of driving, I had to stop two times 743 00:34:33,766 --> 00:34:36,166 and spend 45 minutes charging the car. 744 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:38,700 I really 745 00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:44,366 we didn't even increase the time of this trip by more than 20%. 746 00:34:45,233 --> 00:34:46,300 It's not a big deal. 747 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:49,133 And since I spend literally zero time 748 00:34:49,133 --> 00:34:50,966 going to gas stations in my day to day 749 00:34:50,966 --> 00:34:53,433 life on net, I'm almost certainly ahead. 750 00:34:53,933 --> 00:34:56,033 But I don't even think you need to care about that. 751 00:34:56,033 --> 00:34:59,666 Just consider the context of I'm driving 752 00:34:59,666 --> 00:35:03,166 five hours today to get to Cincinnati from Chicago, 753 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,300 and I only needed to, but I crossed the entire state of Indiana. 754 00:35:07,866 --> 00:35:10,600 I'm still in it now, but I'm almost to Cincinnati, 755 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:11,800 and I will have crossed 756 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,200 the entire state of Indiana in the middle of winter 757 00:35:14,533 --> 00:35:16,566 when it's well below freezing, 758 00:35:16,966 --> 00:35:19,233 and I took two charges and 45 minutes of 759 00:35:19,233 --> 00:35:21,300 time is really not a big deal 760 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,400 that there's people who think that's a big deal to them. 761 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,566 That's fine. 762 00:35:24,566 --> 00:35:26,900 We very much disagree on 763 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:29,766 what is a big deal, 764 00:35:30,233 --> 00:35:32,433 but you're allowed to disagree. 765 00:35:32,433 --> 00:35:34,966 I just think if you're actually honest, 766 00:35:35,666 --> 00:35:38,833 a less than 20% increase in time 767 00:35:38,833 --> 00:35:40,033 spent on a road trip, 768 00:35:41,266 --> 00:35:42,466 it's not really a big deal. 769 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,266 Okay, so I already talked about the charging stops on the reverse trip, 770 00:35:46,266 --> 00:35:49,033 so there's really no point getting too deep into the weeds there. 771 00:35:49,333 --> 00:35:51,100 It's the exact same process. 772 00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,100 I'm just doing what I was telling you. 773 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:55,500 I'm checking the car's energy efficiency. 774 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,633 I'm comparing its range estimate to my distance to go, 775 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:02,800 and just making sure that everything looks hunky dory as far as will 776 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,433 I make it to the charger I planned to make it to, 777 00:36:05,966 --> 00:36:07,833 but I do want to give more context 778 00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:09,866 for why I decided to stop in Lafayette. 779 00:36:10,433 --> 00:36:13,733 Basically, I knew that charger was working just fine 780 00:36:13,733 --> 00:36:16,833 and there was a plug share report from a few days ago. 781 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,500 At the time, I made this video 782 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,866 that said somebody had some charging issues. 783 00:36:20,866 --> 00:36:23,433 I think it might have even said all chargers are down. 784 00:36:23,733 --> 00:36:27,066 I don't remember, but it was enough of a concern that I decided 785 00:36:27,066 --> 00:36:29,466 I had better not skip Lafayette 786 00:36:29,466 --> 00:36:32,366 because if I do, I will be stuck in Remington. 787 00:36:32,633 --> 00:36:34,833 There were probably some level two chargers 788 00:36:34,833 --> 00:36:37,333 somewhere around there that I could have used, but 789 00:36:38,166 --> 00:36:40,400 it didn't make any sense to try and risk it. 790 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,633 And since I knew the Chargers in Lafayette were working, 791 00:36:44,333 --> 00:36:49,033 my decision was to stop there and get effectively 60 miles worth of range, 792 00:36:49,033 --> 00:36:52,233 because the distance from that charger to Remington, 793 00:36:52,233 --> 00:36:54,633 as you might have seen, was exactly 30 miles. 794 00:36:54,966 --> 00:36:58,133 And so I wanted to make sure that I could get back to Lafayette 795 00:36:58,133 --> 00:37:00,533 if for some reason I got to Remington 796 00:37:00,533 --> 00:37:02,100 and those chargers were not working. 797 00:37:02,933 --> 00:37:04,900 I discovered on this trip that the 798 00:37:05,333 --> 00:37:08,200 the stretch of road that I was taking between Chicago 799 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:13,433 and Indianapolis still has relatively few chargers on there. 800 00:37:13,766 --> 00:37:15,633 I was genuinely surprised. 801 00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:19,066 So the gap between Remington and somewhere close 802 00:37:19,066 --> 00:37:21,866 to Chicagoland that I could actually charge was just like, 803 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,000 much longer than I anticipated. 804 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,733 Basically, I think it was Dalton. 805 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,766 Like, if I had charged in Lafayette, if it turned out that Remington 806 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:35,166 really wasn't working and I had to go back to Lafayette, 807 00:37:35,566 --> 00:37:38,533 then I would have gone to Dalton, Illinois, 808 00:37:38,533 --> 00:37:41,666 where the Pope is from, and charged there 809 00:37:41,966 --> 00:37:45,733 because that would have been a fine gap, but it ended up not happening. 