WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.066 Hi. I need to get to Cincinnati and it's really cold outside. 00:00:04.100 --> 00:00:07.966 It's eight degrees Fahrenheit, which is about -13 Celsius right now. 00:00:08.533 --> 00:00:11.366 And I have one of those electric cars. 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:14.366 This is a Hyundai Ioniq 5, it's a 2022. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.133 I've had it for four years at this point, and I'm going to document 00:00:18.133 --> 00:00:21.633 what the process looks like for driving in very cold weather, 00:00:21.633 --> 00:00:23.400 because there's still a lot of people out there 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:26.100 who thinks this is either impossible or very hard. 00:00:26.533 --> 00:00:29.000 And I'm going to do this entirely manually. 00:00:29.433 --> 00:00:30.933 I'm not going to have my car 00:00:30.933 --> 00:00:32.700 tell me how to get to where I'm going. 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:34.666 I'm not going to have my car pick chargers for me. 00:00:35.133 --> 00:00:36.033 I'm just going to do this 00:00:36.033 --> 00:00:37.466 all on my own, and I'm going to show you 00:00:37.466 --> 00:00:39.766 what my process for doing that is like. 00:00:40.100 --> 00:00:42.566 I've decided to make this video in two parts. 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:46.200 First, I'm just going to show you the charging stations that I stopped at 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:47.866 on the way there and on the way back 00:00:47.866 --> 00:00:49.766 as well as how long I spent charging 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.766 to give you a sense of how this trip actually went. 00:00:53.300 --> 00:00:55.466 But then I'm going to start over and walk 00:00:55.466 --> 00:00:57.833 you through the process of choosing chargers 00:00:58.066 --> 00:01:00.600 and how to verify through the information 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. 00:01:04.366 --> 00:01:06.766 I am not having the car make these decisions for me. 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:09.866 I'm doing this entirely manually because quite frankly, 00:01:09.866 --> 00:01:11.900 I can do a better job than it can. 00:01:12.233 --> 00:01:14.766 But it is something to think about that 00:01:14.766 --> 00:01:16.766 a lot of people aren't necessarily used to yet. 00:01:16.766 --> 00:01:18.466 And so I'll show you that process. 00:01:18.466 --> 00:01:20.300 But again, first I'm just going to show you 00:01:20.300 --> 00:01:22.166 the actual end result of the trip. 00:01:22.533 --> 00:01:23.900 So let's get started. 00:01:24.433 --> 00:01:28.033 I started this trip with my car fully charged to 100%, 00:01:28.033 --> 00:01:31.766 which isn't something I typically do, but because the weather is so cold, 00:01:31.966 --> 00:01:34.500 I wanted to squeeze all the range I could out of it 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:38.433 to hopefully make it to Lafayette, Indiana as my first charging stop. 00:01:38.433 --> 00:01:40.300 And I made it just fine. 00:01:41.166 --> 00:01:44.033 Believe it or not, the charger activated on the first try, 00:01:44.033 --> 00:01:47.033 which for Electrify America is actually pretty amazing. 00:01:47.033 --> 00:01:49.200 So it has not started charging yet, 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:51.300 but it should any moment now. 00:01:51.966 --> 00:01:53.966 It just takes a while for these chargers 00:01:53.966 --> 00:01:55.800 to start talking to the car because they're old. 00:01:56.600 --> 00:01:57.133 There we go. 00:01:57.133 --> 00:01:58.533 So now the question is 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:01.200 how fast are we going to charge? 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.800 The car is estimating it will take 25 minutes to get to 80%, 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:06.333 which is slower than it should. 00:02:06.333 --> 00:02:08.100 It should be able to do that in 18. 00:02:08.733 --> 00:02:10.400 But 25 is still not bad. 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:12.766 Okay, for those who may not have any familiarity 00:02:12.766 --> 00:02:15.000 with charging an electric car on a road trip, 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.566 let me explain the 80% thing. 00:02:17.966 --> 00:02:22.833 You'll see that my car is quoting a remaining time of 25 minutes to 80%, 00:02:22.833 --> 00:02:26.200 but almost twice as long to get to 100%. 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:28.500 Every electric car is like this. 00:02:28.533 --> 00:02:32.866 That's because the higher the state of charge a lithium ion battery is, 00:02:33.166 --> 00:02:36.700 the more slowly it can accept additional charge. 00:02:37.066 --> 00:02:40.100 And so the advice is always unplug at 80% 00:02:40.100 --> 00:02:41.766 and just accept that you aren't 00:02:41.766 --> 00:02:44.566 getting quite as much range as your car is capable of, 00:02:44.833 --> 00:02:48.766 simply because it's much faster to do it that way. 00:02:49.133 --> 00:02:51.933 My car is actually exceptionally quick 00:02:52.066 --> 00:02:54.166 at charging from 80 to 100%. 00:02:54.433 --> 00:02:57.333 Most other EVs can take 30, 40, 00:02:57.333 --> 00:03:00.900 sometimes up to an hour just to get that last 20%. 00:03:01.233 --> 00:03:04.666 My car only takes another 20 minutes or so if conditions are right. 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:07.600 But still, why sit there for 20 minutes to gain 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:09.233 just a little bit more battery charge? 00:03:09.466 --> 00:03:11.733 Just unplug and go to the next charger. 00:03:11.866 --> 00:03:12.966 So that's what I'm doing here. 00:03:12.966 --> 00:03:16.200 I just wanted to explain one thing with charging 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:19.866 EVs on road trips is you're never really going to fill them up. 00:03:20.200 --> 00:03:23.266 You can if you want to, but you'll waste a lot of time. 00:03:23.266 --> 00:03:26.566 So you really just want to unplug at 80% and get going. 00:03:27.233 --> 00:03:27.766 Okay. 00:03:27.766 --> 00:03:30.033 I just finished eating my sandwich 00:03:30.033 --> 00:03:33.200 and I have found out where the next charging stop is going to be. 00:03:33.666 --> 00:03:35.566 And we're already at 74%. 00:03:35.566 --> 00:03:38.400 And actually, I can safely unplug right now 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.500 because the next charger is only 86 miles away. 00:03:41.633 --> 00:03:43.800 As you may have seen from the dash cam clock, 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, 00:03:50.100 --> 00:03:53.333 so total time spent here was about 29 minutes. 00:03:53.633 --> 00:03:56.266 I think the car was charging for 25 minutes of that. 00:03:56.266 --> 00:03:57.533 Pretty much exactly what it said. 00:03:57.533 --> 00:04:00.100 But between charger activation and programing 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:02.033 in the next destination in my car 00:04:02.333 --> 00:04:04.533 spent an extra five minutes at the charging site, but 00:04:04.900 --> 00:04:09.633 our next and last charging stop is in Shelbyville, Indiana. 00:04:09.933 --> 00:04:12.300 And as I already said, it's not even 90 miles away. 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.166 Shelbyville is just outside of Indianapolis, and, well, I'm 00:04:16.166 --> 00:04:19.900 actually only recording this because I don't want to cut up the time lapse. 00:04:20.133 --> 00:04:22.233 I want you to see the whooole thing. 00:04:22.666 --> 00:04:23.733 Is that important? 00:04:23.733 --> 00:04:25.600 Not really, but, Yeah. 00:04:25.633 --> 00:04:27.800 So, we're almost there. 00:04:28.033 --> 00:04:30.500 This went by a lot slower in person, let me tell you. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.166 Okay. We're almost there. 00:04:32.333 --> 00:04:33.800 We're almost to Shelbyville. 00:04:34.066 --> 00:04:35.417 We're almost there. 00:04:35.417 --> 00:04:37.833 Aaaaaaaaannnnnnd 00:04:37.833 --> 00:04:38.333 okay we're there. 00:04:38.534 --> 00:04:41.133 I was really hoping my dash cam would record 00:04:41.133 --> 00:04:43.200 audio much better than it turned out to. 00:04:43.266 --> 00:04:47.400 I even tried that AI voice enhance thing, and it just, uh, it's real bad. 00:04:47.633 --> 00:04:50.466 So I have to rerecord a lot of everything. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:51.400 It's great. 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, 00:04:55.933 --> 00:04:58.933 and then I'll just give you a quick update as far as the charging speed 00:04:58.933 --> 00:05:01.066 I get once we're plugging in and how long I'm going to be here. 00:05:01.566 --> 00:05:03.833 Okay. I just got back from using the bathroom. 00:05:03.833 --> 00:05:07.433 We are not getting the best charging speeds, 00:05:07.433 --> 00:05:08.633 but we're getting pretty good. 00:05:09.166 --> 00:05:11.666 16 minutes to 80% means, realistically, 00:05:11.666 --> 00:05:15.233 this is going to be about a 20 minute charge stop total. 