Kona EV | Halfway across USA on Electrify America | The rollout is huge!

Hello and welcome to off-spec motorsport today is going to be crazy, another great off-spec road trip in this electric Hyundai Kona. There is a situation especially in the US and people have no idea about this, most of the people think that it is necessary. to go anywhere in an electric car you have to buy a Tesla because the supercharger network is great and it absolutely is and you can see us using it all the time and it's just an amazing world class charging network, however now you can pretty much take a non-Tesla electric car wherever you want to go and they will also roll out with Electrify Americas The CCS infrastructure has been so fast and so strong that I don't even think people realize how good the network is, so this it's our ride for the day, it's an ultimate electric 2019 Kona so it has all the options it has Lane centering, adaptive cruise control, head up display, air conditioned seats, it actually has a ton of tech inside and I have driven this car a lot, it already has around 8,000 miles.

In it, the battery is pretty healthy, so we've taken good care of it, it's galactic gray on the outside, black interior on the inside and yeah, just your standard Kona, you guys know that, if you don't know, we've made some videos. The channel on these cars, especially the SEL versus this one, I'll link to so you can learn more about the electric Kona and I haven't shown you this view until now because wow, this is not a pretty car other than looks and styling. which is completely up to you to determine the car is really good, it has 258 miles of range, something like that, it's about 200 usable on the highway and it's fully charged right now and ready to go on the road, so let's determine our next stop load.

It says we're going from here to Stanford, which is great and we're going to go down all this nonsense, but then we're going to take I-80 through Pennsylvania, so let's go share and if we look at the Chargers This is the first Charger to along i-80, so let's go here and see how far it is so the car is estimating 299 miles of range. There is no way for us to understand that this car spends most of its time in the city driving it. it's fully charged it just went from a hundred to 99 probably the heater running slowed it down a bit and it looks like it's a hundred and sixteen miles away which might be a little close but we'll find out so it's good I know at least we can get to that one with a full charge, but let's take a look at our next option, which is going to be this here and again.

I'm only showing the Electrify America chargers because they have the chargers. that can peak at 76 kilowatts or so on this car, so let's go to Bloomsburg, see how far that one is, so that's three hours and 187 miles, that's the goal we're going to start at because, however, we're Fully loaded with the rain and my driving style, which tends to be a little faster, and I'm not going to put the car on. I'll drive the car in Eco mode, but nothing, you know, I'm not really going to drive super green, so just go out driving normally 187 miles, we have the bailout option if necessary.

I think it's more than adequate, so let's pack up the car and connect the phone to Apple Carplay, which is really nice to have by the way. It's a great feature, we can run up on the screen, yes I want to allow this phone to talk to this car, it's okay, the officer put the car in reverse, you can hear the strange noises, which is okay, it needs to be adjusted the steering wheel. I call the Net Ultimate actually a really good car, the only thing I'll say about it and I've spent a lot of time with all the electric cars on the market right now is that it's actually a pretty good car. for the money when you factor in the tax credit but it's still like you could get a model 3 for the same money but it's nice to have the extra space and it's cool so I have the regen paddles that I set up. at level 3 which is max recovery it actually has a mode where it will automatically regenerate for cars in front of you so it will slide when no one is there and then as soon as there is a car in front of you you to start regeneration, suppose it is more. really cool, I just prefer to have full control over it, but I see that a normal user really likes that, so we have one hundred and eighty-six miles to our destination, 300 miles of predicted range, which is not going to happen at all in this trip and that's kind of the problem with the gham, it's all a game, guess a meter and that's like the range meter is totally based on your previous driving habits, so if you take a trip with the same driving style again and again, it is precise, but so soon.

When you start to know, change the way you drive, like going from city to highway, that number doesn't really mean anything at all, which is why Tesla is the only manufacturer that uses a nominal range calculation, at least that I know of and I'm sure. You just felt the ABS gets so confused in the wet especially if your regen and one wheel locks up it cuts all braking power and then applies the discs because it can't work like the regen resistance control and it's the strangest transition if Check out our previous reviews. I've talked about it at length, but yeah, I did it there anyway.

Tesla is the only one doing the rated range calculation, which means you and your head can say, "Okay, I'm going to drive around town." I'll probably get a little more than that number says or I'll drive down the highway and I'll probably get a little less than that number says here. Actually, I forget what the efficiency of the Kona was, so I have no idea what to expect from the range and so I guess this 186 miles to our next charger I think will be about right for a full charge, but we'll find out along the way. we have to start every day. of course with a little Starbucks and that's a habit I need to break but that's for another video we're already spinning the tires it doesn't have much traction in the rain there's just a lot of torque going through this wrench wow friendly in front. it gets tiring but this is a long enough clip for Starbucks and it's much better here we go now we can take a road trip this is kind of cool there's no menu button like Eevee's and there's no way to tell you your exact percentage unless you go here, but you can Customize this button, so I clicked on it too soon.

