As someone that listens to podcasts 8 to 10 hours a day while driving this audio is pretty damn good, I would go as far as to say it’s the best in-car audio you guys have done as far as podcasts go.
Agree! Especially when you consider the fact that many of us are in the car while listening to the podcast, it makes for a really connected listening experience. Can’t describe why I like it so much more. I even think a guest like Christian in the back seat would be fun too.
00:00 - teaser 01:53 - intro 02:33 - “hey folks” - long-winded explanation of why you might hear a fan in this episode 04:32 - Lucid Sapphire roadtrip to Sonoma track day hosted by Range Energy and e-trailer test results breakdown (07:54 - left-lane campers and lane discipline sidebar) 15:38 - the beauty of Northern California and charging experiences with the Lucid, energy usage, suspension (20:26 - “do you think Electrify America is the best non-Tesla implementation?”) 30:27 - backseat deletes and is there a fast EV that holds an appeal to being solely a “fun” car? 35:53 - realizing that they can’t go too fast or they might run out of charge and talk about sound vs acceleration 39:54 - passing Button Willow racetrack 40:45 - other cars brought to the track day 44:18 - car-to-car shooting and sliding in the Lucid 50:35 - Lucid car-to-car charging didn’t work for some reason, and other annoying niggles 53:22 - range “cushion” shrinks from ~50 to ~23 mi and a water conservation analogy 57:30 - passing Kern County Raceway and dinner with many heavy hitters 58:15 - mountains approaching and questioning if regen works better at lower speed Patreon questions: 1:01:25 - wasn’t there supposed to be a Road and Track event in CO? Did I miss it? 1:02:17 - what is the moment in time where you said, “yes, I want to be in automotive journalism?” 1:05:29 - favorite I-5 stops between LA and SF? (1:06:40 - range buffer is now 18mi) 1:07:46 - Akio Toyoda recently rolled a rally car while testing and displayed it outside a new R&D facility in Japan; Jim Farley said that he wouldn’t do anything behind the wheel of a race car that could risk his safety. Is there any other auto car exec willing to roll a car like that? 1:09:13 - looking at a 997.2 Carrera S; read reviews comparing it to E90 M3 and some say that the 997 is too good and lacks fizz, would you agree? 1:11:19 - my friend “needs” an EV for occasional canyon/track work and fun family daily; deciding between leasing an Ioniq 5N and a used Taycan 4S 1:13:20 - top 3 historic cars you’d love to have a go in? 1:15:14 - how do you price cars without many comparisons? 1:20:12 - why does VW group use the same SUV platform for Audi/Lamborghini/Bentley but won’t give the people an Audi/Porsche V12 supercar powered by the Lamborghini engine? 1:22:32 - “three” - range buffer now down to 3mi 1:23:27 - are there any electric power steering cars that have similar feel to a hydraulic rack? What new cars have the best, most engaging steering? 1:24:50 - when is a time to leave a mechanic? 1:27:10 - Matt, has anyone questioned your fun car color choices by talking about your colorblindness? 1:28:07 - estimated range is now no longer enough to get home and looking for a charger 1:30:32 - I can’t believe you forgot the Focus RS when someone was looking for an American AWD car 1:31:58 - are there any websites that focus on cars imported from Europe? 1:32:23 - car now says that it won’t make it to the charger? 1:34:50 - $100k max budget, what gives a racing/high-reving experience but with good reliability? 1:35:19 - why are there so many FL plates in NJ? 1:35:50 - update on the Countach? 1:36:06 - would you consider a used Lucid? 1:36:45 - what do you guys thing is the reason more Euro brands aren’t trying to break into the US market? 1:38:36 - Matt thinks Zack can go 65 mph and still make it to the charger 1:39:09 - end of Patreon questions and show, talk of range anxiety and efficiency 1:42:35 - car now says two miles left at stop 1:44:00 - now four miles left at stop! 1:46:06 - new goal: 11mi of range at stop so that the A/C doesn’t go away 1:47:08 - Zack: “wish us luck!”
I'm sure y'all have already heard about it from others, but I think the audio version that went out (love the title on it, btw) is the same audio as the last ep. about Alex Choi, etc. Thanks for the awesome work as always!