00:05:16.033 --> 00:05:19.366 So I can definitely get to my destination 00:05:19.566 --> 00:05:22.100 once we are at 80%, meaning 00:05:22.566 --> 00:05:24.933 I spent, I think I looked it up. 00:05:24.933 --> 00:05:27.600 The total drive time was just shy of five hours, 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:30.500 and we spent 45 minutes charging. 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.033 I don't think that's a very big deal myself. 00:05:35.633 --> 00:05:39.533 You can disagree, but extending a five hour drive 00:05:39.566 --> 00:05:43.982 by 45 minutes is really not that big of a deal, guys. 00:05:43.982 --> 00:05:46.566 The first charging stop, I was eating my sandwich 00:05:46.566 --> 00:05:49.266 and by the time I was done, I was ready to move on. 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:53.333 This charging stop, I'm not eating anything so I will be waiting on the car, 00:05:53.766 --> 00:05:56.966 but I'm only waiting about 15, 20 minutes. 00:05:57.366 --> 00:05:58.466 No big deal. 00:05:58.466 --> 00:06:00.833 As before, I'll point out the dash cam showed 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. 00:06:05.966 --> 00:06:09.033 So I spent pretty much 21 minutes at this charging stop, 00:06:09.500 --> 00:06:12.000 and now I am on my way to my destination. 00:06:12.133 --> 00:06:15.447 Well, I made it 38% state of charge still. 00:06:15.447 --> 00:06:18.700 That is a very pessimistic number, 59 miles of range. 00:06:18.700 --> 00:06:20.700 But it has been a very pessimistic day. 00:06:21.100 --> 00:06:24.700 But we did manage to click up to 2.4 miles per kilowatt hour. 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.700 So we're getting a little bit better efficiency in this last 90 mile leg. 00:06:29.066 --> 00:06:31.200 But I am here and, 00:06:31.266 --> 00:06:34.733 I saw a couple of chargers on the way here. 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.866 So I am totally set no matter what happens. 00:06:37.866 --> 00:06:40.333 So I'm going to check in with you tomorrow morning 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.566 when I head back, but for now. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.133 Mission accomplished. 00:06:44.133 --> 00:06:47.200 Now, when it comes to where I'm going to charge at my destination, 00:06:47.400 --> 00:06:49.833 well, there are many different options available, 00:06:49.833 --> 00:06:52.166 but the one I chose was this: 00:06:52.466 --> 00:06:54.066 Hello and good morning. 00:06:54.266 --> 00:06:57.133 I did end up staying at a hotel, and I looked for a hotel 00:06:57.133 --> 00:07:00.766 that had EV chargers as a perk, and this one does. 00:07:01.166 --> 00:07:02.900 Did you know hotels have electricity? 00:07:03.166 --> 00:07:04.300 It's pretty wild. 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:09.266 And the smarter hotel managers out there are getting electricity from their hotel 00:07:09.466 --> 00:07:11.800 out to at least a few parking spots. 00:07:12.033 --> 00:07:14.566 That way, people like me who have electric cars 00:07:14.566 --> 00:07:16.600 are more willing to stay at this hotel. 00:07:17.033 --> 00:07:20.766 They probably lost about $10 on me from the electricity that I used, 00:07:21.033 --> 00:07:24.466 but they gained 150 bucks from me for the room rate. 00:07:24.466 --> 00:07:27.400 So, you know, they got 140 bucks out of me 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:30.100 that they would not have if they didn't have those chargers. 00:07:30.766 --> 00:07:34.366 So... just pointing that out, that smart business people 00:07:34.466 --> 00:07:38.800 that like money and people to give them money 00:07:40.266 --> 00:07:41.633 should be offering perks 00:07:42.366 --> 00:07:44.200 like electric vehicle charging. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.633 But anyway, because I stayed here overnight, 00:07:47.633 --> 00:07:49.766 my car is now at 100%. 00:07:50.733 --> 00:07:52.900 Well, I went out to put something back in the car 00:07:52.900 --> 00:07:54.300 and it was at 98%. 00:07:54.633 --> 00:07:57.400 But at this point, it is now at 100% for sure. 00:07:57.700 --> 00:07:59.633 I didn't even need it to charge that high, 00:07:59.633 --> 00:08:02.133 because I just need to get back to. 00:08:02.166 --> 00:08:02.700 What was that, 00:08:02.700 --> 00:08:03.933 Shelbyville, Indiana? 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:06.600 But, you know, I might as well, 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.733 because then that shortens the charging time in Shelbyville. 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:12.933 I might only be charging there for ten minutes 00:08:12.933 --> 00:08:15.400 this morning or this evening. 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:18.633 I'm not leaving until around four, but we'll find out. 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:21.166 Yeah, that was a little optimistic. 00:08:21.333 --> 00:08:23.033 I'm not going to bother showing all the time 00:08:23.033 --> 00:08:24.533 lapse footage on the reverse trip, 00:08:24.533 --> 00:08:26.866 because it literally is just the reverse trip. 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:30.000 Although there's a small twist which I will get to in a moment. 00:08:30.366 --> 00:08:34.833 But I just want to point out that I spent 20 minutes charging here. 00:08:34.833 --> 00:08:36.633 It still wasn't a very long time at all. 00:08:36.933 --> 00:08:40.700 And then I moved on to a different charging station 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:44.466 than the one that I stopped at on the way back, because, well, 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.333 you'll see soon that the weather is getting worse. 00:08:47.333 --> 00:08:49.900 It's getting much colder, and the winds are picking up. 00:08:50.366 --> 00:08:52.200 And the fact that it took 00:08:52.833 --> 00:08:56.566 almost all the battery pack for me to get from home to Lafayette meant 00:08:56.900 --> 00:08:59.566 it would not work to get from Lafayette back home, 00:08:59.966 --> 00:09:02.400 so I ended up charging at a charger 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:05.266 farther away from here in Shelbyville. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.666 That way I wouldn't have to stop twice. 00:09:09.166 --> 00:09:12.100 Except ultimately I did make two charging stops, 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:13.566 but not because I needed to. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.333 I did it just in case. 00:09:15.733 --> 00:09:16.833 I'm going to talk more about this 00:09:16.833 --> 00:09:18.933 in the second half of the video, but Plug Share, 00:09:18.933 --> 00:09:21.533 which is the app I'm using to find these chargers, 00:09:21.766 --> 00:09:24.466 had indicated that there was an issue with the charger 00:09:24.466 --> 00:09:27.066 in Remington, Indiana, which is where I wanted to stop. 00:09:27.533 --> 00:09:30.733 And although the app showed me that they were all online right now, 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:36.033 given the weather, I was a little bit paranoid and I decided to stop in Lafayette 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:40.100 to give myself enough charge to where if I got to Remington 00:09:40.100 --> 00:09:42.200 and it turned out those charges weren't working, 00:09:42.533 --> 00:09:45.866 I wouldn't be stuck there because the gap between Remington 00:09:45.866 --> 00:09:48.566 and Chicagoland is quite large. 00:09:48.933 --> 00:09:51.133 So if I were stuck in Remington, 00:09:51.133 --> 00:09:53.400 if those chargers weren't working, I would have been stuck. 00:09:53.633 --> 00:09:56.666 So I decided to stop in Lafayette to give myself enough charge 00:09:56.666 --> 00:10:00.966 to get to Remington and back, just in case there was an issue. 00:10:01.233 --> 00:10:02.766 Turned out there wasn't an issue, 00:10:02.833 --> 00:10:05.633 so I didn't need to stop in Lafayette after all. 00:10:05.866 --> 00:10:07.466 But I did just in case. 00:10:07.866 --> 00:10:09.100 Okay. Good news: 00:10:09.133 --> 00:10:12.766 We made it here to, Remington. 00:10:13.066 --> 00:10:15.100 This is actually a canopy charging site. 00:10:16.733 --> 00:10:19.533 The car is plugged in, and it's just still negotiating the charger. 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:21.400 Bad news: 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:25.233 I saw the worst efficiency I've ever seen on this leg in this car. 00:10:25.466 --> 00:10:28.166 It was down to 1.8 miles per kilowatt hour. 00:10:28.433 --> 00:10:31.500 This is the stretch with all the wind turbines, and it is windy. 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:35.633 And of course, they are facing the wrong direction now. 00:10:35.666 --> 00:10:37.133 I'm driving into the wind again. 00:10:37.900 --> 00:10:39.433 So we are charging 00:10:40.666 --> 00:10:43.766 and it thinks it's only going to be 20 minutes to 80%. 00:10:43.766 --> 00:10:45.866 So the battery pack must be pretty warm. 00:10:45.900 --> 00:10:47.333 Let's see where we get. 00:10:49.233 --> 00:10:50.466 We're over 100 already. 00:10:54.366 --> 00:10:55.566 That's pretty good 00:10:55.866 --> 00:10:57.833 for only 20 minutes to 80%. 00:10:57.866 --> 00:11:01.166 That's very close to this thing's max charging speed. 00:11:02.333 --> 00:11:05.500 So I really can't complain about the charging speed. 