Top 5 EVs w/ Kyle Connor - TST Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- What are the best EVs yet? Is charging getting better? Can the grid handle it? Which electric pickup would win in a cross-country race? Are batteries recyclable? All that and more with Kyle Connor.
Kyle Connor is a RUclipsr in command of a whopping 17 different channels. He focused on EVs, covering the space comprehensively. He has road tripped, towed with, tested, charged, and driven more EVs than most people will in a lifetime. As such, he has excellent insights into why EVs have the problems that they do, the state of the charging situation, battery recycling, the grid, and more.
He recently completed a cross-country "race", where he and his co-hosts drove from Florida to Los Angeles in 4 electric pickup trucks. The results were literally susprising.
Recorded March 13, 2024
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Finally. Kyle is a car enthusiast, all cars. His enthusiasm, energy and knowledge of EV is wild.
He's been on before. Last year. But glad he's back given how much has happened in the EV space in just a year.
Yeah Kyle is great!
Yea after following Kyle... "do all these car reviewers know anything about EV??????"
Kyle is an enthusiast regardless of power train. He certainly knows a lot about EV's.
Love Kyle as a guest on TST
On the CT panel fitment. I picked up my 2 motor Foundation 4 days ago on 032024. Before accepting, I did a slow walk around checking panel gaps. I am no Sandy Munro ... just an old retired guy ... but I can tell you that to my layman's eyes, the panel alignment, gaps, and stainless steel surfaces looked great at delivery. 4 days later, nothing appears to have rattled out of alignment. My serial number is in the 3200' range
kyle gotta become a regular! he's the man
Love Kyle. Great podcast.
Kyle is quickly becoming my fav guest(sans Your father) always has new fun stuff to talk about.
Need to get Kyle in touch with the Edison guys.
I have been watching you and following you for like 10 years basically forever. This is my first time commenting today. So happy I can do it now.
Hey I was listening on Spotify when I saw the episode dropped on RUclips. What’s the best platform to use as far as supporting the channel? (Excluding Patreon)
They have somewhat addressed this in the past, and if I do recall it would most likely be YT because they get payed for views and watching through the ads help(although most skip past). They did say Spotify was the worst.
Spotify is the worst, watching ads on youtube helps more but if you have premium youtube pays more to the creator
youtube also has a lot better promotion then spotify with the home page
Been watching Kyle for about 5 years, influenced my decision on an EV (obviously I like gas too). My 91 560SEL had ctry/city horns.
These guys totally missed the reason I ordered a Cybertruck, I have a model Y that is great but when driving on the highway rocks and other debri that gets kicked up all the time constantly nicks and dings my car, and I don't want to park next to other cars. With a Cybertruck all that goes away, you can blast down the highway and rocks and road debri are completely harmless. No other truck / car can give you that feature.
This! 👆 even if I park away from everyone in a giant parking lot, I always have someone parking right on top of me. 😩
Matt still hating hard on tesla as usual. So funny. 😂
He can’t help it, Elon fired his wife! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is funny to you? Seriously? @@NaRdo_Slay27
@@NaRdo_Slay27 I wonder if she is still unemployed...
I’m only watching for Kyle. Matt is an incredibly annoying luddite.
I’m in lil ol’ Estes Park Colorado and am pleasantly surprised with the number of ev work trucks up here. The one I see the most being a f150 lightning.
MATTS GROWL REGARDING R3X🤣
Kyle, you got yourself a sub from this podcast. I'm not too into EVs, but mostly because I find the coverage of them to be rather bland. But you, as an enthusiast, seem to find the wording to blend right in my head lol. Great podcast as always, guys!
TSTPC goes full TSTPC: the Turbo GT is a value(not wrong)
ALso Kyle is peak Kyle....9 Codas. I thought Aging Wheels was weird for one!
Great pod, thank you!
Glad to see Kyle on here.
Great show.
Any fish that is this bad in climbing trees can’t be any good at swimming. The red mist enhances Matt’s reasoning.
Kyle is in a league of his own with the EV wave that has pushed electric cars to do and go farther faster. Will EVs be the best overall transportation solution in the future? Well he has been able to bring it into the mainstream and I like it. I see hybrids being the answer. How come Kyle, who is from Colorado, looks like he is freezing in your California studio?
Kyle always wears hoodies indoors or out. Summer or winter
Kyle always brings his A game. Great interview!
my favorite guest. i almost only watch the episodes he’s on!!