You can customize this button to take you to the Eevee screen. There are so many things you can do with this system. Everything is customizable and adjustable. Actually, it's very good. Another cool feature is that I have half of it. of the car and driver-only air conditioning mode, so you won't waste energy heating up the other side of the car and destroying the merit, here we go, any kind of hard acceleration in the rain to merge will end up in skids, so but I don't think that is the case here, there is also the blind spot warning on the head up display and the mirror informs me that there was a Honda Pilot in the blind spot.

You just know that technology is really good. Well in this car and yes, maybe it does everything, it doesn't really feel that premium, but it has a lot of interesting things. Stroudsburg, that's the sound of the car telling me I'm a terrible driver and getting to the lines, this is where the first Electrify was produced. At Station America, we still have about half the battery, so we're good to go. We'll definitely move on to the next one and maybe see if we can stretch it further. Please note that this car charges very quickly at low levels and picks up speed all the way, I forget exactly, but up to about 70% I think it starts to slow down, maybe 60 something so yeah it's good reduce it, it will be the quickest way out, thirty minutes from our charger and I forget the name of the city we are going to, but the next charger is too far away, so we are taking it as far as we can get to a charge loss.

We are at 27% battery right now. 60 miles of range projected the Kalama and the consumption when, as the consumption went down, the column went down, the guests will be here significantly because we have had a big headwind and I accelerated to about 80 to 85 miles per hour, we have the juice to burn, so we can too and the Electrify American stations usually have, you know, a handful of them are 150 kilowatt units and up, which is great because that means that the coda can be charged to the maximum and yeah, everything is fine, we are doing 90 miles per hour. time right now Kona feels firm and robust moving towards there, well we just arrived at the Electrify America station, they have 250 kilowatt units and for 350 kilowatt units I went up to 150 because we can't use anything else.

We did 13%. 187 miles, so my prediction of around 200 highway miles was accurate for this car, that's pretty much what I remembered, especially with this mixed driving scenario, so let's at least plug it in. I'm going to have lunch and let myself throw up. The stats to you look like we're doing pretty well, we're moving up about 70 kilowatts, they don't always show up here, but I've actually been spending time with the payment so I'm not used to this car. I'll tell you how fast it's charging because Hyundai is smart and we're getting 71 kilowatts here which is really good that's what the k

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can do and there's no reason to leave early we'll just charge until it starts to slow down and then we'll see if we can get to the next stop wherever it is if we're having a good charging session we'll sit here because we'll use the juice at some point oh well I just got back to the car it's still putting out 70 kilowatts straight through which is perfect, I had lunch at Sheetz, you can hear the AC compressor running full blast cooling this battery which means everything is getting hot which is very good, we are slowing down to 58%.

I guess it makes sense now 256 kilowatts and then there's another ledge that's going to fall so let's take a look and see if we can make it to the next stop, well here's the deal, here's what the route looks like, we're heading towards Akron down i-80 so if you look at

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ing America we're here the next charger is this one let's see where Du Bois is let's see how far it is 139 miles we've got a hundred and eighty estimated we're slowing down while we're on the road yes We believe we can go further. We have another option that is also electrified, which is this one in Clarion and that one has 176 miles, so we'll see which one we end up choosing based on efficiency.

I guess it will be the first in Du. Bois or Du Bois are not sure about consuming 57 kilowatts, it's time to go, we won't get to many places at 57 kilowatts quickly, so it's time to unplug and leave, we will stop charging, unplug these, these are ABB chargers. They are really cool, they do all the AC to DC conversion off the board and these are just dispensers very similar to the Tesla approach, they are just stupid covers. I forgot about these things. I hate the ones that are so locked in ready to go so we only have 60 miles 61 miles to our destination the gum is starting to adjust to our driving it shows 68 miles so I'm hoping to get very low with this charger and I don't think That must be a problem, we can always slow down.

We've been cruising at about 70 or 75 miles per hour and it's raining a lot there, so I can adjust our consumption to make sure we get there with very little rain. You can see this headwind, actually all the leaves are coming towards us, it's quite windy. out there, so we'll try to stay behind, you know, trucks like this that will push the air out of the way and stuff, and it's no problem getting there, we have 54 miles to our destination, 52 miles projected, but I just uploaded a

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hill. You should probably look ahead to see what the elevation is like ahead of time so we have some energy to go up or down.

I have the car in Eco plus mode or cruise mode where we can, it's not the Kotas' fault, just mine. because I forgot to take into account the elevation, but in the future, hopefully, we will get to this charger, check the elevation between the two points and take it into account with more or enough load depending, yes, this is a rookie mistake. I'm used to red cars that have Milton trip planners and I don't even have to account for this, but this is just a total mistake on my part. I should have checked and verified the elevation.

I never noticed this, we're in neutral, but the drivetrain still rejects eight kilowatts if I put it in Drive, which is the same as regen at level zero. Fortunately, we are going down, which is great, so now our estimated range and the actual distance we have to travel have matched again. 24 miles away, so I think we should be fine. I didn't worry at all because it never happened.Bad news, really bad news. He says this site is currently unavailable and we will delete it with nothing, so let's go there and see what. The situation is with the Chargers again.