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:09.333 It's just the range has dropped a lot because of how cold it is. 00:11:11.933 --> 00:11:13.466 But now I think I'm only 00:11:13.466 --> 00:11:15.800 about 100 miles from my home. 00:11:16.833 --> 00:11:19.633 And so long as I'm only 100 miles from home, 00:11:19.633 --> 00:11:21.200 80% is... 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:23.900 quite safe. 00:11:23.900 --> 00:11:25.600 I cannot imagine a situation 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:29.400 where an 80% charge can't get this car to go 100 miles. 00:11:29.933 --> 00:11:33.533 That would effectively be a 50% range drop 00:11:34.133 --> 00:11:35.333 'cause 100%... 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.533 what would that be 120 miles, basically? 00:11:38.533 --> 00:11:39.254 So yeah. 00:11:39.254 --> 00:11:42.666 I cannot imagine if I get to 80% 00:11:42.666 --> 00:11:44.633 I'm not going to be able to get home just fine. 00:11:45.300 --> 00:11:47.700 So I'm just going to sit here until we're at 80%, 00:11:48.466 --> 00:11:50.266 and then I'm going to get going. 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:51.466 I will see you, probably 00:11:51.466 --> 00:11:52.833 I'm just going to check in when I'm home. 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:54.333 Unless there are issues. 00:11:54.766 --> 00:11:56.233 Were there issues? 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:57.366 Nope! 00:11:57.366 --> 00:11:58.700 Made it home just fine. 00:11:58.933 --> 00:12:02.233 And I arrived with 21% state of charge. 00:12:02.233 --> 00:12:04.900 I ended up charging up to 85% in Remington 00:12:04.900 --> 00:12:07.033 just to give me that extra buffer, because, you know, 00:12:07.033 --> 00:12:09.233 the weather was really bad, 00:12:09.433 --> 00:12:11.466 but that wasn't even necessary. 00:12:11.633 --> 00:12:14.833 I got home with 21%, and because I have a charging station, 00:12:14.833 --> 00:12:17.700 I'm just going to plug into that, walk inside and go to bed. 00:12:18.233 --> 00:12:20.600 But now let's rewind to the start 00:12:20.833 --> 00:12:23.466 so I can explain what I'm going through 00:12:23.466 --> 00:12:26.066 as I make this happen. 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.900 And I'm going to start by addressing battery preconditioning, 00:12:29.900 --> 00:12:32.500 because this is the weak spot of EVs, 00:12:32.500 --> 00:12:35.933 and it is particularly a weak spot of my car. 00:12:36.400 --> 00:12:39.033 So first, what is battery preconditioning? 00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:41.633 Well, if you were picking up on me, 00:12:41.666 --> 00:12:44.200 talking about the charging speeds after I plugged in, 00:12:44.900 --> 00:12:48.700 it is not safe to charge a lithium ion battery pack quickly 00:12:48.700 --> 00:12:50.800 when the battery cells are cold. 00:12:51.166 --> 00:12:55.333 And in weather like this, that means you get an extremely slow charge. 00:12:55.566 --> 00:12:58.366 Now, engineers are smart, and what they did was 00:12:58.366 --> 00:13:00.500 they added a battery pack heater. 00:13:00.900 --> 00:13:03.733 So the car has the ability to warm up the battery pack 00:13:03.733 --> 00:13:06.366 as you are approaching a DC fast charger 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.000 to make sure that those battery cells are nice and warm, 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:10.966 and it can charge as fast as possible. 00:13:11.666 --> 00:13:14.566 Any decent electric car does that these days, 00:13:14.566 --> 00:13:17.633 and that is why the winter road trip is no longer 00:13:17.633 --> 00:13:19.000 that painful of a process. 00:13:20.033 --> 00:13:20.933 However. 00:13:20.933 --> 00:13:23.100 although Hyundai equipped these cars 00:13:23.100 --> 00:13:25.866 with the hardware, they need to warm the battery pack. 00:13:26.333 --> 00:13:29.433 The software which controls that feature 00:13:29.433 --> 00:13:32.600 is, pardon my French, batshit. 00:13:33.133 --> 00:13:36.433 Hyundai needs to fix this because right now 00:13:36.733 --> 00:13:39.166 this car is an absolute 00:13:39.166 --> 00:13:42.066 pain in the butt to use in this specific case, 00:13:42.066 --> 00:13:44.666 because I have to trick it into thinking I'm 00:13:44.666 --> 00:13:46.400 going to a charging station. 00:13:47.800 --> 00:13:49.000 Let's back up. 00:13:49.033 --> 00:13:53.066 So some electric car manufacturers out there 00:13:53.066 --> 00:13:57.800 decided that the best approach is to hand hold their drivers, 00:13:58.066 --> 00:14:00.666 and you are supposed to just put in a destination. 00:14:00.866 --> 00:14:04.233 And because the automaker owns all of the charging network, 00:14:04.333 --> 00:14:07.100 it will just pick every single charging stop for you 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:08.766 and you just follow its instructions. 00:14:09.700 --> 00:14:12.633 Now, because so much of the automotive industry 00:14:12.633 --> 00:14:16.700 has decided that they need to copy that approach, that's what Hyundai did. 00:14:16.933 --> 00:14:18.500 But you see, 00:14:19.333 --> 00:14:22.633 there's all these new chargers that are showing up every day, 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.666 and I am no longer paying to connect my car to the internet. 00:14:26.666 --> 00:14:27.933 In fact, I've never paid for it 00:14:27.933 --> 00:14:29.700 because I think that's kind of a silly thing. 00:14:29.900 --> 00:14:32.600 I have a smartphone with me, and I can plug it into my car, 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.900 and it can take over my car's infotainment screen, and it's really great. 00:14:35.900 --> 00:14:39.466 We had this technology called Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. 00:14:39.766 --> 00:14:43.500 It's great, except GM's trying to kill it because they don't like it. 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:44.700 They want anyway. 00:14:44.800 --> 00:14:48.700 my point is, I don't want to use the car's navigation system. 00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:51.000 I want to pick chargers myself. 00:14:51.300 --> 00:14:54.166 Because any time somebody builds this feature into a car, 00:14:54.333 --> 00:14:56.933 it gets really clunky to do things like say, 00:14:57.166 --> 00:14:59.666 oh, I want to prioritize this charging network, 00:14:59.666 --> 00:15:02.633 or oh, I don't want to use that specific charger. 00:15:02.766 --> 00:15:05.533 So rather than have to go through all that rigmarole, 00:15:05.700 --> 00:15:08.800 I would rather just decide where to charge. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:10.966 And so that is what I do. 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:15.300 But because the car will not battery pre-condition 00:15:15.300 --> 00:15:18.366 unless it knows I am navigating to a charger, 00:15:18.366 --> 00:15:20.900 I do have to use its navigation system 00:15:21.166 --> 00:15:25.333 and oftentimes I have to enter charging stations which don't exist. 00:15:25.533 --> 00:15:26.866 It is incredibly dumb. 00:15:27.533 --> 00:15:28.933 Here's an example of what I mean. 00:15:28.966 --> 00:15:32.466 I have a friend who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and on the way there, 00:15:32.466 --> 00:15:35.233 there is an ion station in Janesville, Wisconsin, 00:15:35.233 --> 00:15:37.433 and that's the one that I want to stop at. 00:15:37.766 --> 00:15:40.933 But my car doesn't know that charging station is there. 00:15:41.133 --> 00:15:45.166 So when I make trips up there in the winter, I have to tell it. 00:15:45.166 --> 00:15:48.300 I'm stopping at a blink station near there, 00:15:48.300 --> 00:15:50.400 which I'm pretty sure no longer exists, 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:52.866 but that's the only charging station my car knows about. 00:15:53.133 --> 00:15:54.233 And this is just so dumb. 00:15:54.233 --> 00:15:56.333 I just want a button that I can press 00:15:56.333 --> 00:15:58.666 that says start battery preconditioning 00:15:58.966 --> 00:16:02.233 because I do not need my car to navigate 00:16:02.733 --> 00:16:04.800 on the way to a place I know where to go. 00:16:05.033 --> 00:16:08.300 I just want to be able to tell it, start preconditioning the battery. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.533 And in case it's not clear, this is irrelevant in warmer weather. 00:16:12.900 --> 00:16:14.466 The only reason you have to do 00:16:14.466 --> 00:16:16.400 this is because it's cold and warm weather. 00:16:16.400 --> 00:16:19.066 You don't bother with this at all, just drive to a charger. 00:16:19.066 --> 00:16:23.633 But my car really needs the battery pack to be at least like, 70°F. 00:16:23.633 --> 00:16:26.433 So even in the middle of spring, 00:16:26.800 --> 00:16:29.166 charging isn't exactly as fast 00:16:29.166 --> 00:16:31.333 as it could be unless you battery precondition. 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.700 And I am just so mad at Hyundai 00:16:33.833 --> 00:16:37.266 for selling me a car which has this critical feature 00:16:37.533 --> 00:16:41.033 that I have to trick the car into turning on. 00:16:41.400 --> 00:16:42.766 It's incredibly dumb. 