She hit on one of the biggest hurdles at the end of the interview and that is the absolute mess with apps. People do not want to be messing around with apps or having everything tied to a phone. DCFC all should be required to have a method of payment "at the pump" like a gas station. You pull in, present payment, and get charging. Too many chargers the payment systems are a mess or with Tesla there isn't a payment interface at all and you have to use the app. You shouldn't have to have an account, an app, or any hassles just to get a charge. I get a lot of questions about this when I talk to people about EVs and people don't like it. I agree, I don't like it. "Make the gas station great again", but do it with electricity. You would think we would have learned something after all this time of having vehicles. Just because it is electric does not change the fundamentals of what the vehicle needs, and what the people driving it needs. I really don't think it is a big deal to pull up to a charger and and present a payment. The payment auth happens fast. It is the handshake time and the time spent getting the charging session going that drags it out. Something that should take 30 seconds or less can take several minutes sometimes. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're on a road trip that time adds up as the stops add up. That time is time you are actually standing there trying to get it to work. You can't just plug it in and walk away like you can most times with a Tesla. The DCFC charging experience needs to get a lot better. Worse yet most of those stops you are out in the corner of a parking lot, a hike to find a bathroom, possibly something to eat, there are no canopies, no ways to clean a windshield, no place to dispose of trash. Thankfully we see the big travel centers starting to rumble to life now installing chargers. But it looks like even some of those are still not understanding the issues of DCFC and the terrible experience it is baking in the sun or bad weather out on the edge of a parking lot. I know we have come a long ways. My first EV was in 2015 in a Leaf. Was a good car and I loved it. We have come a long ways since then, but we have a long ways to go yet. Thankfully the EV experience for most people day to day is at home, leaving with a full tank of gas every day, extremely convenient. As a matter of fact I tell people all the time if I couldn't charge at home and was forced to go charge at public chargers I wouldn't own an EV. It is that big of a deal to me. I wouldn't put up with the gas station model for day to day EV ownership. Even if you only have a 120v plug you have enough juice to probably cover most of your day to day driving needs. It just won't be fast. The day is coming sooner than we imagine when these things will just be viewed as "cars" and the ICE and EV labels really won't be all that meaningful. Our advocacy for EVs will seem like such a long time ago. We will probably wonder what the big deal was. That is my hope anyway. In the mean time the state of the technology improves, batteries are getting better and more affordable. We just have to be patient. In the mean time plan a road trip. Go visit family and friends for the holidays and marvel over the EV that brought you to see them! It is an adventure. Thanks for the video.
The app thing will disappear IF they ever get plug and charge figured out. 92.7 percent of the time, we charge at home…so no worries for that. But, road trips. 🤨
@@jimsEVadventures I hear you loud and clear on the road trips. For something we do so little out of the year it sure does create complicated buying decisions, confusion, frustration, and opens the door for many more misunderstandings about EVs. Good reliable infrastructure that is easy to use, and is everywhere cannot come soon enough.
It is on the way...the DCFC infrastructure has doubled in the past 2 years and the Tesla network will be open to MOST automobile manufacturers by the end of 2025 which really provides a much needed boost available DCFC charging locations. IONNA "rechargery" locations (a collaboration between BMW, GM, Hyundai, Honda, Kia, Stellantis, and Toyota) also will start spreading like wildfire over the course of the next 18 months. Pilot/Flying J, Circle K, BP, Bu-Cees, 7-11, and a handful of other Interstate behemoths are also on a roll installing charging sites. Blink is dropping chargers in Waffle House locations, too! And in "the south," which is everywhere north of my location in Orlando to the Mississippi River, up to Tennessee and Kentucky, over to the Border with Ohio and Pennsylvania, Waffle House is a win-win situation. Just remember, if you win Waffle House; you win the EV battle! 😂 By the end of 2026, we will be well on the way to solving the charging problem and in five years time, this problem will be a distant memory. As an example...in 2021, there was only one DCFC charging location with 2 stalls in the Dothan, Ozark, Enterprise, AL triangle. Today, there are a dozen (12) DCFC locations in that triangle with 36 stalls available.
@@jimsEVadventures Agreed things are finally starting to change. They are at least starting to install chargers on the beaten path and that is a good start. I think the year we hit the tipping point is 2027 just based on all the announcements, and rollouts that are happening. I think the thing that concerns me is listening to one of the CEO's the other day talking about the investment cost with little or no return in the charging stations. I do wonder about the maintenance and upkeep of these places. I also think by 2027 we will finally start to see those chargers creeping out into rural America off the beaten path. My holiday travels take me through rural EV deserts and it is not a great feeling. LOL I understand why people say "but where are you gonna charge that thing". People really don't know.
I like the new intro music, and thank you Grace for your insights.
I appreciate you tuning in, and I'm glad you enjoyed Grace's thoughts!
Grace!!! You interviewed very well. Nice feedback!
She's a natural in front of the camera!
😊 love the video
Thanks, my friend!
