2017 Volkswagen e-Golf vs Ford Focus Electric Maximum Range Challenge

It actually has heat removal so a heat pump is needed and it pumps out all the wasted heat and uses it to heat the cabin so less energy is wasted. Both cars drive like normal cars. In fact, they are very good in the city. Both can corner quite well. The suspension is nice and soft over bumps. There is nothing too hard. They just feel like normal cars, so we had to test them in the box and this is what happened in the nine and eight.

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one, okay, we're finally at Niagara Falls, yeah, that wasn't hard at all, yeah, now the hard part is getting back.

I have 83 kilometers of charge left. I'm 136 so I think I'll be fine, wait I'm in. The Ford Focus is next exactly, so I think I'll be fine in the

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you're going to suffer here. You've been enjoying the air conditioning, apparently yes, because the chambers are getting hot, so no, but I'll do this to you a little more difficult. I'm going to turn on the air conditioning right now here. Oh God, 77 km/h. I just saw Niagara Falls, we will return through Clifton Hills and then return to Milton. Yes, I have currently driven 106 kilometers. I'll be fine.

I'm going to return to that approach with so many miles to spare. Let's set the new record. Make sure you don't turn that car off. This car hasn't been turned off all day. Well, let's go for the record of my Ford application. Yeah, I'm a little sad that we're not playing arcades. here yeah oh look at the sky wheel okay we headed back to Milton which is just outside of Toronto from Niagara Falls which is 100 kilometers and now I'm in the Focus Electric yeah and I'm in e-golf and the first thing I do. What I noticed is the quality.

This thing feels so well put together compared to the Focus. The first thing I noticed is that I have 63 kilometers in my tank and we have 100 kilometers left in your battery tank in my battery tank. Yes, I have 105 kilometers. So I have no problems. I can also gain another three kilometers if I turn off the air conditioning, but I'm not going to do that. Have you experienced putting your foot down and not being able to go above 97? No, I'll do it right. now do it now and then when you notice you can't go any further press until you feel that button on the pedal okay here we go I'm an echo plus and I'm going to hit the bottom 97 I'm stuck at 97 and every once in a while when you put your foot all the way down to click the button and I have 100% power and I'm flying that thing must be in all

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cars, you know one thing I noticed when we were leaving Agra falls: I hate this car, the infotainment doesn't It has a reverse camera when you put it in reverse and the mixture makes a loud noise because the reverse camera opens from the VW sign and it took a few days to figure out what was making that noise.

I think it's great. that they really did so well, at least they used a quieter motor, so we haven't charged these cars any more than when we started, so with a level one charger the e-golf takes 26 to 29 hours to charge, the level 1 is basically in your house. a regular plug, the bulb takes 30 hours to charge, they both charge much slower than the ionic ones, yes they do, they are actually really annoying because you have to wait forever at a 240 volt level, you find them at Tim Hortons and those things. It's four to five hours for e-golf and five and a half hours for

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, but at a level three, most of them you have to pay for, it's 30 to 45 minutes on e-golf and then 32 minutes for 80%. in

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80% for both, yes a $20 per hour charge really adds up when you have a trickle charger, it doesn't seem that bad at all when you have a nice fast ionic to charge, yes I'm excited. to reach turtle mode on this Focus Electric and see how slow it can actually go, yeah, yeah, I won't reach turtle mode on this one either.

I wonder if they both have a turtle mode? I'm sure all

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cars do this. It just takes a while to get to that point, but anyway let's get back to these cars being normal cars because there are still normal cars, yes they are. The interiors are very nice in both cars. I prefer the one in the Gulf, it's a little more spacious. At least I feel that way. I feel very comfortable inside this Focus. I think maybe because I really enjoyed the Focus ST and the Focus RS and this one is very similar. The only thing I hate is that both infotainment systems can't rewind or record.

Any Sirius satellite radio channel, yeah, look, I don't care about that at all, but for me, after knowing, the Accord clocked in at 12, Honda's record, 6, that's really important to me and I don't think I'd seriously consider these 2. because they lack that feature, I much prefer the Volkswagen steering wheel, it is much more comfortable to grip and it is also D shaped because it is an eco-friendly racing car, the buttons are easier to press, you know exactly what you are pressing and in the approach I did. I don't really like the steering wheel. In fact, I like the steering wheel of the Ford Focus better for something that is much more comfortable for me.

