Ioniq 5 road trip from El Paso to Marfa TX 

Thanks, We got bogged down in more travel and our day jobs.

Bolts are great cars. You have enough range to road trip, it's just going to take you a little longer to charge. Welcome to the EV family.

Thanks. Good to hear from you, and thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching.

I hope we see you at a charger somewhere. Thanks for watching.

I saw two Q4s in one day last week. They're much better looking than the ID4. Hope you're enjoying yours!

@@anthonyc8499 thanks for your response. I am enjoying the car. I hope I see some more on the road too!

Thanks Derek. Love the UK. We rented a car in Bath, and drove all over The Cotswolds, The Yorkshire Dales, The Lake District, All the way up to Mallaig in Scotland. Then to Edinburgh, and driving down the coast to London where we returned the car and took the Underground everywhere. I want to go back for another visit someday.

I have a lead foot, the only place I have ever seen 4miles/kWH is on the road to Key West. Thanks for watching.

Thank you, and thanks for watching.

Thanks Greg. There is a lot more of the trip to be edited.

Interesting. Does the EV6 have more than one size of battery. I just checked and ABRP says that if I start at Goodyear with 100% I could drive 65mph and get to Kingman with 11%. The reverse trip does not limit the speed and arrives with 14%. ABRP is pretty conservative, so you’ll probably do better.

John, I have never used the Shell Charger, which does both 110v and 240v. I hope that I never need it. I have used the Tesla Tap a few times at Hotels. You never know I might show up in Chelan someday on our way to Kelowna BC. We try to go there once a year with charging stops at Leavenworth and Osoyoos BC if we go that way. Sometimes we go north and then west.

It was a fun trip. We have been many places where we don't see many EVs. Once you get the feel for your car, you learn to trust it's range.Thanks for watching.

I have not really mapped out the efficiency. As you can see in the video, I use A Better Route Planner to plan charging stops. In the paid version of A Better Route Planner, you can turn on real time weather and it will add that info into your route planning. If you use Electrify America for charging, you'll find that there will be a stop around every 180 miles and the next one is more or less out of range. That's pretty easy to get to no matter how fast you're driving. If you have a 30 mph head wind, the GOM will let know that you have to stop at the charger before it. On the Highway the GOM "Guess-O-Meter" is pretty accurate, especially at the bottom end. It's really not very stressful. I also, use the Windy App. It will give you forecasted winds on your route. You're going to have a great trip.

Next time.

This video was 2 years ago. Early days. This car has now been to 48 states and 6 Canadian provinces. I have already owned a Hybrid. They just have twice as many systems to go wrong and still have a check engine light. Hybrids according to the insurance institute are 3 times more likely to catch on fire than a full EV. Even more likely than a gas vehicle. in 57,000 mile we have had zero issues with a car and zero oil changes and we have never run out of juice. Not even in Fargo. I'll push this car before I ever go back to gas,

Yes, we did finish the trip and 2 more cross country trips, one of which was across the trans-Canada hwy. On this trip we did interstate 10 all the way through Texas, finally dropping down the east coast of Florida across the Everglades and down to Key West. As long as you plan your charging stops, it is absolutely no problem. If you’re using A Better Route Planner, I would set it up for more frequent but shorter charging stops. Also, before you set out to the next charging stop, take a look at that stop in the PlugShare app, just to make sure that it’s in good working order. That way you’ll be able to plan an alternate stop if you need it. If you can travel on week days, that way you’ll probably never see a line to the chargers. The next part of this trip is on my editor, I’m just struggling a bit with it.

One of the problems with EV’s is that if something is rattling you hear it. We have 33,775 miles on our car with zero rattles. You just have to remember to make sure the rear seatbelt are turned the right way when they are not in use, if not they rattle against the back door. If no one ever sits on the back seat you’re golden. Sometimes if someone has just gotten out of the back seat I have to pull over and fix the way the seat belt is stored.

I had a hybrid before. I realized the only time I enjoyed it was when it was running all electric. The things I enjoy most about an EV over a hybrid? Everything.

@@evatrics5902 Just have to plan well. Especially in the desert heat. In some cases you never know what may be working or not. While the infrastructure is slowing coming along, we are still years out before it being a convivence

@@greenghopper Most EV owners charge at home and never venture out of the city, preferring air travel to road trips. For them, having an EV is super convenient. Charging every night in the garage. We have road tripped our Ioniq 5 across North America twice. Once traveling west to east across Canada on the Trans Canada Highway. We were never stranded by non working fast chargers. I think we may have waited in line for a charger once on a weekend. Occasionally a charger was putting out less power than optimal, but never ever during any of these trips have I thought, I wish I was filling up my RAV4 Prime at a Shell Station.

@@evatrics5902 That's good to know. If we purchased one, it primarily would be for home to work driving and running errands on the weekend. With a kid and two dogs, we need a larger vehicle for longer trips.

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