Hi All! We are the Olson Family: Scotty, Hannah, Emma, Gizmo, and Barley. We are a “fully electric family” with a VW ID.4 and BMW i3, powered by solar. This channel was started to share our electric adventures together. Follow along as we explore this amazing country and educate folks about EVs along the way!
Nice video :) i have a 120amp 42 kwh. In summer i can take trips over 200miles on a single charge...love my i3 its always looks frech and fun to drive.😊
Self parking and summon are impressive features as well. We walked out of a microbrewery last week, summoned the Y, and watched it pull out of a parking space, drive through the lot, including two turns and meet us at the curb.
I didn't know you can make the visualization full screen. I wasn't impressed though. It breaks too many traffic laws and hallucinates too much. I'm glad my trial is over since FSD was making AP act weird. Something you should try that I didn't do a good job of. I think you can extend your FSD trial by starting a FSD trip before midnight and driving a little past midnight. I was supposed to lose mine on the 29th but got an extra day. Forgot to try it again on the 30th and my trial went away on the 31st.
This is Bob I left my cane on the end of the greeting station. I have another, pls stassh it for me; I will get it later on this week.Or just wait until next Friday.Thank you
I am a BMW M fanboy and I have 2008 BMW manual M3 and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy my 2016 i3 Rex when it came up for sale. I lOVE this car I drive it more than my M3 shhh don’t tell. Drive a 30 mile round trip to work and if I want to take the highway home I just switch the Rex on. Tank costs under $20 to fill and I don’t even do it that often. The best part is the 12v charger plug it in when you get home and forget about it one sleep later it’s ready to work again. Such great little cars.
i think renting a tesla is the worth thing you can do if you don’t already own one. the app is a good start but as it doesn’t have carplay nor premium connectivity you don’t have traffic information. you can’t use waze or google maps. You need to stick with standard build in navigation with no traffic info and no satellite view. no spotify neither no youtube no netflix nothing. A car with a offline navigation in 2024. This plus all the bother or the learning curve for everything is just a pain for a few days of rental. no instrument cluster, no front camera, no parking sensors, no front camera… super complicated and unintuitive OS… screen for everything including security features by the time you get used, you need to give back the car. you arrive in a huge metropolis which you don’t know, like Paris, Rome, London etc and you don’t have traffic info? and you need to stick with your phone ? For me it’s just a no go in 2024. You take a Polestar you have a key fob, normal key handles, carplay, google maps with traffic and satellite view. A normal gear selector, instrument cluster with map integrated. A real car where the first intention is ergonomic and not reinventing the wheel for every simple aspect of the car. The car is not just meant to be rented. when you rent a car the last thing you want is to waste time in traffic jam or in learning how to make it function The only decent thing for Tesla is superchargers but nowadays chargers are everywhere and Hertz is giving a charging card with car anyway and you get billed for the electricity you used when you give back the car. And googles maps or any other app you get with carplay or android auto is perfect for finding chargers i’m renting in 1 month a Polestar or equivalent and i really hope i will have the choice to take something else than Tesla
Did you buy this certified pre-owned? The only 2014/2015s I have been able to find for sale are from small dealerships and I’m a little hesitant to trust the condition of the car from those. They are all selling for under $10k so it’s really tempting.
Great job ! Just picked up our ID4 today :). Does Tesla sell an adaptor plug that you can use their fast chargers ( which haven’t been retrofitted to CCS 1 ) yet ?
The 2014 i3, when is came out, was the fastest BMW from 0 to 30 mph. Tried it, what a rocket. Just got my 2014 60 Ahr and it is a delight in every way. I use it for what it was intended for, a run around town daily. I live in the country, so my trips are one way there and back within the charge range. The battery is as good as new, no degradation at all.