We both have heated seats, but do you have an adjustable headrest? I don't. I have a ratchet adjustable headrest. What I love, I think I don't like about the Focus Electric, is that there is not enough room for your cell phone, yes, totally agree, but in the Gulf it fits perfectly, hey URI, you know you complain about the numbers climates don't work, yes. I think I figured out exactly why that was happening and that is because you had it in Eco plus mode in eco plus it doesn't allow you to use the full air conditioning. Oh, that makes sense.

You know, you couldn't find the electric car screen on the screen. Ford, yes, so you need to click on apps and then go to power flow and that shows where the power goes in your Ford Focus. Oh, okay, Jacob, how many miles do we have to get back to Milton? We have 63 kilometers and I have 69 kilometers. of

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I have 32 kilometers of

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, the moral of the story about both cars is that they are actually a little too complex to use, yes I totally agree, compared to the ionic, the ionic and everything is very well presented, I understood all. that was happening, but these cars are almost like a game.

You need Volkswagen Canada and Ford Canada to have tutorial videos on YouTube so you can watch them or even in the infotainment system, just upload them right there. Yes, I totally agree with you. everything is fine here and if you don't care about all that stuff, they're both really good cars, but if you care about looking at your mileage and seeing your blue score and your butterflies and all that kind of stuff, it's actually a little bit harder than the ioniq oh should we do the VIS Oh arty est Oh buddy I think it's time okay spread it ready three two one yeah come on the funny thing is the Ford Focus has a cool little symbol to illustrate it so we've got nice We've We've covered a lot of everything we want to talk about in these two cars, now we'll see if we can come back, we'll turn the cameras on if we have any problems, which we will do.

Oh, I just got a low battery warning. Oh, click OK. I just got a 50 kilometer warning, so we're right over the Burlington Skyway Bridge, right around Hamilton. Greetings to the people of Hamilton. There's a guy watching our videos from Hamilton, so hello mate, how many miles do we have? I traveled 180, okay, you know? I'm going into eco-bus mode because I'm getting a little worried. I trust that Ford engineers built their cars well enough to withstand people's range tests, I think when you run your miles. Each butterfly is worth a kilometer, are you sure about that? No, but I hope you know.

The fun thing about this car is that there is no panic in it. Everything is calm and happy. Still, all the indicators. If the same. Here my battery indicator is just right. going down but I'm not in red yet Yuri, how far are we from our destination? 19 kilometers from the charging station and how many kilometers you have left in your charge. My battery just dropped to five and I have a plus five status. and I'm losing butterflies minute by minute, so you have five kilometers left. Oh, dead battery, safely stopped now. back, are you 100% sure about that?

We can make a bet if he doesn't come back. Okay, you buy Wendy's, yeah, yeah, okay, oh, oh, what, oh no, your taillights just turned off my car, it's not the first time it's done it, oh no, no. The electric

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just ended, okay, if I can keep getting to this hill, I will. No, no, don't come in here, man, maybe there's an electrical outlet we can use. That's all. The electric car

challenge

is over because it turns out electric cars are not. You don't always make it, you were so confident, okay, let's take a break and figure out where we go from here.

The electric car challenge, don't worry, we have this, at least you can push an electric car, yes, can you stop it? Well the trick is to break into random people's houses and properties and steal their perfect power and we are charging, the charging will end at 10 11 pm. We are at zero percent charge now that it is 10 11 p.m. tomorrow two hundred twelve point seven kilometers oh wow so now let's see if we just broke the record yeah, sure, sure, where is the right local official. I'm going to expand this, it's easy and stretchy, yeah, 205, so we're over it. we got over it, so we did it, actually we did it, oh we got the record, one more interesting thing, check this out, don't waste energy, closing the door so it runs out of power and we have to end the video here, yeah, but we would have done it.

We did it if we didn't have to film the cars, so technically we would have done it and we beat the total at the top of the floor, so we're actually the record holders. Yes, it hasn't been updated yet, but we did. Which of these? Would you buy? I'll stick with golf because it has more technology. Yes, I'm Igor, I thought about these two, but I still wouldn't choose either of these two. I would take the ionic. Yes, I need those recording functions on the satellite too. Radio and golf aren't out of reach yet so we'll put the full reach at the end of the video so eat the golf verse ionic electric challenge no I'm ready oh I think we need to subscribe yeah Alright. we have our dangers we are driving I have to drive 40 30 ish we charge it up to 1% and now we are trying to get back to a Tim Hortons where I can actually charge this is a hybrid with one of the hybrid electric cars I am on more per se I go up to 0 %, you could play steal one here, okay, we're back, we're four miles away, so now we have enough to get to the fast flow charger.

I'm URI. I'm Jacob, let's go for a ride cry, subscribe right now, subscribe, we didn't even do it.