I got my Tesla and A2Z adapter on the same day in June! I’ve only used Superchargers just once on a road trip. Definitely a nice option but the station amenities are hit or miss. At least at a Walmart, there’s nothing awkward about using the bathroom.
Moved on from my Bolt last month and picked up an Equinox ev 2RS. Did our first road trip yesterday with super cruise. Amazing. Didnt think I would like that feature but after 120 miles of hands free driving I am sold!
I just bought a mach-e and pick it up this coming thursday, I'm super stoked. I also lived near Copper mountain where you went in your video so thanks for helping me out finding a nice charger i can use when I bring it back up here from Denver lol.
Thank you for stopping at Copper Mountain. We are traveling to Castle Rock next month and will stop there rather than Glenwood Springs or Rifle. Mahalo
Nice to see the fully accessible charger, that is a good sign going forward. I used a local Tesla supercharger with an A2Z adapter the other day and for a fairly recent install (less that 5 years) it’s accessibility kinda sucked (I ended up having to park in a way that blocked off two additional spots in order to get a charger that I could reach to plug in to my Mach-E 😞
Thanks for the fun road trip, Liv and Patrick! I'm liking my 360 camera, but it's a bear to edit the footage. Also, depending on the video editing software you use, you can have it automatically sync video clips by audio track.
The footage looks so awesome so far! And so helpful to capture EVERYTHING! The next video will have our first chunk of footage! We edit in Premiere Pro. How about you? - Liv
@@MachE_VLOG Yes, I'm using Premiere. If you select multiple synced video/audio tracks, you can right click and select "Synchronize." That should let you align all the audio. It does a pretty good job.
Coming from Eagle Mountain Utah to Castle Rock Colorado, we travel I-15 to US 6 to Green River. We stop at new Super Chargers at Wellington at Millers Gas Stop. So we will skip Green Rivers Version 2.
I'd love to see something like. It would take a lot of solar panels but they have the space. They could create a microgrid. Interesting thought that I want to look into.
@@MachE_VLOGGreen River is slated to possibly have a solar farm over the next couple years. Sadly the planning commission turned down it having charging stations on the same lot.
Question for Patrick and Liv, do you find that when using blue cruise are you more attentive to driving? We have a Model 3, and I find myself more attentive than when I don't use auto pilot. Also glad to see parking for travelers who need the Handicap Stall at Copper Mountain. We will use it on our trip.
Yep, I've said exactly that. Not having to worry about precisely staying centred in the lane allows me to stay more attentive to everything else from nice scenery to potential dangers in the road ahead.
Your videos helped convince me to get a Mach-E and I get it Monday. This definitely gives me more confidence for the road trip from the dealership back home, about 600 miles. Thanks guys. What are good route planners to use?
I have and it seems to not be as reliable. I think it was in Wagon Mound where it failed and then just charged my credit card instead at the non-member rate.
Love watching videos like this! My kind of content :). I'd like to know more about how you got Tronity set up as the last I heard it wasn't compatible. Are you able to use the free account, or are you paying the subscription? Also is there a risk of it locking your FordPass account? Thanks guys, keep doing what you do!
@51:00 The car just told you that you needed to charge to 63% to make it to Richfield? How do we unlock this feature in our Mach-E, have to use the Ford navigation? I wish you could layer the Ford navigation with Android Auto/Apple Carplay.
Yeah, Ford Nav does it by default. You can get it using Apple Maps & Carplay. It is coming soon to Android Auto & Google Maps. I have an old video on using Apple Maps but I have to update it. Basically you have to connect to Carplay in the car and then add the car to your Apple Maps profile in Apple Maps settings.
I’d love to learn more about Amy and Green River Coffee! How has EV traffic changed since when the EA station was installed vs now? Does GRC own the building/land, and if so has she explored alternative CPOs? Does GRC notice holiday travel volumes and does the shop try to have hours that accommodates it?
I am interested in Tronity or a similar app but it appears they only support Tesla in the US. I'm curious how you set up your account for your Mach-E? Also, to be fair to Green River, it seems like the Tesla chargers there have even less nearby than the EA chargers. I will agree that it would have made sense for Maverick or the Flying J to have some type of EV fast charging, where there would be 24 hour services. And EA definitely needs more stalls at Green River, being the only CCS charger for more than 30 miles. I really liked your idea of building another 4, and then replacing the original 4 chargers. It's almost tempting to instead take an extra hour to go to the Tesla Magic Dock charger in Moab, just to avoid the frustration of those old EA chargers.