810 00:37:45,733 --> 00:37:48,700 But I just wanted to throw that piece of context in there to explain. 811 00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:51,233 The decision to stop in Lafayette 812 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,333 was just because the Remington Charger, 813 00:37:55,166 --> 00:37:58,566 at some point in the recent past had a reported issue. 814 00:38:00,066 --> 00:38:01,966 If I had risked it, I would have been fined. 815 00:38:01,966 --> 00:38:05,600 But you know, when it's almost zero degrees Fahrenheit outside, 816 00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:08,433 it's not good to risk those sorts of things. 817 00:38:08,433 --> 00:38:09,633 So I didn't. 818 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,900 and the last thing I want to touch on before I close 819 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:17,433 this out, is how much energy the actual heater was using during this trip. 820 00:38:17,433 --> 00:38:19,700 I was keeping myself toasty warm in the cabin. 821 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:22,166 I was not trying to be frugal or anything like that. 822 00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:25,366 I think I had it set to 70 or 72 Fahrenheit. 823 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,200 Typical room temperature just fell a little bit on the warm side 824 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,166 for room temperature, but it was really nice. 825 00:38:31,733 --> 00:38:34,100 And yet the cabin heater 826 00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:37,233 was only drawing about two kilowatts at the most. 827 00:38:37,766 --> 00:38:41,333 Now I'm bringing this up because the cabin heater 828 00:38:41,333 --> 00:38:44,700 can look like it sucks a lot of energy out of the battery pack, 829 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,633 especially when you start your car up. 830 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,966 Like when I'm commuting back from the office. 831 00:38:49,966 --> 00:38:51,966 If the car is sitting outside and it's cold, 832 00:38:52,666 --> 00:38:54,633 the amount of energy it takes to warm up 833 00:38:54,633 --> 00:38:57,266 a cold car is so much greater 834 00:38:57,566 --> 00:39:01,133 than the amount of energy it takes to maintain a warm car. 835 00:39:01,433 --> 00:39:03,500 Once the car is up to temperature, 836 00:39:03,733 --> 00:39:06,400 it only takes a couple kilowatts to keep it warm. 837 00:39:06,633 --> 00:39:07,733 Now, in the case of my car, 838 00:39:07,733 --> 00:39:09,100 it has a heat pump, so it's 839 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:11,733 probably a little better than a car without a heat pump. 840 00:39:11,733 --> 00:39:15,433 But in these temperatures, heat pumps tend to struggle a little bit. 841 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:18,766 I wish I knew the coefficient of performance of the heat pump. 842 00:39:18,766 --> 00:39:22,100 That'd be really cool to know, but I just wanted to say the cabin heat 843 00:39:22,566 --> 00:39:25,200 was pretty much irrelevant to this drive 844 00:39:25,233 --> 00:39:27,600 because, you know, the two hours 845 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,433 between charging stops for kilowatt 846 00:39:30,433 --> 00:39:33,033 hours was used for heating the cabin. 847 00:39:33,666 --> 00:39:36,833 That is not even like that's 848 00:39:36,833 --> 00:39:39,533 basically what I said for the battery heater running for an hour. 849 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,466 So 14% max of each charge 850 00:39:43,466 --> 00:39:46,766 was being used to heat the battery and to heat the cabin. 851 00:39:47,133 --> 00:39:48,766 The rest of it was just to push the car 852 00:39:48,766 --> 00:39:51,366 through the very cold, very dense air, 853 00:39:51,766 --> 00:39:55,300 and I had wind in both directions. 854 00:39:55,466 --> 00:39:59,833 I just, I genuinely I have the worst luck with that with my car. 855 00:39:59,833 --> 00:40:02,433 I'm often taking trips west on I-80, 856 00:40:02,733 --> 00:40:06,266 and somehow it's like, I'll head out west and I'm driving into the wind, 857 00:40:06,266 --> 00:40:09,033 and then I head back east when I shouldn't be driving into the wind. 858 00:40:09,033 --> 00:40:11,133 And all of a sudden I'm driving into the wind again. 859 00:40:12,733 --> 00:40:15,900 It's I don't know why, but the wind really doesn't like me. 860 00:40:16,533 --> 00:40:18,600 But anyway, I'm going to close this video out 861 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,333 because, like I said, the trip back is the exact same thing. 862 00:40:21,333 --> 00:40:23,966 It's just the stakes were higher because it was getting colder. 863 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:26,866 But what I'm doing is no different. 864 00:40:26,866 --> 00:40:30,800 I'm just seeing how much energy is the car using to go 865 00:40:30,833 --> 00:40:32,500 this speed and, 866 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,366 is it getting worse than it thinks 867 00:40:35,366 --> 00:40:37,233 it will be, or is it getting better? 868 00:40:37,233 --> 00:40:39,266 And it's not really that difficult. 869 00:40:39,266 --> 00:40:40,466 It's just 870 00:40:41,266 --> 00:40:43,266 it's just something to get used to because 871 00:40:43,266 --> 00:40:48,766 it's significant that my car goes from an easy 230 miles on the highway 872 00:40:48,766 --> 00:40:53,300 in the summer, down to, as we saw from Lafayette, 145. 