Most big truck automatic transmissions are automated manuals, if it was a 12 speed then almost certainly so. I'd also be willing to bet that they picked a very low powered truck(370hp Detroit DD13) to do the A/B comparison with the E trailer to maximize the differential.
I know that you all are in California, but seeing the number of cars that you're passing while in the right lane, makes me think that you're driving the TransCanada through Alberta/BC. I have no idea how or why people suddenly decided that the left lane was the appropriate place to sit, doing 5 under the speed limit, but I really wish that they would go back to driver's ed.
I'm normally the nitpicky audio guy - complaining about the microphone on the table without a cloth before - but I didn't find the fan noise offensive at all. Maybe it's not triggering or I'm not sensitive to pink noise like that, but it's fine to me. It's at a reasonable level and you guys are more than audible, whatever the postprocessing is it works great. I know there are tools like Nvidia RTX Voice which do similar things as well with really impressive results. Edit: well I take that back - some snap crackle and pop from the audio a few times around 30 minutes. But that's a different problem.
I-5 in the Central Valley is the worst. I always know that drive will be frustrating. It’s almost as bad as I-10 between Phoenix and Casa Grande (where the Lucid was built), but the bad part of I-10 is much shorter than I-5.
As a younger person in the UK (where highway fuel is insanely expensive) with no money, this was me on every road trip! Drafting trucks to get more range and get to a station having skipped the last station because the price was silly. Now I live in the US I haven't done it for while.
Only good stop on I5 between LA and SF are Harris Ranch express BBQ (I5 as it passes South West Fresno) and even there get your food and go or eat in, It's next to their cattle ranch so if you can't take the smell of a farmyard while eating get your food and keep it moving.
Taste of India in Buttonwillow is surprisingly good. I’m not sure it’s worth the stop, but if you want a sit down dinner and you’re in that area, I recommend it. Firestone Grill in Bakersfield is worth planning your trip around. Different than the brewery, but same company as the Firestone Grill in downtown SLO. Not exactly between SF and LA, but between SF and Mojave Desert, plenty of trailer parking too.
Man what you mentioned at the end is the most annoying thing about my e-Golf. It disables heating and AC below 20 miles of range. That includes the windshield defroster. Meaning in the winter or on very hot days I have to make sure I have enough range to get home PLUS 20 miles. When I KNOW its enough to get home and plug it in with everything running.
Being "in regen" at a lower speed downhill will generate more energy per mile because less energy will be lost to air resistance. The efficiency difference between 40mph and 70mph will be basically the same as driving 40 vs 70 on a flat road. The efficiency of a motor does vary with speed, which may change the difference a bit, but won't invert it.
Porsche 997.2 is a sports car, the E90 is a sports sedan. The 911 is more agile and has better control feedback. The steering is the last Porsche hydraulic system and has great feel.
The audio file on Apple Podcasts is still the Alex choi episode. This one on UA-cam is also listed as 930 and the lucid one on Apple Podcasts is 931 and Alex choi is 930.
What Matt said at 38:45, I totally agree now with a daily fast EV. I never thought I’d be that person while I had my enthusiast cars, but now I almost have a disdain for loud exhaust cars trying to go fast. It’s weird how that happens with EV ownership.
8:00 They complain about left lane lurking while lurking in the left lane and getting passed on the right... Move over, you can drive at the same speed
Around the 1:00:00 mark y’all are talking about regen and how it works. The amount of regen is easiest to think of as inverse power. So you use 1234 hp to go fast or you can use -1234 hp to slow down. And the sweet spot where the cruise control can hold the car at 65mph is somewhere between 0 and that theoretical -1234hp. No heat is recaptured through use of the friction brakes. And you will lose less range by going slower in general. Less efficiency losses to rolling resistance and wind resistance. So by going slower down hill you will go farther per charge.
A 26 MPG semi is amazing, even it it's only for 60 miles. My PHEV gets 30 mpg towing a Miata for 100 miles. The Miata itself is only capable of 28 MPG lol!
Matt,a manual transmission semi with a halfway experienced driver would remove a full 1/4 of the 0 to 60 time of that automatic piece of s***. Especially with an extremely light load in the box like 20,000 lbs. You really need to take a deep dive into all the failed technology put into all these garbage new semi tractors. I've been professionally driving for over 35 years and it is never been this dangerous out here solely due to all the technology that does not work. We now have mandated automatic braking combined with anti-lock brakes that already do not work and never will work on air brake vehicles they only extend the stopping distance.
