EV ANXIETY! 1600 km, 10 Countries 24h Eurotrip With Audi e-tron!
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2019
- Audi invited me over for a unique experience: cross-Europe 24h trip!
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9:19 Misha: Enjoying the view, driving the interesting part.Twisty roads, that's good. Nature: Not so much! 😂
and straight after that at 9:35 Misery Company =D
Misha, I am waiting to see you do a Ring lap in the Taycan.
And thanks for the video.
Their was a video up on IG of this massive line up to a charging station in LA just yesterday, but it was deleted already.
There was well over 50 Tesla's in the line up at night.
I saw that
Maybe people should charge at home
@@behindthen0thing I suspect they can't afford a house, and are renting an apartment or something? Housing prices in LA are out of control from what I hear, plus the population their is crazy too.
@@sickjohnson correct
8:24 I was waiting for something like: "Hey you! You finally awake!" =D ...too much memes...
Misha, thanks for this... As a big engine guy, I am interested in the electric revolution. The only thing I miss is the vibes and sound of engines vs. motors.
.. interesting .. that rain in Italy... lights on , fans and heat on, wipers on...?? How did that section go??
Now go on a trip without pre-planned charge points and over back roads ;) But they are getting better and better and for a daily I wouldn't mind an electric car, for my use it is perfectly fine. And in the weekend have a fun car. Glad to see the cameras are now legal as mirrors. I really want a Volkswagen ID.3 :)
When I saw those cakes I thought of 🎼"A little bit of Suzy by my side..."🎶 - which is a song by Mambo No.5! 😅
If too many electric cars are on the road, the chargers, because they are occupied for longer will be the bottleneck. The first glimpse of what will happen just happened in the US over thanksgiving. Cars waiting in line for hours to get charged. Imagine that over Christmas in -20°C with no chance on running the heater because the car will have not enough charge left to get to the charger.
Why you didn’t say what is the cost of 1 charge on a supercharger
Jeeej na Bled ste šli :)
awesome
Good video
Good comment
I always see you eating!
EVs have definitely made a lot of progress and they might be great as a daily driver (in/out city driving) but they are definitely not there yet on a GT level imo. Based on this car, which has a ~300km range (assuming you drive rather conservatively) it would take me a ~1100 km Stockholm to Berlin drive roughly 16h30 (~1hr per full charge) instead of 12-12h30 or less with a regular car. I love doing long road trips, up to 5-6k+ km around Europe every summer, so those hours will quickly add up for charging pit stops. That is not convenient enough for me yet. So EVs while great overall, are not yet for everyone. I'll wait for the next couple of generations to come out and see what improvements they'll be able to make on the range and charging speed side of things.
As for the whole "but the environment" rhetoric, sadly most EU countries still rely on fossil fuels for their energy grid so your EV is not really green as the carbon cost to manufacture an EV is higher than a regular car, and while it's designed to offset said cost and turn in a negative balance during the lifetime use of the car, having them powered by non renewable energy sources defeats that whole purpose. Here's a pretty telling graphic: I'm even willing to consider nuclear as "green" as well, it's still looking pretty bad for EV consumption atm. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-3b.html A quick look at your EV EU tour tells us that the Audi was charged as following %'s of the respective power grids: Belgium: 35% fossil fuel grid, Germany: 48.4% fossil fuel grid, Switzerland: 6.6% fossil fuel grid, Italy: 72.7% fossil fuel grid, Austria: 9% fossil fuel grid.
Lastly, during your test trip everything was pretty much laid out for you guys, from available/empty charging spots to mobile charging trucks? Real life practical road trips would probably yield different results. Sorry for the long rant, but all in all, it was pretty cool to learn a bit more about Audi's e-tron strides. I just wish they auto industry would put in equally as much effort in building truly renewable based charging options.
Oh wow, i did not expect to see you in the comments..
Yes current EVs are only really practical for shorter trips such as commuting but that still covers the vast majority of all car travels so as soon as you have 2 cars there's very few reasons why the second car couldn't be an EV.
Even if your grid is relying on fossil fuels to a rather large degree EVs are still significantly less polluting simply by being fed electricity from a power plant that is much more efficient than an engine at turning fossil fuel into usable energy. With that said in countries with a mostly fossil fuel grid it does of course feel a little odd to buy an EV only to be just a bit less polluting. Thankfully that's not the case here in Sweden.
Lastly I'd like to thank you for your part in the GD Studio, to this day it's still the best Twitch channel I can think of and I have never even come close to watching streams as much as i did while GD Studio was a thing, not to mention laughing as much....
Thank you.
@@frankeinfish Haha thanks, small world I guess :) Hopefully we'll be able to bring it back one day and keep it as real as before.
I agree with what you're saying and like I said I wouldn't mind a daily/city EV but I'm not ready to transition entirely.
Not sceptical at all, drove a model 3, made my AMG feel like an antique, sold it and bought a m3 performance, best car I have owned
What's an m3 performance?
Иван Грозный model 3 performance not a bmw m3
OK, EVs have made enough progress, but their drivers will be either fat or they must find other hobbies during charging... 😜
More than likely reading or eating first then mind numbing boredom afterwards
@@shawnparadox9299 thank god my tesla has you tube and netfix so i dont need to experiense mind numbing boredom. only down side is that car charges too fast to wach a stranger things episode in supercharger.
But who wants to go on a roadtrip with an electric car knowing you will probably spend more than 1h at least for one time probably more often depends how often you have to charge / how far you wanna drive. Audi planned that trip so the waiting won't be as boring as it would be in "real conditions" electric mobility is in my opinion useful in the cities but for roadtrips they should come up with some other "clean" solutions like Wasserstoff (don't know the english word google it)
Foodshot 8/10
Wasserstoff is Hydrogen
Don't you need to rest anyway though? If you take a model s with a 500km range, drive 120km/h or so and rest every 2h for 15min or so, charge 35% (original model s charges from 0-50% in 20 min), drive another 2h and keep doing this for the morning, have a break with lunch while it charges all the way back up again, seems fine to me.
