EV owner in Sydney Australia, living with the very short range Mitsubishi i-miev, to the long range Tesla Model 3 performane, and in the middle, the mid range Nissan Leaf.
here you will find EV roadtrips across NSW and Australia, and all other aspects of EV ownership, from Charging, Infrastructure, dealing with Range, and EV features, such as Autopilot on the Tesla. I also have a podcast called The Phantom Lane Four. i also VLOG on my daily commutes about topics regarding Ev's, renewable and sustainable energy and my thoughts in general on related topics at the time.
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Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Keen to replicate the trip. Would you know if you got many stone chips? Thinking about whether you’d need a PPF cover for the front or not…
thank you for watching, not sure on the stone chips, its not something we worried about, and we didn't get any i can recall hitting the windscreen. but i do have a full wrap PPF film over the car. you will get lots of bugs. The trip is a lot easier now with DC fast chargers now in many places we needed a longer stop. such as Ceduna, Kimba, Poochera, Nullarbor Roadhouse. so the trip can be done a lot quicker. The western end of the Nullarbor region still has the same 22Kw DC chargers, and the Chip fat at Caiguna. but that was 40Kw. the roadhouse at Balladonia Roadhouse is the most expensive by far. i hear they are now charging over $1 a Kwh.
I was able to do the repair some 2 years and 22.000 km’s ago. This time the Okaya LS225 X2 condenser with 2,2 microfarad was producing smoke and made charging AC impossible. With this defect the 20 A fuse in the inverter stayed healthy.
@@Rabs73 nice, i spent 4 yrs at HMAS Albatross working on Seaking, Sea Sprites and Sea Hawks when they came in. never got a chance to fly in any though
Such a nice looking car. Fits just like my Polestar. I much prefer that to the openness say on an Ioniq 5. Externally I think the GTS looks even better, especially in that blue green colour. I hope they sell a few and can't wait to see one on the wild. I keep seeing a BYD Seal on the Island but have not figured out who the owner is. We do have a couple of Attos as well, but no MGs, yet.
I have seen quite a few MG evs around, i guess to an MG dealer being not to far away, i have seen pics of the GT version, it look awesome, will be good to see if it look even better in real life.. The Cyberster is a surprising big car, but in a way that Ferraris look a lot wider and fatter in real life. I think the Cyberster will be a mid life crisis car for a lot of people. will be good to see a few on the roads, hopefully soon
yep, the salesman, he was never far away, we asked permission to film, and we were given permission from another person, so maybe he didn't want us to film things, or thinking about it, knew we were not serious buyers, but either way, he was happy to answer questions and help with things like opening the frunk.
@@Stan-at-KangarooIslandTV it was really bed before I tried to remove it, I think I got rid of about 75% of it. its why when the camera moves fast, the image blurrs a little. Always learning.
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agreed - SA was very slow to the game with remote locality fast chargers - however, over the last year the situation has improved markedly. Still a long way to go to provide more capacity, but finally they are doing something!
yes, since our trip, the network has grown rapidly, doing the trip now would be a non event, with DC fast chargers now at every place we had to use slow charging. not many remote areas left now where a DC fast charger isnt to far away
For those with a little extra money, a company called OZ Electric Vehicles can increase the battery to about 200-250km. They also upgrade the Mitsubishi Minicab I-MiEV
I trying to get more content done, but im studying full time in a degree and uni that has no time off at all, not a single day. 4 semesters of 13 weeks each , and trying to renovate my house. so extra time is hard to find at the moment. i have so many ideas but not the time..
I would rather a car that cost me nothing to run. I dont buy cars based on resale value in the future. I would rather invest in things that improve my cashflow. like solar and cars.. nice try labelling a cars fuel type with a culture war though. do you treat people who use LPG the same way?
Great EV and the battery has a decent cooling system and lasts.....compared to that other ancient EV, the Leaf. Better still in 2012 the Model S came out and those really last.....390.000km on mine and still going strong.
yes exactly, it has thermal management, its still air cooled, but the cabin air conditioner redirects into the battery when needed. you can hear it kick on when charging on DC on warmer days, but will be a long time before the IMiEV will see 300,000km. I'm at about 80,000 with this one
had one of those, bought it used, it was around 10 years old, the battery was really bad and it drove only around 40 kilometers, and the worst thing was in winter, the turtle mode kicked in out of nowhere and slowed you down to 15 kmh, which was dangerous. cant recomend it in cold climate.