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:44.966 They deserve a lot of shame for this. 00:16:45.033 --> 00:16:49.333 And until they patch the software, which, by the way, we know they can do 00:16:49.566 --> 00:16:52.500 because when I got the car, the infotainment system 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:54.866 could not turn on battery preconditioning at all. 00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:57.733 And then it got a software update and now it can. 00:16:57.833 --> 00:17:01.233 So it is totally possible for them to add a button, 00:17:01.566 --> 00:17:03.733 but they just haven't bothered. 00:17:03.733 --> 00:17:06.233 And I'm going to keep getting on their case about this 00:17:06.233 --> 00:17:07.700 until they fix the problem, 00:17:08.500 --> 00:17:12.500 because we really need to stop tolerating any sort of company, 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:16.500 but especially car companies selling products that are not finished. 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:18.033 Thanks, Tesla, 00:17:18.033 --> 00:17:21.066 you ruined the industry for letting them think that's normal. 00:17:21.600 --> 00:17:23.533 But anyway, if you're a person like me 00:17:23.566 --> 00:17:26.500 who wants to make his own decisions and use his own brain, 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:29.866 then there is some strategizing when it comes to picking chargers. 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.300 And if you don't know where chargers are, 00:17:32.566 --> 00:17:34.900 you should check out the Plug Share app. 00:17:34.900 --> 00:17:36.566 Or I believe they have a website. 00:17:37.066 --> 00:17:40.833 This is a great resource to understand what chargers are in your area, 00:17:40.833 --> 00:17:44.400 and you can filter them by connector type as well as their power output. 00:17:44.933 --> 00:17:48.866 And in the case of my car, I now have the Nax adapter 00:17:48.866 --> 00:17:51.466 so I can look for any CC, S1 00:17:51.466 --> 00:17:53.566 or next charging station. 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.100 However, I do not want to use Tesla Superchargers, 00:17:57.100 --> 00:18:00.733 and not just because I have a preference to avoid them, but in my car 00:18:01.033 --> 00:18:04.766 they are very, very slow because again, I don't. 00:18:04.800 --> 00:18:06.100 A lot of people can't stand that. 00:18:06.100 --> 00:18:07.900 I sound like I'm Tesla bashing all the time. 00:18:07.900 --> 00:18:11.133 But seriously, it is 2026 and Tesla now has last. 00:18:11.133 --> 00:18:13.666 I checked for 800 volt capable 00:18:13.666 --> 00:18:15.733 charging stations in the entire world. 00:18:16.133 --> 00:18:18.933 And because my car is an 800 volt native car, 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.900 it charges very slowly on 400 volt infrastructure, 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:25.633 which is almost everything Tesla has. 00:18:25.633 --> 00:18:28.566 They are so behind on charging infrastructure, 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:31.333 but the broader public just doesn't really seem to know that. 00:18:31.800 --> 00:18:32.533 But anyway. 00:18:32.533 --> 00:18:35.000 If you're like me and you want to make your own decisions 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.300 and pick your own chargers, 00:18:36.600 --> 00:18:40.800 you do need to know how far your car can actually go on a charge, 00:18:40.800 --> 00:18:43.400 and that varies a lot depending on the weather. 00:18:43.866 --> 00:18:45.966 That's kind of the whole point of this exercise. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.533 But one thing that I would really encourage 00:18:48.533 --> 00:18:51.900 you to do is to not dwell so much on this, 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:55.500 because what you can do is just get going 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:57.700 and then see what the conditions are actually like. 00:18:57.966 --> 00:18:59.700 And that's exactly what I'm doing here. 00:19:00.366 --> 00:19:02.333 I picked that charger in Lafayette 00:19:02.333 --> 00:19:04.800 because that's an easy distance for my car 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:07.766 to do in the summer, but it's going to be a little bit dicey today. 00:19:08.100 --> 00:19:11.466 And I also already was aware of the charging station in Remington. 00:19:11.466 --> 00:19:13.033 So that was going to be a bailout. 00:19:13.033 --> 00:19:14.866 But that's not even important yet. 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:19.166 What is important is I had my car charged at 100%, 00:19:19.433 --> 00:19:21.233 and I'm going to get going today. 00:19:21.266 --> 00:19:23.766 And after we've been driving for 50 miles 00:19:23.766 --> 00:19:26.666 once, once I'm out of, city traffic 00:19:26.900 --> 00:19:28.733 and I'm on the open road. 00:19:29.100 --> 00:19:31.500 It's very easy to assess what sort of range 00:19:31.500 --> 00:19:33.500 your car is realistically going to get. 00:19:33.933 --> 00:19:35.866 There's several different ways to do this, 00:19:36.033 --> 00:19:37.833 and I'm going to start with the easiest one, 00:19:37.833 --> 00:19:39.266 which isn't the most accurate. 00:19:39.933 --> 00:19:41.966 However, you're using a navigation system, 00:19:41.966 --> 00:19:45.100 whether that's an app or the car's built in navigation system. 00:19:45.566 --> 00:19:47.366 You're going to put in a destination 00:19:47.366 --> 00:19:49.933 and you'll have a figure which tells you miles to go. 00:19:50.600 --> 00:19:53.933 And the car also has a range estimator, which tells you 00:19:53.966 --> 00:19:57.133 how many miles it thinks you can go on this charge. 00:19:57.666 --> 00:20:00.966 Now, the very important thing to remember is that is an estimate. 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:03.066 That is why I say this is the least accurate. 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.400 But this is actually really useful 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.633 because if you compare the difference between those two numbers, 00:20:08.633 --> 00:20:11.200 you can just keep track of that distance to see 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.833 if you're getting worse energy efficiency 00:20:13.833 --> 00:20:16.766 or better energy efficiency than the car expects. 00:20:17.366 --> 00:20:19.733 So, for example, if it tells me 00:20:19.733 --> 00:20:23.666 I have 150 miles to go until I get to the charger 00:20:24.100 --> 00:20:26.766 and I have 180 miles of range, 00:20:27.066 --> 00:20:30.100 then the difference between those two numbers is 30 miles. 00:20:30.466 --> 00:20:33.700 So as I drive, I'm just going to keep watching those two numbers 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:37.033 and doing a bit of mental subtraction to see what the difference is. 00:20:37.633 --> 00:20:40.333 If the difference between those two numbers is getting smaller, 00:20:40.333 --> 00:20:43.900 that means I'm using range up faster than the car expected, 00:20:44.233 --> 00:20:47.800 and I might want to slow down, which will increase your range 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:50.133 or consider picking a closer charger. 00:20:50.633 --> 00:20:52.900 However, if the numbers are getting farther apart, 00:20:52.900 --> 00:20:56.700 that means conditions are better than the car expected and you can relax. 00:20:57.266 --> 00:20:59.600 I honestly use this method quite a lot, 00:20:59.600 --> 00:21:02.166 but particularly with winter driving, 00:21:02.433 --> 00:21:05.966 it can catch you off guard because of battery preconditioning. 00:21:06.466 --> 00:21:09.433 When the car decides to turn on the battery heater, 00:21:09.433 --> 00:21:11.833 which is typically when you're about 45 minutes 00:21:11.833 --> 00:21:13.766 to an hour away from the charging station. 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.233 That battery heater consumes 4.5kW, 00:21:17.233 --> 00:21:20.300 which isn't huge in the context of the car, 00:21:20.700 --> 00:21:22.266 but it's still quite significant. 00:21:22.733 --> 00:21:26.400 And that means your energy efficiency is going to start dropping 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.466 quite quickly once it turns on that battery heater. 00:21:30.133 --> 00:21:33.166 If the car is doing its own navigation for you, 00:21:33.166 --> 00:21:34.566 it should account for this. 00:21:34.566 --> 00:21:39.733 But you know, I don't really trust any car software these days, 00:21:39.733 --> 00:21:42.366 so I am normally watching things pretty closely. 00:21:42.366 --> 00:21:44.066 But just to give you some context, 00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:48.733 if a 4.5kW heater is running for an entire hour, 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:54.200 that only represents about 7% of the car's battery pack capacity. 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:58.933 So it's not a gigantic thing, 00:21:59.233 --> 00:22:01.833 but it is something that can catch you off guard, 00:22:01.833 --> 00:22:04.666 because those efficiency numbers are going to change 00:22:04.666 --> 00:22:07.166 as soon as the battery heater kicks on. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:09.600 Now, the more accurate way to gauge 00:22:09.600 --> 00:22:12.933 your driving efficiency is to actually look at the energy efficiency. 