I routinely get 170 plus kilowatts from 150 kW chargers, not throughout the entire duration of the charge. I think the qualification for rating them is probably average charge over a course of time
The argument of used EV vs new EV for the channel, I’d got for used because there really isn’t much info on that. But as you say, it’s always fun to fantasize with other peoples money!
Semi truck automatic transmissions are so because they are not synchro trans gears. The computer has to manually do the same thing a driver does with control of rpm’s and moving those giant hearsay the right time.
Doesn't the AC running the whole time take out about 20+miles of range on most EVs? In the ioniq, running the AC cuts about that amount out of the range every time i run it. It's very stressful, certainly in the middle of the desert.
enjoy the drive podcasts, the sound if any isn't a problem IMO, its all part of the vibe. Nearly everyone on board is a car guy, so car/driving noise isn't a bad thing.
But range anxiety doesn’t exist according to the EV zealots. What you experienced is exactly what I’ve been experiencing for the past three months renting EVs. The amount of miles I do in a week requires a charge and I’m almost always in remote/rural areas. Thankfully my anxiety is self inflicted and I’m going back to renting ICE vehicles. Was renting them as a test and to knock my carbon footprint down. Company requirement that I track it and I’m tired of hearing all the BS from the office.
“Let me slow down and also make myself less comfortable (HVAC) so I can make it to a charger that may or may not be there and may or may not be functional/occupied when I get there” sounds absolutely terrible and is not progress.
@zack is that the magna g shock? Y’all need to list the watches you’re wearing in the description, similar to how motorcycle journalists list their riding gear.
@@sz-4b0B9I I listened to an episode where they mentioned it, an Matt said it had a titanium body. Only until this episode which I watched, I noticed it. Magna’s are Jdm right? Do you know if there is a story behind it?
They must have known the guys from the Smoking Tire were going to be coming by to charge their vehicle because it doesn't matter where I go to charge my car, it's going to be a bitch to get it done. Just today I had to search for available chargers and I had to go to 3 places before I found one that I was able to get it to work. The first place I went to had a massive live that would have made me wait probably 2 hours before I could even get to plug my car in and I didn't have that luxury to just sit there and wait that long. The second place only had 2 chargers working out of 8 chargers. The chargers said they were working and I called their support line for help because I didn't know if I had enough of a charge to go anywhere else. There support team made me wait there for about 45min trying to get there chargers to work from there end and they failed and told me to come back tomorrow and they should be working by then. Like I could just sit in my car in a stripmall all day and all night to hope that they would then work again. I couldn't even believe that there was anyone on this planet stupid enough to tell me to come back tomorrow. Nobody who drives to a charging station has the power to drive home and come back tomorrow. That's why they are at a charging station. They also obviously need to get somewhere that day and can't afford to just lose a day sitting in their cars in some shity strip mall in the middle of nowhere. I told her that she needs to call my boss and explain to him why I'm going to spend my night in my car away from my family and that I lost a client that spends about 100k a year because I was not able to get to my appointment with him that day. I suggested that she should pay for my loss since it's her companies fault that I used the last of my cars power to charge at her station because it said that it was working and it wasn't working for two days before I even chose to go there. she just told me to please hold and never picked up the phone again. I got lucky and made it to another charging station but their touchscreen wasn't working well and it refused to read 9 out of the 10 credit cards that I tried to use.I never once went to a charging station where the sun isn't beating on the chargers touchscreen. They are always impossible to read in that direct sunlight and the touchscreens almost never work because they are cooking in that sun all day. Who designed these chargers anyway? I cant believe that they couldn't have forseen this as being a major problem and they don't seem to want to change that genius design of theirs.All they need to do is put a piece of plastic over it so that it gives the parts of it that people need to be able to use a little bit of shade and out of the weather. Every single charge station I have ever been too it's like that. It doesn't even matter what companies chargers it is, you can count on them being baked in the sun so badly that they don't work. Tesla would never have been so stupid to design a charger so badly and Elon would have fixed them immediately once he heard someone complain about