What a relief it must be for you guys to just show up and charge at Superchargers where everything just works in contrast to EA and not knowing whether it will work, or work at the correct speeds, or not have an empty stall at all.
Thanks for the video! We are taking an 800 mile trip in two weeks. I have our ABRP set for Tesla as our favorite chargers, and our Ford lightning WITH an adaptor as the vehicle. Question....will the route planner only direct us to Tesla superchargers that welcome our Ford? We have noticed that not all Tesla Superchargers are compatible. Will the app know which ones are compatible? Thanks in advance
It's worth noting that even though the Green River EA is frustrating, it's still infinitely better for CCS vehicles than the Tesla V2 Supercharger there.
I have turned it one a couple of times when looking at routes, but it will suggest stuff like traveling at 65 mph when the speed limit is 75. I just don't feel comfortable doing that with many cars exceeding the speed limit and zipping by.
Nice you guys have jobs you can work remotely on via a VPN I'm guessing. Interesting what you do going thru a Tunnel, I've been in cars where going thru a tunnel you hold your breath obviously the tunnels are not very long to be able to do that though. I love watching you guys chit-chattin' in the car and seeing the scenery on your journey, the chargers are interesting but it's more the journey I like and experiences as you go. Watching Pat not touching the wheel and then only touch the signal stalk and the car changes lane all by itself...crazy but cool. Guessing far less tired at the end of a day as well driving like that.
I don’t think it was stated that blue cruise was going to be a subscription based service when I ordered my Mach E. I feel like it should be free when buying the package with the vehicle.
It has been listed as a subscription since before the Mach-E even went on sale. But, I agree, I wish that if you bought the package it was good for the life of the car.
its like teslas auto pilot which comes with the car (basic cruise control). ours still has the nag and we cannot change lanes without disengaging auto pilot. Did that tesla converter stay on the tesla connector?
@@michaelwittman1935 The first station we stopped at was a Magic Dock. The adapter stays with the station. For Teslas, it doesn't release the adapter but for any other car, it attaches before you pull the connector out to use it. Pretty slick!
This was about a 10 hour day of driving & charging so we tried to shrink it down. But Liv does her best to capture a lot of the scenery ine between charging stops.
@@CraigMatsuura Oh! No, Liv just captures a bunch of 5 to 10 second clips of the scenery. Then we put them in the editor and sync them to the beat in the music and use maybe 2 to 3 seconds from each clip.
@@MachE_VLOG you guys do a great job on your videos, really enjoy the info on the charging and real world experience. We road trip along the interstates in Utah and are familiar with pretty much every stop you have made at the EA stations.
It seems like my Mach-E charges faster if I run it much closer to 0. It will get up above 130Kwh but then at some point tapers back to 80. Of course most of the time we charge at home.
Looking forward to getting supercharger access for my i4 eDrive40 - it is a super efficient car at highway speeds and would be nice to have more options. Elon really set back DCFC infrastructure progress with the charging team mass lay-off.
You're a good advertisement for why EA sucks. I'd stick with Tesla. I was out at your stomping grounds last weekend. Hope your GTG went well this weekend.
How can we collectively let Ford know that the BlueCruise is unacceptable at $80/month? Personally I was planning to sell my 22 Mach-E Premium ER in January or February 2025 when my BlueCruise "trial" runs out, because it's not worth $80 to me, and if I get a Tesla Model Y (Juniper refresh hopefully) I can get FSD for $100/month, which probably IS worth it because it has more than just intermittent highway support. I love my Mach-E but have no intention of spending more than MAYBE $200 a YEAR for BlueCruise. It's OK but not great.
I stopped blaming EA for Green River several years ago. Tesla is way behind schedule opining their Superchargers, EVgo should have put the Green River Pilot/Flying J at the top of their list, and ChargePoint has been rolling out Express Plus charging sites nearby for nearly two years now. EA should be able to take Green River down for repair and replacement without affecting a ton of EV drivers. The fact that they can't reflects more on the other charging providers than it does on EA, in my opinion.
In our couple of interviews with the EA CEO we gave them kudos for being the only CPO that is actually tackling cross country routes. At the time, EVgo and Chargepoint were sticking to the relatively easy to install & maintain sites that are in cities. Only EA (and Tesla, of course), were even putting stations out in these tiny towns.
