@@nickdaybydayWell, there was no accident, it didn’t cost him “big time” and his car is not “written off”! Just pure clickbait grifting and you and his fellow Luddite followers lap it up.
There was no accident, and its not written off. You were late because you made a wrong turn and your car is fine. I'll come back when you start making sense.
Same here. Retired electrician with a failed private pension. So at age 76, motoring will be over at some point. I run a Citroen Berlingo. Need it as wife disabled limiting her walking. Get no benefits, not even a blue badge now. Renewal was refused after 15 years of it. It's all interesting. Never expected to be forced out of motoring eventually.
Forced out of motoring is the key word, as younger generation kids have no limits, and government, big industry, tech companies, retailers take full advantage of accummulated wealth in today's western cultures.SO SO SAD!!!
@@user-ni6le7hk9yIt’s not “tied up”. It’s gone! Destruction of capital in that scale is eye watering for most of us. I’m not badly off at all & even I’d be wincing at the loss of £70K-80K in just 4 (or is it 3) years. Looks like Porsche have sold many of them, but even they don’t want it back in part-exchange, because they’re finding that the general public simply don’t want to buy used EVs. So they’ve have to discount them to very un-Porsche like levels. If 911s would shed 60% f retail price in such a short time, I’d have ine😊
@@BiznessWizard my car has two large cup holders. Think it has more but I've not looked plus it's Petrol driven. So far I just use them to keep my wallet in and other nicknacks.
C'mon MacMaster, the headline was a bit clickbaity, I presumed by the headline that you'd had an accident in the car and the car was a write off, you'd have gotten an insurance payout and you could then buy a proper car. Never mind, we're all bell-ends at one time or another.
Lots of people complain about his click bait titles but click on them anyway, in this case they think he’s had an accident that’s bad enough to write off his car and want to watch it, who’re the bell ends?
That's the drawback with EV's, if you run out of petrol you can walk to the nearest garage and get a can full whereas it's a bit harder to get a can of electric from the nearest garage
I think there was talks a while ago of a battery jerry can for EVs... But at the end of the day, it turned out for the weight you were better off with a tiny Honda generator for the same purpose. Which is what I see recovery vehicles use.
@@forrestrobin2712 You just gave me images of a RU-vid video with the title: "Rincon Fire Dept 6,000ft. Hose Lay using TurboDrafts" Probably the closest to how it would work driving to the destination with a really long cable : D
@@CMDRSweeper dinosaur juice to the rescue then 😂 Reminds me of BR Western Region in the early ‘60’s who « eliminated » steam traction from the West in 1962. Unfortunately the diesels they replaced them with were so unreliable that after a couple of weeks of breakdowns and train cancellations, they had to hire back a fleet of steamers they’d already sold to the scrap merchants!
Today as I went into the Lidl a man was shouting at the manager as he had to wait to charge his EV as it was in use and when he finally charged it he went over the 90 mins max time limit to use the car park and got a parking ticket for 90 quid... the manager said nothing he can do about it as its a totally separate company!
Electric cars just seem bland and featureless in my eyes. I don't want to stop for coffee and waste half hour of my life waiting, nor charging apps on my phone either, lifes complicated enough.
Also assumes that you have immediate access to a charger and don’t have to queue to get in line and who knows how long each person needs to charge. Seems that those who invest their funds in battery powered carts do not value their lost time waiting for battery top ups. Is your time that worthless? it can never be replaced. Add up your lost time over the life of your battery cart you may own and see how much of your life you loose while you wait for your beloved cart to allow you to continue your journey.
@@TheTruth-dy8zeThat could of course be mitigated by say watching videos published like this one whilst you wait. Kills two birds with one stone! After all said and done, you're never going to get back the 35 minutes you spent watching it are you?😂
@@DwaynePipes I don’t consider watching a video or movie as lost time since I’m not traveling someplace at the time I am watching it’s entertainment since tv sucks. I have no need to watch a video while traveling. Only lost time is waiting for an unnecessary stop for a top up of power to get you where you need to go that is a better definition of wasted time that you will never get back and how many times in the ownership of a battery powered cart will this happen.