Great guest
Great podcast! Rimac Concept One was the first one they sold I believe
I got a MME GT in December when financing was 0% IPR. I’m loving it. Wonder how much it gets under ranked since it is less fun to talk about compared to Lucid, Rivian, Tesla, etc. but compared to EVs from other legacy auto makers, is it one of the better ones?
I have one too and love the car but hate the suspension. I think if ford fixed the suspension damping, especially the bouncing in the rear, people might stop overlooking it
I see Kyle, I click
Great episode, gents.
Good discussion.
Kyle: "I really can't wait to do a Taycan Turbo GT versus Lucid Saphire. That's going to be a great day at work."
Me: I can't wait to watch that!
Great pod
I think the name is Conner, with an E. Pretty intersting episode guys :)
finally some content on the coast to coast run
I'm Just as worried with ice cars as ev's when it comes to repair costs etc. The drivetrain on an ev is much simpler than an ice car and modern ice cars have so much electronics in anyway, that the outside the drivetrains they don't seem much different to me.
It would be epic if you did a Bentley Turbo R VS Cybetruck video😂
You’ve never driven the bmw rear wheel drive i4 40. You should definitely give it a go before you make a call on best driving dynamics. Also best luxury car - eqs or i7.
"Cybertruck will slaughter a pedestrian!"
But a 2024 Ram 1500 hitting a pedestrian is somehow better?
Either option is not forgiving to the human body. Smart infrastructure & pedestrian avoidance is what the world needs. Statistically, human drivers ARE the problem when it comes to fatalities. The safest car is the one with the best software. We'll see how this race goes.
Tired of paper-thin statements which don't consider the current/alternative when criticizing the one they don't like.
*in a performance EV* the benefit of tri-motor vs dual is obvious, but diminishes immensely for a daily driver.
Love seeing reasonable non-politicised talk about EVs and cars, Kyle is certainly doing more for EV adoption than Elon
No unhinged rant about Tesla, major disappointment 😂
God dang it Kyle! Not gonna spoil it, not gonna spoil it, ah screw it I’ll spoil it.
OMG dude juiced up that ford Mach e bomb to 100% every week and leaves it in his garage. Bro please research Mach e fires 😂😂😂😂
What's the actual news there? There aren't really some crazy number of Mach-E fires, let alone in homes.
In 2022, they recalled 500 Mach-E because of driving software problems. At the same time, they also recalled 39,000 Expeditions and Navigators (gas cars, obviously) and said they should be parked outside due to fire risk.
Charging to 100% is inefficient and unnecessary. But hardly dangerous.
There’s a great deal to admire and respect Tesla/Musk for, including kick starting a transition to a more efficient future, but I struggled to see anything relevant about the CT; it looks like a bold statement that didn’t have to be made. I agree with the host, no one who needs a truck will find anything better about the CT compared with the Lightning. Tesla should have invested in getting the Compact car out to the masses, that is a sure-fire success right there.
Still can't get why in the USA every Automaker can have their own charging plug layout. Especially knowing the charging stations are funded with Tax Payers money. The plugs layout should be a standard design as in Europe.
Charging stations aren't charged with taxpayer money. End consumers pay for the electricity used to charge their cars. There were a lot of federal subsidies to get charging stations up and running, but that paid (or subsidized) the up front capital cost, not their ongoing running expenses. Charging networks are all for-profit enterprises, none of them are owned by the public.
There is a separate discussion to be had about standardizing charging plugs and protocols, but that requires a functional government to regulate industry. One thing most European governments do better than US government is regulation. We're still operating with the Chicken Tax loopholes over here.
@@redlion145 There is plenty of funding using Tax Payers money to build charging station not to maintain them. That would explain all the rush to build new stations, than improving the kWh offer of the current ones in activity.
It’s because our government can’t keep up w/ technology. Combine that w/ the fact that the majority don’t want an EV and you have the current state. If people wanted them and were buying them in mass they would be complaining to their elected reps about interoperability issues.
Every major automaker will be switching to the Tesla/NACS/J3400 plug starting next year.
40:34 Zack: Open Stargate! LOL!!
21:14 what you should do is follow what the car tells you to do. Not charge only to 30, or all the way to 80, every time. I get why you did it for the race, but for the drive home follow the Tesla instructions for a true understanding of what most people will do. Charging to 80 is silly (as you know) unless you absolutely have to.
Been following Kyle for a little while now. Matt, I wonder how that 1M mile LS400 is faring now. (I own a 200,000 mile SC400, which I drive when I"m not driving my Ford Mach-e.)