that kind of a problem. Also why do most of these chargers also have that CHADMO charging built into their fast chargers. Nobody is going to drive to a fast charger and plug in that CHADMO and wait a day for their car to charge when they can just plug in to their 120 volt outlet at home and do it. What car even uses these CHADMO chargers and how old is that car? The biggest regret in my life was letting my wife talk me into buying an electric car. It's just not worth it and its only going to get a lot worse here before it gets better. You don't even save much money on gas with what they are charging to use these chargers and I bet a million bucks that they are going to raise the prices to charge your car way higher than what gas costs today in a year or two once more people trade in their gas vehicles for electric ones. These Electric cars are not meant to last more than 5 years before they will start to constantly break down and cost you a fortune to repair. You would be a complete fool to buy a used one or try to keep driving your electric car once the warranty expires on your new one. Electric cars are just disposable cars that cost you 60k to 150k to buy and then throw them away after 5 years because they wont be worth jack shit once their warranty expires. That's going to fill up junk yards really quickly and it's not being green at all. Not to mention that our electricity we use to charge these glorified golf carts all comes from coal powered plants. So this does nothing to help our environment at all since we will be burning that much more coal to charge all these electric cars. This is all just a scam to bilk more money out of the people because nobody really cares about saving our environment with a plan like this. 90's analog cars are the way to go. That was where automobile technology was at its best and it's all down hill from here. I'm going to buy myself a couple of good condition Toyota trucks and drive them till I die. I will save myself hundreds of thousands of dollars and I will have the luxury of getting to where I need to be stress free and on time. I learned the hard way and I will never be so stupid to drive electric cars ever again. I'm just going to drive by those chargers and laugh at all the idiots fighting and waiting to charge their cars every day. But I'm going to drive this electric piece of shit off of a cliff first. I would be feel terrible if I were to sell this to someone and have them get mad at me for not warning them first. I'll just call it a loss and move on with my life again.
25 minutes in and a few minutes whining at the left lane hogger, then hogged the left lane. Oh come on Zack you have indicators and a steering wheel. Use them mate!
The right to left lane change he made at 6:12 is absolutely baffling. The left lane was actually going slower. Then he gets passed on the right by 2 cars. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
I dont want to be a little bi...t,but SEAT is not a french brand,is spanish,from Spain(barely,because they are part of the VW group,so they are under the same mqb,mbl,etc platforms.At least,most of them are made in Spain)
As someone that listens to podcasts 8 to 10 hours a day while driving this audio is pretty damn good, I would go as far as to say it’s the best in-car audio you guys have done as far as podcasts go.
@@simonburkeisableaudacity has hum filter for free if they just don't do it live in UA-cam.
Give us some podcast recommendations
This style of podcast makes me feel so calm! It’s like we are driving with you! Love the style
Agree! Especially when you consider the fact that many of us are in the car while listening to the podcast, it makes for a really connected listening experience. Can’t describe why I like it so much more. I even think a guest like Christian in the back seat would be fun too.
00:00 - teaser
01:53 - intro
02:33 - “hey folks” - long-winded explanation of why you might hear a fan in this episode
04:32 - Lucid Sapphire roadtrip to Sonoma track day hosted by Range Energy and e-trailer test results breakdown (07:54 - left-lane campers and lane discipline sidebar)
15:38 - the beauty of Northern California and charging experiences with the Lucid, energy usage, suspension (20:26 - “do you think Electrify America is the best non-Tesla implementation?”)
30:27 - backseat deletes and is there a fast EV that holds an appeal to being solely a “fun” car?
35:53 - realizing that they can’t go too fast or they might run out of charge and talk about sound vs acceleration
39:54 - passing Button Willow racetrack
40:45 - other cars brought to the track day
44:18 - car-to-car shooting and sliding in the Lucid
50:35 - Lucid car-to-car charging didn’t work for some reason, and other annoying niggles
53:22 - range “cushion” shrinks from ~50 to ~23 mi and a water conservation analogy
57:30 - passing Kern County Raceway and dinner with many heavy hitters
58:15 - mountains approaching and questioning if regen works better at lower speed
Patreon questions:
1:01:25 - wasn’t there supposed to be a Road and Track event in CO? Did I miss it?
1:02:17 - what is the moment in time where you said, “yes, I want to be in automotive journalism?”