00:22:13.233 --> 00:22:15.666 Every car is going to have a different way to show you this, 00:22:15.666 --> 00:22:18.600 but the important metric is miles or kilometers, 00:22:18.600 --> 00:22:20.833 depending on where you are per kilowatt hour. 00:22:21.300 --> 00:22:23.000 Right here on this screen, 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.466 the car is telling me how many miles per kilowatt hour 00:22:25.466 --> 00:22:28.400 the car has averaged in the last 89.5 miles, 00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:33.133 and it's only averaging 2.3, which is really bad. 00:22:33.166 --> 00:22:37.033 This was the moment that the car turned on the battery pack heater. 00:22:37.800 --> 00:22:39.000 I snapped a photo of it. 00:22:39.166 --> 00:22:40.766 Now the efficiency was so bad. 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.133 Not really because it's 18°F outside. 00:22:44.133 --> 00:22:45.500 That's not that big of a factor. 00:22:45.533 --> 00:22:47.900 It was just I was driving into a headwind 00:22:48.233 --> 00:22:50.333 and it was quite nasty. 00:22:50.833 --> 00:22:54.166 This is why I say just get going and see what the conditions are. 00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:57.766 After a while, I going to be able to get a pretty accurate representation 00:22:57.766 --> 00:23:00.800 of I'm getting 2.3 miles per kilowatt hour. 00:23:01.166 --> 00:23:05.266 And if you want to equate that to actual range, well, 00:23:05.566 --> 00:23:08.900 the car has a 75 kilowatt hour battery pack roughly. 00:23:09.266 --> 00:23:11.633 So you can multiply a 75 by 2.3. 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:13.433 And then that's your answer. 00:23:13.433 --> 00:23:16.066 It's going to be 180 ish miles. 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:21.166 But remember that is assuming the efficiency stays the same. 00:23:21.166 --> 00:23:23.266 And since I just turned on the battery pack, well, 00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:26.066 since the car just turned on the battery pack heater, 00:23:26.566 --> 00:23:28.000 the efficiency is going to drop. 00:23:28.433 --> 00:23:31.600 And that is why when we actually got to the charging station, 00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:33.633 the actual average energy efficiency 00:23:33.633 --> 00:23:36.400 ended up being 2.1 miles per kilowatt hour, 00:23:36.466 --> 00:23:39.166 which again is quite poor for this car. 00:23:39.800 --> 00:23:42.800 But a good point two of that was simply 00:23:42.800 --> 00:23:45.133 because the car was heating up the battery pack. 00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:47.933 I haven't mentioned it yet, but the thing about battery 00:23:47.933 --> 00:23:51.733 preconditioning is it's to save you time, not energy, 00:23:52.066 --> 00:23:55.366 because the car is less energy efficient when it does that. 00:23:55.866 --> 00:23:57.800 But if it didn't do that, 00:23:57.800 --> 00:24:00.666 I would be plugged into the charger for probably like an hour. 00:24:00.866 --> 00:24:02.166 As soon as you plug it into a DC 00:24:02.166 --> 00:24:04.600 fast charger, it's going to start heating up the battery pack. 00:24:04.866 --> 00:24:08.666 But the fact that it takes almost an hour for that to happen 00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:11.666 means you don't get that much help out of it. 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:14.300 So you really want to have the preconditioning start 00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:17.033 a solid 45 minutes to an hour 00:24:17.033 --> 00:24:19.966 before you are expecting to hit the charging station. 00:24:20.433 --> 00:24:23.933 Now I'm going to cut to me back then with some thoughts. 00:24:25.133 --> 00:24:26.066 got back from the store. 00:24:26.066 --> 00:24:28.333 We are charging at nearly 200kW, 00:24:28.333 --> 00:24:32.633 which is almost as fast as this car can go, so that's great. 00:24:32.633 --> 00:24:35.600 I was a little worried because when I left to go into the store, 00:24:36.066 --> 00:24:39.000 the time estimate suddenly became like 32 minutes 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:42.566 and I was like, oh great, is this this charger being bad? 00:24:42.800 --> 00:24:44.033 But I don't know why that happened. 00:24:44.166 --> 00:24:47.333 The charger is able to sustain 200kW just fine. 00:24:47.900 --> 00:24:50.033 The reason why I say that is because that's in question 00:24:50.033 --> 00:24:52.933 with, good old Electrify America, 00:24:52.966 --> 00:24:55.066 especially with this old charging hardware. 00:24:55.066 --> 00:24:58.133 But it appears to still be going just fine 00:24:58.833 --> 00:25:01.033 and will be out of here probably 00:25:01.633 --> 00:25:03.766 when it originally estimated we'll be out of here. 00:25:03.766 --> 00:25:06.300 So I also want to point out I'm 00:25:06.300 --> 00:25:08.366 going to sit here and eat the sandwich I just bought. 00:25:09.133 --> 00:25:12.033 So I'm really hardly waiting at all. 00:25:12.366 --> 00:25:13.566 And if I wanted to, 00:25:13.566 --> 00:25:15.933 I could turn the car on while it's charging and have it 00:25:15.933 --> 00:25:17.133 keep the cabin warm. 00:25:17.533 --> 00:25:18.633 I'm not going to bother doing that 00:25:18.633 --> 00:25:20.733 just because the cabin's pretty warm as it is. 00:25:21.466 --> 00:25:23.966 And there are circumstances where that can slow down. 00:25:23.966 --> 00:25:24.833 Charging in my car. 00:25:24.833 --> 00:25:26.500 I've never really noticed that happen, but, 00:25:27.300 --> 00:25:29.200 you know, I'm perfectly fine to 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.666 just let it sit here off while I'm in the car 00:25:32.466 --> 00:25:33.966 and I'm going to enjoy my sandwich. 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:37.766 And while I'm sitting here, let me flip this around here. 00:25:37.833 --> 00:25:41.666 While I'm sitting here, I am now going to plan my next charging stop. 00:25:41.666 --> 00:25:43.600 So I know that we were only able 00:25:43.600 --> 00:25:46.000 to go about 140 miles in this weather, 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:49.900 starting from 100% charge, and then we got down to 15%. 00:25:50.633 --> 00:25:53.233 I'm only charging up to 80% right now, 00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:55.700 so I'm going to look for a charging station, 00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:58.133 which is a something like 100 miles away. 00:25:58.133 --> 00:25:59.933 And I'm going to as I said earlier, 00:25:59.933 --> 00:26:02.100 I'm going to plan a bail out station, 00:26:02.100 --> 00:26:04.566 which is even closer than that, just in case 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.533 the weather really is this bad the whole way. 00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:11.400 I don't expect it to be, but it could be. 00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:13.900 I'm just surprised because I'm going southeast 00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:15.633 and I appear to be going into the wind. 00:26:16.466 --> 00:26:18.066 So what's almost certainly going to happen 00:26:18.066 --> 00:26:19.433 is on my way back, 00:26:19.666 --> 00:26:22.066 I'll be going into the wind again because that's just my luck. 00:26:22.066 --> 00:26:24.600 But regardless, the whole point I'm 00:26:24.600 --> 00:26:27.900 trying to make with this video is that I'm being slowed down 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.933 a little bit on this trip with this cold weather 00:26:32.933 --> 00:26:34.266 is really not that significant. 00:26:34.266 --> 00:26:37.866 The biggest issue is just dealing with my cars very bad software, 00:26:37.866 --> 00:26:39.833 which Hyundai should be royally ashamed of, 00:26:39.833 --> 00:26:41.533 and I'm going to keep being a thorn in their side 00:26:41.533 --> 00:26:43.433 about until they give us that button. 00:26:44.100 --> 00:26:44.633 Okay. 00:26:44.633 --> 00:26:46.900 I just finished eating my sandwich 00:26:46.900 --> 00:26:50.066 and I have found out where the next charging stop is going to be. 00:26:50.533 --> 00:26:52.433 And we're already at 74%. 00:26:52.433 --> 00:26:55.266 And actually, I can safely unplug right now 00:26:55.266 --> 00:26:58.366 because the next charger is only 86 miles away. 00:26:58.966 --> 00:27:01.733 I am going to now program that in. 00:27:02.033 --> 00:27:02.600 Let's see. 00:27:02.600 --> 00:27:04.133 It was in Shelbyville, Indiana. 00:27:04.133 --> 00:27:06.366 This is the terrible nonsense I have to do. 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.833 I'm going to go ahead and cancel this route. 00:27:13.666 --> 00:27:14.866 Let's see. 00:27:18.033 --> 00:27:21.200 Let's just pick somewhere in Shelbyville, Indiana. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.866 Is there maybe a Walmart there or something? 00:27:29.100 --> 00:27:29.500 Let's just. 00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:31.266 Look, I just have to search for a place there. 00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:33.000 Sure. 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:35.200 I'm going to tell the car, take me there. 