1000 Mile EV Road Trip Recap
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- In this week's episode Marques and Andrew bring David Imel back on to talk about the giant road trip that the team took earlier this week. The whole point was to travel 1000 miles in separate cars in order to test out the EV charging network versus regular gas stations. There's a lot they discuss and there's even more coming in the full video coming to the MKBHD and Studio channels, so you're getting a sneak peak in this one!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Explaining premise of road trip
04:10 Why 1000 mile loop?
06:35 The experiences of the first two cars
10:04 The woes of David
14:55 The ranges/accuracies of the cars
23:54 Wondrium (Sponsored)
25:01 Halo Dog Collar (Sponsored)
26:44 Stops and the human part of the road trip
31:22 EV charging infrastructure
53:27 Autopilot and Blue Cruise
01:07:00 Conclusion and final thoughts
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Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today on a very special Waveform: Marques and the gang take a road trip to learn more about electric cars, but instead the team learns more about themselves and each other along the way.
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@@eefm99 LOL
Maybe the electric cars is the journey we all made...
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That mustache is an easy 10/10
for sure, for sure.
@@micahdotpage ok
9:44 RIP...your sacrifice will be remember
and the rose gold mac 🔥😵💫
If you think about how massive the infrastructure is involved in making a gas-powered car have a seamless experience, it is amazing it works at all. EV infrastructure is much less complicated to roll out. It doesn't require tanks of fuel to be driven all over the country, stored in the ground at stations, or for oil to be shipped around the world and refined. Doing an EV road trip today is like doing a gas road trip in the 1920s. In 10 years the debate about charging will be dead.
Bingo.
at the rate at which the network is improving, I'm not too hopeful. The shitiness of our EV charging systems is insane, and there are no excuses.
I’d say 15-20 years 😂
@@macaron3141592653 that is unique to North America. In the EU, they have a single charging port standard. So any EVs can use any fast charger. Tesla is now opening their SC to other cars. This makes long road trips more like a ICE car.
Gas infrastructure has been in development for over 100 years. It's not that amazing given the amount of time it's had. EV's have had maybe a decade to try and catch up. It should have the advantage in the future though being they just need to connect to the electric grid and have technicians to repair them at the ready.
I’ve gotten stuck at a broken charger too. Called the number and they literally told me “ask a friend for a ride”. I was in the middle of nowhere. Had to tow my car home
David’s blink rate is proportional to how hard he’s thinking.
😂😂
I would love to see a 2 year update to this!
love david's commitment to the bit
David is my favorite in MKBHD team.
On the topic of range estimates:
Give me the estimate at the *worst case scenario,* so everything turned on and running full tilt, cargo maxed out, and reasonable-ish throttle. This way I'm not being shorted if I'm more efficient, but know realistic values if I'm utilizing the worst case scenario
Estimated range while driving is much more accurate, since efficiency is based on the speed and the driver. Recommended chargers take this into account.
Worst case scenario, you just drive slower. Range increases significantly with slight speed decrease
@@thomasreese2816 yeah you literally use half the energy when going 55mph vs 80mph. Shows how a slight decrease in speed increases your range a lot!
Mach-E owner here 🙋♂️ Regarding the weird cruise control speed behavior…the Mach-E has a cruise control feature where it will automatically adjust your speed according to the speed limit, +/- whatever threshold you have defined in your settings. So I’m wondering if the previous driver had it set to go 20mph over the current speed limit (sorry if anyone else has already pointed this out).
Great episode! as a Model 3 owner this was still very insightful ... great comparisons and I would have like to hear what each team paid in gas / charging, please sneak that in the video if you can. thanks!
Thats on the main channel by the way his latest video you can go check it out very insightful. 👏👏👏
@@ajigijigi wooo
@@ajigijigi what main channel? I thought this was the main channel
@@rzawistowski33 marques brownlee is the main channel with over 10million subscribers
If I remember correctly, the “gasolina” team spent 88$, the Tesla team 66$ and the Ford team 62$
22:18 that's exactly what Zach and Jesse have been talking about on their YT channel Now You Know. They're great guides to EVs.
after listening to the episode on spotify I had to check out the video to see David's entry. I'm glad to report that I wasn't disappointed
I loved this expirement. You guys should do it again in California!