1:05:29 - favorite I-5 stops between LA and SF? (1:06:40 - range buffer is now 18mi)
1:07:46 - Akio Toyoda recently rolled a rally car while testing and displayed it outside a new R&D facility in Japan; Jim Farley said that he wouldn’t do anything behind the wheel of a race car that could risk his safety. Is there any other auto car exec willing to roll a car like that?
1:09:13 - looking at a 997.2 Carrera S; read reviews comparing it to E90 M3 and some say that the 997 is too good and lacks fizz, would you agree?
1:11:19 - my friend “needs” an EV for occasional canyon/track work and fun family daily; deciding between leasing an Ioniq 5N and a used Taycan 4S
1:13:20 - top 3 historic cars you’d love to have a go in?
1:15:14 - how do you price cars without many comparisons?
1:20:12 - why does VW group use the same SUV platform for Audi/Lamborghini/Bentley but won’t give the people an Audi/Porsche V12 supercar powered by the Lamborghini engine?
1:22:32 - “three” - range buffer now down to 3mi
1:23:27 - are there any electric power steering cars that have similar feel to a hydraulic rack? What new cars have the best, most engaging steering?
1:24:50 - when is a time to leave a mechanic?
1:27:10 - Matt, has anyone questioned your fun car color choices by talking about your colorblindness?
1:28:07 - estimated range is now no longer enough to get home and looking for a charger
1:30:32 - I can’t believe you forgot the Focus RS when someone was looking for an American AWD car
1:31:58 - are there any websites that focus on cars imported from Europe?
1:32:23 - car now says that it won’t make it to the charger?
1:34:50 - $100k max budget, what gives a racing/high-reving experience but with good reliability?
1:35:19 - why are there so many FL plates in NJ?
1:35:50 - update on the Countach?
1:36:06 - would you consider a used Lucid?
1:36:45 - what do you guys thing is the reason more Euro brands aren’t trying to break into the US market?
1:38:36 - Matt thinks Zack can go 65 mph and still make it to the charger
1:39:09 - end of Patreon questions and show, talk of range anxiety and efficiency
1:42:35 - car now says two miles left at stop
1:44:00 - now four miles left at stop!
1:46:06 - new goal: 11mi of range at stop so that the A/C doesn’t go away
1:47:08 - Zack: “wish us luck!”
Thanks!
I'm sure y'all have already heard about it from others, but I think the audio version that went out (love the title on it, btw) is the same audio as the last ep. about Alex Choi, etc. Thanks for the awesome work as always!
It's fixed on Spotify now! On apple, I have no idea 😅
@@goldendevereauxit’s still not fixed on apple.
Most big truck automatic transmissions are automated manuals, if it was a 12 speed then almost certainly so. I'd also be willing to bet that they picked a very low powered truck(370hp Detroit DD13) to do the A/B comparison with the E trailer to maximize the differential.
The fact that the audio is so clear goes to show how quiet the Sapphire is inside the cabin sheeesh 😮💨
Or audio editing lol
The sarcastic wave at the left lane camper🤌🏻😆
I know that you all are in California, but seeing the number of cars that you're passing while in the right lane, makes me think that you're driving the TransCanada through Alberta/BC.
I have no idea how or why people suddenly decided that the left lane was the appropriate place to sit, doing 5 under the speed limit, but I really wish that they would go back to driver's ed.
I'm normally the nitpicky audio guy - complaining about the microphone on the table without a cloth before - but I didn't find the fan noise offensive at all. Maybe it's not triggering or I'm not sensitive to pink noise like that, but it's fine to me. It's at a reasonable level and you guys are more than audible, whatever the postprocessing is it works great. I know there are tools like Nvidia RTX Voice which do similar things as well with really impressive results. Edit: well I take that back - some snap crackle and pop from the audio a few times around 30 minutes. But that's a different problem.
Zack making that water analogy and Matt taking the conversation to something his sink while using the cooled seat functions was pure comedy
I-5 in the Central Valley is the worst. I always know that drive will be frustrating. It’s almost as bad as I-10 between Phoenix and Casa Grande (where the Lucid was built), but the bad part of I-10 is much shorter than I-5.
As a younger person in the UK (where highway fuel is insanely expensive) with no money, this was me on every road trip! Drafting trucks to get more range and get to a station having skipped the last station because the price was silly. Now I live in the US I haven't done it for while.
