I still can't believe that I met her in person. I can confirm that she is just a nice, humble and down to earth in real life. Her shoutout has got me 100 new subscribers in the last few hours. GOD BLESS CLAIRE WILD BEAR 🐻.
Thank you for your comment. I have just been learning so far and there are some amazing videos coming up, including a BMW i4 road trip around Europe and I will be car canping all the way.
To be fair if you weren’t doing a range test you’d have charged up much earlier. Or factored in an overnight stop. Nobody in their right mind would go all that way and back again for no reason! That said, the back massager coming on was priceless 😂!
@@michaeldemetriou3365 it wasn't funny at the time but now that I think back to it I start laughing. My passengers were telling me that the car knew I was stressed so it was giving me a massage to calm me down 🤣😂🤣. Please subscribe as there are plenty more adventures to come.
Definitely. I can confirm that she is just as humble, Down to earth and welcoming in real life as she is in her videos. I have a video coming soon of camping in the storm and meeting her.
That turned out to be quite gripping so despite probably aging you a year on a day out, at least it made for great content ! I have an EV but usually I use it locally. Long trips, even here in California where you'd think the infrastructure is better, are not my favourite thing to do, and I've definitely run into chargers that don't work...
I think the problem is not the car. It‘s the chargers and charging infrastructure. Did you try to call the charging company to reset the charger. Sometimes problems can be solved that way. Just -off-on->>> and it is working again.
It was my first ever time using a public charger appart from podpoint which I run through the app. I have used several ionity chargers since then with no problems at all. I have also been back to that swarco unit twice since then and got it to work both times. It will remain a mistry as to what the problem was that day and I hope I never have to face that problem again. Please subscribe as I have many more adventures with many more cars coming up soon.
Not sure what happened the first charger wouldn't accept any of my payment cards and the second one accepted my cards and kept telling me to plug the car in but when I was plugging the car in it was telling me there was a communication fault. I have since been back to the swarco unit with my bmw i4 and also with a Ford Mustang mac e and successfully charged on both occasions (videos coming soon). Thank you for your comment and please subscribe.
@@carcampingev I've got a Cupra Born, get the same communication issues, unless I lock and unlock the car a couple of times with the charger plugged in, normally sorts it out, but yes, I feel your pain.
I was at flint mountain tesla station in my born the other day and it wad drawing 167kwh form 6% up to 40% then settled to arond 120kwh to 100kwh to 80% Given youve had issue with a few chargers, i have to think the car is the issue hereot rather the DC part of thr car carge interfacd, the 11kw is an AC charger. Which is stange given its an old model, you tjink they would of picked up on this. When im away from thr house i always aim for tesla ststions. But your a long way from there.
Not if you charge at Tesla. Coat me £20 to charge mine, at a Tesla and works out about 8p per mile over 2 5p at home. My 2019 Leon cupra and 2016 GTC VXR cost me 22p per mile to run over 15k and 32k miles. I also had a 21 ioniq hybrid which cost 10p per mile to run over 30k miles. So with if charging up in public you'll get the efficiency of an eco car and the performance closer to a hot hatch. It's a good compromise. Also if your charging form home on a nighttime EV tariff of 7p pKw, you'll be getting close to 2p per mile. Which is basically free fun.
Great vid even tho little amateur, but I did like your honest ev range, am even contemplating the born but it's probably practical for work and back say 30mile a day round trips but if you were to go on holiday this just gives me range anxiety,(and is likely to ruin the holiday😢) especially when you head to a charge point only to find it doesn't work ffs😮!!.. Yet the government want us all to go ev but the companies won't get there act together!!.. You know exactly what miles your getting with an engine.. New sub.. 😊
Thank you for you sub and your comment. To be fair this was the first negative experience I have had in the past 8 months. Every other charger that I have been to did work. Plenty more ev's and plenty more range tests coming up.
We have a VW ID.3 1st Edition (registered Nov 2020). We did a 1,300 mile round trip from Rugby to Orkney and back in June 2024. We are tent campers. We never ran out of electricity, never had range anxiety, never had to wait for a charger and found one broken charger but we didn't need a charge anyway. Out of habit I will plug in when we stop unless we have more than 60% of battery simply because it makes sense to let the car charge whilst it is otherwise idle. Our battery is the 58kWh battery and I work on 3 miles/kWh out of pure caution but on the Orkney trip we got over 4 miles/kWh consistently, averaged 4.3 miles kWh over 1,300 miles in fact. As we charge at least 90% of the time at home on cheap overnight electricity the car is incredibly economical to run.