00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:38.366 But then as it's routing, I'm going to say, let's add a stop. 00:27:40.733 --> 00:27:42.633 And then we're going to add a stop. 00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:46.566 The nearby charging station by the destination. 00:27:47.133 --> 00:27:47.500 Okay. 00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:50.000 I ended up picking a charging station in the wrong spot. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:51.566 So that's why I'm starting over here. 00:27:51.566 --> 00:27:54.266 But I just want to chime in and say I am 00:27:54.266 --> 00:27:57.033 not sure this is the way you have to do this, 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.433 but any time I have selected to 00:27:59.433 --> 00:28:02.433 just take me to a charger like I did this twice 00:28:02.600 --> 00:28:05.766 and it did not start preconditioning, both times. 00:28:05.966 --> 00:28:09.833 So the only way that I have made sure it always starts preconditioning 00:28:10.100 --> 00:28:13.200 is to navigate to somewhere near 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:15.566 to a charger that I know exists 00:28:15.800 --> 00:28:20.400 and then say add, stop and search for a close by charger, 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:22.566 which is at least 150kW. 00:28:23.100 --> 00:28:25.300 It's so bad. 00:28:25.300 --> 00:28:28.100 But anyway, that's what I'm going through here, 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:31.766 and I have to find the charging station that I meant to look for. 00:28:31.766 --> 00:28:33.200 I just picked the wrong town. 00:28:33.466 --> 00:28:35.600 Yeah. It was. 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:38.500 I picked a pilot station, which wasn't where I wanted to go. 00:28:39.233 --> 00:28:40.466 Well, this is what we're doing. 00:28:41.966 --> 00:28:43.333 This is the closest EV 00:28:43.333 --> 00:28:46.000 charging station to where I want to know that it knows about. 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.866 And it's a high enough speed of charging that it should precondition. 00:28:50.133 --> 00:28:53.266 So I'm going to tell it I'm going to add this charging station, 00:28:53.266 --> 00:28:54.766 which may or may not even exist, 00:28:54.766 --> 00:28:56.833 but we're going to add that charging station to the route. 00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:59.066 We're going to have it take us there. 00:28:59.366 --> 00:29:00.933 And I'm not going to listen to the car. 00:29:00.966 --> 00:29:03.200 I'm going to have Waze or Google Maps 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.600 or whatever you want to use on my phone, actually navigate me 00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:08.666 to the charging station we're going to, which is a flying game. 00:29:08.666 --> 00:29:10.233 But at this point we can unplug. 00:29:10.233 --> 00:29:12.033 We're actually at 82% already, 00:29:12.433 --> 00:29:13.366 and I'm going to move on 00:29:13.366 --> 00:29:16.966 to the next charging stop, which is either going to be the last or second 00:29:16.966 --> 00:29:18.866 to last, depending on what things look like. 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:20.566 I'll let you know in a moment. 00:29:20.566 --> 00:29:25.000 And now enjoy the lovely dash cam audio for this segment. 00:29:25.633 --> 00:29:26.633 Oh, this is the exit. 00:29:26.633 --> 00:29:29.133 Does that sign show EV charging on there now? 00:29:30.033 --> 00:29:31.166 It does. 00:29:31.166 --> 00:29:33.233 Good. I've noticed they're putting that on there. 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:36.200 That's good to know. 00:29:36.333 --> 00:29:37.933 I would love to have, like, 00:29:38.233 --> 00:29:41.600 the sign that shows you the gas and diesel price to tell you 00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:43.566 the price in miles per kilowatt hour, but 00:29:44.266 --> 00:29:46.200 I mean, dollars per kilowatt hour cents. 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:47.733 Really like one mile. 00:29:48.466 --> 00:29:49.400 We're not there yet. 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:51.700 We'll get there soon and Okay, 00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:53.000 so what I was saying earlier, 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.600 the car is going to keep being mad at me is that this can absolutely 00:29:56.600 --> 00:29:59.366 be my last charging stop before my destination. 00:30:00.033 --> 00:30:04.733 The question just becomes, where do I want to charge when I'm there? 00:30:05.100 --> 00:30:06.466 And can I? 00:30:06.466 --> 00:30:08.666 Because I may be able to charge overnight. 00:30:08.666 --> 00:30:11.100 I am spending the night in Cincinnati, 00:30:11.466 --> 00:30:13.933 but I am not entirely sure yet 00:30:13.933 --> 00:30:15.133 where I am staying. 00:30:16.833 --> 00:30:18.466 I haven't even booked a hotel or anything 00:30:18.466 --> 00:30:20.966 because I might be staying with friends, but I'm not sure yet. 00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:23.766 Anyway, what's important 00:30:23.766 --> 00:30:27.466 is that if I wanted to charge somewhere else, I totally can. 00:30:29.033 --> 00:30:31.533 There are fast charging options near my destination. 00:30:32.433 --> 00:30:34.866 So I'm going to look into that while I'm charging here. 00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:37.800 But here we are at the pilot flying J. 00:30:38.166 --> 00:30:40.800 all right, so I just double checked and I am indeed 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:43.800 only about 90 miles from my destination. 00:30:43.800 --> 00:30:46.533 So despite the terrible efficiency 00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:48.366 we have had on this trip so far, 00:30:48.966 --> 00:30:50.233 thanks to all this wind, 00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:52.966 I don't need to charge again. 00:30:53.533 --> 00:30:56.466 Now. There are several charging options in town 00:30:56.466 --> 00:30:58.100 near where I am going to be. 00:30:59.233 --> 00:31:01.000 But I don't know yet 00:31:01.033 --> 00:31:03.766 whether or not I'm going to exercise those options 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:08.133 because I may be staying overnight somewhere that I can charge. 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:10.466 But I don't know yet for sure. 00:31:11.433 --> 00:31:11.766 Really. 00:31:11.766 --> 00:31:14.200 This whole trip is very just flying by the seat of my pants. 00:31:14.666 --> 00:31:15.933 But I don't need to do that. 00:31:15.966 --> 00:31:20.533 Again, the thing that's kind of confusing, and I'm noticing it's almost. 00:31:20.900 --> 00:31:22.833 It's interesting how as it's getting easier, 00:31:22.833 --> 00:31:24.400 some things are getting more confusing. 00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:28.466 I can absolutely treat this car like a gas powered car at this point. 00:31:28.933 --> 00:31:30.933 If the battery is cold soaked, 00:31:30.933 --> 00:31:32.300 like if it's actually cold 00:31:32.300 --> 00:31:35.300 and I just plug it into a DC charger, it's going to charge 00:31:35.966 --> 00:31:38.033 stupidly slow. But 00:31:39.133 --> 00:31:40.333 this means that 00:31:40.566 --> 00:31:45.000 I can just get to my destination with 30% state of charge. 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:46.900 Pretend it's like a third of a tank of gas, 00:31:47.333 --> 00:31:49.666 and I got plenty of range to fart around town, 00:31:49.666 --> 00:31:51.900 and then I just need to charge somewhere before I head back. 00:31:51.933 --> 00:31:55.133 Or if there's a charging station, like on my way back 00:31:55.133 --> 00:31:57.366 just 20 miles outside of town, I'll stop there. 00:31:58.100 --> 00:32:01.633 But I also have the option to, for instance, 00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:05.333 stay at a hotel that offers EV charging as an amenity 00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:09.600 and I can plug it into a level two charger overnight and charge that way. 00:32:10.166 --> 00:32:12.433 And by the way, even if you're parked outside, 00:32:12.933 --> 00:32:15.000 if you are plugged into a level two charger 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.100 that is like five kilowatts or greater. 00:32:17.100 --> 00:32:19.933 So that's like virtually any public charger you're going to find. 00:32:20.866 --> 00:32:21.966 You're not going to notice it. 00:32:21.966 --> 00:32:25.400 It's the battery the car might end up using, 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.900 maybe like a kilowatt of power to keep its battery 00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:30.066 pack warm in extreme, extreme cold, 00:32:30.566 --> 00:32:33.833 but it still has four kilowatts to actually charge the battery. 00:32:35.166 --> 00:32:37.566 You're really not going to notice it being slowed down at all, 00:32:37.866 --> 00:32:40.400 and the battery doesn't need to be anywhere near 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.966 as warm as the car's been trying to get it to charge quickly 00:32:42.966 --> 00:32:45.366 just to charge, the fastest 00:32:45.366 --> 00:32:48.633 AC charging rate this car supports, which is about 11kW. 00:32:49.266 --> 00:32:50.800 In the context of a battery pack. 00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:53.000 This big is a trickle. Charge it. 00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:53.933 It's irrelevant. 