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Teslas are probably the most efficient cars for a trip like that. But for the average person, long trips are very occasional. There are other factors that come into play when choosing a car. I don't have a Polestar but I chose my car because I felt cozy in it, it has 360° camera, a HUD and it handles motorways well enough for the occasional road trip. I'll use slightly more kWh for the same distance and charge a little slower, but it's very little time in the year. I wasn't impressed by the test drives I made in the Tesla. And then ... it's also nice to have a different car ;o). It's all down to taste.

The Tesla is the obvious choice for many first-time EV drivers, but I much preferred the cosier interior, styling, and tighter handling of the Polestar. Plus, when I ordered mine back in 2021, it actually worked out usefully cheaper on a salary sacrifice lease to get a Standard Range Polestar, with the Plus and Pilot packs, versus the Standard Range Plus Model 3

@@firsttimedriver4391 Fair enough thank you for replying!

Im probably going to buy corolla too year 2003 with 1.6 petrol engine, i hope it will be good as first car

@@petr146cz9Im from Bulgaria and im interested in this very model, can you update me IF u get one?

Any problems? Anything to say about the car?

@@singoller3749 yea, if i get one i will give you an update, but my friend car mechanic already told me that it is a very good first car

@@singoller3749I saw on Reddit someone said The Corolla VVT-i engines manufactured until August 2005 had oil consumption issues.

loooool - trust me, the unedited video had a lot more wee references, I'd held back.

Let us know how you get on with your PS2!

yeahh... I will take special attention editing next time, please sent my apologies to your phone. ;)

I wish there was an easier way, but I just set climate timers to come on every 1 hour. So one for 10pm, another for 11pm, until the wake up time - be careful, you need to make sure you select the correct day, otherwise you’re sleeping cold. ❄️

Very fair point, one I’m taking on for my next videos. 👌

@@firsttimedriver4391 Much appreciated! Aside from the annoyance of my Google hub trying to tell me how to get from Florida USA to a UK Birmingham Tesla charging station, your video was great! 🤣

looool yeahhh should’ve put on a trigger warning

@@firsttimedriver4391 lol I kept saying. “CANCEL” and the TV input would change. 🤣

Most chargers will tell you how much your session has cost, right on screen. Or you can scan a QR code to retrieve a receipt (it works most of the time, it should work ALL of the time). But then Tesla chargers never show you the filling cost without using their app with non-Tesla drivers, and that’s something you’ll see is the same over in the US as it is here.

@@firsttimedriver4391 It should be a legal requirement to show the monetary cost live as you charge, all I have ever noticed on there is how many KW/h you have charged, the charging speed and the Amperage. I don't use the charger apps, I have enough barely used apps on my phone as it is. Everything's an app these days, its becoming over-blow.

I think for most of us here in the UK, we’d simply stay at home and avoid the weather. Though looking into our Scandinavian neighbours, they seem to have figured out blizzard conditions and EV life just fine, though it will take some readjustments to planning your trip for sure, though you’ll still want to prepare the same for in case of emergencies. The one benefit EV drivers would have is being able to plug into any electric outlet to recharge in an emergency, whereas when relying on fuel, if there isn’t a fuel station nearby you’re pretty stuck - assuming no one else has spare fuel to share.

Interesting, given ‘your model’ is rated at 15mpg city and 22 highway and doubtless isn’t in like new condition. I had a slightly earlier 2 door version of the same ‘boat’ on the Prairies. You would find it almost impossible to drive one in the UK, much less park anywhere. Then there’s the current price of UK gas - $2.50 to $2.90 Cdn a litre, so a tank would cost you about $200 and would only get you 450 miles highway at best. I have a a 2 year old dual motor Volvo with 250 mile actual range and it’s no problem at all. The single motor long range Polestar gets almost 350 miles to a charge. The difference is that with off-peak home charging, it costs as little as $8Cdn to charge. And having driven both cars, there’s no question which is more pleasant to travel in.

That sounds epic - maybe you'll inspire my next trip...

Yeah! I wish there was a dedicated camp mode for the heating, but instead I just set the heating on 1 hour timers all night, it did the job well enough.

EVs require more energy and resources to build, absolutely. Not to mention global supply chains means materials take multiple trips across oceans before they finally become a battery - this is the biggest issue at the moment. Thankfully, using the UKs energy mix, it takes just 7,000 - 14,000 miles to offset any emissions it takes to build an EV before it becomes less harmful to our surroundings. A country that may rely more heavily on fossil fuels for electricity will see that mileage rise to between 30,000 - 40,000, India and China have been mentioned in reports. Even still, a petrol/ diesel car will continue to pollute by burning fuel right until the very day the engine goes kaput. And EV can be driven well past its 10 year battery warranty knowing full well it’s impacted the planet much less. Better yet, those who are able to install solar panels in their homes will see that mileage offset drop even further!

If you can avoid driving altogether, do so. Take a bus, a train, get a bike. But let’s be honest, most people don’t have the benefit of a robust public charging system locally to them and have to rely on cars - and it’s for these people who we need to remove tailpipe emissions.