I am not sure where you live but in Germany you finde a Charger with 150kw+ every few km/mile…. 50KW Charger are not fast charging and really a oldschool thing. Whatever I would like to know what was the root of your Charging Problems? Car? ChargingStation? Or you? 😅
Thank you for your comment. There are loads of chargers in the uk but they are not very reliable. I still don't know the cause of the problems that day. I have been back to the swarco unit with another car and successfully got a charge. Because I change cars all the time it will remain a mistry as to why we couldn't charge that day. I don't often use public charging because I have a charger at home which only costs 7p per kwh.
That's just not my experience, ultra rapid chargers are way more frequent than they used to be, I can think of half a dozen sites with more than 150 kW chargers within 5 miles of home @@sargfowler9603
@@azharsaleem4978 I don't remember off the top of my head but the video when I first found this spot Is coming in a few weeks and is part of my 700 mile ev road trip series. Please subscribe and I will be bringing you even more locations that are just as stunning as this one.
Bro you could have made it a charger on your route with 45 miles remaining no? Even if you charged to 30/40% you could have got closer to home n charged at a fast charger
@@azharsaleem4978 it was too risky so I decided to go back to a charger which I was 100% sure would work. If I wasn't doing range tests then I would top up whenever I got the chance and not wait for for the battery to drain.
You went to a 7kw charger which is what most home chargers are. And would take about 8 hours to charge. Then a slightly faster 22kw charger. Then went to two different fast chargers and didn’t work but didn’t try calling the company to restart it. You’ve only got yourself to blame. It’s like you went out of your way to have a disaster. Have you heard of charging apps like ABRP or Zapmap?
Sorry but I am new to all this. Until this video I only used podpoint when on a trip and my home charger when I'm home. These videos are documenting my EV journey and my learning of how to live with a EV. I know the pod point chargers are slow but I was parked up eating and they were close by. If you are looking for perfect videos with someone who knows what they are doing then I'm afraid that this is not the channel for you.
Definitely call the charger company, they maybe able to do something, but that said chargers should just work. Try some different rapid chargers local to you to see if they work or if there is an issue with the car, make for a good video
Thank you for your comment and I 100% agree with you. I miss my 3 series diesel. It used to give me 600 miles on a full tank. However, this car only costs £4.90 to fill up at home but you pay a lot more on long journeys. If you are doing mostly local driving and have a home charger then electric is a fraction of the cost of petrol or diesel. On the flip side if you do mostly long journeys or don't have a home charger then I would stay clear of electric vehicles for now.
I never have to take mine the garage and It costs about 2p a mile, if I have to charge at a Tesla station (I don't own a Tesla) it costs me £19 for 260 miles worth of juice, which takes about 19mins to charge. So it's cheap, rarely need to go and fill it up and it has the same performance as my old leon Cupra and GTC VXR. Win win for me. My old 2004 Laguna estate used to get 1100 miles out of a full tank of diesel, on a motorway trip. How come yours is so low? I suspect they have shrunk the tank. The Laguna had a 75 litre tank. And in about 2010 petrol went over 1.50 a litre at one point and it almost made me cry one paying for the fuel. I've always filled to the brim and runs down to fumes. I hate filling up, one of the reasons I got an EV. No more gas stations. Or very few in comparison.
My diesel used to cost me £80 / month in fuel and did 0-60 in 9s. My EV costs £6 / month and does 0-60 in 4s. Diesel is like a steam engine by comparison, I'd never go back.
@carcampingev yes I see where your coming from but the elephant in the room is 50 odd % can't charge at home and an Ev is way out of the reach for many people, a petrol or diesel is there only option , this government are going headlong into a massive problem if they insist on doing away with ice vehicles , the infrastructure is decades away , it's all very well saying oh you can have a cheaper ev in your price range but mostly they will be higher mileage bringing concerns about the battery life and how far you would get on a charge , imagine all the millions of Ev's on road ( probably 20 or more million) the infrastructure is at best woeful, if you are fortunate to afford a low mileage or new one and charge at home then I get it but the masses don't have that .