He should have planned this. Okay, let's figure it out and maybe we can find a level two or something in the city just to recharge it just for a while because there's another Electrify. America likes just a few miles down the road maybe 20 miles and that could be a week and they can do it so this could get a little interesting but I guess we just have to wait well we're loading the charger no. It doesn't work or doesn't seem to work, we just press turtle mode. I thought it died but it just cut out a lot of power because it's limited in power so we're at 3%, it's actually been at 3% for a while.

In the meantime, let's see if we can get Electrify America to restart some of these chargers. I know that can make them work sometimes as long as there's no big deal, so let's go find them. I found the chargers, one of this green one. Oh, I see some green, which means maybe a station works. I hope I stop at the only one that has green and that says. error this one says available oh come on, fingers crossed here this is a strange place I don't know if I can load the code I'm going to have to park it in the middle of the street because this design here the other one There wouldn't have been a problem there, it says the The maximum power of these chargers has been temporarily reduced for an update, so those of us who have any kind of power are basically dead on this, let's see if we can. making it work just got wet out there.

I don't think it will let me activate it with the app, but I'll try it with my credit card and see if it works. You might let me activate it there so I just got back from the car to get my wallet it's pouring rain outside I couldn't activate this charger and it's pouring rain outside I'm soaked I'd put myself in the air conditioned seat but we have no power in the battery this is the situation the chargers here are all dead it's pouring rain the car is dead it has no power left and I've been outside trying to get this to work and I'm soaked not so good so far so It's not a great situation, there's no way we can fix it. these chargers work, we don't have enough range to get to the next one, there's no level two nearby, there are a few hotels that have outlets I can plug into, so I think I'll at least go down the road there. and 110 outlet edit some videos see how long it takes to get enough range to reach the next station and continue with this trip or I will just stay in that hotel overnight and then we will leave in the morning safely with enough range so again It's not the end of the world, it's nice to not have any time limit to get there again and again.

You should have reviewed the application beforehand. We can't blame Electrify America for this, it shows that you know the chargers aren't working and you know, the next station is operational, so it's certainly all on me. This was just a bad stretch overall and I just needed to get into the road trip mentality. 9 Tesla again. We're right down the street at a hotel and a 110 point and I hope this card just arrives okay, let's make sure it's charging so we can get at least some juice. I'm not sure if they'll let me load here. I need to go in and ask, but for now at least we're going to start normally.

I don't do that and yeah or charge a little 57 hours at 100 which is fine we only need 20 miles we just went to make sure it was okay to plug the car in at this location and they are the nicest people they say oh wow , that's crazy, we love electric cars. I didn't know the station can work, they were really great, we are in the middle of nowhere so they said yes, keep your car. plugged in, get in, get dried off, get some work done, get some coffee, they have like a living room so I guess I'll go edit some videos and until I'm done, and if I'm tired at that point, just finish spending the night here on 110 or continue with the next charger again after this.

I confirmed with

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America that all chargers are totally fine and I really don't know. I know everyone in the comments. Well, you should buy a gasoline car, yes, gasoline. Cars are easier because there are more stations, however this is actually a very strange problem: you run into a unique situation, so we have the car here charging. It is bright blue. I hope no one trips over this cable. I have the car on the Hyundai app to tell me if it stops charging. I'm going to grab my laptop and put together some videos. In fact, I'm going to edit video p85, the Boston road trip one, right now, so wish me luck.

I'm ready. I settled in the living room. I started up my workstation. I needed to do some things anyway. I'm 50/50 on whether or not I'll spend the night here. I don't really see much reason to move on, I mean. I'm in no rush to get out as long as the cars are there by Saturday or Sunday and it's now Wednesday. Anyway, I was already ahead of schedule, so no big deal, we're inside at the workstation and I want to give you an idea of ​​our situation here, so I'm going to turn off the wall outlets because we're already in a wall so these are the stations that were able to charge at CCS and j1 772 with this car so I could go to this forest and that's 40 miles 42 miles east of where I am currently or I could charge enough to get to 40 miles to Electrify America so there's no point in trying to find a level two because there's just nothing so that means you could probably ask Hyundai to tow the car there or just leave it at exit 110 since there are no options to spend the night and stay the night and do some work here, which is totally fine and get out of these soaked. clothes because it's not comfortable and then in the morning I'll definitely get there and then it should be easy to navigate all the way so I think that's the plan just spend the night so I'm sitting here working and I just got there.

A call was made to our hotel's phone and the front desk said sorry, one of our guests said his stroller was disconnected. Can I plug it back in? That's crazy. Yes, I was very kind. The Hyundai app did not send me a notification. I have that turned off, it's a good thing I put those notifications on because the car just stopped charging again. I'm going to run out and plug it back in there, well they gave me an extension cord. I think the wind keeps breaking the cord, let's take a look, yeah, it looks like it definitely fell off this little thing, it's really windy out here, we had tornado warnings, so I'm going to plug in this extension cord, which you should never do , but we have no choice, beautiful, that's how it is.