I feel like the car companies are lacking on the infrastructure either hoping for the government to split the bill or to take advantage of people who don't want to deal with range anxiety.
When we drive our Model 3 at the speed limit, not over, and when we accelerate gradually, not lead footing it, we beat the range estimate. I think too many Tesla drivers floor it too much (it's fun, I don't blame them), drive 10 mph over the speed limit, and that's why they get bad range. Just my opinion 🙂
Bump up this comment, its the same with gas cars if my gf is a bit if a hoon and has to fill up every week whereas i can almost last two weeks if im lucky. I just love cruising in the left lane (right lane for you american folks), im in no rush and i love driving
Exactly. My lifetime average is 235Wh/ mile which is exactly the EPA mileage. Over the last 8000 miles the number is even better, 227Wh/mile and that includes last winter.
@@joshuarosen465 Phenomenal. What's your climate like, and is it a LR Model 3? That's what I have up here in Buffalo (orig., no heat pump) and lifetime, year-round, is 248.
@@johnp.weiksnar6861 it's a 2019 AWD so no heat pump. I only do long drives in the summer so that helps and I like back roads which also helps but I'm getting great mileage on Interstates also. I drive the limit and, rely on regen braking as much as possible and I do gentle acceleration. There is a lot of mountain driving, we've been to Vermont six times this year. In the winter I precondition the car before leaving so that I can minimize the heater use.
@@joshuarosen465 Thanks so much for the details, Joshua!
So enjoyed and love all the information shared ,Watched both the Video and Listen to Podcast.Great job guy's.Deb 💯✌
Charging and electric car at a hotel is one of the only advantages of an electric car on a road trip. So I’ll be much more curious to see what the time differences would’ve been if you would’ve taken advantage of that benefit.
One of the only advantages? One of the MANY advantages. . . . ("Room service, please top off my gas tank" . . . yeah, sure!)
Only? Lol…. Also that it’s much cheaper in an EV in most of the country and more enjoyable.
@@seanz6586 Much cheaper to run* It's at the moment still so expensive to buy a decent eletric car compared to a decent car that run on gasoline/diesel that an EV would only make up for that difference in price if you drive like a lot, really a lot.
Not all have chargers and typically it’s not many and who knows if it’s even available, what if someone else is charging on a slow charger, they are gonna use it all night
IMO Chargers need to be run like gas stations, as in, privately owned businesses that leverage the infrastructure of a larger company (like Shell, BP, etc) for their "gas"/EV stations. Kum & Go has partnered with Tesla to install Tesla chargers at most of their newest locations and install them at some of their existing ones and I think that's the move.
I think Shell is getting in the game I've heard they plan on installing a LOT of chargers.
Chargers are much better run as a single company or government run (or just the local electrical utility). It would be much easier to regulate and as long as the people involved are competent it'll be good, but the American government is just a bunch of corporations working to make people think public ownership of systems is a bad idea.
Look up Roadie portable charging system. It's a portable battery that can be put in the back of a tow truck, and can add enough range to get to your next charger relatively quickly. So it does exist.
Great for people who would need a porta-potty delivered to their car instead of just finding a building with plumbing. . . .
Great video. Also, What I think would also help is to add another factor into the mix - Weather.
A road trip in the winter /cold climate will impact electric cars more than gas … but by how much ?
My winter efficiency only takes a 7% hit in a Model 3 Long Range. That means using the PTC heater (not a heat pump) to keep the cabin in the low 60s, and seat heaters, mainly on low. This original heater draws ~6kW, vs. a seat heater which is max. 80W.
Can’t wait to see the results
Special episode fits, one of my favorite episodes so far!
Thanks so much for these videos. I just bought a Model Y and my brother just bought a Mach E. We are both about to take a long road trip and this has taught us to me more intentional about traveling with the Mach E. We still LOVE our vehicles just learned that the rare road trips we take need a little more planning.