873 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:57,766 150 can be a stretch when it's cold and windy, but 874 00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:01,200 just because the range dropped that far 875 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,700 doesn't necessarily mean it's such a huge deal. 876 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:06,100 So long as there are charging stations available 877 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:07,800 where you need them to be, and 878 00:41:08,833 --> 00:41:11,633 more and more are showing up literally every day, 879 00:41:12,066 --> 00:41:15,033 I'm going to plug a channel that you might want to check out. 880 00:41:15,033 --> 00:41:17,900 If you want to see the progress of new DC 881 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:19,833 fast charging installations in the US. 882 00:41:21,466 --> 00:41:22,400 Really good. 883 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,133 The network architect channel. 884 00:41:24,133 --> 00:41:24,466 Sorry. 885 00:41:24,466 --> 00:41:26,400 The network architect channel. 886 00:41:26,766 --> 00:41:27,733 Walter is his name. 887 00:41:27,733 --> 00:41:30,000 I was blanking on the name of the channel for a second there. 888 00:41:30,366 --> 00:41:32,900 He does weekly reports on new DC fast 889 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:35,533 charging installations that are really great to keep track of. 890 00:41:35,833 --> 00:41:38,533 They are literally coming in every day. 891 00:41:38,833 --> 00:41:42,000 I know it doesn't seem like we are supporting electric cars 892 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,133 because, you know, we have a lot of people in positions of power right now 893 00:41:46,133 --> 00:41:48,733 who are very skeptical of them, perhaps 894 00:41:48,733 --> 00:41:50,966 because they can't make as much money 895 00:41:50,966 --> 00:41:53,666 in a world where people can charge their cars at home 896 00:41:53,666 --> 00:41:56,266 and they drive cars which need very little maintenance, 897 00:41:56,900 --> 00:41:58,333 something to consider. 898 00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:01,000 But despite the fact that we seem 899 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,000 to be very anti EV right now as a culture, 900 00:42:04,233 --> 00:42:06,766 and we removed a whole lot of the government incentives 901 00:42:06,766 --> 00:42:10,033 to build out infrastructure, or at least made the very difficult. 902 00:42:10,433 --> 00:42:12,600 It is still being built out very, very quickly. 903 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,333 The on a network, as a matter of fact, hasn't taken any government money 904 00:42:16,333 --> 00:42:18,700 and it's one of my favorite charging networks 905 00:42:18,933 --> 00:42:21,166 because they are rolling out really fast, 906 00:42:21,166 --> 00:42:24,066 they're really reliable and they're pretty cheap. So 907 00:42:25,166 --> 00:42:27,133 there's lots of good news in this space. 908 00:42:27,366 --> 00:42:28,933 It's only going to get easier. 909 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,733 And at this point, with just a tiny little bit of thought, 910 00:42:33,733 --> 00:42:35,933 I can take my car anywhere. 911 00:42:36,433 --> 00:42:38,166 And I don't really even need to plan. 912 00:42:38,166 --> 00:42:39,900 I just need to look at the plug share app, 913 00:42:41,066 --> 00:42:43,633 monitor the conditions as I'm driving, 914 00:42:44,066 --> 00:42:46,200 and pick chargers as I go. 915 00:42:46,866 --> 00:42:48,166 So thanks for watching. 916 00:42:48,166 --> 00:42:49,366 I hope this video was helpful. 917 00:42:49,566 --> 00:42:52,100 And if you're considering an electric car, 918 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:53,500 this is the sort of thing 919 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:56,033 you're going to have to do on road trips only. 920 00:42:56,033 --> 00:42:57,233 And keep that in mind. 921 00:42:57,533 --> 00:42:59,133 If you can set up charging at home, 922 00:42:59,133 --> 00:43:01,266 or if you have access to a charger at work, 923 00:43:02,133 --> 00:43:03,633 you're never going to use these things 924 00:43:03,633 --> 00:43:06,666 unless you need to drive far, which is exactly the case for me. 925 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,100 The closest chargers to my home 926 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:13,133 that I actually use regularly are in Wisconsin and Indiana, 927 00:43:13,833 --> 00:43:15,733 because when you can charge at home 928 00:43:15,733 --> 00:43:17,666 or at work, it doesn't have to be at home. 929 00:43:17,666 --> 00:43:20,266 But if you can charge some where your car is parked 930 00:43:20,266 --> 00:43:22,133 and you have regular access to that, 931 00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:24,933 you're not going to use these DC fast chargers. 932 00:43:25,233 --> 00:43:28,333 You only need them when you exceed your car's range. 933 00:43:28,533 --> 00:43:32,433 And now that modern EVs have minimum ranges of 200 miles 934 00:43:33,166 --> 00:43:36,066 road trips, that's pretty much the only circumstance 935 00:43:36,333 --> 00:43:37,800 unless you drive professionally. 936 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,900 And if that is your case, 937 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,733 an EV is probably not right for you quite yet. 938 00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:47,933 But we'll probably get there because, you know, we're moving pretty quick. 939 00:43:48,233 --> 00:43:49,466 Anyway, thanks for watching.