Every 2 or 3 months I jump into my car and realise that I have to fill up. No issues I just have to plan a 5 minute stop in the next day or 2 whenever I go past a petrol station
Same here, filling up is an occasional 5 minutes here or there, 4-5 times a year. Meanwhile people scowl at me for 'killing the planet' LOL. In an upside down world, this is however to be expected..
It is my feeling that anyone who drinks coffee out of cardboard really doesn’t like coffee. It is so disrespectful, and frankly an unpleasant experience. I love coffee and only drink it out of ceramic. If I’m travelling, car or bike, I take a water bottle, sometimes flavoured up with a little lemon or lime.
They need to put the defibrillators next to the gridserve and instavolt charging points. It’ll help when people have an heart attack when the see the prices!!
I think this is the only time everyone could get you with the classic argument "Should have planned your journey" :D But, I still have to say, I love every MacMaster video, those silly fun shots where you have to do a fake take. IE: You have to run out, put the camera over at where your charge cable is located, and then start recording and acting as if we had moved there on our own.
If your car has multiple options/screens for displaying your sat nav directions, set the main infotainment screen as “north up” with the dash (and head up display if you have one) as track up. This way you have directions relative to the route you are following, whilst you can also sanity check the overall route on the infotainment screen. If you destination is south, you shouldn’t be going north that often - most Sat nav’s with track up have a very small compass indicator that’s not always easy to see. I’m old school, so still have paper maps in my car, but I’m happy to use Waze and the vehicle satnav (Jag-Nav) for detailed information regarding which lane to be in.
You want a cold car story, spent a christmas in 1970 with a mate in Paisley, not bad getting there but coming back in the evening in a snow storm in a beach buggy of all things, no heater and wipers quit, hanging out wiping manually was no fun. Got home to North Shields and my mum had a big bowl of broth teady for us, the stupid things you do when 17-18.
Good Evening Lee and Geoff. It does not mater if you lost Lee. Your Sat Nav got it wrong, Not you. I am old school thou, i would prefer a really Good Road Atlas like they used to sell at Halfords and Garages for £ 5.00 pounds in the day. You should used your Experienced Drivers Road Knowledge to find the Establishment. Yes, it was a Good video. Modern Technology can go wrong these days. You got there Lee in the end. And your Beautiful Porsche Taycan was clean and not Caked in mud!!!!! . I think you Gentlemen should treat Yourself to Good Hearty and Substantial meal with a Good drink or two. I always do really look forward to seeing Your video's Lee and Geoff.
Lee, firstly let me say that I agree 100% with the message you are trying to convey. HOWEVER!......................as much as I have enjoyed you're videos over the past few years showing the "real world" problems with your car - Charging, Range, Unreliability, Depreciation etc. If you really want your message to be taken seriously, you have to stop the "inaccurate and misleading thumbnails" I assume that they get you more views, BUT and it is a BIG BUT, they do your cause no favours whatsoever and if anything, they add fuel to the fire for the evangelists. I
Wait a minute! The first thing you talked about was you were glad to be on an EV on a cold morning. This past week,❤ in Wisconsin, the high temperature for the day barely reached zero degrees fahrenheit! The EVs here can chose to sit and keep warm or attempt to make it to the next charge! My ICE truck is toasty warm in ten minutes and my "range" hasn't much changed. 32degrees F isn't cold.
I guess it’s performance is not comparable to Taycan. My car is pretty comparable, it’s something like 400 miles if driven hard, but the thing is you can tank it absolutely anywhere and fill 80 liters in 5 minutes and keep going
@@raa729 Long motorway runs with a 70mph speed limit performance is pretty much irrelevant. It weighs about the same as a Tycan, the Porsche would have the edge in aerodynamics so should probably go further.
Biggest clickbaiter on RU-vid. Here was me hoping you had actually written that hairdressers milk float off so we didn’t have to hear about it again. 🤷🏻♂️
I've recently done London, Lands End, London, 600 miles, in a Mini Cooper Electric, that was "just a run around" for me, as I'm an ex international HGV1 driver.
