I really admire your dedication and effort on doing such a long trip with that car. Very representative on what long distance EV trip is. At least with that car. Constant charging, constant planning, constant worrying if the charger will charge or will it charge with enough power. That stress on top of driving is just..., no. I really hope you do not do those often. I wouldn't. This shows how EVs are no the solution for long frequent trips. May be in the future, who knows. Never the less I'm amazed on the engineering of those charging stations. Imagine anything over 100KW/h of constant output. That is just... WOW. A Nuclear plant is producing around 1GW/h for one block and you manage to deliver to one vehicle from 100KW/h to 300KW/h. Imagine having 100 vehicles at top peak - 30MWh. This is the equivalent of one day production on a small to a medium hydroelectric plant (in Europe). Every charging station can charge a small village or a street of about 10 houses on peek power. The cable that you put in your vehicle is used to deliver the power to that small village. For the newer generation that sees only electricity as something given and moan if it is a low output charger - read a book about it, or even easier see a video series on the matter. Then I hope you you will understand what an astonishing achievement and how hard the system has to work to deliver such enormous power to just one vehicle, let alone 100 or 1000 at the same time. And you might understand and be humble about it when those chargers are slower or even do not work. Or even try to consume less of that precious "liquid". All that I'm saying is that people think that the production and distribution of liquid fuel is hard and dirty but production and distribution of electricity is easy and clean. Think again and appreciate it more .
Well actually I’m doing trips like this on at least a monthly basis and that’s also why I plan that much - I want to get every last second of optimization out of the trips because I love to do that. I could also just go and drive and charge however the car tells me but that’s just not my kind of traveling. And to the amounts of power put out - sure it’s a masterpiece in technology but the hardware developments make you get used to high power outputs and it’s just nothing special anymore. It’s also way easier and more efficient to transport that electric energy over long distances than it is with fossil fuels. For the whole trip I used about the same energy as 15 liters of petrol contain, so just to keep that in mind.
We are probably around 0,40-0,45€/kWh on average, and that’s really pretty much the cheapest you can get at fast chargers… goes up to almost 0,90€/kWh at other CPO’s stations easily!
Nico, totally not bored nice video and I sure loved the model Y in the back with the midnight cherry red❤😀
Thank you, love to hear that 😁
Yessss that color is just amazing!
I really admire your dedication and effort on doing such a long trip with that car. Very representative on what long distance EV trip is. At least with that car. Constant charging, constant planning, constant worrying if the charger will charge or will it charge with enough power. That stress on top of driving is just..., no. I really hope you do not do those often. I wouldn't.
This shows how EVs are no the solution for long frequent trips. May be in the future, who knows.
Never the less I'm amazed on the engineering of those charging stations. Imagine anything over 100KW/h of constant output. That is just... WOW. A Nuclear plant is producing around 1GW/h for one block and you manage to deliver to one vehicle from 100KW/h to 300KW/h. Imagine having 100 vehicles at top peak - 30MWh. This is the equivalent of one day production on a small to a medium hydroelectric plant (in Europe). Every charging station can charge a small village or a street of about 10 houses on peek power. The cable that you put in your vehicle is used to deliver the power to that small village. For the newer generation that sees only electricity as something given and moan if it is a low output charger - read a book about it, or even easier see a video series on the matter. Then I hope you you will understand what an astonishing achievement and how hard the system has to work to deliver such enormous power to just one vehicle, let alone 100 or 1000 at the same time. And you might understand and be humble about it when those chargers are slower or even do not work. Or even try to consume less of that precious "liquid". All that I'm saying is that people think that the production and distribution of liquid fuel is hard and dirty but production and distribution of electricity is easy and clean. Think again and appreciate it more .
Well actually I’m doing trips like this on at least a monthly basis and that’s also why I plan that much - I want to get every last second of optimization out of the trips because I love to do that. I could also just go and drive and charge however the car tells me but that’s just not my kind of traveling.
And to the amounts of power put out - sure it’s a masterpiece in technology but the hardware developments make you get used to high power outputs and it’s just nothing special anymore. It’s also way easier and more efficient to transport that electric energy over long distances than it is with fossil fuels.
For the whole trip I used about the same energy as 15 liters of petrol contain, so just to keep that in mind.
What’s the average price of the Tesla superchargers in 🇩🇪 here in Holland it’s about €0,23 k/wh
We are probably around 0,40-0,45€/kWh on average, and that’s really pretty much the cheapest you can get at fast chargers… goes up to almost 0,90€/kWh at other CPO’s stations easily!