I don't really do anything special including the charger on that cord plugged in, it's cold outside so I hope it doesn't melt anything so we came to this hotel because we need to charge and that's what the power has been doing for the last five minutes , so let's go. I hope we can get some power back tonight, otherwise tomorrow we will be stuck in this garbage town again, but that will just tow you to the next charter at that time, but since you couldn't ask for a worse situation, the charger is goes out and then there's no level two, so you get to the hotel and then the hotel loses power, so it's not just the hotel that loses power, which is already a little strange, all the smoke alarms, I guess, They like a little charge and as the batteries die they make these crazy spooky sounds and there's like a wind outside and like there should be a dumpster flying around because of this wind it's like a tornado like you know I told you about the wind, this is probably the creepiest thing I've ever seen.

I have experienced it before, so I always say that when you have an electric car you can experience new places and new things. You can find the Chargers and meet interesting people. This is the disadvantage. I can't even run away if I needed to because we don't have range in the car. I don't think I mentioned in this video that it's also Halloween, so there are already people wearing costumes and spooky things that I don't like. I hate Halloween, it scares me. So this is just a bad experience, maybe I'll just get a bed and hopefully when I wake up everything will be fine and the cars will be charged enough to get to the next stop.

Good morning, from the second day of the trip I still have the car plugged into 110 volts it's windy let's get in here you can't make this up so yesterday we got to a charger that didn't work which is completely my fault because I knew that charger should have had a problem, then we don't have enough range to get to any level two backup options, so I find a hotel that has an outlet nearby, plug it in, and then we're left without power in the hotel all night, like If it wasn't a joke, because I arrived earlier. yesterday and came back on around 6 o'clock this morning, we charged enough to get to the next stop so we have 58 miles of projected range, however it was very cold last night, it's about 34 degrees right now and the superchargers I know the electrify America chargers are 40 miles away as mentioned so we should be able to do that.

The battery may be cold, so we'll see if it has slower fast charging, but the good news is that we're finally back in business and I'm ready to go, I'm going. Saw the heated steering wheel climate control turned off just to make sure we got there, so this is a new issue I haven't seen. We press the turtle mode at 5%, it normally kicks it. at 3%, so I'm not sure what the problem is, but let's hope the car is okay because we have another six miles to go. Turtle modes. You have problems with the clutch. In this he will put 2%.

We're almost at the charger. I literally have a wide open power and it doesn't seem to change anything in the power output, it just limits you to such low acceleration. Let's hope we get to the top of this hill. Let's start stopping traffic. Don't know. I know if we are going to recover it, we are at 2%. I have wide open power, the car doesn't go over 40 and we are losing speed quickly. I have cars approaching us, trucks very fast, oh my God, We are at the exit. I'm going to let this truck pass while it gets off.

We're going to go 35 miles per hour. This is all the car will do. Let's see how much power is at maximum. My feet stepped on eight kilowatts. to the engine that's all it's doing this thing is really dead we're moving towards the charger. It had never been that low, so it had been at 2% before in the Kona and it provided more power than that, but that was really steep hill, so you know, we were probably pulling all the amperage side of the battery for that long. time the voltage was so low, so let's see if we can get close to this charger, okay, it's initializing and charging, yes, we will. see how fast your battery charges, it's probably still cold, that could contribute to why you had this strange power outage, sure turtle mode cuts power but this was way beyond the turtle mode experience on this car and yes, it's only generating 35 kilowatts, but hey, we're. charging that is good, it will help warm up the battery and as the pack voltage increases it will be able to accept more amps so we should be fine.

I'm going to see if there's a Starbucks around here, but I don't think there is. Yes, we are starting to accelerate as the backpack receives more power and probably more heat. I think it's safe to say that with this charger everything will work fine, so I'm very cold and yes, it will take longer to charge. I get it, but I think these are like ice bricks, so I turned on the heater on the way here for half a second and then I was like, "Oh wait, that's not a good idea, I barely made it and I actually stopped." . at 2%, but the car had wide open power just by going on the charger, it didn't even go over 10 miles per hour or so, so it's a good thing we did it because the hotel barely lost power for the right amount of time and probably another 10 minutes of power loss, we wouldn't have done well since we're charging and everything seems fine, let's plan our next stop, so share, we're here, we're going this direction, okay?

Now I have this that shows just the electrify America plugs and it looks like on our route we're going to be able to go through these sheets or this charger here, which has a hundred and eighty miles and this one only has 70, so what am I? thinking we load here until we taper off, we'll go to the next load here until we taper off and then we load there and that's probably the least expensive and fairest way to move. There are plenty of DC chargers in Akron Ohio, however, mostde They are hundred amp Evy chargers that I just checked and they are very slow, so we will stay away from them and stick to the ones that can maximize the charging profile of this car, which really only electrify the United States and maybe to a handful of other stations, so we'll go to this charger next at Sheetz.