Now that I’m watching your video there is something about it I haven’t noticed before. All the other ev trucks out there have a hood where the ice engine goes turned into a frunk. Cybertruck has no such design. The front space in no way can hold an ice engine so its front is more optimized. Thx 4 the vid. I enjoyed watching
Congratulations on the new baby on the way! Hope you two have a good holiday season. I 2 have been to the Boone SC stop you were at. Use to not be anything up there, but it comes in clutch. Will be nice when open to Non-Teslas too. Thx for the road trip vid. I enjoyed watching.
Here's what I learned from your video, you had a fun weekend, the car is stuck in chill mode, and Hertz sends you a lot of information. What I would like to know is, how do you charge it? Do you just stick the supercharger thingamabob into the car? Because I don't own a Tesla and I don't have an account who pays for the electricity? Is there a spot in a supercharger to insert your credit card? I know how to use a gas pump but I don't know how to charge a rental car. That information would be great. I rented one of these for April of 2024 to do an eclipse trip with my wife so I have until then to figure it out.
It is much easier than it sounds! Plug and charge is on of the great things about superchargers, meaning you don’t have to deal with card readers or additional apps on your phone. The cost is billed to Hertz in real time, but at the end of your trip, you receive a cumulative bill for supercharging. It’s also important to note that other places like grocery stores or malls may not have superchargers. Instead, they will have level 2 chargers, commonly installed by companies like ChargePoint. The Tesla will come with an adapter that plugs into the end of the charger. When it comes to third party chargers, it may become a little more confusing and unreliable. Some have card readers, some need an app. If you can, stick to Tesla superchargers or a simple wall outlet.
@@rylans.5365Hertz also give now a charging card to access those level 2 chargers. I think it wise to tell people that it’s impossible to only stick with tesla destination and superchargers. Depending where you are they might be too far away compared to non-tesla level 2 or DC chargers. I think using both is a better option. not sure Tesla integrated navigation is super good at finding them but it should be fine
Those 8 chargers you counted as 16 it's actually only 8... Each station has 2 charging cables because it depends on where your charge port is some vehicles have it on the passenger side and some on the driver side
I just noticed there is a mode indication on screen. The enhanced charge curve is a big item as i road trip alot, 185 peak on 350kW chargers, and 135 on 150s.
I live in Rockland County NY. Saw you going over the Mario Cuomo bridge on your way to Brewster. I use the orangeburg EA station that is close to my house and yesterday got 152 KW at 19% and 40 min of driving in. Been to Philly, Boston etc and never an issue yet. I know your from NJ and they have a lot of EA stations too. Looking forward to more of these magic docs to open once my three year free charging is over with EA but I'm actually good with EA and my L2 Chargepoint at my house.
Total BS... go to any Tesla SuperCharger on a vacation or holiday weekend, and look at how long the lines already are.... Las Vegas, Baker, Barstow superchargers have huge lines already.... you think they want to see a VW ID4 in line with them? 48 cents per kilowatt at what 2.5 miles per KW? 19.2 cents per mile. Whats your time worth sitting around charging? I have a perfectly good Passat turbodiesel that's about 8 cents per mile and I'm filled up and ready for another 700 to 800 miles in 5 minutes at the pump, hardly enough time to wash my windshield. Speaking of which, no windshield service while recharging.
GET A TESLA!!! Why deal with all these problems with other cars? A short charge cord. Taking up two parking spots with your non-Tesla automobile, half of charge America's charging stations down, only half the Tesla chargers set up to charge other car brands. Good grief !! Just get a Tesla!!
Well you have your wishes granted Sir. I personally think the best format is similar to gas stations - as in - drive through. With a little more space in each bay, then the inevitable towed all electric caravan or trailer can also be a breeze. Think of a Lightship with depleted battery. Drive up and both caravan and car charge up simultaneously by inductive (Wireless) means. That, I think is the probable future of EV charging.
Great video! I watched MKBHD's video about this the other day and then subscribed to State of Charge's channel because he was at the same spot. Then I got recommended your video and you're at the same charging spot MKBHD was at! Been looking to get an EV here soon and between VW ID.4 and Volvo XC40 Recharge. Keep up the good work!