We dont really have a cold cold climate here, its early winter now, so nigh temperatures might occasionally hit 0, most days are between 10 and 20 deg. So far i still get about 75 to 80km from a full charge, when we got it, 80 to 90Km was the norm, so its slowly losing capacity, now we only drive it about 10 to 20km a day max.
they keep on going, proving the myths wrong in the process. there are a few with bigger bettery upgrades, but most still with original batteries and doing their job day in day out without issue
I'm still desperate to find one of these, but a Citroen And regards to regen, 100% is all available through the brake pedal. Unless you're in a super hilly area it's best to have a way to coast as best as possible. Many EV or hybrid owners would switch to Neutral when there's a good enough downhill or enough distance before a stop. Cause even in D or Eco or whatever if you try to coast with the throttle you'd still be using 1-4kW
im not sure the brake activates regen in this model, its one of the first 2010 models, JDM spec, when regen the power meter reflects the energy going back, but when using the brake pedal the power meter doesn't move from its 0 power mark. the brake regen might have been a feature of the later models maybe? might be worth looking a bit further into it
@@SydneyEV that would explain it. I'm aware of the 2010 models that existed in Europe for a time. They had a more rudimentary lvl1 charge plug than the J1772 you've shown here
@@moestrei We only got the Mitsubishi versions, most sold here were the 2012 and upward, that has Australian compliance mods, life side intrusion bars, and projector style headlights, and night dimming mirror. being the 2010 model, only 110 were imported from Japan for a trial, so the 2010 models were Japanese spec. the headlight on this are 6 LED lights, but do have auto levelling.
Hello from Kyoto Japan. 1:13 A chipmunk with a mouthful of nuts! ha ha! Now I will never be able to unsee that. 2:49 Makes petrol lovers feel at home... yes I suppose it would, together with the little petrol pump icon for the battery SOC. Mine is a 2011 and it's my daily driver. I am always on B too. Probably you know, over there you have an aftermarket upgrade for the battery when you think it's ready for change. 2X capacity with the same weight I believe. OZ Electric Vehicles is the company - I think. No one here offers that yet, that I know of. Thanks for the upload anyway!
haha yep, first thing i thought when i first saw it, was a chipmunk or squirrel with a mouthful of nuts. I have heard of the company dong the battery upgrades, but even now with just 75Km range, it still does everything i need. I have been looking at the cost of second hand wrecker batteries from Japan via Yahoo auctions, they are down to around $500AUD now. wondering it it might be worth buying one just to try and pick the best modules and make a home battery from it.
Nice One guys! maybe for the next one, try and push to use the lower end of the pack to increase charge rates, thus decreasing charge times...to better your travel time.. 😅 that I'll hopefully drop down your stops to about 4 ish also, bladder withholding! 😂
Next trip, whenever that will be ill try that, we left with 65% i think as we were charging overnight, but based all stops on what the car suggested. The detour to Nimbin didn't help, but meant we arrived at Harwood with 2%, so does that make up for the average SOC arrivals? :P
Its 2024 and the comment at 00:05 says it all, if you sit in a Tesla. The SuC at Fortitude Valley (= Birisbane SC) is a pain, 2 upstairs and often iced and 2 dowstairs often used by the SC itself. You could have mentioned that Knockrow SuC has one trailer friendly stall and that the castle is past its heydays. Otherwise: Love your straight no bs style !
thanks. Never been to Fortitude valley, but the car just changed the next charge to Knockrow, to make sure we had enough to go from Eagle Farm to Rochdale instead of Fortitude valley. i am assuming all the chargers were taken, but clicked on the map, and it came up as charger offline. so wasnt sure what was going on with it. even so, Rochdale was all in use and a queue 5 cars long. so plugshare and found a Eevie charger within 5 km, and not a single car using it. win.
We have done a similar trip, From Horsham in Vic back home, but didn't record for a specific 1000Km challenge. the regular stops make the long day trips a lot less fatiguing
or as i did in this case, just go to the charger down the road where there was no one, but yes, we are going to need more infrastructure in fast chargers as the numbers grow.=
Not sure, On plugshare there is a mix of reports being broken, as of today, but 1 from 7th saying worked fine. but yes, definitely more needed, though this year things seem to be improving
I prefer the Big Banana site to the one in the shopping centre, so much better scenery. I am assuming it will disappear when the new Coffs Harbour site goes live.
We did that trip a while ago now, Sydney to Perth and return, but back then, there we no DC fast chargers between Adelaide and William Supercharger just east of Perth. Now there are Dc fast chargers pretty much the entire trip. We made the mistake of not booking accommodation ahead, and got caught out in the start of holiday season across the Nullarbor. I do believe there are chargers in Esperance, Norseman, Nullarbor Roadhouse itself, Ceduna, Kimba, Poochera, and now Pt Augusta. so you can do almost all the trip on DC chargers. I think the chargers at Balladonia Roadhouse, Madura Pass are still 22 Kw DC chargers that run off AC 3 phase power. The Caiguna roadhouse has the famous Chip fat charger. but the campgrounds are very hard ground. not recommended if in a tent. here is our return trip, Via Hyden, and before the DC fast chargers were rolled out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SiJBYcCF0JI.htmlsi=PVbiZ2eH2_OSWJfO
@@SydneyEV thanks heaps for the info...that's very reassuring to know that there are more Superchargers along the route to Perth - will book ahead for accomodation - how long did it take you to get to Perth?