Good question. The cost of charging varied from free, to 45p per kWh, 50p per kWh, and 70p per kWh. The average cost worked out to 55p per kWh, or around £334 to travel 1,886 miles. Or about the same price as a petrol car averaging nearly 40mpg (UK) at a cost of £1.45 per litre.

That’s phenomenal, what an adventure you must’ve had!

You’re 100% right. Though what you can’t see is me spending forever cropping and cutting my insta story for the trip which took far too much time. 🤣

@@firsttimedriver4391 😂😂 I will do a 1600km trip (1000 miles) this summer. A "race" with a lot of other EVs from Ystad in the south of Sweden to Haparanda at the border to Finland. :) Done it a few times before in my MY21 LRDM but getting a MY24 LRDM now in a few weeks and I think I will improve my previous record a lot. 😉

Really? That's enough to get 3/4 of the way to London from Lancaster - a trip you'd be an absolute moron not to stop during, taking, as it does, around 4.5 hours to drive. Just stop at Rugby Services or Watford Gap for lunch. You'd probably be doing that anyway. Where's the problem? And how often do you really ever make a journey that long? It's plenty.

@@timaustin2000 If you have a mapping app for EV chargers (I own a Tesla 3 Long Range), have a look at the charging network from Toulouse to Biarritz and the pyrenees to Bordeaux. I live near the pyrenees and while this is as much of a decade-long and yawn inducing commentary on the ongoing ‘enforced’ lack of charging incrastructure here, as well as in Britain, until EVs can routinely cover many hundreds of miles, they won’t be viable for most people. EVs are still a lifestyle choice and as the closest shops etc are 45 minutes away from us at most national speed limits and as nothing yet exists which can carry cargo from a builder’s yard etc, these current EVs are useless. Also, when we have driven from home to England via either St Malo or worse still Calais, the latter journey requires an overnight stop at Le Mans for the Supercharger. In our diesel peugeot, we can easily do it in a day on less than one tank, whereas each of the 5 charge stop is at least an hour. It is still a range issue.

Not great versus the rest of the motorway sections right? But lol you should see Scottish roads and storms. 235 miles on Scottish country mountain roads is exhausting. If I was a normal person and got a hotel instead of camping in the car with the heating left on all night, i would’ve had another 30 miles of range.

The biggest need for range is the job it is to do. If you regularly drive 230 miles without stopping, it may be that you want a greater range. If you are a normal , safe and prudent driver you will be stopping for 'personal admin' stops every so often, just as you do with an ICE. Especially on UK roads.

@@solentbum I live in the French Pyrenees. I own a 2021 Model 3 LR and a Peugeot Rifter 1.5 Hdi (130) diesel. The drive to St Malô takes four to five hours longer in the Tesla than it does the Peugeot, due to charging stops, whereas in the Peugeot it’s just a stop for lunch. From here To Calais in the Tesla, it’s an overnight stop in a hotel at Le Mans Supercharger and the next half day to Calais, because of how many hours of supercharging are needed, whereas in the Peugeot, it’s a stop for lunch and no refuelling! To charge away from home here in France, several apps, as many RFIDs as there are different charger networks and even then, you can never be sure if the chargers are even working! There are far fewer EVs here than in England and Model 3s are rare. So even when local councils have installed chargers and marked bays, most often they are not working. Yes I have all the apps! So until both range and networks are fit for purpose, if we are in any doubt about charging stops, we take the Peugeot!

That is so valid. We ❤️ wind ⚡️. This wind was spooky though.

I’d love to see that trip filmed in a Maserati Folgore 😏

Chargeplace Scotland is shocking… Drove 900mi around the North West of Scotland in October and only managed it thanks to hotel chargers over night.

Make sure you spend £10 on the card, mine now lives in my car and I wouldn’t do a Scottish trip without it

Yeah - that was me on the first Scottish EV trip replying on their app. The £10 RFID card was well worth it for the second trip, though I didn’t use CPS once on this trip - didn’t need to with the other charge providers now available.

@@firsttimedriver4391 yes, exactly, my first trip up there I didn't have one. Second time I did and it was much easier. The days of the RFID card need to be over though.

Both great EVs - what do you prefer about the Polestar?

@@firsttimedriver4391 the inside and the amazing volvo design

@@YoTanzpolestar overpriced and lower spec than Tesla and the boot is really small and you have to put up with public charging vs Tesla Superchargers… yeah definitely better 😂

@@Dave-gg6vl you do have a point, however, driving a polestar compared to a Tesla is like driving a BMW vs a Kia in terms of dynamics and overall build quality. Tesla, to me, is like IKEA on wheels which is not a bad thing but not really comparable. :)

A Tesla at 21! That's amazing. Let us know if you get it, and how your first road trip goes. :)

@@firsttimedriver4391 thankfully their value depreciates like a brick in the ocean. A used 2021 model 3 is cheaper than most other similar cars that age :)