@@phil814 I'm doubting your 50% number, but I've if it's 100% can't. It's still cheaper, if you use the Tesla chargers, than it is running diesel or petrol. Costs me about 1p a mile cheaper to run my Cupre Born than it did my hybrid (which was cheap @ 9p per mile), or 12p a mile cheaper than an equivalent car lite the Leon cupra, or GTC VXR, who n was about 22p per mile to run. If you charge at the stupidly expensive EV chargers your still cheaper on a like for like car. Would be something like 15p per mile (still cheaper than 22p) But stick to the Tesla stations and youre well in the positive. The average person in the UK travels less than 30 miles a day, so once a week you need to fill up half a "tank" which would take you 10 mins and cost you around about £6, probably less. A tenner if you used the more expensive chargers. Not being able to charge at home isn't a deal breaker, and it's still cheaper than petrol or diesel. I know this as I did it for a while, before I got my home charger fitted privately.
Thank you for your question. I think evs are good only if your daily commute doesn't exceed the range of the vehicle and you have a home charger. Long distances are a problem but it's one that we all will have to face sooner ot later. I am already in the process of comparing my ev to a petrol Mercedes-Benz and will upload that one in the near future. Please subscribe 🙏
@@carcampingev So they said "go and have fun". That's not quite what I saw in the video 🤣 Far better to get 700+ miles from a 5 minute fill up at the pumps out of a diesel. Leave the EVs for virtue signallers and grannies popping to the supermarket.
It's not that the cars are bad (although the range is still pitifully short), it's the charging infrastructure that's really, really bad. Depending on where you live and where you're going, experiences will differ. It currently doesn't suit our needs. I personally couldn't be bothered with it all and choose Petrol on my PHEV for these types of journeys. You get the best of both worlds.
@@sargfowler9603 problem is we keep getting people pushing these things on the "cheaper than a diesel" nonsense, when they most certainly are not the moment you use a non domestic charger. So the solution is two cars. I mean how the heck would anyone find public transport to bardsey island? Yay. How green is that?
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Thank you for your comment. I have just been learning so far and there are some amazing videos coming up, including a BMW i4 road trip around Europe and I will be car canping all the way.
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To be fair if you weren’t doing a range test you’d have charged up much earlier. Or factored in an overnight stop. Nobody in their right mind would go all that way and back again for no reason! That said, the back massager coming on was priceless 😂!
@@michaeldemetriou3365 it wasn't funny at the time but now that I think back to it I start laughing. My passengers were telling me that the car knew I was stressed so it was giving me a massage to calm me down 🤣😂🤣. Please subscribe as there are plenty more adventures to come.
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That turned out to be quite gripping so despite probably aging you a year on a day out, at least it made for great content ! I have an EV but usually I use it locally. Long trips, even here in California where you'd think the infrastructure is better, are not my favourite thing to do, and I've definitely run into chargers that don't work...
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I think the problem is not the car. It‘s the chargers and charging infrastructure.
Did you try to call the charging company to reset the charger. Sometimes problems can be solved that way. Just -off-on->>> and it is working again.
It was my first ever time using a public charger appart from podpoint which I run through the app. I have used several ionity chargers since then with no problems at all. I have also been back to that swarco unit twice since then and got it to work both times. It will remain a mistry as to what the problem was that day and I hope I never have to face that problem again. Please subscribe as I have many more adventures with many more cars coming up soon.
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Seems like you didn't plug fast charger in properly going by the displays you showed.
Not sure what happened the first charger wouldn't accept any of my payment cards and the second one accepted my cards and kept telling me to plug the car in but when I was plugging the car in it was telling me there was a communication fault. I have since been back to the swarco unit with my bmw i4 and also with a Ford Mustang mac e and successfully charged on both occasions (videos coming soon). Thank you for your comment and please subscribe.
@@carcampingev I've got a Cupra Born, get the same communication issues, unless I lock and unlock the car a couple of times with the charger plugged in, normally sorts it out, but yes, I feel your pain.
@@ChisBostin thank god someone understands me. Others have been accusing me of deliberately doing this for views.
I was at flint mountain tesla station in my born the other day and it wad drawing 167kwh form 6% up to 40% then settled to arond 120kwh to 100kwh to 80%
Given youve had issue with a few chargers, i have to think the car is the issue hereot rather the DC part of thr car carge interfacd, the 11kw is an AC charger. Which is stange given its an old model, you tjink they would of picked up on this.
When im away from thr house i always aim for tesla ststions. But your a long way from there.
I must have been tired when I wore the above!
Shell isnland isnt the best place to be if the weather changes. Also its a bit to popular in the summer
You won't get anywhere near the stated range. If you fast charge away from home it will cost you a lot of money.
Not if you charge at Tesla. Coat me £20 to charge mine, at a Tesla and works out about 8p per mile over 2 5p at home.