Still take a 32amp 3 phase AC EVSE as backup! TOCA or AEVA do loaner for members or there still about 700 to 1k to buy...be prepared...take a starlink or sat tracker ...as well as a UHF.. spare tyre and patches, air pumps and jumper pack....oh and do a figure 8...love to see ya twice in Alice! haha
@@cmathieu 6 days to get there. and 14 to get back, we were stopping overnight more often on the return. We also book accommodation that had overnight charging for guests, such as Jamestown, on the West side of the Broken Hill Leg, Ceduna motel had charging for 2 cars.
Amazing that road trip is doable. It will only improve from there. We had the same situation in Ukraine in 2016 - you could barely drive between cities with 1 DC in 300 km. Now we have 50kw DC every 100km on all major roads. Keep popularising EVs!
Today this trip is much easier, almost every stop where we were slow charging now has a DC fast charger installed. We completed the trip when we did before the network was built to make it a challenge. now its so easy its a non event almost.
your correct, its medium goods vehicle based on ADR. " A vehicle constructed for both the carriage of persons and the carriage of goods shall be considered to be primarily for the carriage of goods if the number of seating positions times 68 kg is less than 50 percent of the difference between the ‘Gross Vehicle Mass‘ and the ‘Unladen Mass‘ MEDIUM GOODS VEHICLE (NB) A goods vehicle with a ‘Gross Vehicle Mass‘ exceeding 3.5 tonnes but not exceeding 12.0 tonnes. for some reason i thought, (mayb it was a superseded weight) at the time the limit for class NA vehicles was 4500kg
Yes, and something i didn't go into, is that Class NA NB and NC are exempt from many pedestrian rules, its how we get so many trucks with bull bars and solid wall fronts allowed on the streets.
Buddy come on. It's literally a guilitine on wheels. Crumple zones are also there to protect predestrians. This thing will slice them in half doing 50kph. But hey, you'd rather get hit by this 😅😅😅 As for the occupants, sounds like you skipped physics class that day. Guess who absorbs all the energy of an impact with no crumple zones? Airbags will do jack all to prevent that. We now have real world data to back this up as there have been a number of accidents in the US. There hasnt been a bigger embarresment of a vehicle in the auto industry. It's basically the Homer car. Not to mention you would have to spend an hour each day cleaning all the bugs off the front before it rusts in Australia.
crumple zones are not mentioned once in the ADR regulations. The only pedestrian laws are... So located that, in their static condition as well as when in operation, they cannot be contacted by a sphere 100 mm in diameter. 5.2. The external surface of vehicles shall not exhibit, directed outwards, any pointed or sharp parts or any projections of such shape, dimensions, direction or hardness as to be likely to increase the risk or seriousness of bodily injury to a person hit by the external surface or brushing against it in the event of a collision. 5.3. The external surface of vehicles shall not exhibit, directed outwards, any part likely to catch on pedestrians, cyclists or motor cyclists." using the 100mm Sphere, and the protrusion definition, the "sharp edge" everyone things off, does not protrude and is not an external projection.
@SydneyEV that's great, but you are quoting the original text written by the UN in 1958. Back when cars were literal tanks & safety standards were in their infancy. You are ignoring the 66 years of updates, amendments, appendices, etc in the ADR since then. Maybe need to scroll further down next time. Things have changed quite a bit. You wouldn't use a textbook about the solar system from 1958 to teach people about it today. That's basically what you are doing here.
no, the ADR legislation is updated to the latest revision as soon as they are published. which is quite regularly. so all my info came from the latest revision at the time of filming
fan boy mumbling about a dangerous vehicle. Not allowed in UK and Europe. bad turning circle. Tesla will be bust within 10 years. rust . no hubcaps. good luck finding charging points in Australia.
@@SydneyEV indeed Tesla superchargers are common now, not enough of them in London. Cybertrucks still illegal in UK , Europe and Australia - so charging points only the next issue , only if you can buy the cybertrucks. And you cannot recycle the batteries ? And mines in Africa ruin the land, and `some employ children - all for those batteries....
If they approve this they have no ground to defect modified cars 😂 how can this monstrosity be legal but you won't to defect cars that are lowered or something stupid like that
i have had lots of yellow stickers with modified 4x4s, it led me to take an interest in ADR, and even though i got many stickers, my car was always 100% legal and had engineering approval. many highway patrol officers just dont know the rules and slap on defects
sorry to disappoint but more than 50K+ people want 1 here. and hope is just an emotion so just remain sour with the disappointment to ensure soon as their is a spare being adr tested right now in melbourne
Sharp corners aside, those are the laziest side-indicators and back reflectors I've ever seen, I'm very sure those will be useless in many angles, just you walking around with the camera leaves most of it hidden.
if you look at most cars in Australia, many do not have side indicators on the front panels, but are fitted to the side mirrors. if the front indicator thing on the cybertruck isn't suitable, then why not indicators on mirrors like everyone else?
@@TheFPSPower oh yeah, if they just left them like that, it might comply but as you said, its lazy, but on the other hand, removing the side mirrors is now also legal in Australia, (as long as the cameras meet view angle regs and screen viewing angles and brightness pass. so there might be an option to remove the mirrors, which takes away another place the could put side indicators. leaving just existing half arsed effort