Tavarish has it down in FL; Matt sold it to him for $1 when it hit 1mm miles. AFAIK he hasn't done anything with it.
@@deathcab4booty ahh, thank you. i seem to remember Tavarish having it. May need to get an LS400 (or 430) someday.
@@deathcab4booty I remember seeing teh 1M mile LS on one of Tavarish's videos. I Still want to get an LS430. Love the 1UZ and 3UZ engines. I needed to buy a new car in late 2022 and almost bought one. But as a commuter car, it is horrible in Los Angeles. I'm happy with my Ford Mach-e.
From a business standpoint, quality consistency (e.g., having barely acceptable quality and sometimes marginally exceeding that low bar) can be more important than high quality. Similar to McDonald's vs a Michelin Star restaurant. Tesla would be McDonald's in this analogy. More people on more days just want a burger.
So on Kyle’s eqs 580 review for Inside EV he was in love with it and now he hates it?
good content, could of done without the foul mouth vulgarity, love your videos Kyle, keep them coming
The contempt for Tesla and Elon is overwhelming from these guys...
It's pathetic.
IMO, I think the best EV on the market right now is the HYUNDAI Ioniq 5N.
My top five is Leaf because i can actually afford it
Today I realized Matt sounds like Seth Rogan.
I wanna see an ev9 video
Manual seats are great for height difference
I agree, the CyberTruck is not going to expand Tesla's market share as it merely appeals to a small segment of their existing customers. It's clearly a truck designed by non-truck users, expressing their vision of what a "really cool truck" would look like. Swing and a miss.
25:51 Tesla doesn't "make you" do anything. You wanted the Foundation Series because you wanted it before most others. That was as choice you made. You could have always chosen to wait for a non Foundation Series.
Matt Farah has turned into an Elon-hating grumpy whiny old man. Kyle Connor gets it...he is a true car enthusiast!
Ok you are an EV owner so you must know a little bit about EV’s. You were afraid to drive your Mach E from LA to Vegas. Knowing there are 20+ EA chargers in Baker and you were still worried? Come on……
hertz hurts ....tomato, banana.....route etc..🤥🤔
Here for Kyle not so much Matt these days.
Kyle is wonderful, knowledgeable and objective. Matt is incredibly biased and angry. We all can see it. It’s tiring and it’s not a good look.
You’re incredibly biased and angry….we can all feel it. It’s tiring and not a good look.
I hate to break it to everyone, but Rivian is structurally bankrupt. What does that mean? That means that the more trucks they make the more money they lose, no matter how much they ramp. Why? They over designed the truck so that auto reviewers would slobber all over it. FYI, it is BAD engineering to design something that can’t be profitable.
The hate on Tesla is misguided
Top 5 EV's... hmmm, nothing comes to mind. 🤔
I wonder how many hoodies Kyle has in his closet.
The baldy sounds like a Tesla hater pretending to be neutral
Kyle has so much information in his head. I wish his videos were shorter.
28:41 Check the data yourself, but "truck things" in America for 60% of owners involves commuting, driving the family around, getting groceries, and maybe hauling a large screen TV home once every few years. And the CT can do MOST truck things exceedingly well. The edge cases? No. It can't haul a 5th wheel for instance. The idea that the CT is just a "fashion statement" for anyone who buys it is absurd. The CT is, like all of Tesla's models, aimed at 80% of its segment, not 100%. Someone else can serve the 20% better and should.
1:31:15
I don’t know exactly why but this smoking tire guy rubs me the wrong way, but if Kyle will vouch for him, he must be all right
Your instinct was correct. Don’t be fooled.
@@Bob_Smith19Bob. Please…..
Judge a book by its cover type of person?
Seems like someone doesn’t like viewpoints that don’t come from California.
CYBER MATT FARAH
25 dollars to wash a car? lol you need more immigrants. I can get a wash and wax for £8
Lmao this guy fucking hates tesla. This is the company that makes the literal safest vehicles in the world
Safest for the people driving them. Not those around them
Joe, they are never making that truck
25:43 why do they need to put a digital mirror up when they already have a digital mirror on the screen. Looking up to the ceiling and to the right to see your rear view is no safer than looking slightly down and to the right. Just different. The physical mirror was only there because they had to by law, otherwise they'd have never put one in. Just remove it.
tesla, tesla, tesla, tesla, taycan?
First?
I knew there was a reason I disliked this guy (Kyle) from the very start - 17 YT channels is ridiculous. Just putting out content for money. I mean, when I hear him tell his wife, let's buy this CT because it will bring in more clicks, views, I was out.