My counter argument is that if EA was actually interested in being economically viable, it would take steps to expand its footprint in markets that have high demand for its services. Green River, Quartzsite, Ellensburg are all locations that EA had a complete CCS monopoly to itself yet took zero steps to expand and consolidate their positions. At least in Ellensburg, WA we have gotten a sudden influx of CPOs in the past 10 months or so.
@@anthonyc8499 I don't think economic viability was EA's #1 priority because they were tasked with providing coverage rather than installing profitable charging stations. If profitability was their number one concern, they probably would have copied Tesla's Supercharger model by building half as many locations with half as much average power per stall but four times as many stalls per location. Even then, we can't forget that half of EA's funding has to be spent in California, which doesn't help any of those sites you mentioned (including Quartzsite). Also, as important as some of these gap-bridging sites are, they aren't actually as busy as they might seem. EA has some sites in California cities that are easily at >50% usage. If I had to guess, Green River and Quartzsite are lucky to be pushing 20% usage. It's a hard sell to expand sites that are only busy 3 days a week. My main point is, by putting EA on an island, we are setting them up for failure. We're even seeing the same failures with Tesla (Kyle's recent trip to buy a used Model 3 resulted in several slow, throttled charging due to aging Supercharger infrastructure and no other options, and it's not really fair to either. In the case of EA, even Quartzsite isn't the island that Green River is, with Blythe having several other (albeit slower) charging options. So we already know the solution: More charging locations from more different providers. Green River should already have five to six charging sites from different providers, and if those were in place, EA would have zero issue pulling down their chargers for repair. Green River should basically look like Baker, CA, where any one of the four DCFC stations could be pulled down for expansions, repairs, and upgrades. EVgo is currently upgrading their Baker location, just like EA and Tesla have done previously, and there were fewer issues because other charging options open to everyone.
Yep, depends on the area. Some places EA is cheaper and some places Tesla is cheaper. In Needles, CA, we charged at Tesla for 20 cents per kWH and EA would have been more than double that. At many stations here in Southern California, Tesla chargers over 50 cents per kWh and we've even seen some charger 61 cents!
Why not just pay attention when you enter the different charging stations? You should be setting the example on choosing an appropriate slot for your vehicle - regardless of how busy it is.
We usually do but it is also a lot going on. When someone is right on your rear, you don't want to just stop while you look for the best spot when it will actually make zero difference. Check all of our videos and when talk about picking the right stall a lot. Watch further in the video and you'll see that we did our best to stay out of the way and then we even moved early when there was someone that had a trailer.
I’m really glad I don’t have a RUclips channel so I don’t have to worry about random internet strangers questioning every momentary decision I make. Patrick and Liv are obviously in the top percentile of considerate/thoughtful drivers.
If you have a Tesla Supercharger adapter, do you find road trips less stressful now?
I got my Tesla and A2Z adapter on the same day in June! I’ve only used Superchargers just once on a road trip. Definitely a nice option but the station amenities are hit or miss. At least at a Walmart, there’s nothing awkward about using the bathroom.
Still waiting for my adapter!!! Really frustrating.
Moved on from my Bolt last month and picked up an Equinox ev 2RS. Did our first road trip yesterday with super cruise. Amazing. Didnt think I would like that feature but after 120 miles of hands free driving I am sold!
That's awesome.Congrats on your new ride! - Liv
I just bought a mach-e and pick it up this coming thursday, I'm super stoked. I also lived near Copper mountain where you went in your video so thanks for helping me out finding a nice charger i can use when I bring it back up here from Denver lol.
Congrats! Maybe we'll get to see your Mach-E and meet you the next time we are in Denver. We try to host Mach-E Meetups when we are there!
@@MachE_VLOGCome and host one in Sweden instead ;) Loving your channel, it’s so harmonic!
Good job on this video! I know there is so much work done behind the scenes but the end result is smooth and very informative.
Much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed it! - Liv
Good job guys. Interesting to see how others do EV road trips in other countries!
Great road trip video
Thank you for stopping at Copper Mountain. We are traveling to Castle Rock next month and will stop there rather than Glenwood Springs or Rifle. Mahalo
Nice to see the fully accessible charger, that is a good sign going forward.