Phantom breaking in autopilot is not because of the shadow, it's happens because of the radar. Radars don't have that much of resolution to tell if the overpass that it's detecting is above the ground or its a wall infront of it. All radar does is, calculation of distance of an object, not their position, and that confuses the computer, in that situation it doesn't know who to trust, the vision that says it's just a overpass or the radar that says there's an big wall infront of the car. That's why Tesla is going full vision, eliminating radar.
Yeah other cars would do that too, but most manufacturers just code the system so it never stops for stopped objects like stopped cars and stuff, which gets rid of the phantom braking, but the system i becomes limited.
@@harsimranbansal5355 also hard coding approach can lead to some vulnerable situations.
So why does this happen in vision only cars?
@@VishnuRajeevan it has reduced significantly and in majority of the cases it's not happening. For the rest of the them here's the explanation - Tesla's FSD software before the full vision transition was made for radar and vision, so in that case information taken from vision and radar are sandwiched or fused to make the car understand distance, position, velocity, direction etc. The tricky part is removing all the learning from the neural net about the sensor fusion is very hard, and were talking about billions of kilometres of data that were taken using sensor fusion, and then the NN learnt from it. How to remove those bad codes from the NN? Well, Tesla has to get more data from the vision only system to replace them, which they already had from past + the new data coming in. So that's why they did the fundamental rewrite, that was released with Beta 9. I'm 100% sure Beta 10, that'll be released on September 10, will eliminate that problem completely. As the NN is now fully end to end retrained.
I work for Dyson’s Energy Storage R&D division and yes, the battery chemistry itself creates a charge curve. The curve isn’t necessary caused by any programmed logic in the car or charger.
That’s what I thoguht
Very fun & informative video, thanks guys.😀
Amazing podcast 🔥🔥👏👏 Nice road trip 👍
At least on the Plaid, even though it said 0 miles, you still had like 20+ miles of charge left
I'm addicted to David's hard blinks
This was the most information and the most helpful information I have received about EVs and charging
All of this talk makes me extremely nervous about electric cars until the infrastructure is built up more. You all should do a test in Oklahoma and Texas. People out here drive long distances for work and leisure stuff, and there can be a lot of traffic, especially in Texas.
Eh, Texas has so many ev chargers. Especially Teslas superchargers.
You can drive the ATX, DFW, HOUSTON triangle with even a model 3 sr+ just fine. I've done the dfw to Amarillo in a Tesla and it was perfect. Lmk if you need info❤️
You do know they are based near New York right ..... lol they are not gonna drive all the way to Texas to test that out
@@96Cubs why not? A road trip vlog series could be great haha.
Most of your charging will just happen overnightat home and you'll be ready to go in the morning. This test isn't really matching real life
Just buy a tesla, they have the chargers, the other don’t. It’s really a massive difference.
the first waveform podcast episode I watched start to finish.. interesting insights..
Great test! An important thing to note is that the electrify America Network was born by force out of Diesel gate so it doesn't have a ton of effort behind it and it's not a company trying to succeed, its them complying with the Diesel Gate settlement.
I realize you brought that up but that's the reason they break, I agree that the companies need to do better.
True, but the company has only been around since 2017 and already has a network of chargers across the country. There's definitely issues but the effort is there it's just going to take time to get to supercharger numbers.
Hopefully the situation will improve as the head of VW recently did a road trip in their own EV and shared his experience with charging. It wasn't good and he now realizes that improvement is necessary.
Can’t believe you all drove by where I live that’s wild
Not charging at a hotel over night is not very realistic in my opinion. Most people driving a BEV would do that and choose the hotel accordingly. So this approach misses the point that BEVs can be charged anytime when they are parked not causing any delay on a road trip like this.
Also fast charging at night will take less time than the morning as the battery is cold soaked through the night, whereas at night the car has been driving so battery is nice and warm so it can charge quicker.
That could totally be a Top Gear episode
Love the content Marques! I would recommend swapping out your mic tho. The mic you're using, the Electro-Voice RE27N/D, has very little low-end, so you'd need to have a pretty deep/ bassy voice to sound good on it. The SM7b is always a safe choice albeit somewhat dull. I think your voice would sound great on the Electro-Voice RE20. It's my favorite dynamic microphone in that range. N/D series by Electro-Voice just tend to cut out way too much bass which sorta the opposite of what you want for a podcast. I appreciate your willingness to try more "out-there" mics. I've seen very few people using the 27N/D long term. Either way, keep up the good work!