Audio is great! "Will We Make It?" could be the title for in-car podcasts 😆
Got a little funky around 33-35min but again, pretty good for in-car
Love that G-Shock watch
Only good stop on I5 between LA and SF are Harris Ranch express BBQ (I5 as it passes South West Fresno) and even there get your food and go or eat in, It's next to their cattle ranch so if you can't take the smell of a farmyard while eating get your food and keep it moving.
Taste of India in Buttonwillow is surprisingly good. I’m not sure it’s worth the stop, but if you want a sit down dinner and you’re in that area, I recommend it.
Firestone Grill in Bakersfield is worth planning your trip around. Different than the brewery, but same company as the Firestone Grill in downtown SLO. Not exactly between SF and LA, but between SF and Mojave Desert, plenty of trailer parking too.
Man what you mentioned at the end is the most annoying thing about my e-Golf. It disables heating and AC below 20 miles of range. That includes the windshield defroster. Meaning in the winter or on very hot days I have to make sure I have enough range to get home PLUS 20 miles. When I KNOW its enough to get home and plug it in with everything running.
Being "in regen" at a lower speed downhill will generate more energy per mile because less energy will be lost to air resistance. The efficiency difference between 40mph and 70mph will be basically the same as driving 40 vs 70 on a flat road. The efficiency of a motor does vary with speed, which may change the difference a bit, but won't invert it.
Great theory I hope it’s actually true!
Porsche 997.2 is a sports car, the E90 is a sports sedan. The 911 is more agile and has better control feedback. The steering is the last Porsche hydraulic system and has great feel.
The audio file on Apple Podcasts is still the Alex choi episode. This one on UA-cam is also listed as 930 and the lucid one on Apple Podcasts is 931 and Alex choi is 930.
Talk about hot weather on track. I just did a 2-day HPDE at Barber in AL. 99 degrees both days. And that’s a humid heat.
What Matt said at 38:45, I totally agree now with a daily fast EV. I never thought I’d be that person while I had my enthusiast cars, but now I almost have a disdain for loud exhaust cars trying to go fast. It’s weird how that happens with EV ownership.
watching in real time as you both had serious range anxiety is EXACTLY WHY I will not be buying an EV anytime soon. Thanks for the reminder.
Oh shit, that split screen is hot.
The Apple compass app will show your current elevation along with lat/lon and city/state.
That G Shock is nice
Been trying to get those but difficult to find them in my country
is that the anime 💦💦💦
8:00 They complain about left lane lurking while lurking in the left lane and getting passed on the right... Move over, you can drive at the same speed
Around the 1:00:00 mark y’all are talking about regen and how it works. The amount of regen is easiest to think of as inverse power. So you use 1234 hp to go fast or you can use -1234 hp to slow down. And the sweet spot where the cruise control can hold the car at 65mph is somewhere between 0 and that theoretical -1234hp.
No heat is recaptured through use of the friction brakes.
And you will lose less range by going slower in general. Less efficiency losses to rolling resistance and wind resistance. So by going slower down hill you will go farther per charge.
A 26 MPG semi is amazing, even it it's only for 60 miles. My PHEV gets 30 mpg towing a Miata for 100 miles. The Miata itself is only capable of 28 MPG lol!
Those Maserati GT Trofeo cars sound like the end of the world. Would highly recommend a listen. Best sounding V8 of all time
Matt,a manual transmission semi with a halfway experienced driver would remove a full 1/4 of the 0 to 60 time of that automatic piece of s***. Especially with an extremely light load in the box like 20,000 lbs. You really need to take a deep dive into all the failed technology put into all these garbage new semi tractors. I've been professionally driving for over 35 years and it is never been this dangerous out here solely due to all the technology that does not work. We now have mandated automatic braking combined with anti-lock brakes that already do not work and never will work on air brake vehicles they only extend the stopping distance.
Ah the pure luxury of a $250k car that makes you wonder if you'll make it to your destination.
Zacks G-Shock is so rad
I appreciate Weissach being pronounced correctly! Next: teaching Americans how to say Folksfagen :D
Holy left lane campers. That highway really is bad for that
I routinely get 170 plus kilowatts from 150 kW chargers, not throughout the entire duration of the charge. I think the qualification for rating them is probably average charge over a course of time
The argument of used EV vs new EV for the channel, I’d got for used because there really isn’t much info on that. But as you say, it’s always fun to fantasize with other peoples money!