00:32:53.933 --> 00:32:56.600 It does not matter that it's perfectly safe 00:32:56.600 --> 00:32:59.033 to charge the battery at that speed 00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:01.000 at practically any temperature. 00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:03.933 But anyway, I'm just giving you some context there. 00:33:04.800 --> 00:33:07.733 The only real inconvenience if I stop somewhere in Cincinnati 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:09.666 park overnight and don't charge, 00:33:09.666 --> 00:33:12.433 is that if I plug in to a charging station in the morning 00:33:12.433 --> 00:33:14.866 with a cold battery, it's going to be very slow, 00:33:15.700 --> 00:33:16.866 but I can still do it. 00:33:16.866 --> 00:33:18.133 And once the car is plugged 00:33:18.133 --> 00:33:20.966 in, it's going to start heating the battery pack up as soon as it can. 00:33:21.466 --> 00:33:22.900 But I have done this before. 00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:25.000 The car had battery preconditioning software, 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.066 and it does truly become like the theoretical 18 minutes 00:33:29.066 --> 00:33:33.566 becomes 45 minutes to up to an hour 00:33:33.566 --> 00:33:35.333 if the battery is really, really cold. 00:33:35.800 --> 00:33:37.800 But that's the first charge of the day 00:33:37.800 --> 00:33:40.300 from then on out, the battery pack is going to be fairly warm. 00:33:40.300 --> 00:33:41.500 You don't have to deal with that. 00:33:42.133 --> 00:33:46.233 I hope that makes sense, but I'm already at 71% state of charge. 00:33:46.666 --> 00:33:50.400 Which is enough to get where I'm going for sure, 00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:53.133 but I will let it get up to 80% just to give me that 00:33:53.133 --> 00:33:54.333 bit of buffer. 00:33:54.333 --> 00:33:57.100 Since the winds today have just been awful. 00:33:57.400 --> 00:33:58.566 Awful, awful. 00:33:58.566 --> 00:34:02.433 The last leg averaged just 2.1 miles per kilowatt hour, which is 00:34:03.533 --> 00:34:05.766 I thought it would improve because it's getting warmer 00:34:05.766 --> 00:34:08.733 and we had a little bit of snow there, but it's also getting sunnier. 00:34:09.166 --> 00:34:12.100 But it's just I'm driving almost directly into the wind right now, 00:34:12.233 --> 00:34:13.633 which stinks. 00:34:14.833 --> 00:34:16.633 That does mean every other car out 00:34:16.633 --> 00:34:18.233 there is getting significantly worse 00:34:18.233 --> 00:34:20.833 fuel economy, but they don't necessarily notice it 00:34:20.833 --> 00:34:24.700 because it doesn't impact the range as drastically as it impacts this car. 00:34:25.366 --> 00:34:27.166 But again, I'm just going to say, as I've said 00:34:27.733 --> 00:34:29.266 probably dozens of times now 00:34:30.333 --> 00:34:33.566 for five hours of driving, I had to stop two times 00:34:33.766 --> 00:34:36.166 and spend 45 minutes charging the car. 00:34:37.700 --> 00:34:38.700 I really 00:34:38.700 --> 00:34:44.366 we didn't even increase the time of this trip by more than 20%. 00:34:45.233 --> 00:34:46.300 It's not a big deal. 00:34:46.300 --> 00:34:49.133 And since I spend literally zero time 00:34:49.133 --> 00:34:50.966 going to gas stations in my day to day 00:34:50.966 --> 00:34:53.433 life on net, I'm almost certainly ahead. 00:34:53.933 --> 00:34:56.033 But I don't even think you need to care about that. 00:34:56.033 --> 00:34:59.666 Just consider the context of I'm driving 00:34:59.666 --> 00:35:03.166 five hours today to get to Cincinnati from Chicago, 00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:07.300 and I only needed to, but I crossed the entire state of Indiana. 00:35:07.866 --> 00:35:10.600 I'm still in it now, but I'm almost to Cincinnati, 00:35:10.900 --> 00:35:11.800 and I will have crossed 00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:14.200 the entire state of Indiana in the middle of winter 00:35:14.533 --> 00:35:16.566 when it's well below freezing, 00:35:16.966 --> 00:35:19.233 and I took two charges and 45 minutes of 00:35:19.233 --> 00:35:21.300 time is really not a big deal 00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.400 that there's people who think that's a big deal to them. 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:24.566 That's fine. 00:35:24.566 --> 00:35:26.900 We very much disagree on 00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:29.766 what is a big deal, 00:35:30.233 --> 00:35:32.433 but you're allowed to disagree. 00:35:32.433 --> 00:35:34.966 I just think if you're actually honest, 00:35:35.666 --> 00:35:38.833 a less than 20% increase in time 00:35:38.833 --> 00:35:40.033 spent on a road trip, 00:35:41.266 --> 00:35:42.466 it's not really a big deal. 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.266 Okay, so I already talked about the charging stops on the reverse trip, 00:35:46.266 --> 00:35:49.033 so there's really no point getting too deep into the weeds there. 00:35:49.333 --> 00:35:51.100 It's the exact same process. 00:35:51.100 --> 00:35:53.100 I'm just doing what I was telling you. 00:35:53.100 --> 00:35:55.500 I'm checking the car's energy efficiency. 00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:58.633 I'm comparing its range estimate to my distance to go, 00:35:58.900 --> 00:36:02.800 and just making sure that everything looks hunky dory as far as will 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.433 I make it to the charger I planned to make it to, 00:36:05.966 --> 00:36:07.833 but I do want to give more context 00:36:07.833 --> 00:36:09.866 for why I decided to stop in Lafayette. 00:36:10.433 --> 00:36:13.733 Basically, I knew that charger was working just fine 00:36:13.733 --> 00:36:16.833 and there was a plug share report from a few days ago. 00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:18.500 At the time, I made this video 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:20.866 that said somebody had some charging issues. 00:36:20.866 --> 00:36:23.433 I think it might have even said all chargers are down. 00:36:23.733 --> 00:36:27.066 I don't remember, but it was enough of a concern that I decided 00:36:27.066 --> 00:36:29.466 I had better not skip Lafayette 00:36:29.466 --> 00:36:32.366 because if I do, I will be stuck in Remington. 00:36:32.633 --> 00:36:34.833 There were probably some level two chargers 00:36:34.833 --> 00:36:37.333 somewhere around there that I could have used, but 00:36:38.166 --> 00:36:40.400 it didn't make any sense to try and risk it. 00:36:40.700 --> 00:36:43.633 And since I knew the Chargers in Lafayette were working, 00:36:44.333 --> 00:36:49.033 my decision was to stop there and get effectively 60 miles worth of range, 00:36:49.033 --> 00:36:52.233 because the distance from that charger to Remington, 00:36:52.233 --> 00:36:54.633 as you might have seen, was exactly 30 miles. 00:36:54.966 --> 00:36:58.133 And so I wanted to make sure that I could get back to Lafayette 00:36:58.133 --> 00:37:00.533 if for some reason I got to Remington 00:37:00.533 --> 00:37:02.100 and those chargers were not working. 00:37:02.933 --> 00:37:04.900 I discovered on this trip that the 00:37:05.333 --> 00:37:08.200 the stretch of road that I was taking between Chicago 00:37:08.200 --> 00:37:13.433 and Indianapolis still has relatively few chargers on there. 00:37:13.766 --> 00:37:15.633 I was genuinely surprised. 00:37:15.633 --> 00:37:19.066 So the gap between Remington and somewhere close 00:37:19.066 --> 00:37:21.866 to Chicagoland that I could actually charge was just like, 00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:25.000 much longer than I anticipated. 00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:27.733 Basically, I think it was Dalton. 00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:31.766 Like, if I had charged in Lafayette, if it turned out that Remington 00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:35.166 really wasn't working and I had to go back to Lafayette, 00:37:35.566 --> 00:37:38.533 then I would have gone to Dalton, Illinois, 00:37:38.533 --> 00:37:41.666 where the Pope is from, and charged there 00:37:41.966 --> 00:37:45.733 because that would have been a fine gap, but it ended up not happening. 00:37:45.733 --> 00:37:48.700 But I just wanted to throw that piece of context in there to explain. 00:37:48.833 --> 00:37:51.233 The decision to stop in Lafayette 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.333 was just because the Remington Charger, 00:37:55.166 --> 00:37:58.566 at some point in the recent past had a reported issue. 00:38:00.066 --> 00:38:01.966 If I had risked it, I would have been fined. 00:38:01.966 --> 00:38:05.600 But you know, when it's almost zero degrees Fahrenheit outside, 00:38:06.033 --> 00:38:08.433 it's not good to risk those sorts of things. 00:38:08.433 --> 00:38:09.633 So I didn't. 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:11.900 and the last thing I want to touch on before I close 00:38:11.900 --> 00:38:17.433 this out, is how much energy the actual heater was using during this trip. 00:38:17.433 --> 00:38:19.700 I was keeping myself toasty warm in the cabin. 