Let's do some quick math because all this relying on what's gone is just not going to work on this trip, so we averaged like super hypermiling three point seven miles per kilowatt hour in this car, which is actually pretty efficient, That's pretty good, but let's say we're cruising at a normal pace, let's say we're going to get to point nine or three miles per kilowatt hour, probably two point nine, so to go 70 miles to our next charger, I don't know exactly what so far away it is, let's take a look, see how much power we need to put into the battery.

Now something related to the list. The car does not tell us how much energy has gone into the car. The shipper can tell how much. The energy is dispensed into the vehicle, but again, because I turned on the heat for a while, some of that energy was wasted, so I think we should assume a 90 or maybe 85 percent charging efficiency, so that we have to travel 74 miles to the next one. stop, so we add twenty six kilowatt hours to the car, so if I do 26 times 2.8, let's be super conservative, we'll get to the next charger and the Damas is clocking 98 estimated miles, but that's estimated in hypermiling for the last couple.

No matter how many hours we drove yesterday and today, the car is only charging at 55 kilowatts. I think the battery is still cold, it's warmed up enough and it's still going up and up, so it's okay, but yeah, I think we need to charge it. a little more we'll probably add, say, 32 kilowatt hours times 2.9, which gives us 92 miles plus a little bit of inefficiency. I think that's where we want to get to, it's above 30 kilowatt hours added and then we'll be good to go to the next stop where the battery should be warmer and then we can charge faster at that station.

Things are starting to look up on this trip. We've had our first ray of sunshine, we're getting to our charger with at least 10 miles to spare, which is comfortable, and we're in Ohio, which is the only bad part about driving in Ohio for those traveling in the US. one of the most heavily policed ​​states, has the strictest driving laws, has speed cameras and radar like everywhere else, so you can't really go crazy in Ohio, which is fine and good for us with that low fuel consumption, but you know, I had talked about us getting about 2.9 miles per kilowatt-hour, we're at 2.8 on those trips, that was a pretty accurate guess and I think we'll be fine for the rest of this trip, I should go on wheels.

I just checked all the electrify America chargers for the rest of the trip everything is online ready even the one that broke yesterday is now showing as an available station on the app so we hit it at the wrong time and it had a rough night , but everything will be fine. I found a cool little trick which is that you can activate it from the app ahead of time if you didn't see the numbers up there because it's really cold so I activate it from the app, I ever plugged the car in and then I can go back and we're increasing here, very well, we should see probably about 70 kilowatts 50 hmm.

Hopefully that will increase here in a minute, maybe it's just because the load is very low, although I don't remember this. The car does that before, we'll keep an eye on it. Normally, I would use the one hundred and fifty kilowatt chargers, but that's okay. I just didn't want to take the one with permission for the Chatham Islands. It has to load well. This has been a great stop. So far the cars are back pulling 74 kilowatts so we're getting top speed yeah 74. I got into the sheet so oh that's great we're so happy people are starting to use the cars electric, we always tell people when they arrive.

I'm here not to block the chargers and they said the new Ford Mustang Electric Coupe Concept sorry, not the coupe SUV. I was just here testing, they had it all a secret and they said you all know you couldn't get close to him and they thought. It was cool, so Wow, while we defined the employees like sheets in the middle of nowhere, every single one of them was excited about electric transportation, so it's crazy anyway, I bought some snacks for later today and some lunch, a nice chicken Caesar wrap now and I love it. leaves I think it's great to put chargers in, they're much better than the ones at Walmart in my opinion, but hey, I like chargers where it's convenient and yeah, so we're just charging at max speed here, 75 kilowatts will probably lean to 76 here shortly and then we're off to the next charger, it's about a hundred miles from here, 110 miles, so we'll need some juice to do that and we'll probably be here another 20 minutes, so I just finished lunch.

We are planning our next stop, this is what looks like it will be about 107 miles, of course this is how far you can drive these cars if you charge them much further on a single charge, but my theory and what I have always done with them electric car road trips charge until the car reduces its charge point and then in my theory it is faster to stop more frequently at faster charging speeds than to just fully charge the battery and drain it completely and have to spend much time. charge, so basically my theory just minimizes the amount of time you're standing at the chargers, so with that being said, probably in about three or four more minutes we'll have enough range to get to the charger.

We have added 37 kilowatt hours, that is, 37 times. 2.8 is what we've been averaging, so 37 times two point eight miles per kilowatt hour would be one hundred and three miles, we have one hundred and seven left. I got to about five percent, something like that, maybe six or seven, I don't remember. but there was some power left in the battery, so we can certainly go down and use that as well, so I think we'll try to get out of here in about three or four minutes. I've activated the station, so we'll take this as crazy. heavy handle oh oh come on yeah plugged in when it's cold these handles get really stiff this just made a little noise.