Great video guys. Zach, love that watch. Have been eyeing it since it came out.
Semi truck automatic transmissions are so because they are not synchro trans gears. The computer has to manually do the same thing a driver does with control of rpm’s and moving those giant hearsay the right time.
This video shows why I don’t want an electric car
So did they make it?
Doesn't the AC running the whole time take out about 20+miles of range on most EVs? In the ioniq, running the AC cuts about that amount out of the range every time i run it. It's very stressful, certainly in the middle of the desert.
enjoy the drive podcasts, the sound if any isn't a problem IMO, its all part of the vibe. Nearly everyone on board is a car guy, so car/driving noise isn't a bad thing.
The Smoking Faucet Podcast
Thanks for explaining why I will never own a battery only vehicle.
But range anxiety doesn’t exist according to the EV zealots. What you experienced is exactly what I’ve been experiencing for the past three months renting EVs. The amount of miles I do in a week requires a charge and I’m almost always in remote/rural areas.
Thankfully my anxiety is self inflicted and I’m going back to renting ICE vehicles. Was renting them as a test and to knock my carbon footprint down. Company requirement that I track it and I’m tired of hearing all the BS from the office.
Altitude is in the compass app
One Take of zack in a 997 s please…and i got range anxiety watching this video lol
Did you say the countach is going to ITALY?? Is Doug’s countach guy actually not good??
I couldn't deal with the faulty range estimate
“Let me slow down and also make myself less comfortable (HVAC) so I can make it to a charger that may or may not be there and may or may not be functional/occupied when I get there” sounds absolutely terrible and is not progress.
It would be a damn shame if turning on the cooled seat function ruins your mileage. LoL.
Get a Tesla so you can use the NACS TESLA CHARGING stations.. The Rivian and Ford Products also work..
Kettleman city! Home of a tesla charger, an in n out, a trashy hotel, and nothing else lol
1:20:00
@zack is that the magna g shock? Y’all need to list the watches you’re wearing in the description, similar to how motorcycle journalists list their riding gear.
Yes it is and no they really don't. Riding gear is essential a watch is not. It's not even the same sport.
Give me a break Ben, it’s a little tongue in cheek, they get the question often. Of course they don’t “have to”. It would be fun if they did.
@@sz-4b0B9I I listened to an episode where they mentioned it, an Matt said it had a titanium body. Only until this episode which I watched, I noticed it. Magna’s are Jdm right? Do you know if there is a story behind it?
the compass app on iphone will show you elevation
Move like Helicopter - Bassnectar. Check out that jam
27:55 lol
They must have known the guys from the Smoking Tire were going to be coming by to charge their vehicle because it doesn't matter where I go to charge my car, it's going to be a bitch to get it done. Just today I had to search for available chargers and I had to go to 3 places before I found one that I was able to get it to work. The first place I went to had a massive live that would have made me wait probably 2 hours before I could even get to plug my car in and I didn't have that luxury to just sit there and wait that long. The second place only had 2 chargers working out of 8 chargers. The chargers said they were working and I called their support line for help because I didn't know if I had enough of a charge to go anywhere else. There support team made me wait there for about 45min trying to get there chargers to work from there end and they failed and told me to come back tomorrow and they should be working by then. Like I could just sit in my car in a stripmall all day and all night to hope that they would then work again. I couldn't even believe that there was anyone on this planet stupid enough to tell me to come back tomorrow. Nobody who drives to a charging station has the power to drive home and come back tomorrow. That's why they are at a charging station. They also obviously need to get somewhere that day and can't afford to just lose a day sitting in their cars in some shity strip mall in the middle of nowhere. I told her that she needs to call my boss and explain to him why I'm going to spend my night in my car away from my family and that I lost a client that spends about 100k a year because I was not able to get to my appointment with him that day. I suggested that she should pay for my loss since it's her companies fault that I used the last of my cars power to charge at her station because it said that it was working and it wasn't working for two days before I even chose to go there. she just told me to please hold and never picked up the phone again. I got lucky and made it to another charging station but their touchscreen wasn't working well and it refused to read 9 out of the 10 credit cards that I tried to use.I never once went to a charging station where the sun isn't beating on the chargers touchscreen. They are always impossible to read in that