That ping pong sound had me really confused while wearing headphones hgahaha. Great video!
David is hilarious 😂😂😂
I like how they compared it to usb c and lighting. Nice!
Interesting! Nice video ✌️
David 👍🏾👍🏾 love that mustache
54:34 That subtle pop up though😂😂😂
Great episode
Which screen did you use on the Tesla to judge the range? The screen on the energy consumption on the Tesla seems to be accurate.
In my experience using a taycan on 350 watt electrify Canada chargers. From low battery to full takes around 40 minutes
❤that dog is too cute.
The gas car should have started with only 1/2 a tank of gas and the EVs full. This is realistic with real world where every time you take a trip, your first stop is 5 miles from your house to fill up the gas car or waste time the night before.
Good point, you can’t fill up your gas car in your garage but the EV would be full and ready to go over night.
Just finished a 6,500 mile road trip on a LR Model 3.
Scary that chargers can still be broken and nothing available for a long ways. Charging stations need some form of redundancy or recovery, in an IT way. Separate circuit, separate source. It should be considered a critical infrastructure system.
Exactly! Or at least show properly what chargers are and aren't working and get fined if they don't show it.
Seems like a wonderful video
28:10 Assuming that county map is illustrating EV stations or EV Owners in California, does anyone know exactly which order those colors are in that represent each county?
Still miss the old music
I am andrew, just listening to two blokes talk about their expensive electric cars and quality of life, while he/and i just drive a classic subaru that does the job
Eastern Iowa to Estes park Colorado in a MY took 14 1/4 hours vs 12 in a gas car.
I hope you guys cover the feature Tesla's have where they can predict what percent you'll have when you get to a destination put into the navigation.
Can you guys talk about standing desk and chair to help us understand what are the things which we need to consider and your top 5 picks.
13:23 no it's just that you haven't used the consumption graph, which will give accurate range estimate instead of simple range display based on battery %
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I wonder if in the future there could be a charge sharing feature between similar model EVs.
Like 2 male plugs and it just shares 10 miles or something. Not sure if it could work, not sure how long it'd take, but feels like a little option for the future.
Edit: for clarification, I mean for if you run out of charge on the side of the road. Sorta an alternative to being towed.
1:05:51 that would be me and I am super proud about it.
Basic range estimate in Tesla is nonexistant, however, if you set your navigation to a destination/supercharger, isn't the percent it predicts you will arrive at very accurate?
The taycan wireless charger is brutal too. It's in the centre console and phones overheat in there :(
Very cool content
The more autopilot drives, the better the efficiency. Another power tip is to disable ap on freeway exit to max regen braking which can recapture tons of energy esp if exiting at full freeway speeds. Can gain 15-20% back in process especially if ap was driving the whole way sipping electrons (with appropriate follow distance; too much or little cause undue stopping & braking)
It would have been interesting to a hybrid car in there as well, like a Camry hybrid
Hybrids don’t really do much better than a gas car on the highway, in the city, huge difference, but highway driving the hybrid system is just dead weight for the most part.
The ID4 from VW has a very nice charging curve to 90%+. The Pro has 270 mile of range, good driver assist, and an accurate range estimator. I'd put that up against the Mach E and other non-Telsa EVs.
ID4 best non Tesla EV. VW said it was developed for road tripping with Electrify America
Yup here for the mustache
Marquess I need your take on this whole future motion situation! Help!!
Is there a video for the actual experience?
Road trips are the best on Cali 🙌🏼
How much did you spent on fuel/charge?
35:00 a battery that you can plug in does exist: eco flow. Also, recovery vehicles here in the UK are now starting to be equipped with chargers that can get you going for a few miles e.g. AA
Yeah there are companies that sell batteries specifically for this purpose
Have been to around -30kms in a Stealth P3 and all good. Except for the stress levels. . .