Careful with that, on a couple of occassions doing that has routed me to the Royal Mail Sorting Office as the postcode was a PO Box one but the rest of the address was the premise. It does need a sanity check when the destination pops up, that's all though.
They usually put the Defibrillator's there because sadly someone in the past has probably passed away from heart attack , one sad example Amazon Hemel Hempstead the old Warehouse next to Buncefield a night worker had a heart attack and died and was not found till the next day so they put one there but in his case sadly it would not have helped anyway.
I read in the newspaper the other day that during the cold spell we had last week down to -43 but anywhere between -35 to -38 county wide the person that owned a Tesla model 3 performance had a 12% battery drop pre-heating the car and the 55 mile journey dropped the car down to 155 miles from its usual 310 mile range, that is around 50% range loss for just 1 day of driving
Yet again, one detour or navigation error and along comes range anxiety. No five minute splash n dash in an EV. Sorry Morag you are just wrong. p.s. defibs at charging points are a great idea, handy for the price induced heart attack
Looking forward to videos from NYC. Hope you have a safe trip over here. Would love for you to pop over to Staten Island for some fish and chips, we are not to far from where you’re staying. Have a wonderful fish spot in mind
Heated steering wheel? Here in warmer climes we have the opposite problem, if you've been parked out in the sun all day the steering wheel is often too hot to touch, I sometimes take my socks off and use them as gloves just to get going ..
I drive an American F150, and live in a very cold climate, I also can start my vehicle remotely, and for 5 to 10 mins it uses approx. just under a litre of gas, pretty cheap, then I have my seats and steering wheel heated very nicely. In my climate your EV wouldn't be going very far at -40C to - 45C.
Would I care if someone pointed out the negatives of something I liked? EV owners are sooo sensitive. Maybe because they know deep down that we are right. Great videos as always Mac.
It's easy to fool people, but getting them to admit they've been fooled, even to themselves, is extremely difficult. EVs take a lot of energy (money) to buy, have huge risks inherent in the purchase of a precious battery worth most of the car, go through tyres for lunch, and add an entire new hobby: Think about chargers, hunt for chargers, spend time with chargers, and the side hobbies of loitering in hideous car parks next to junk food outlets :D
@@organickevinlondon Which point do you disagree with? Tell me: if your battery failed, how much would it cost you? How much did you pay for the car? Where do you charge it up, and how often?
@@G-ra-ha-m The batteries, that's right, batteries, in my Mini Cooper Electric, (its got 12 small battery modules, and NOT one massive battery), are the "exact same ones" that are in the BMW i3, which can easily manage to do, 150,000 miles, (which is 20 YEARS of doing the UK average annual mileage of 7,500 miles, which is a bit more than what I do per year, I have NO INTENTION of ever selling my Mini Cooper Electric either, as it's "built to last" ), and have a 7 year warranty too, (my Mini Cooper Electric is now 4 years old, and its virtually NEVER fast charged up either, its batteries are in 100% good health, with NO signs of any degradation at all, don't forget that the anti EV brigade used to say, "oh, yer EV batteries will only last 3 years at best" THAT is an Urban Myth) in say over 15 years time, ONE of its 12 battery modules, "may???" start to degrade, which would take at worst, about 12 miles off its 145 mile range, and to replace ONE of its 12 battery modules at todays cost, would be about £1,250, in 15 years time, yer wll be able to get refurbished EV battery modules, for a fraction of that £1,250, (that is about how much, it cost me, to replace the timing chain on my old Mini Cooper ICE, which was sold, within days of getting my Mini Cooper Electric, as I realized that my Mini Cooper ICE was an out of date antique), EV "batteries????" don't go all go POP overnight and completely fail either and to degrade the batteries, yer have to really abuse them, by doing stuff like, running them down to 1% on a regular basis. I paid £25,000 for my Mini Cooper Electric 4 years ago, with 1,000 miles on the clock, BUT, so far, the savings I've made, compared to running my old Mini Cooper ICE, are more than significant, like the £4,000 in fuel savings AND the about £3,000 savings in the