In this video, I'll be running the 500 Mile Challenge in a 2023 Hyundai Sonata SEL with the 2.5L engine. Yes, I'm doing the 500 Mile Challenge in a gas-powered vehicle, but I have a good reason for it.
Internal combustion engine (or ICE for short) vehicles are considered the benchmark for long-distance driving, and for good reason. Petroleum-based fuels have a ridiculously high energy density and they're relatively inexpensive (especially if you include the government subsidies for fossil fuels here in the USA). Giving an ICE vehicle longer range is as easy as installing a bigger fuel tank, and it typically takes longer to get the fuel pump to read and accept your credit card (or to get the station attendant to acknowledge your existence in non-self serve states like Oregon) than it does to actually refuel your vehicle. If your car is full of people with bladders made of steel and muscles that don't require an occasional stretch, ICE vehicles can cover much longer distances than a typical EV before needing to stop.
That said, most people do need to get out of the car occasionally, and so I wanted to run the 500 Mile Challenge in an ICE vehicle, following the same rules as all other 500 Mile Challenge Tests, and see just how much time you may be losing by driving an EV.
Also, at the end of the video, I start a discussion about the future direction of the channel, and my overall goal regarding the EV content on this channel moving forward. Please feel free to comment below.
500 Mile Challenge Test Results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
0:00 Hello and Welcome!
1:01 Driving to the 1st Stop / Turn Around Point
2:47 1st Stop / Turn Around Point
4:07 Final Stretch
5:24 Final Results
6:05 Discussion of Future EV Content on this Channel
9:31 What Do You Think?
5 июл 2024