I used a local Tesla supercharger with an A2Z adapter the other day and for a fairly recent install (less that 5 years) it’s accessibility kinda sucked (I ended up having to park in a way that blocked off two additional spots in order to get a charger that I could reach to plug in to my Mach-E 😞
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@@PeaceChanel It’s too bad that China, Russia and India are not on board.
Thanks for the fun road trip, Liv and Patrick! I'm liking my 360 camera, but it's a bear to edit the footage. Also, depending on the video editing software you use, you can have it automatically sync video clips by audio track.
The footage looks so awesome so far! And so helpful to capture EVERYTHING! The next video will have our first chunk of footage! We edit in Premiere Pro. How about you? - Liv
@@MachE_VLOG Yes, I'm using Premiere. If you select multiple synced video/audio tracks, you can right click and select "Synchronize." That should let you align all the audio. It does a pretty good job.
Oh yeah we use synchronize all the time! It's such a useful feature!! - Liv
I'm watching your video as I lunch on an Italian beef from Mr Beef!
Yum!!!
@@ChargingtheRoad no such thing as Italian Beef LOL 😂
Coming from Eagle Mountain Utah to Castle Rock Colorado, we travel I-15 to US 6 to Green River. We stop at new Super Chargers at Wellington at Millers Gas Stop. So we will skip Green Rivers Version 2.
Wellington to Parachute is 201 would possibly be a bit of a stretch for us in the GT.
Google maps in my new Equinox seems to adapt to my driving and change my soc for arrival. Havent done it enough to tell how accurate it is though
Another amazing video thank you so much, I am watching it on my TV so it's like I'm sat in the car going down the road such beautiful scenery 👍👍👍
That empty stretch is perfect for a solar battery charging station.
I'd love to see something like. It would take a lot of solar panels but they have the space. They could create a microgrid. Interesting thought that I want to look into.
@@MachE_VLOGGreen River is slated to possibly have a solar farm over the next couple years. Sadly the planning commission turned down it having charging stations on the same lot.
Question for Patrick and Liv, do you find that when using blue cruise are you more attentive to driving? We have a Model 3, and I find myself more attentive than when I don't use auto pilot. Also glad to see parking for travelers who need the Handicap Stall at Copper Mountain. We will use it on our trip.
Yep, I've said exactly that. Not having to worry about precisely staying centred in the lane allows me to stay more attentive to everything else from nice scenery to potential dangers in the road ahead.
Your videos helped convince me to get a Mach-E and I get it Monday. This definitely gives me more confidence for the road trip from the dealership back home, about 600 miles. Thanks guys.
What are good route planners to use?
A Better Route Planner is our go to app.
And congrats!
On EA have you tried NFC tap activate instead of app swipe? I use NFC primary, if that does not I use the app swipe.
I have and it seems to not be as reliable. I think it was in Wagon Mound where it failed and then just charged my credit card instead at the non-member rate.
Really wish the Love's in Green River would add chargers.
Ya that would be awesome! - Liv
I love the V4 chargers we have only one here in SC. If Tesla would build more of these, road trips would be more fun and less stressful.
Where are you guys not going through Albuquerque and Santa Fe in Gallup
That way is about 2 1/2 hours longer. We came that way so we could visit Santa Fe but we took the shorter route on the way home.
Love watching videos like this! My kind of content :).
I'd like to know more about how you got Tronity set up as the last I heard it wasn't compatible. Are you able to use the free account, or are you paying the subscription? Also is there a risk of it locking your FordPass account?
Thanks guys, keep doing what you do!
@51:00 The car just told you that you needed to charge to 63% to make it to Richfield? How do we unlock this feature in our Mach-E, have to use the Ford navigation? I wish you could layer the Ford navigation with Android Auto/Apple Carplay.
Yeah, Ford Nav does it by default. You can get it using Apple Maps & Carplay. It is coming soon to Android Auto & Google Maps. I have an old video on using Apple Maps but I have to update it. Basically you have to connect to Carplay in the car and then add the car to your Apple Maps profile in Apple Maps settings.
I’d love to learn more about Amy and Green River Coffee! How has EV traffic changed since when the EA station was installed vs now? Does GRC own the building/land, and if so has she explored alternative CPOs? Does GRC notice holiday travel volumes and does the shop try to have hours that accommodates it?
I am interested in Tronity or a similar app but it appears they only support Tesla in the US. I'm curious how you set up your account for your Mach-E?