My 2019 Leon cupra and 2016 GTC VXR cost me 22p per mile to run over 15k and 32k miles. I also had a 21 ioniq hybrid which cost 10p per mile to run over 30k miles.
So with if charging up in public you'll get the efficiency of an eco car and the performance closer to a hot hatch. It's a good compromise. Also if your charging form home on a nighttime EV tariff of 7p pKw, you'll be getting close to 2p per mile. Which is basically free fun.
Good for you but unfortunately your in a little group, the mass's can't charge at home or afford a tesla.
@@phil814 who mentioned buying a Tesla? I don't have one.
Great vid even tho little amateur, but I did like your honest ev range, am even contemplating the born but it's probably practical for work and back say 30mile a day round trips but if you were to go on holiday this just gives me range anxiety,(and is likely to ruin the holiday😢) especially when you head to a charge point only to find it doesn't work ffs😮!!.. Yet the government want us all to go ev but the companies won't get there act together!!.. You know exactly what miles your getting with an engine.. New sub.. 😊
Thank you for you sub and your comment. To be fair this was the first negative experience I have had in the past 8 months. Every other charger that I have been to did work. Plenty more ev's and plenty more range tests coming up.
We have a VW ID.3 1st Edition (registered Nov 2020). We did a 1,300 mile round trip from Rugby to Orkney and back in June 2024. We are tent campers.
We never ran out of electricity, never had range anxiety, never had to wait for a charger and found one broken charger but we didn't need a charge anyway. Out of habit I will plug in when we stop unless we have more than 60% of battery simply because it makes sense to let the car charge whilst it is otherwise idle.
Our battery is the 58kWh battery and I work on 3 miles/kWh out of pure caution but on the Orkney trip we got over 4 miles/kWh consistently, averaged 4.3 miles kWh over 1,300 miles in fact.
As we charge at least 90% of the time at home on cheap overnight electricity the car is incredibly economical to run.
@@michaelgoode9555 so what kind of price did you reckon you paid for a 1300ml round trip at the services ?
The quality of your videos gets better every time you upload a new one. What is the location of the viewpoint ?
Thank you for your comment. The location is in one of the videos from our 700 mile EV road trip series.
I am not sure where you live but in Germany you finde a Charger with 150kw+ every few km/mile…. 50KW Charger are not fast charging and really a oldschool thing. Whatever I would like to know what was the root of your Charging Problems? Car? ChargingStation? Or you? 😅
Thank you for your comment. There are loads of chargers in the uk but they are not very reliable. I still don't know the cause of the problems that day. I have been back to the swarco unit with another car and successfully got a charge. Because I change cars all the time it will remain a mistry as to why we couldn't charge that day. I don't often use public charging because I have a charger at home which only costs 7p per kwh.
Most UK chargers are slow and unreliable. Rapid chargers are only on motorway services. They also cost €1 per kwh.
That's just not my experience, ultra rapid chargers are way more frequent than they used to be, I can think of half a dozen sites with more than 150 kW chargers within 5 miles of home @@sargfowler9603
Amazing video bro what’s this exact location?
@@azharsaleem4978 I don't remember off the top of my head but the video when I first found this spot Is coming in a few weeks and is part of my 700 mile ev road trip series. Please subscribe and I will be bringing you even more locations that are just as stunning as this one.
@@azharsaleem4978 I will message you once the video goes live. I'm editing it right now
@@carcampingev no worries bro epic videos
@azharsaleem4978thank you, I'm glad that you like them.
Bro you could have made it a charger on your route with 45 miles remaining no? Even if you charged to 30/40% you could have got closer to home n charged at a fast charger
@@azharsaleem4978 it was too risky so I decided to go back to a charger which I was 100% sure would work. If I wasn't doing range tests then I would top up whenever I got the chance and not wait for for the battery to drain.
You went to a 7kw charger which is what most home chargers are. And would take about 8 hours to charge. Then a slightly faster 22kw charger. Then went to two different fast chargers and didn’t work but didn’t try calling the company to restart it.
You’ve only got yourself to blame. It’s like you went out of your way to have a disaster. Have you heard of charging apps like ABRP or Zapmap?
That's right, blame the user, not the product....
Sorry but I am new to all this. Until this video I only used podpoint when on a trip and my home charger when I'm home. These videos are documenting my EV journey and my learning of how to live with a EV. I know the pod point chargers are slow but I was parked up eating and they were close by. If you are looking for perfect videos with someone who knows what they are doing then I'm afraid that this is not the channel for you.