Good to hear from your wife. Mrs. Ben’s Eco Adventure has been too camera shy to come on and talk about our Ariya
Give her time. Keep on doing what you do!
Nice interview.
Thank you.
I'd love to share some experiences having switched over to EV this summer.
Please do! Let’s set it up. I’ll get in touch with you!
She hit on one of the biggest hurdles at the end of the interview and that is the absolute mess with apps. People do not want to be messing around with apps or having everything tied to a phone. DCFC all should be required to have a method of payment "at the pump" like a gas station. You pull in, present payment, and get charging. Too many chargers the payment systems are a mess or with Tesla there isn't a payment interface at all and you have to use the app. You shouldn't have to have an account, an app, or any hassles just to get a charge. I get a lot of questions about this when I talk to people about EVs and people don't like it. I agree, I don't like it. "Make the gas station great again", but do it with electricity. You would think we would have learned something after all this time of having vehicles. Just because it is electric does not change the fundamentals of what the vehicle needs, and what the people driving it needs.
I really don't think it is a big deal to pull up to a charger and and present a payment. The payment auth happens fast. It is the handshake time and the time spent getting the charging session going that drags it out. Something that should take 30 seconds or less can take several minutes sometimes. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're on a road trip that time adds up as the stops add up. That time is time you are actually standing there trying to get it to work. You can't just plug it in and walk away like you can most times with a Tesla.
The DCFC charging experience needs to get a lot better. Worse yet most of those stops you are out in the corner of a parking lot, a hike to find a bathroom, possibly something to eat, there are no canopies, no ways to clean a windshield, no place to dispose of trash. Thankfully we see the big travel centers starting to rumble to life now installing chargers. But it looks like even some of those are still not understanding the issues of DCFC and the terrible experience it is baking in the sun or bad weather out on the edge of a parking lot.
I know we have come a long ways. My first EV was in 2015 in a Leaf. Was a good car and I loved it. We have come a long ways since then, but we have a long ways to go yet. Thankfully the EV experience for most people day to day is at home, leaving with a full tank of gas every day, extremely convenient. As a matter of fact I tell people all the time if I couldn't charge at home and was forced to go charge at public chargers I wouldn't own an EV. It is that big of a deal to me. I wouldn't put up with the gas station model for day to day EV ownership. Even if you only have a 120v plug you have enough juice to probably cover most of your day to day driving needs. It just won't be fast.
The day is coming sooner than we imagine when these things will just be viewed as "cars" and the ICE and EV labels really won't be all that meaningful. Our advocacy for EVs will seem like such a long time ago. We will probably wonder what the big deal was. That is my hope anyway. In the mean time the state of the technology improves, batteries are getting better and more affordable. We just have to be patient. In the mean time plan a road trip. Go visit family and friends for the holidays and marvel over the EV that brought you to see them! It is an adventure. Thanks for the video.
The app thing will disappear IF they ever get plug and charge figured out. 92.7 percent of the time, we charge at home…so no worries for that. But, road trips. 🤨
@@jimsEVadventures I hear you loud and clear on the road trips. For something we do so little out of the year it sure does create complicated buying decisions, confusion, frustration, and opens the door for many more misunderstandings about EVs. Good reliable infrastructure that is easy to use, and is everywhere cannot come soon enough.
It is on the way...the DCFC infrastructure has doubled in the past 2 years and the Tesla network will be open to MOST automobile manufacturers by the end of 2025 which really provides a much needed boost available DCFC charging locations.
IONNA "rechargery" locations (a collaboration between BMW, GM, Hyundai, Honda, Kia, Stellantis, and Toyota) also will start spreading like wildfire over the course of the next 18 months. Pilot/Flying J, Circle K, BP, Bu-Cees, 7-11, and a handful of other Interstate behemoths are also on a roll installing charging sites.
Blink is dropping chargers in Waffle House locations, too! And in "the south," which is everywhere north of my location in Orlando to the Mississippi River, up to Tennessee and Kentucky, over to the Border with Ohio and Pennsylvania, Waffle House is a win-win situation. Just remember, if you win Waffle House; you win the EV battle! 😂
By the end of 2026, we will be well on the way to solving the charging problem and in five years time, this problem will be a distant memory.
As an example...in 2021, there was only one DCFC charging location with 2 stalls in the Dothan, Ozark, Enterprise, AL triangle. Today, there are a dozen (12) DCFC locations in that triangle with 36 stalls available.
@@jimsEVadventures Agreed things are finally starting to change. They are at least starting to install chargers on the beaten path and that is a good start. I think the year we hit the tipping point is 2027 just based on all the announcements, and rollouts that are happening. I think the thing that concerns me is listening to one of the CEO's the other day talking about the investment cost with little or no return in the charging stations. I do wonder about the maintenance and upkeep of these places. I also think by 2027 we will finally start to see those chargers creeping out into rural America off the beaten path. My holiday travels take me through rural EV deserts and it is not a great feeling. LOL I understand why people say "but where are you gonna charge that thing". People really don't know.
Does the Ioniq have one pedal driving?
Yes indeed. It’s called I-Pedal.