Also, to be fair to Green River, it seems like the Tesla chargers there have even less nearby than the EA chargers. I will agree that it would have made sense for Maverick or the Flying J to have some type of EV fast charging, where there would be 24 hour services.
And EA definitely needs more stalls at Green River, being the only CCS charger for more than 30 miles. I really liked your idea of building another 4, and then replacing the original 4 chargers. It's almost tempting to instead take an extra hour to go to the Tesla Magic Dock charger in Moab, just to avoid the frustration of those old EA chargers.
I'll reach out to Tronity. We got our car added and they signed an agreement with Ford a few months ago to get permission to connect Ford vehicles.
What a relief it must be for you guys to just show up and charge at Superchargers where everything just works in contrast to EA and not knowing whether it will work, or work at the correct speeds, or not have an empty stall at all.
Thanks for the video! We are taking an 800 mile trip in two weeks. I have our ABRP set for Tesla as our favorite chargers, and our Ford lightning WITH an adaptor as the vehicle.
Question....will the route planner only direct us to Tesla superchargers that welcome our Ford? We have noticed that not all Tesla Superchargers are compatible. Will the app know which ones are compatible?
Thanks in advance
Yes, ABRP only routes to ones that should work with your Lightning. Just as a precaution, I would double check in the Tesla app.
@@MachE_VLOG thank you. I will be sure to confirm in advance.
It's worth noting that even though the Green River EA is frustrating, it's still infinitely better for CCS vehicles than the Tesla V2 Supercharger there.
Have you tried using the “Reduce speed” planning option in ABRP? If so, what’s has the real-life experience been like?
I have turned it one a couple of times when looking at routes, but it will suggest stuff like traveling at 65 mph when the speed limit is 75. I just don't feel comfortable doing that with many cars exceeding the speed limit and zipping by.
Road trips in a Ford EV is certainly better with these adapters!!
Nice you guys have jobs you can work remotely on via a VPN I'm guessing. Interesting what you do going thru a Tunnel, I've been in cars where going thru a tunnel you hold your breath obviously the tunnels are not very long to be able to do that though. I love watching you guys chit-chattin' in the car and seeing the scenery on your journey, the chargers are interesting but it's more the journey I like and experiences as you go. Watching Pat not touching the wheel and then only touch the signal stalk and the car changes lane all by itself...crazy but cool. Guessing far less tired at the end of a day as well driving like that.
I don’t think it was stated that blue cruise was going to be a subscription based service when I ordered my Mach E. I feel like it should be free when buying the package with the vehicle.
It has been listed as a subscription since before the Mach-E even went on sale. But, I agree, I wish that if you bought the package it was good for the life of the car.
its like teslas auto pilot which comes with the car (basic cruise control). ours still has the nag and we cannot change lanes without disengaging auto pilot. Did that tesla converter stay on the tesla connector?
@@michaelwittman1935 The first station we stopped at was a Magic Dock. The adapter stays with the station. For Teslas, it doesn't release the adapter but for any other car, it attaches before you pull the connector out to use it. Pretty slick!
@@MachE_VLOG so a tesla cannot use that charger?
@@michaelwittman1935 No, it just doesn't release the adapter for a Tesla since they don't need it.
Tronity doesn’t seem to be available in the US for anything but Tesla.
They signed an agreement with Ford recently. Shoot them an email. We added our Mach-E and it has been working great.
When you capture your videos do you record all the time or pick times to record?
This was about a 10 hour day of driving & charging so we tried to shrink it down. But Liv does her best to capture a lot of the scenery ine between charging stops.
@@MachE_VLOG so you do record for a continuously during the trip and post edit down to the scenic areas?
@@CraigMatsuura Oh! No, Liv just captures a bunch of 5 to 10 second clips of the scenery. Then we put them in the editor and sync them to the beat in the music and use maybe 2 to 3 seconds from each clip.
@@MachE_VLOG you guys do a great job on your videos, really enjoy the info on the charging and real world experience. We road trip along the interstates in Utah and are familiar with pretty much every stop you have made at the EA stations.
The new Moab Tesla superchargers have Magic Dock - open to all CCS EVs.
It seems like my Mach-E charges faster if I run it much closer to 0. It will get up above 130Kwh but then at some point tapers back to 80. Of course most of the time we charge at home.