I don't care about EVs!
I do
Broke back mountain boys
Car companies give away cars they have to crush, or let reviewers trash then crush
So with EV’s do they not need to salvage the battery after only being used for less than a year
In Europe the car recycling must be included in the sale price of the car. This is why there was a shift to make cars out of aluminium or use recycled materials in the car not just EVs. Prototype cars or cars not for sale are not exempt from recycling.
@@fraserwright9482 More I was thinking about the cars dealers make that cannot be sold, say they make 300 skus but all the review cars are not part of that 300 and do not have vins.
Once they’re reviewed/ruined by doing 0-60 tests they’re crushed or given away like Tavarish getting a Hellcat, or DDE being offered a Bentley Continental for free. But car can’t be registered so they can just take motor etc
Those are high end cars are of note, but there’s 50x humdrum test cars like Leafs or Jettas that go straight to the crusher after being reviewed without a second thought
One of my favorite guests! The combined knowledge in the room is incredible, always learn a ton listening to episodes with Kyle
Have wanted this podcast for quite some time. Awesome guest.
He's been on once before, for whatever it's worth.
@@yayinternets Nice, thanks. I'll look it up at some point.
Love that you are talking about Mate Rimac. And Miro. I am from Croatia
Only charging the cybertruck to 30% 30 times across the country is nuts😂
Agreed but evidently the charging speed drops after 30%
@@liffei420 yeah it does drop off but that shows his determination to win and charge for the least amount of time. It’s like driving a truck across the country with a 6 gallon tank 😂
@carlosl5766 yeah pretty much it was fast to stop more often and charge less for the win, well second place. I am curious about the trip back charging to 80% and how that affects the time
@@carlosl5766 More like a truck with a 10 gallon tank but the last 4 gallons you have to use a hand pump to fill
Yes, it drops off but from 260 kW, then it runs still faster than the Ford lightning probably to at least 60% remember the cyber trucks starts off at double the speed of the lightning
Something to keep in mind is A: Tesla is a new (American) car company competing with old and very established car manufacturers. They have had to rush like crazy to keep themselves alive, and even now they have to do so to protect themselves from ensuing Chinese competitors. Yes, Rivian is new as well, but they’re still massively unprofitable and time will tell if they’re able to survive.
B: the only cyber trucks that are available now are first production low volume runs. There will undoubtedly be imperfections that they need to work through before they go in to high volume.
And C: This initially happened with the model 3, S, X and Model Y. ALL OF which are amazing vehicles now. The new model 3 is considered by many respected auto enthusiasts to be a 10/10
I cant wait for the two ram EV/hybrid trucks to come out, they sound bonkers
Three amazing knowledgeable intelligent guys with integrity. Great fun.
Great episode. E-Golfs don't get a lot of press but considering Cammisa still has his it must be alright.
That truck will never be made. 😂
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😂🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
And it isn't made WELL. Lots of issues atm.
Matt “get off my lawn” Whatshisname….
The Cybertruck is not a fashion statement - it promises (eventually) many of the theoretical features that I, a consumer who will likely only have one truck at a time, want. For us aging baby boomers: Air suspension to lower the truck for entry but raise it for off road driving on fire trails and my 20-degree slope back yard. Built in bed cover. Payload over 1500 lbs (me and 3 fat friends with luggage, more payload is better). Ride - I am hoping they fix the "truck like" ride - I don't want to feel the expansion joints in the highway. Self-driving (eventually) and Self-Parking (Eventually), and all the safety bells and whistles. 500-mile range (promised eventually) and fast charging are high on the list. But right now, it is way too expensive and too much is "promised".
Right now I am looking for a very slightly used F150 Lightning Lariat Extended Range with Max Tow package - at a steeply discounted price. Love the ride and general cabin feel. The self-parking is a MUST - old men (and wives - 8) can't park a truck without it. Without Self-Parking I would be looking at a medium size truck or small truck. And yes, I plan to carry a 240 volt generator in the truck bed.
Finally, please come back down to earth. A family car / truck should cost no more than a year's salary, and ideally less than half a year salary, of the buyer. Super G/T is NOT very relevant to most of us. A friend of mine owns 2 older Vipers - and only drives them to the local car show once in a while. The rest of the time he drives a Subaru or Hummer. Most of us don't own Vipers.
Basically a pit-stop race.
59:14 lol, no, you can't make square things aerodynamic. The laws of physics are inviolable.
Love when Kyle is on! He is a great guest with amazing level of knowledge surrounding all EVs
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