Imagine the waitingtime at the "pump" if they went in with 10 cars ;) (Hydrogen is the word i think you are looking for)
@@jadoei13 to be honest I don't. Wenn from my hometown to Bremerhaven (~650km) with only 20min break in total for getting fuel and going to a restroom. It would drive me crazy to wait such a long time and not being sure where the next charging station is
The shot from the plane leaving Slovenia was right in the feels, Adria has since gone bankrupt so you are probably the last person on UA-cam to have their logo in the video 😅
It's getting harder to exclude EVs from your shopping list. I see myself in an EV in five to six years. Charging network is building up nicely.
Castle VLOGGGG
would it been better without a team or too much?
Well, the acceleration on these things is supposed to be pretty epic...so, that's a plus...although I'm still not really looking forward to the day when I will be limited to driving something that sounds like a golf cart. Then again...stay tuned.
Why arent any other manufacturers able to compete with tesla as far as range and performance? not to mantion the supercharging network..
I'd go for patents and technological R&D of the other companies trying to catch up.
6:43 no one gonna say it? brad pittza (this channel i known for bad jokes)
Electric vehicles are nice, but only as a dally city use cars
Yup.
Stroop wafels hahaha netjes uitgesproken
Ja Misha, je moet er even doorheen, dan is deze kennismaking in het echte verkeer wel een goede. Als ik weer aan werken toekom (langdurig ziek thuis) en de financiële mogelijkheden heb, dan wil ik ook een EV voor dagelijks gebruik om mijn auto hobby in stand te kunnen houden.
Why not an e-up? It will probably do 0-100 in 7 seconds. So a second sub 7-up
11:14 the verdict, the end.
These passengers must be fun at parties!
This is kinda cheated, the real challenge would have been to go in eastern Europe/Balkans where charging stations are rare and slow, and there is no mobile Audi charging station (who's probably installed for marketing purposes....).
I say drive to Vladivostok and back
Porsche pig racing livery T-shirt?
Porker t-shirt? ✌
"Mobile Charging Station" aka a bunch of big diesel generators. LMAO. Fail!
Who says it runs on oil? Did you hear anything?
@@mpowerrr what, you think it magically pulls electricity from the air? The generators are visible, those things with the vents on the face of the station.
@@dabbydevito5930 What if they are powered by the electricity grid? Because they are mobile, that doesn't mean they work on generators.
@@mpowerrr lmao, okay buddy.
@@dabbydevito5930 You always need vents to cool it. What if they were able to use three phase power?
What scares me most about electric vehicles is lithium mining. A very very dirty business...
Dan Domine but your not scared by oil production because it‘s so clean?
@@LuisRestleVEVO. Well, why soil the planet even more? I'm still waiting for bio-diesel and bio-ethanol made from those millions of tons of fruit and vegetables that we throw away every year. And I will be placing my hope on Hydrogen. The Toyota Mirai Mk2 doesn't even look that bad.
This one was to short........
Hello Misha, Hello Carmrades.
EVs are now an excellent alternative for commute and daily driving. And above all : they will preserve our passion for internal combustion, only for fun, as horses in early 1900s.
I have done 1200 km in a tesla biggest problem is that the car is very uncomfortable.
So the e tron won’t be a problem.
Was it a Tesla Roadster? 😉
Dieter Thomas model s p85d backseat is awul
@@Swagmaster-si1he Uncomfortable as in budget car uncomfortable or not what you'd expect from a car that expensive?
I too am intrigued for the details Swag! I wasn't expecting that from a car that far away from my budget. :)
Only 3 months late XD And btw I'm from Slovenia :P
How are you liking Slovania? Been thinking of visiting there
@@behindthen0thing Slovenia is nice because is small and you have all in one, the sea, the mountains, all lot of caves, lakes, historical cities, nice nature, good food and nice people.
@@djdottor sounds great. Maybe I'll stop by for lunch to meet
@@djdottor I appreciate the invitation
Awesome! Sexy high and tight haircut! Very Ivan Drago'ish! *American version of Misha - 10:20.
Чо ты сказал?
Travelling with a plane to an Elelectric Car Event? Wow, Audi still doesn´t understand what people want these days! And the bus following the convoy beats everything for stupidity.....
You don't speak for all the people...
We want an m car without a buck tooth grill. That's what we want
I am still not sold on the idea of EVs. They would make sense if they charge up fully in the same amount of time it takes to fill up a petrol/diesel powered car. Then there's the argument of how they are getting the electricity in the first place. Defeats the whole point if the electricity is gained from non environmentally friendly methods. Hydrogen fuel cell is another concept that's very intriguing. Toyota Mirai has that technology and it's concept sounds pretty promising.
"This... eeh... has kind of a amsterdam atmosphere"
- Misha 2019
You crack me up m8, well played!
If your gonna try an electric car drive a Tesla, jaguar i-pace, new "MUSTANG" MACHe and the e-tron. Me personally jaguar ipace is a way better car than a tesla because of the luxury. It feels like a regular car. Tesla doesn't
But in the end you got a daily driver that actually makes economical sense, a Golf IV diesel. :)
Almost an hour of waiting to go not even 190 miles!, my TDI fills up in 5 minutes and gets over 800 miles to that fill and still has 2 gallons in reserve!😂😂😂
Here’s hoping the electric car flops like the quartz watch era.
I have nothing against electric cars, it's the Li-ion batteries that make no sense. Also, if they built enough nuclear power plants to feed the increase in electric cars, I'd be all for it.
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