Awesome to see you on the road!

Was it solar powered? Or naw

@@derekderek2570 I don’t remember

I wonder if it was the one in Lima, just outside Idaho.

Ya

“Road trip through the lens” is great if you’re a Switzerland fan.

Me too

after dipping my toe in the ev world i traded my little bolt ev for a model s. the only problem now is how soon can i purchase another tesla.

@Stolen Election yes it was but at the time, the model s was way down in price so i opted for paying a little more than i would have for a model 3 i was eyeing. so with the trading in the model s looked like a bargain after it was said and done.

That may be true, but was it works getting lumped into the much hated d-bag smug Tesla owners?

The crazy part about this is how easily the Y keeps up and even passes the MachE and kyle only uses v2 in this video. I'm pretty confidently that by the way they are rolling out v3s there should be more v3s then v2s by year end. Kinda bugs me how kyle always only manages to find v2s, almost like he puts on kid gloves to try and spare the other evs embarrassment.

FYI for any other viewers, Ayden and ​@Toby Joziah here are bots. They are having this fake conversation to try to convince you to google Instaplekt, which is certainly a virus/keylogger/RAT/scam of some kind.

IMO the issue isn't hightway driving, there are enough stations on interstates. But if you want to travel off the beaten path, or outside of major metro areas, it's another story. Nearest DCFC to my place is over an hour away, and several "day trips" I have done recently haven't had any available. I don't have an EV yet, but pay attention to see how practical it will be for me. Now-in some parts of the country that's not an issue. In maybe 90%....it still is. We have a ways to go before DCFCs become as common as gas pumps. But it's coming!

Neat - I didn't know you could do that. Thanks for the tip!

Just wait till you have cars 3-5 deep at each charging station...if you have all the time in the world and like that type of thing you will be in your best world.

@@GoogleDoesEvil I’m under warranty, and even if I wasn’t I still wouldn’t “WORK” on it. I wouldn’t even try.

@@GoogleDoesEvil I was drafted in high school, dropped out, joined the USAF, served in Viet Nam, first Gulf War and other FUN adventures for 22 years, got my education retired in 1993 then with those skills and education I acquired in the USAF I worked another 28 years and just retired. I guess one could say I was lucky. I worked hard and you make the best out of what life hands you. Cheers USAF Retired

@@thomasjacques5286 - that joker wouldn’t even recognize the hard work and sacrifice. The “lucky” part is your work ethic and dedication. Fortunate is probably a better word, but these kids carry $1k cell phones on payment plans and then cry about not having any money. The sad part is that they are very unlucky to live such soft and sheltered lives. When everybody that is 40 right now is dead, these snowflakes are going to starve. 💀 😂

They both were the same, they only had a slight user error because he said they didn’t push the charger all the way in, human error

@@KimmieDeeToons Not in the video when he drove the electric Ford, he was having all sorts of issues. In this one, there were a lot less issues luckily.

@@brandtc.7991 Yeah that video was brutal.

Wondering if ioniq 5 or taycan would do better than ford. Both of them using faster charging 350kw 800V system

Yeah i have been leaning away from getting a Tesla because I really like some of the other less expensive options but that Mach E video has me really wondering if the other auto makers are ready for prime time. I can imagine dealing with my family on a long trip while the chargers and the car are all effed up.

Kyle sure makes it look fun!

I like Colby, too! The trucker/Supercharger station is one of the biggest I've ever been in. I travel from Colorado to Kansas just to attend the small town car shows in my Tesla. Great people in Kansas.

The stops don't take as long as one might fear. In the time to get a bathroom break, then get a snack, you will usually be charged up enough

Tesla with warm battery charges at more than 100kw, which is adding, like, 300-400 miles of range per hour of charging, so Kyle’s typical stop, unless he’s killing time (like he did a lot of in this vid), is no more than 20 minutes.

One thing everyone forgets is that on a daily and weekly basis your ev is charged up for you every morning which can saves quite a bit of time in your day to day life not having to stop for fuel. So when you do go on a road trip you are just using up some of that time you saved not getting gas day to day. If you don't do a ton of long road trips you will actually save time over an ice vehicle if you figure out all the time you spend getting gas

It’s an evolving situation

He covers this in other videos. Basically you want to charge just enough to have a 5-10% battery charge when you reach the next closest Supercharger. Typically it'll charge to around 50-65%, then when the charging speed starts to taper down, that's when you want to go. In colder weather or really heavy headwinds and/or going uphill, you may want to charge until you have a 20% buffer just in case. Kyle will tend to try to get to the Supercharger at 5% or less when possible. If he has more charge as he gets close, he'll speed up a little to burn up more electricity so as to arrive with a lower state of charge. While this is overall the fastest way to road trip in a Tesla, for others it's more about the road trip experience, so in other Tesla road trip videos, those KZfaqrs will often play it safe and have a 20-30% buffer between charging stops. There's nothing wrong with that too, because although there's a lot of Superchargers around, it still doesn't have coverage everywhere. Even in some of Kyle's previous videos he tries to take the off-beaten path once in a while, and runs into trouble because the charger isn't working, or he has to slow way down due to weather conditions being worse than expected. I think we saw some in his summer 2020 road trip, where he tried to find some CHAdeMO stations and they weren't working.

@@Geckogold Thanks - I haven't see those videos. Part of what I was asking would relate to whether or not watt hours per mile goes up linearly with speed or not. I would suspect that is geometric. The question then is where is the bend in the curve where the best balance between speed and consumption occurs.

@@nobrien1 The best balance is to rip it as fast as possible to the next station and pull in with a low state of charge. In a model 3 at a supercharger you add charge significantly faster than you consume charge. Even if you drive at 100mph and consume 500 wh/mi you will replenish charge at 10x the speed at the next supercharger station. The only exception is if the supercharger station is significantly off your route, you need to charge to a high soc, or if it is the last leg of your route and you can get to the final destination by going slower instead of stopping.

This guy Starbucks.

True but I've fallen prey to their bonus star missions on occasion and ordered things I didn't actually want. Now wiser, I always order then check if any of the bonus stars apply to my order before checking out.

Yumm

Like a Boss!

Hopefully they don't rope us in for a minimum amount of months because I could definitely get by with only subscribing for 2-3 months of the year. Locked fsd in on my cybertruck order but I opted out on my 3 because it didn't add enough and figured it would be a while until it did.

100%

It's the strawberry açaí road trip! 😁

The Tesla route planner doesn't show availability of the Strawberry Acai Refresher along the route as it should.

I liked the cool lime better, think it was called that, before they stopped selling them and had to switch the the strawberry refresher :)