Just saying that to make the comparision more accurate you should have used a Model Y. Because it is closer in price and size to the other 2 cars
Quirks lol - nice Doug Demuro animation
Y’all came to western New York???? Dammit
When you mention range estimate for the Tesla, please clarify that it's the remaining battery capacity estimated in miles instead of percentage which is obviously based on "perfect conditions" because it doesn't have any other inputs to give a better estimate. However when you use the built in Tesla GPS navigation it gives a much more accurate range since it now takes into consideration the route including elevation changes. So with that said, it's much better to just use percentage as your display for how much battery you have left instead of miles.... in the same way for your phone it's much better to display your battery life as percentage instead of time left.
Imagine documenting this road trip with the budget and crew of "The Grand Tour"
Cool
You can tell you really needed to work hard to say good things about the Ford Mache... because it is the only slight competition to the model Y. Most Mache are more expensive than a Tesla Y also.. but keep up the good work and keep trying with the Ford.
I live in so cal and never experienced a line with a Tesla. Super rare . Now go to Costco gas on a Sunday
From my home in Lubbock, Texas the nearest Tesla supercharger is 130 miles away so we've got a long ways to go on building out the charging infrastructure. I've driven Model 3 LR over 70,000 miles and the only time I've waited for a charger ( about 10 minutes) is in Houston on my last road trip.
Is all of cars prices are same?
Gas stations aren’t always found in rural locations, especially at night; charging stations are always open; amenities aren’t always available, though.
Is there a scream at 26:50?
35:00 There's a portable charging system called SparkCharge that can send tow operators with a battery that can fast charge your ev in case you ever run out. I believe they're only on the east coast at the moment but if you need them, they could be a good option.
I’d love to see a few teens learning to drive on electric vs gas and learn about their experience.
check out gears & gasoline for roadtrip filming ideas! they do great roadtrip series. they even do model s vs racecar lol
Let's take fun and scenic road...Can't, do not have charging on the way. :(
we need more of Mac
The no pre-planning rule is clearly the reason the Mach E lost by so much. It would have got third anyway, but you didn't have to kneecap it like that. Anyone roadtriping an EV plans out good charging options ahead of time and can also look for station serviceability.
Meh. I just get into my Tesla and set the destination. The in car navigation plots the course. Did several cross country trips this way…no issue.
That's part of the EV experience as it exists currently. For EV's to become mainstream, that process needs to disappear. I think that will happen as the charging network gets built out. Tesla realized years ago that the charging infrastructure is crucial to EV acceptance, so good for them. Hopefully time will cure this problem.
I don't think ev infrastructure will ever match gas station infrastructure because most of ev refueling happens at home. It does need to get more reliable and consistent, but I think ev road trips will always take more planning than gas raod trips. It's not like its difficult to plan stops on a road trip, people have been doing that for years.
"the range estimate is extremely accurate and you get more range than it said it was gonna get"
Does not compute. 🤔
I considered buying a CCS to Tesla adapter for road trips, but after inspecting 6 EA locations and discovering “out of service” stalls, I decided not to use EA. I returned to a few defective EA stations 7-10 days later and they were still out of service so that tells me their repair service is poor. Some EA locations are a mix of CHAdeMO & CCS with only 2-4 stalls so when one is defective you may have to wait a long time to charge. I’ve never had that problem with Tesla and have taken several road trips including Boston to SW Florida.
Sounds about right, John. My experience with EA was always hit-and-miss. Also, I just heard today that a Tesla owner returned their new CCS adapter since it failed to work on a good portion of DCFC stations. I'd wait for an official Tesla-issued one, and keep using the CHAdeMO in the meantime . . . if Supercharging is absolutely not an option.
What shirt is Marques wearing?
Did anyone else hear the scream ringtone that starts at @26:48? Lol.
Next trip take Zack’s Humvee
Compared to Germany the chargers seem very rare in the US. I'm a bit shocked.
What are your guys hope for a $25,000 electric car?
And when (year) do you think it will be good enough to be more alluring than similarly priced gas car?
Off topic: I wonder how the Spotify views changed after this channel aired
Take a shot every time David says "Tezla"