EQ 009 - Say Goodbye to Frozen Charge Ports
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- If you charge your EV outside in the winter, how do you prevent ice and snow from getting in your charge port? Is there a solution to prevent water, snow and ice from getting in your charge port when you charge your car? The answer is yes, and you can learn all about it in this video about the MaCapuche.com charge port cover that is available for a variety of EVs (see link below). In this video I show you what the port cover is, how to install it, how it protects when covered in snow and ice, and how to remove it, all on done my Kia EV6 GT-Line Pack 2.
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I am NOT affiliated, NOR paid by Guillaume or his company called Macapuche. I did receive my EV6 port cover for free because I helped with the creation of the EV6 version of his port cover.
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MaCapuche.com website:
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Français: macapuche.com/francais
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00:00 Intro
00:26 What is a MaCapuche?
01:27 Full disclosure
01:40 Installing the port cover
03:12 Unofficial 2nd step
04:45 Ice covered port & uninstallation
07:02 Trunk blocked by ice
07:57 Which cars can be protected with a cover?
08:30 Please help!
09:05 Hoodies
09:23 Bloopers 
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I like the Ioniq5 upwards opening port better, since it covers the port to some degree. It did freeze open once and I had to blowdry it to close. I have been using a mirror cover since then and haven't had an issue.
Yes, having it open upwards is a bit better, but with the snow and ice that you saw in this video, it would have not worked. The mirror cover is a good idea. FYI MaCapuche makes a port cover for the Ioniq 5 😎.
good info as always thank you Andre
Thank you very much.
Great video ! Well explained.
Thank you very much. 😎
Thanks Andre, I kinda like the dimpled effect the ice has on the paintwork, living in the tropics, I will never see that !!!
It is very pretty, but not when you are recording take after take because your mouth is frozen and not cooperating, and your fingers start to freeze 😎
un abris auto est la meilleur solution, plus besoin de déblayer l'auto. Je sauve tellement de temps
J'ai déjà eu des abris, c'est très utile, mais le montage, démontage et entreposage me fatiguais. J'y pense encore, ou de faire construire un car port. Cependant, si je fais un car port je veux que le toit soit entièrement en pannaux solaires = $$$
Looks like a pain in the butt to me. I would probably just build a small overhang over that area where I parked the car so that snow and ice could not get to it.
Spending 45 seconds putting the port cover on is a lot less expensive than building an extension to the house.
@@EV-olution depends on how long you are planning on keeping the car i guess
It looks like the idea maybe came from a BBQ cover. Nice job guys.
He started by simply wanting something for his Tesla Models 3, but when he showed it he started getting requests to buy them so he started his company. Before he started people were using all sorts of creative methods, trash bags, oven mitts (yes, you read that correctly), tarps, etc. Some people still use alternative things, but I really like the quality of the MaCapuche product.
@@EV-olution Ya my brother got creative with his PHEV a few times when he had it years ago. I appreciate this though, especially to support a Canadian company.
Its great that agent smith found work within the matrix. No cameo from Neo?
Mr. CNDUSER, how will you ask your next question without fingers to type? 😎
You should do a road trip with your Kia Ev6
I made a roadtrip video once in 2020, or 21, and it is not something I enjoy doing. Which is the reason I have not made another.
Merci André, excellent et très bien expliqué, j'avais installé la mienne à 2 reprises mais tu as simplifié le processus. Quel produit utilises-tu pour protéger ton pare-brise?
Ça me fait plaisir, et merci. Comme mentionné dans la vidéo, j'ai un protecteur de pare-brise et je vais faire une vidéo. Tu peux le voir sur mon site Web dans la section Products I Use. Il fait de justesse car je l'avais acheté pour ma Niro EV, qui est plus petite, mais ça fonctionne bien.
Thats really cool actually. What do you do with the cover? Do you take it with you or leave in the house? Could it be for example put onto the wallbox so it wont be icy?
I hope they can ship it to Europe as well.
Yes, Guillaume will ship to Europe; I asked before making the video. As for what I do with it, like I show in the video at 6:24 I tap the ice off, fold it and throw it into my back seat. I usually put it in the trunk though. You could hang it on the EVSE, but I don't need to since the wind blows away from this side of the house so neither of my charging stations get snow, ice, or water!
The website in Quebec is not available now?????
I don't know what you mean. All of the links in the video description work for me.
how about when you drive 400km in snowy weather, whole back is covered snow and ice...
I have done that and just like with a gas car, where the gas port cover gets covered, you just use your snow brush to clean it off. Also, in 99.9% of the times it has happened to me, I just press the open port button in the car and it opens, but I still prefer to clean it off with the snow brush first.
Je pensais que la capuche tiendrait avec des aimants collants sur la carrosserie?
Ça aurait pu, mais sur une surface verticale ce n’est pas une bonne idée car la pesanteur de la neige ferait glisser les aimants et ça pourrait graffigner la peinture.
The day will come when the car manufacturers make the charge port deeper so that the door can be closed over the charge cable and a colour matched rubber grommet seals the charging port. With bi- directional EV'S this will become more of a issue.
I live in London (UK) and and a heavy show storm and over night freezing temperatures froze up the micro switch on my charge port door so the car kept nagging me with a error message that filled the whole screen, it's a Kia e-niro thing !!
I had a 2019 Niro EV before and had a port cover for it from this same company. I made the video about it in 2020. If you get snow often enough then it is worth getting one.
André, penses tu que le model pour le TESLA Model S, (ruclips.net/video/8tCNNN6U3HE/видео.html), pourrait faire? je trouve que 180$ pour celle de la EV6 est un peu trop.. ??
La version pour la EV6 est très gros pour couvrir tous ce que je montre, et la forme est très spécifique, donc non, je ne crois pas qu'une autre version puisse faire. Effectivement, à 180$ c'est cher.
Ur EV6 is not cooperating with you in this video
😆 it was a pain in the a$$ 😂
@@EV-olution 😂😂😂
Hi Andre i wondered if you had any problems with the body silhouette lights being stuck on in the cold like here ruclips.net/video/v4gCFj-BL1c/видео.html
No, I have not noticed that as an issue and I see my car in the dark quite a bit since I go to the gym and leave before 5am. For the menu, they are called the welcome lights and are linked to the "On approach" and "On unlock" options you looked at. I would try disabling that option and power cycle the car.
@@EV-olution Cheers Andre . Done that,no dice. From the comments i’ve managed to find someone in Norway who now says it’s moisture in the drivers door controller which is linked to the door handle pad failure as well.
Well that sucks! I am very surprised because I have seen how the doors are made, when I had my car protected with rust protection. It must be a badly built control module and you just unlucky. I hope it gets resolved quickly.
@@EV-olution I had mine in November 2021 so probably affected by quality component issues during pandemic. Yours is probably built better being later.