I haven't heard that maybe it was the card reader, no that was cool anyway, it takes a couple of seconds handshake and for the cars and charger to talk to each other, we hear a click, the cabinets are there and yeah nice little facility near walmart not really sure what our next stop is going to be but let's load this up and then we'll figure it out we're getting pretty good about 10% so that's perfect ok let's let this do . It's surprising how cold these handles get when it's cold outside or should I say how stiff these cables get anyway, they are water cooled and Kona juice looks good, honestly it's been a pretty good road trip today, without any problems, which corresponds to seventy kilowatts, everything is fine, it is easy to drive, let's determine our route, so we will basically go to Columbus and then turn west.

What beer route is this that was in the seventies? Well, we're basically going from I 80 to I-70, so let's see what we can find on the west side of Columbus again. I have this union of US electrifying stations, so it seems that to be one that is perfectly positioned for this in Columbus, right on the west side, there must also be someone with an Audi e-tron on a road trip because you can see which is only 70 miles away so we know it's easily doable however the next one less is let's take a look it's a large facility the next one is 122 miles now we only did 107 and stopped with the 10% and we left just after the car narrowed now, after the first point of decrease the car will improve a little. more speed somewhere in the mid 60 kilowatt range may even hit 70 kilowatts again as the pack voltage increases and then fall off a ledge so I'm thinking let's make this stop a little longer and charge to the second ledge because everything is fine.

Let's speed up around that point and see if we can stretch it these one hundred and twenty-two miles to Dayton Ohio. I was literally in Dayton last week when we did our trip to Colorado, okay, so that's fine with me, let's spend some time at Walmart, so This is turning out to be a really good charging session. I just went to Walmart to use the bathrooms. You saw it? There it is and these are the new high power Signet stations. I don't think we've used one of these yet. It works pretty much the same, it's all Electrify America software and we're having a great charting session, can't complain so I'll put in a YouTube video or two and we'll be ready to go shortly.

I just left that second ledge. at 71% it's now down to 38 kilowatts so I think it's time to go, we added 43 kilowatt hours in less than 40 minutes so that's pretty good for this car again, the Kona doesn't really charge that fast, I mean, as an e-tron for The example will generate 150 kilowatts up to 80%, it's a hell of a lot better for a road trip that we'll soon have fun with anyway. The range estimate in the car says we have 178 miles to go. We're only a hundred and twenty to our destination for the next 121 charger, so other than just doing the math on the energy we take, I think we'll be able to make it with five or ten percent to spare, so let's stop there, come on these fools.

Well, we're charging just outside of Dayton, Ohio, 76 kilowatts, which is the highest I've ever seen on this car, so we're going to have a box charging session. One thing I noticed is that it gets cold here when you plug in the Kona. It starts around 50 kilowatts and then goes up. I never noticed that in the heat so I'm thinking as we sail and you know it's about 40 degrees maybe 39 degrees in a couple of sections the batteries actually. clicking too much and then it has to reheat to charge. I mean, that's just the theory, but I'll go with it anyway.

We stumbled upon a Nero Electric from Canada that was here. A fantastic couple had it. Actually we are. We're potentially meeting them in Canada for a video, it's a really cool coincidence meeting them and they toned their Niro all the way from Canada, from Ontario to Tennessee, behind their camper and now they're driving their Nero home, so they and I agree. that that really wasn't possible even a few months ago without the expansion of Electrify America. It's amazing the release of these chargers anyway. I'm starving. We have already charged up to approximately 45%. We had a really efficient Drive here.

I'm serious. There was a lot of truck traffic to get the wind out, but we arrived with a lot more energy than anticipated, that's totally fine, it's better than the opposite scenario, so I'll go get some food, not Walmart, but there are some restaurants that they really can. I don't see it, there are some restaurants on the way, let's let this thing charge until whatever takes me long enough to get food, probably by the time the car is done, I'll be ready and we should be ready to head to Indianapolis like the next shipper just went and picked up some chinese food that they had pre-made they were ready to go it's like I guess someone didn't come pick up your order but they just warmed it up because I was. in a hurry, the car has enough charge to get to Indianapolis, the GoPro died so I can't show you the map.

I'll load it into this lake. Hopefully, if not, you'll see there are some clips in transit from my phone. but we're charged up to 68 percent, which, honestly, is too much. We put in thirty-five kilowatt hours. We've been here about half an hour, so it's definitely trying to work and we're leaving. We've arrived at our stop in Indianapolis on the southeast side, let's plug this in, here we go and here we go. I always activate it ahead of time and then all you have to do is plug it in. This is a great facility. Look, we have these down here. and all the way down it's cool, cool, another Walmart, we're getting to know all the Walmart Walmarts in the US, but that's there, okay, I'm freezing here.