direct sunlight and the touchscreens almost never work because they are cooking in that sun all day. Who designed these chargers anyway? I cant believe that they couldn't have forseen this as being a major problem and they don't seem to want to change that genius design of theirs.All they need to do is put a piece of plastic over it so that it gives the parts of it that people need to be able to use a little bit of shade and out of the weather. Every single charge station I have ever been too it's like that. It doesn't even matter what companies chargers it is, you can count on them being baked in the sun so badly that they don't work. Tesla would never have been so stupid to design a charger so badly and Elon would have fixed them immediately once he heard someone complain about that kind of a problem. Also why do most of these chargers also have that CHADMO charging built into their fast chargers. Nobody is going to drive to a fast charger and plug in that CHADMO and wait a day for their car to charge when they can just plug in to their 120 volt outlet at home and do it. What car even uses these CHADMO chargers and how old is that car? The biggest regret in my life was letting my wife talk me into buying an electric car. It's just not worth it and its only going to get a lot worse here before it gets better. You don't even save much money on gas with what they are charging to use these chargers and I bet a million bucks that they are going to raise the prices to charge your car way higher than what gas costs today in a year or two once more people trade in their gas vehicles for electric ones. These Electric cars are not meant to last more than 5 years before they will start to constantly break down and cost you a fortune to repair. You would be a complete fool to buy a used one or try to keep driving your electric car once the warranty expires on your new one. Electric cars are just disposable cars that cost you 60k to 150k to buy and then throw them away after 5 years because they wont be worth jack shit once their warranty expires. That's going to fill up junk yards really quickly and it's not being green at all. Not to mention that our electricity we use to charge these glorified golf carts all comes from coal powered plants. So this does nothing to help our environment at all since we will be burning that much more coal to charge all these electric cars. This is all just a scam to bilk more money out of the people because nobody really cares about saving our environment with a plan like this. 90's analog cars are the way to go. That was where automobile technology was at its best and it's all down hill from here. I'm going to buy myself a couple of good condition Toyota trucks and drive them till I die. I will save myself hundreds of thousands of dollars and I will have the luxury of getting to where I need to be stress free and on time. I learned the hard way and I will never be so stupid to drive electric cars ever again. I'm just going to drive by those chargers and laugh at all the idiots fighting and waiting to charge their cars every day. But I'm going to drive this electric piece of shit off of a cliff first. I would be feel terrible if I were to sell this to someone and have them get mad at me for not warning them first. I'll just call it a loss and move on with my life again.
Holy shit, did you really type out a 2 hour long message? I didn’t read it but I’m gonna agree with you lol 🤣🤣
This is the bad thing about AVs. I would absolutely never even waste a penny of my money on one. Never.
So did u make it? A bit of a cliff hanger.
25 minutes in and a few minutes whining at the left lane hogger, then hogged the left lane. Oh come on Zack you have indicators and a steering wheel. Use them mate!
The right to left lane change he made at 6:12 is absolutely baffling. The left lane was actually going slower. Then he gets passed on the right by 2 cars. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
I dont want to be a little bi...t,but SEAT is not a french brand,is spanish,from Spain(barely,because they are part of the VW group,so they are under the same mqb,mbl,etc platforms.At least,most of them are made in Spain)
That highway is so flat. Like a board. Unrelenting flatness in every direction
U guise r chil.
Eim glad 2 b lukin @ ur bideos 😊
Using the car's system to find the nearest charging station instead of your phone... 😅
Complain about left lane lurkers. Becomes a left lane lurker.
Thumbs down for ending the podcast before you got to the charger...sorry
I have never experienced any of this mile math with a Tesla. This is absurd. 8 years / 100k+ miles.
I'm alergic to the filler word "like". Matt for the love of God, stop. You are addicted to that
America needs to learn a lot from the rest of the world. But camping the left lame 😅 what are you guys doing 🙈
First? Not that it matters...
Third on the feed haha
the bots beat you
Moral of the story…..EVs are NOT the alternative to ICE 🤷♂️ Too much ancillary BS
Jesus does Matt look big. He’s gotta be well north of 300+ lbs. Dude is a few quarter pounders away from a heart attack
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