Central London Congestion Charge too as its FREE for EVs. As for charging it up, THIS is when things get really interesting, as since I got my Mini Cooper Electric 4 years ago, I've been charging it up locally, about 500 meters from my home, (even though I can easily charge it up at home, using a BOG STANDARD 3 pin socket) at a FREE to use, public EV charger, (there are THOUSANDS of FREE EV charging points, ALL OVER the UK), this FREE charging is ongoing too and saves me about £1,000 per year, compared to doing the same mileage per week, in my old Mini Cooper ICE, This FREE charging is not subsidised by the taxpayer and or Government either, IF in the future I have to pay, to home charge, I'll still be saving about £500 per year, compared to running my old Mini Cooper ICE, (over 20 years, that's a £10,000 saving) as for how often I need to charge up my Mini Cooper Electric, as its range varies, between 120 miles in the winter and 170 miles in the summer, and I usually do about 140 miles per week, (which is the average UK motorists weekly mileage) I have to charge it up about ONCE per WEEK, "which is absolutely no hassle whatsoever", there is hardly ever a queue to use my local FREE EV charging point either, (it can charge 2 EVs at once at the same 7 kilo watt rate each) as I only live 500 meters from this FREE EV charging point, which is in the car park, of the local massive supermarket that I do my shopping in, whenever I want to charge, (as I hardly ever run my batteries down to below about 20%, I've ALWAYS got enough charge in them, to do at least "20 miles of local running around", so I can carefully pick and choose when to charge up) I just check an app on my phone, to see when there is a free space, to use my local FREE EV charging point, O.K. sometimes, I have to be, sat at home, like a WW2 Battle of Britain, Spitfire pilot, waiting to "SCRAMBLE", once my local FREE EV charger is available, (after 4 years of doing this, I kinda KNOW, exactly what time of day, to turn up there, to do some shopping and just breeze into a FREE EV charging space, without waiting or even bothering to check the app either) as its a 7kw charger and my Mini Cooper Electric has 30 kwh of usable battery power, it takes about 1 hour, to charge its batteries up by 20%, 2 hours for 40%, 3 hours for 60%, and 4 hours for 80%, which is usually its longest charging time. The Mini Cooper Electric, has one of the shortest EV ranges in the UK, of 145 miles, yet, it is PEREFECT for ANYONE that does the UK weekly average mileage of 140 miles, the best way, to work out exactly which EV to get, is to first work out, IF you can charge it at home, or use, a local either free or cheap rate charging point, the lower the charging power is, the cheaper it is to charge up, so public 3 kw and 7 kw chargers are cheapest, then 22 kw ones cost a little bit more to use, 45 kw and 50 kw chargers are "a bit of a rip off" and 150 kw and 350 kw chargers are "a MASSIVE rip off", (the Mac Master, usually uses, 150 kw and 350 kw chargers and then moans about how much they cost to use, LOL) then, work out exactly how many miles you drive away from your home base, then "double that" so you KNOW how many miles of range you need, to get THERE and BACK, "without having to get, ripped off, by charging up, on that journey" for example, my longest usual trip away from my home in one direction, is 45 miles, so I ONLY needed an EV with an at least 90 miles of range, call it 100 miles hey, to get THERE and BACK, "without the expense of charging up at 45 kw or 50 kw chargers en route" so the Mini Cooper Electric, was PERFECT for me, as its shortest range in winter is 120 miles, which easily covers my regular almost 100 mile round trips, i would estimate that, about 90% of UK drivers, would only need an EV, with a 200 mile range and anyone else, would only need, a Mini Cooper Electric, a Honda E, maybe a Fiat 500 E, or a 2 or 4 door, Smart Car Electric, etc, UNLESS they have "MASSIVE EGOS" that simply can't fit into small economic to run EVs, I'm an ex international HGV1 driver, that used to drive, an articulated 40 ton truck, on whacking long journeys, of way over 1,000 miles a pop, EVERY FLIPPIN WEEK, and KNOW that all I require for my personal motorised transport is, a Mini Cooper Electric, some of my mates are over 6 foot tall too, and I just shoehorn them into the back seats saying, "its a FREE lift, so just STFU, if yer wanna complain". Oh, as for "long distant journeys" in an EV, I recently drove my Mini Cooper Electric, from London, to Lands End and back, (a round trip of 600 miles, that's basically 4 times