Thank you for watching even though the video is a little rough. Recording, documenting and editing our road trips is definitely a learning curve for us.
I appreciate the mountains of data that you have provided, and I’m intrigued that you chose your stops after charging. BUT, I don’t understand why you didn’t push your range further and charge deeper at each stop. If you explained it in your commentary then I apologize as I skipped over a fair amount of your footage, even though I saw part of every charging session. I would think that driving 140-170 miles a hop, then charging to 85 or 90% while eating and breaking would be more enjoyable. Safe travels!
The average distance between EA stations on that route is 90-120 miles. Between the speeds, wind and elevation changes, skipping a station wouldn’t be feasible or even possible in some situations. The realistic range of the EV6 in the above mentioned conditions is 200ish miles at 100% SOC. So in order to go longer distances than we did, would require nearly 100% charge at each stop. This would take more time in the long run. We did do several sub 90 mile jaunts, but this was out of preference. When driving this many miles in such a short number of days, stopping often is a welcome thing.
@@Everythingevs Thank you for your kind reply. We have a Volvo C40 with 240ish miles of range and a BMW iX with 340ish. Road trips happen in the iX. I guess we’re fortunate that we can skip the next charger, and then eat and deep charge to do it again. Again, I really appreciate the info you provided. I watched all three episodes, if only to see your charging experience. As always, safe travels!
I was wondering why you use your phone for the route planning instead of just put your final destination into the navigation for the car? Does it not do the route planning for you?
The Kia onboard route planning is horrendous. It will take you to all sorts of stations that are out of the way or low power. It will have you stopping at stations with 50%-70% SOC and tell you to charge to 100%. It is completely useless. The only onboard route planning that actually works good is Tesla.
Thanks for the information. Thanks for the video. That's kind of disappointing to hear. I was going back and forth between Kia and Tesla. Iike EV 6 better overall but that's a big disadvantage.
The car can go much further, but the spacing of the EA stations made it to where we needed to stop at almost every location along the route unless we wanted to sit at every other location and charge to 100%.
5-15 minutes on average for charging depending on the gap to the next station. We ended up overcharging quite often, as the car charges faster than we can run in for a bathroom break.
@galihpa lol. No. The mic kept disconnecting, so the audio defaulted to the phone mic which was right beside his face, especially in the car. And of course we didn’t realize this until after the trip. Parts 2 & 3 are a lot better, solved a majority of the audio issues.
Well done, plenty of great information, especially for all the first timers out there.
Thank you for watching even though the video is a little rough. Recording, documenting and editing our road trips is definitely a learning curve for us.
Crafting excellent video is a full time job. You’re putting up a good show, don’t sweat the small stuff. Part 2 was fun, too.
I appreciate the mountains of data that you have provided, and I’m intrigued that you chose your stops after charging. BUT, I don’t understand why you didn’t push your range further and charge deeper at each stop. If you explained it in your commentary then I apologize as I skipped over a fair amount of your footage, even though I saw part of every charging session. I would think that driving 140-170 miles a hop, then charging to 85 or 90% while eating and breaking would be more enjoyable.
Safe travels!
The average distance between EA stations on that route is 90-120 miles. Between the speeds, wind and elevation changes, skipping a station wouldn’t be feasible or even possible in some situations. The realistic range of the EV6 in the above mentioned conditions is 200ish miles at 100% SOC. So in order to go longer distances than we did, would require nearly 100% charge at each stop. This would take more time in the long run. We did do several sub 90 mile jaunts, but this was out of preference. When driving this many miles in such a short number of days, stopping often is a welcome thing.
@@Everythingevs Thank you for your kind reply. We have a Volvo C40 with 240ish miles of range and a BMW iX with 340ish. Road trips happen in the iX. I guess we’re fortunate that we can skip the next charger, and then eat and deep charge to do it again.
Again, I really appreciate the info you provided. I watched all three episodes, if only to see your charging experience.
As always, safe travels!
@ViaBuenCorazon Thanks for watching!
I was wondering why you use your phone for the route planning instead of just put your final destination into the navigation for the car? Does it not do the route planning for you?
The Kia onboard route planning is horrendous. It will take you to all sorts of stations that are out of the way or low power. It will have you stopping at stations with 50%-70% SOC and tell you to charge to 100%. It is completely useless. The only onboard route planning that actually works good is Tesla.
Thanks for the information. Thanks for the video. That's kind of disappointing to hear. I was going back and forth between Kia and Tesla. Iike EV 6 better overall but that's a big disadvantage.
yo~ ell trip!
Thank you for watching!
What is the app on your phone that tell you about the heat on the battery?
CarScanner. It is available for Apple and Android.
It seems you stop around every ninety miles. Is that necessary with this car?
The car can go much further, but the spacing of the EA stations made it to where we needed to stop at almost every location along the route unless we wanted to sit at every other location and charge to 100%.
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How much are you spending at each stop?
5-15 minutes on average for charging depending on the gap to the next station. We ended up overcharging quite often, as the car charges faster than we can run in for a bathroom break.
What were your tire pressures on the trip?
38-40 PSI
Squeaky steering wheel
Yep.
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Damn the sound is low and really bad and the music high after 30 min i have to stop watching 👎
Well aware of this, thus the disclaimer at the start of the video disclosing the audio issues. In parts 2 & 3 these issues were remedied.
Was your cameraman having asthma during the whole journey?
@galihpa lol. No. The mic kept disconnecting, so the audio defaulted to the phone mic which was right beside his face, especially in the car. And of course we didn’t realize this until after the trip. Parts 2 & 3 are a lot better, solved a majority of the audio issues.