Looking forward to getting supercharger access for my i4 eDrive40 - it is a super efficient car at highway speeds and would be nice to have more options. Elon really set back DCFC infrastructure progress with the charging team mass lay-off.
Lesson learned from this road trip: Tesla Supercharger is very reliable and EA causes much anxiety
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You're a good advertisement for why EA sucks. I'd stick with Tesla. I was out at your stomping grounds last weekend. Hope your GTG went well this weekend.
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How can we collectively let Ford know that the BlueCruise is unacceptable at $80/month? Personally I was planning to sell my 22 Mach-E Premium ER in January or February 2025 when my BlueCruise "trial" runs out, because it's not worth $80 to me, and if I get a Tesla Model Y (Juniper refresh hopefully) I can get FSD for $100/month, which probably IS worth it because it has more than just intermittent highway support.
I love my Mach-E but have no intention of spending more than MAYBE $200 a YEAR for BlueCruise. It's OK but not great.
Hi guys!
I stopped blaming EA for Green River several years ago. Tesla is way behind schedule opining their Superchargers, EVgo should have put the Green River Pilot/Flying J at the top of their list, and ChargePoint has been rolling out Express Plus charging sites nearby for nearly two years now. EA should be able to take Green River down for repair and replacement without affecting a ton of EV drivers. The fact that they can't reflects more on the other charging providers than it does on EA, in my opinion.
In our couple of interviews with the EA CEO we gave them kudos for being the only CPO that is actually tackling cross country routes. At the time, EVgo and Chargepoint were sticking to the relatively easy to install & maintain sites that are in cities. Only EA (and Tesla, of course), were even putting stations out in these tiny towns.
My counter argument is that if EA was actually interested in being economically viable, it would take steps to expand its footprint in markets that have high demand for its services. Green River, Quartzsite, Ellensburg are all locations that EA had a complete CCS monopoly to itself yet took zero steps to expand and consolidate their positions. At least in Ellensburg, WA we have gotten a sudden influx of CPOs in the past 10 months or so.
@@anthonyc8499 I don't think economic viability was EA's #1 priority because they were tasked with providing coverage rather than installing profitable charging stations. If profitability was their number one concern, they probably would have copied Tesla's Supercharger model by building half as many locations with half as much average power per stall but four times as many stalls per location. Even then, we can't forget that half of EA's funding has to be spent in California, which doesn't help any of those sites you mentioned (including Quartzsite).
Also, as important as some of these gap-bridging sites are, they aren't actually as busy as they might seem. EA has some sites in California cities that are easily at >50% usage. If I had to guess, Green River and Quartzsite are lucky to be pushing 20% usage. It's a hard sell to expand sites that are only busy 3 days a week.
My main point is, by putting EA on an island, we are setting them up for failure. We're even seeing the same failures with Tesla (Kyle's recent trip to buy a used Model 3 resulted in several slow, throttled charging due to aging Supercharger infrastructure and no other options, and it's not really fair to either. In the case of EA, even Quartzsite isn't the island that Green River is, with Blythe having several other (albeit slower) charging options.
So we already know the solution: More charging locations from more different providers. Green River should already have five to six charging sites from different providers, and if those were in place, EA would have zero issue pulling down their chargers for repair. Green River should basically look like Baker, CA, where any one of the four DCFC stations could be pulled down for expansions, repairs, and upgrades. EVgo is currently upgrading their Baker location, just like EA and Tesla have done previously, and there were fewer issues because other charging options open to everyone.
There are Tesla drivers going to EA because it's cheaper.
Yep, depends on the area. Some places EA is cheaper and some places Tesla is cheaper. In Needles, CA, we charged at Tesla for 20 cents per kWH and EA would have been more than double that. At many stations here in Southern California, Tesla chargers over 50 cents per kWh and we've even seen some charger 61 cents!
Why not just pay attention when you enter the different charging stations? You should be setting the example on choosing an appropriate slot for your vehicle - regardless of how busy it is.
We usually do but it is also a lot going on. When someone is right on your rear, you don't want to just stop while you look for the best spot when it will actually make zero difference. Check all of our videos and when talk about picking the right stall a lot. Watch further in the video and you'll see that we did our best to stay out of the way and then we even moved early when there was someone that had a trailer.
I’m really glad I don’t have a RUclips channel so I don’t have to worry about random internet strangers questioning every momentary decision I make. Patrick and Liv are obviously in the top percentile of considerate/thoughtful drivers.