I'm going to sit in the car and watch some YouTube. So we're charging at 74 kilowatts in Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, and it seems to me that the car increased the charging speed to 18%, so we'll see if it continues to do that. I don't remember doing it in Florida. trip, but if anyone wants to go back and review the pictures let me know, but I think it was like 70 kilowatts at 2% at one of the charging stops on the trip to Florida, anyway, we have two options for the next charger, we can go 74 miles. or one hundred and forty miles, allThey're 70 miles apart, we'll see what it looks like when the car narrows, we're not going to leave early to get good speeds because we'll use the power of course, so yeah I think maybe we could stretch it out.

I'll charge a little more. We will keep the speed low. It's night. Now everyone is relaxed. No hurry. If we get to Oklahoma City tomorrow, I'll stay. night somewhere along the way tonight here's the plan we're loading we're at 78% it just slowed down to 27 kilowatts so we're definitely not going to wait here at those speeds this is what the route looks like in Terry haut o or I don't know how say there's an electric American station just like this one and then another here we go to this one it's 145 miles away the gun predicts 180 I think we'll be totally fine making it there, but if not we'll re-evaluate around here and see if we need to do a reload quick because it's colder outside, so 78% let's unplug and go to this charger.

This is a town we are taking advantage of. effingham at what's called Firefly grill it's a little bit off the highway it's not a long distance there you just have to go down this little two lane road this is a really good stop it looks like a good place there's a dog friendly station here They might like to get poop bags and stuff, so this is a really good stop. I'm a big fan of dog parks and dog pick up things at EV chargers because many of us travel with our dogs often, we get the car anyway. connected and working by the way, so far all the way here there hasn't been a single connection problem, you plug the car in, press start on the app and it worked perfectly, it's such a drastic change from Electrify America even like six months. five months ago, this is incredible, so it's great to see the great progress that the Kona is making very well, we got to four percent, we did that big stretch, it's cold outside, it's like 37 degrees, so this is B, This is today has been the most I've had an uninterrupted day traveling in non-Tesla electric vehicles and I've spent a lot of time in electric cars.

This is pretty surprising so I'll sit in the car with the heat on and maybe see a Firefly open but I don't think so so the last charge stopped the car picked up 270 kilowatts more at 18% this time it did at 14% so I think it has to do with the battery getting cold while driving, we are still having it. a pretty good charging session, it's sad to have 70+ kilowatts at all times. I just booked a hotel room between here and st. Louis, there were no hotel options that had level 2 charging, actually a few around here, but we were already charging here so I wanted to go the route.

I started to get a little tired, it was around 11:00 p.m. m. very good load here, we have enough range to reach the loader outside st. Louis tomorrow, so we should be ready to go. I'll try to find a 110 outlet at the hotel just to try to keep the battery a little warm because it's going to be below freezing tonight, from what I understand, somewhere between twenty-five and twenty-three degrees. distance to our hotel stop for the night, the last stop of the trip, if all goes well, I found a wall outlet that produces just over 1.2 kilowatts, oh that's perfect, you know, a 110 volt outlet , 120 volts, so this will charge a little bit. overnight, but that's always a good thing, if anything it will keep everything running in the car and no phantom draining, which will be nice, although the counters don't really drain much when sitting.

I'm going to bed, good morning. my hotel room is actually an amazing hotel, newly renovated, the car is loaded. I checked on the app that I like it more than 50%, so 110, that's pretty good, sometimes they let me switch cameras to the GoPro and plan our day. This is where we are and we're trying to get to Oklahoma City, so it looks like we'll have to stop at this charger. I don't think we have enough to stretch, so we'll definitely go to the shipper in Collinsville, Illinois, which is right outside. street. Louis, we'll probably do a quick reload on this one just to keep the car at maximum charging speed at Sullivan and maybe we know how to ping-pong each of these chargers, maybe we can skip one or two of them to Oklahoma City and then I'll fly home tonight, that's the plan, but I haven't checked the flights yet, so maybe tomorrow will be fine, it's really cold out there, but let's hit the road, so here we go.

I have a heated steering wheel. In what is actually a fantastic feature, the seat is very hot and heated, of course, we are on our way to st. Louis and since it was cold last night I'm actually driving the car super inefficient, simple and open power and then we're in full regen and what we're trying to do is heat up the inside of the battery so we can see if it charges faster if you remember yesterday morning when we got to the charger about the same distance from our overnight stop, the temperature was about the same as it would have been, the car would only draw 30 kilowatts or so because it was cold, so now we'll see when we plug it in, if we get the full 70 or 50 or what will happen again his power goes all the way to the floor like now we pull the regen paddle to get even more regen and in fact we have 70.

I don't care if we come up empty it's still going to be more fast if we get to a lower state of charge and we can charge faster than with a battery with a higher state of charge which will not charge quickly at all, so I am totally in favor of this technique, we will see what happens, but we have the charger on we're going to plug it in and charge it and we're good so it's definitely temperature related it just went up 273 kilowatts at 24% so the battery was gone. completely warm, but hey, we would have been sitting here a lot longer at 30 or 50 kilowatts until it got warm enough to take full power.