Definitely call the charger company, they maybe able to do something, but that said chargers should just work. Try some different rapid chargers local to you to see if they work or if there is an issue with the car, make for a good video
@@pppscooby I do that all the time when struggling to fill up my car with petrol...
I think the cars DC charger itself is at fault here. It seemed to charge fine when plugged into AC chargers.
This car looks like its frowning. It looks proper angry 😠 😡
Simple really, I put 60 quid in my diesel and get around 570 miles , wake up everyone.
Thank you for your comment and I 100% agree with you. I miss my 3 series diesel. It used to give me 600 miles on a full tank. However, this car only costs £4.90 to fill up at home but you pay a lot more on long journeys. If you are doing mostly local driving and have a home charger then electric is a fraction of the cost of petrol or diesel. On the flip side if you do mostly long journeys or don't have a home charger then I would stay clear of electric vehicles for now.
I never have to take mine the garage and It costs about 2p a mile, if I have to charge at a Tesla station (I don't own a Tesla) it costs me £19 for 260 miles worth of juice, which takes about 19mins to charge.
So it's cheap, rarely need to go and fill it up and it has the same performance as my old leon Cupra and GTC VXR. Win win for me.
My old 2004 Laguna estate used to get 1100 miles out of a full tank of diesel, on a motorway trip. How come yours is so low? I suspect they have shrunk the tank. The Laguna had a 75 litre tank. And in about 2010 petrol went over 1.50 a litre at one point and it almost made me cry one paying for the fuel. I've always filled to the brim and runs down to fumes. I hate filling up, one of the reasons I got an EV. No more gas stations. Or very few in comparison.
My diesel used to cost me £80 / month in fuel and did 0-60 in 9s. My EV costs £6 / month and does 0-60 in 4s. Diesel is like a steam engine by comparison, I'd never go back.
@carcampingev yes I see where your coming from but the elephant in the room is 50 odd % can't charge at home and an Ev is way out of the reach for many people, a petrol or diesel is there only option , this government are going headlong into a massive problem if they insist on doing away with ice vehicles , the infrastructure is decades away , it's all very well saying oh you can have a cheaper ev in your price range but mostly they will be higher mileage bringing concerns about the battery life and how far you would get on a charge , imagine all the millions of Ev's on road ( probably 20 or more million) the infrastructure is at best woeful, if you are fortunate to afford a low mileage or new one and charge at home then I get it but the masses don't have that .
@@phil814 I'm doubting your 50% number, but I've if it's 100% can't. It's still cheaper, if you use the Tesla chargers, than it is running diesel or petrol.
Costs me about 1p a mile cheaper to run my Cupre Born than it did my hybrid (which was cheap @ 9p per mile), or 12p a mile cheaper than an equivalent car lite the Leon cupra, or GTC VXR, who n was about 22p per mile to run.
If you charge at the stupidly expensive EV chargers your still cheaper on a like for like car. Would be something like 15p per mile (still cheaper than 22p) But stick to the Tesla stations and youre well in the positive.
The average person in the UK travels less than 30 miles a day, so once a week you need to fill up half a "tank" which would take you 10 mins and cost you around about £6, probably less. A tenner if you used the more expensive chargers.
Not being able to charge at home isn't a deal breaker, and it's still cheaper than petrol or diesel. I know this as I did it for a while, before I got my home charger fitted privately.
Did you not know evs are shit?
Thank you for your question. I think evs are good only if your daily commute doesn't exceed the range of the vehicle and you have a home charger. Long distances are a problem but it's one that we all will have to face sooner ot later. I am already in the process of comparing my ev to a petrol Mercedes-Benz and will upload that one in the near future. Please subscribe 🙏
@@carcampingev So they said "go and have fun". That's not quite what I saw in the video 🤣
Far better to get 700+ miles from a 5 minute fill up at the pumps out of a diesel. Leave the EVs for virtue signallers and grannies popping to the supermarket.
It's not that the cars are bad (although the range is still pitifully short), it's the charging infrastructure that's really, really bad.
Depending on where you live and where you're going, experiences will differ. It currently doesn't suit our needs.
I personally couldn't be bothered with it all and choose Petrol on my PHEV for these types of journeys. You get the best of both worlds.
@@sargfowler9603 problem is we keep getting people pushing these things on the "cheaper than a diesel" nonsense, when they most certainly are not the moment you use a non domestic charger. So the solution is two cars. I mean how the heck would anyone find public transport to bardsey island? Yay. How green is that?
@@angleseyandy9110 Are you from anglesey?
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