the range of my Mini Cooper Electric too) NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER, charging up en route, (without having to wait for a charger) at Amesbury, Gridserve, lots of them available, no queue, B.P. Honiton, 200 meters from the A30, 2 chargers and NO ONE using them either, Pod Point, Strawberry Fields farm shop, near Launceston, charger accessible 24/7, 4 chargers and NO ONE using any of them too, Lands End, Gridserve, one charger available and NO ONE using that too, as my Mini Cooper Electric, only has about 30 kwh of usable batteries, the LONGEST it takes to fully charge it up, from as near as zero as I would NEVER allow it to go to, using the usual 50 kw chargers, is 36 minutes too, so its usual full charge using 50 kw chargers, is JUST 30 minutes. As I have NEVER seen the Mac Master, EVER use a FREE EV charger, "THIS shows, what a TOTALLY UNSAVVY EV owner/driver the Mac Master truly is", but, hey, "his You Tube videos, are only there to make him MONEY and not to educate people about EVs", I have also NEVER seen the Mac Master, chat with other EV owners, at EV charging points, while he is charging, chatting with other EV owners while charging, is "normal behaviour" to LOTS of EV owners, as we exchange important details about our specific EVs, like, range, charging up times, etc, SOME of the EV owners that I've met and chatted to while charging up, are VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERS indeed, one of which, who owns an original Nissan Leaf, is preparing to, wire up his "Leaf" to his homes electric supply, to use his "Leaf" ' as its electric supply, for FREE, as he too charges his "Leaf" up for FREE too, (EV owners in America "already do STUFF like this", they charge up their EV, using cheap rate electricity, during the night and plug their EV into their homes during the day, to power their homes, on the cheap rate electricity they used to charge up their EVs from, "clever stuff hey" and as that is happening in America TODAY, it will be happening in the UK TOMORROW and I can NEVER foresee ANYONE being able to do stuff remotely like this with an ICE vehicle too).
The Scotty Kilmer channel wins the clickbait award. I like his channel but every other video is titled like he is calling it quits or he has a terminal illness.
I finally had a chat with Morag. She thinks you are acting like it is such a chore to charge and own an EV. In seeing how miserable you was in your trip from North to South with Geoff, that was not acting in my opinion.
@@blxtothis As much as she comments, she needs to show up on a video to do a challenge. She can show us definitively how great, affordable, and time saving the EV is for long distance travel.
Use a post code, always. Try not to rely on tech too much. The brain, it's there for a reason. Great to see you both. I would say, that - since you had the wrong coordinates - this one should be a draw. Safe travels MacMaster. You will get to America before Geoff, now, that's a win for you!!
The Minis in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job were electric.... They were the first ever electric Mini, they had to be converted due to the La subway not allowing fumes in their system... Was never going to be a patch on the original film. I wonder how long down the road will law firms start the "were you mis-sold an electric vehicle and told it was the future?? If so you could be entitled to make a claim!!!!"
It's about one hundred and three miles exactly???? 🙂- - - - That 'new' electric mini looks like it has been reversed into a crash barrier! - - - Bring back the Mini Moke - yes you got very wet when it rained, and froze when it was cold - but it was FUN! - - - Gone the wrong way - they do say the most dangerous part of a car is the nut holding the wheel! - - - A defib wouldn't charge your car, they are only 6 volts!
"Has that defibrillator been used in the back? I can guarantee it hasn't". - It has. "Oh right, it has, ok". Makes you wonder what else Lee's "guarantees" could mean 🤔🤣
Not sure if you have been asked this Lee but do you lose more range stuck in a traffic jam? I know depends what you have running at the time i.e radio wipers heaters/air con. I suppose it has stop start lol
You lose almost no range when you're stationary unless you're running the heater, but even with the heater on you've got a couple of days worth to play with.
I live about 12 miles or so from Caffeine and Machine and went there a couple of times in May 2019 when I had my Maserati Levante S... on a nice summery evening it is heaving, can barely park....Some great cars there though!