It's interesting with Hyundai's load profiles that have like a threshold amount and then it instantly goes to that. I like the number a lot, but the package, let's say, has to be at 30 degrees Celsius and then instantly it reaches 73, it doesn't increase like the Teslas do, it's like you're at this level and then the green light comes on Oak. so that's interesting now that we know the car is going full speed. I'm going to run to that Starbucks and really start this day now that we're at 59 percent, the next charger is just 80 miles down the road and then the other. one is a hundred and eighty miles, so I think what we're going to do, because we only have a hundred and forty miles of projected range, is we're going to go now because we phase down to less than 60 kilowatts and just go from charger to charger. and try to spend as much time as possible because we have to get to Oklahoma City quickly.

We got to our next charging stop and it seemed like it just clicked and started charging. It's surprising how enjoyable this whole connection process is now compared to my last journey. trip on electrify America everything just works it's amazing really cool anyway yeah clean it always good so this time the charger shot up to 74 kilowatts at 17 percent because everything is fine and it warmed up so which was great, we just said it above 70. kilowatts that you know from the Tesla world, like when I was used to it. I was excited when my model 3 charged at 250 kilowatts on a v3, so this is a bit backwards for road trips.

I admit the Kona needs a little faster charging. but I think eating Ron at 150 kilowatts and Tyco at 270 kilowatts is amazing so I'm excited to do a road trip with both cars probably Tyco next year on e-tron this year and yeah unfortunately there's not much to do here, this is It'll be a shorter stop, we'll just charge until it slows down and we'll have enough range at that point to get to the next one, which is called Casey's General Store and it's supposed to have good reviews, so I'm excited. To prove it, look, we're here currently and we're going to Casey's General Store.

When I put it on the maps, it says we are only 98 miles away. We have 133 miles of range projected, so we'll get there with some juice. on the battery, but there's no point in trying to skip it and go an extra 7,080 miles while trickle charging, so this was perfectly planned, time to unplug and get going. Look, it's something plugged into Casey's general store. charging and we have a car show here this guy is doing a big burnout you can see the smoke that's awesome as you know I love all cars it doesn't have to be electric anything that makes noise and smoke is fine too me anyway. charging the k

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I think I'm going to walk over there and look at some cars and now you can see everything is heated up we're getting seventy kilowatts at 6% so it's definitely temperature related before same chargers same units everything that.

It's the same when I said Casey's General Store looks like a nice place, the photos really made it look a lot nicer than it is, it was definitely one of those places where it's cleaner, not washing your hands after going to the store. bathroom and there are many incomplete things. There are people around, so at least the car show is really cool, we're just getting loaded. I'm going to have some pizza, which is surprisingly very nice of them. They have these nice portions, it's not the healthiest option, but it's okay, and we'll load up. and we head to the next one while plugged in at our next charging stop.

That charger at the end doesn't work and this one doesn't work, but these two work fine, so we're all good, no problems and it looks like We're just turning on plug-in charging, it just dropped to 59 58 kilowatts and we're good to go, so maybe we'll taper off sooner because that's 64 percent. I don't know. I was watching YouTube neutral, drop one of the best YouTube channels out there. You love watching trash carts get destroyed. Look at the neutral drop. I mean, I'm addicted. I've been watching since they launched their channel but now they're blowing up and it's great to see, they deserve it so after the next uploader it's okay.

We just arrived in Vinita Missouri. I don't think we're in Oklahoma, but it's amazing how many different types of chargers Electrify America uses, you know, across all of their supplier lists and they all make them work, so this was the first time I got the pass my phone to work with the charger, I don't try it every time, but I tried here. I simply double-clicked on the side where my mobile wallet appeared, tapped, and it started loading. I'm really excited about vin recognition charging, so all you'll have to do is plug it in and go, but this is cool, we're on some ABB chargers here, a little AC pump to cool the cable makes that high pitched sound, It's really cool and man I'm so impressed with this network, the more I use it they have stations everywhere.

I could go as far as to say this is better than the supercharger network, of course their power levels are better and I think they are pretty. There's a lot everywhere right now and this is crazy and no one's really talking about it, but we're going to do a big feature about the new network expansion in just a few weeks, so stay tuned, we've already reached the last stop trip load. We are 86 miles from our destination in Oklahoma City. I'm rushing to the airport because I have a flight to catch and what a trip this has been!

The Kona has performed perfectly. All the problems really depended on me, but only that. One stop where we had that low power issue and the Chargers were dead, but I should have checked that ahead of time. Kona did a great job. Electrify America did an even better job. I mean, I keep saying this, but I'm very impressed with network trips like these, they're just not a problem in the US anymore, of course in Europe you would have been able to go anywhere for a long time, but in the The US really couldn't until very recently, so this is a new wave of electric transportation, it's easy, it's seamless, it's really fantastic and I'm really glad that this network is really expanding anyway.

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