00:38:19.700 --> 00:38:22.166 I was not trying to be frugal or anything like that. 00:38:22.166 --> 00:38:25.366 I think I had it set to 70 or 72 Fahrenheit. 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:29.200 Typical room temperature just fell a little bit on the warm side 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:31.166 for room temperature, but it was really nice. 00:38:31.733 --> 00:38:34.100 And yet the cabin heater 00:38:34.100 --> 00:38:37.233 was only drawing about two kilowatts at the most. 00:38:37.766 --> 00:38:41.333 Now I'm bringing this up because the cabin heater 00:38:41.333 --> 00:38:44.700 can look like it sucks a lot of energy out of the battery pack, 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.633 especially when you start your car up. 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:49.966 Like when I'm commuting back from the office. 00:38:49.966 --> 00:38:51.966 If the car is sitting outside and it's cold, 00:38:52.666 --> 00:38:54.633 the amount of energy it takes to warm up 00:38:54.633 --> 00:38:57.266 a cold car is so much greater 00:38:57.566 --> 00:39:01.133 than the amount of energy it takes to maintain a warm car. 00:39:01.433 --> 00:39:03.500 Once the car is up to temperature, 00:39:03.733 --> 00:39:06.400 it only takes a couple kilowatts to keep it warm. 00:39:06.633 --> 00:39:07.733 Now, in the case of my car, 00:39:07.733 --> 00:39:09.100 it has a heat pump, so it's 00:39:09.100 --> 00:39:11.733 probably a little better than a car without a heat pump. 00:39:11.733 --> 00:39:15.433 But in these temperatures, heat pumps tend to struggle a little bit. 00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:18.766 I wish I knew the coefficient of performance of the heat pump. 00:39:18.766 --> 00:39:22.100 That'd be really cool to know, but I just wanted to say the cabin heat 00:39:22.566 --> 00:39:25.200 was pretty much irrelevant to this drive 00:39:25.233 --> 00:39:27.600 because, you know, the two hours 00:39:27.600 --> 00:39:30.433 between charging stops for kilowatt 00:39:30.433 --> 00:39:33.033 hours was used for heating the cabin. 00:39:33.666 --> 00:39:36.833 That is not even like that's 00:39:36.833 --> 00:39:39.533 basically what I said for the battery heater running for an hour. 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:43.466 So 14% max of each charge 00:39:43.466 --> 00:39:46.766 was being used to heat the battery and to heat the cabin. 00:39:47.133 --> 00:39:48.766 The rest of it was just to push the car 00:39:48.766 --> 00:39:51.366 through the very cold, very dense air, 00:39:51.766 --> 00:39:55.300 and I had wind in both directions. 00:39:55.466 --> 00:39:59.833 I just, I genuinely I have the worst luck with that with my car. 00:39:59.833 --> 00:40:02.433 I'm often taking trips west on I-80, 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, 00:40:06.266 --> 00:40:09.033 and then I head back east when I shouldn't be driving into the wind. 00:40:09.033 --> 00:40:11.133 And all of a sudden I'm driving into the wind again. 00:40:12.733 --> 00:40:15.900 It's I don't know why, but the wind really doesn't like me. 00:40:16.533 --> 00:40:18.600 But anyway, I'm going to close this video out 00:40:18.600 --> 00:40:21.333 because, like I said, the trip back is the exact same thing. 00:40:21.333 --> 00:40:23.966 It's just the stakes were higher because it was getting colder. 00:40:24.300 --> 00:40:26.866 But what I'm doing is no different. 00:40:26.866 --> 00:40:30.800 I'm just seeing how much energy is the car using to go 00:40:30.833 --> 00:40:32.500 this speed and, 00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:35.366 is it getting worse than it thinks 00:40:35.366 --> 00:40:37.233 it will be, or is it getting better? 00:40:37.233 --> 00:40:39.266 And it's not really that difficult. 00:40:39.266 --> 00:40:40.466 It's just 00:40:41.266 --> 00:40:43.266 it's just something to get used to because 00:40:43.266 --> 00:40:48.766 it's significant that my car goes from an easy 230 miles on the highway 00:40:48.766 --> 00:40:53.300 in the summer, down to, as we saw from Lafayette, 145. 00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:57.766 150 can be a stretch when it's cold and windy, but 00:40:58.900 --> 00:41:01.200 just because the range dropped that far 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:03.700 doesn't necessarily mean it's such a huge deal. 00:41:03.700 --> 00:41:06.100 So long as there are charging stations available 00:41:06.100 --> 00:41:07.800 where you need them to be, and 00:41:08.833 --> 00:41:11.633 more and more are showing up literally every day, 00:41:12.066 --> 00:41:15.033 I'm going to plug a channel that you might want to check out. 00:41:15.033 --> 00:41:17.900 If you want to see the progress of new DC 00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:19.833 fast charging installations in the US. 00:41:21.466 --> 00:41:22.400 Really good. 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.133 The network architect channel. 00:41:24.133 --> 00:41:24.466 Sorry. 00:41:24.466 --> 00:41:26.400 The network architect channel. 00:41:26.766 --> 00:41:27.733 Walter is his name. 00:41:27.733 --> 00:41:30.000 I was blanking on the name of the channel for a second there. 00:41:30.366 --> 00:41:32.900 He does weekly reports on new DC fast 00:41:32.900 --> 00:41:35.533 charging installations that are really great to keep track of. 00:41:35.833 --> 00:41:38.533 They are literally coming in every day. 00:41:38.833 --> 00:41:42.000 I know it doesn't seem like we are supporting electric cars 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:46.133 because, you know, we have a lot of people in positions of power right now 00:41:46.133 --> 00:41:48.733 who are very skeptical of them, perhaps 00:41:48.733 --> 00:41:50.966 because they can't make as much money 00:41:50.966 --> 00:41:53.666 in a world where people can charge their cars at home 00:41:53.666 --> 00:41:56.266 and they drive cars which need very little maintenance, 00:41:56.900 --> 00:41:58.333 something to consider. 00:41:58.766 --> 00:42:01.000 But despite the fact that we seem 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.000 to be very anti EV right now as a culture, 00:42:04.233 --> 00:42:06.766 and we removed a whole lot of the government incentives 00:42:06.766 --> 00:42:10.033 to build out infrastructure, or at least made the very difficult. 00:42:10.433 --> 00:42:12.600 It is still being built out very, very quickly. 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.333 The on a network, as a matter of fact, hasn't taken any government money 00:42:16.333 --> 00:42:18.700 and it's one of my favorite charging networks 00:42:18.933 --> 00:42:21.166 because they are rolling out really fast, 00:42:21.166 --> 00:42:24.066 they're really reliable and they're pretty cheap. So 00:42:25.166 --> 00:42:27.133 there's lots of good news in this space. 00:42:27.366 --> 00:42:28.933 It's only going to get easier. 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:33.733 And at this point, with just a tiny little bit of thought, 00:42:33.733 --> 00:42:35.933 I can take my car anywhere. 00:42:36.433 --> 00:42:38.166 And I don't really even need to plan. 00:42:38.166 --> 00:42:39.900 I just need to look at the plug share app, 00:42:41.066 --> 00:42:43.633 monitor the conditions as I'm driving, 00:42:44.066 --> 00:42:46.200 and pick chargers as I go. 00:42:46.866 --> 00:42:48.166 So thanks for watching. 00:42:48.166 --> 00:42:49.366 I hope this video was helpful. 00:42:49.566 --> 00:42:52.100 And if you're considering an electric car, 00:42:52.600 --> 00:42:53.500 this is the sort of thing 00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:56.033 you're going to have to do on road trips only. 00:42:56.033 --> 00:42:57.233 And keep that in mind. 00:42:57.533 --> 00:42:59.133 If you can set up charging at home, 00:42:59.133 --> 00:43:01.266 or if you have access to a charger at work, 00:43:02.133 --> 00:43:03.633 you're never going to use these things 00:43:03.633 --> 00:43:06.666 unless you need to drive far, which is exactly the case for me. 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:09.100 The closest chargers to my home 00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:13.133 that I actually use regularly are in Wisconsin and Indiana, 00:43:13.833 --> 00:43:15.733 because when you can charge at home 00:43:15.733 --> 00:43:17.666 or at work, it doesn't have to be at home. 00:43:17.666 --> 00:43:20.266 But if you can charge some where your car is parked 00:43:20.266 --> 00:43:22.133 and you have regular access to that, 00:43:22.633 --> 00:43:24.933 you're not going to use these DC fast chargers. 00:43:25.233 --> 00:43:28.333 You only need them when you exceed your car's range. 00:43:28.533 --> 00:43:32.433 And now that modern EVs have minimum ranges of 200 miles 00:43:33.166 --> 00:43:36.066 road trips, that's pretty much the only circumstance 00:43:36.333 --> 00:43:37.800 unless you drive professionally. 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.900 And if that is your case, 00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:43.733 an EV is probably not right for you quite yet. 00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:47.933 But we'll probably get there because, you know, we're moving pretty quick. 00:43:48.233 --> 00:43:49.466 Anyway, thanks for watching.