Should have named the video, "How far can WHEEGO?"

@Sophie-it8jy

4 жыл бұрын

That could be their marketing slogan.

The smaller channel's are always much more entertaining

@automisery484

5 жыл бұрын

Mwuahahaha! kzread.info/dron/-4-FbiKTTKniuxFIM_GjAg.html

@SirVoltz

4 жыл бұрын

That's always true

@raven4k998

4 жыл бұрын

@DiverseTurtle I love these videos they are so entertaining

@manitoba-op4jx

3 жыл бұрын

@@FirstLast-to6nj no u

@alexburnette2526

2 жыл бұрын

Well it’s not really small anymore but it has always been entertaining

Your positivity for shitty cars are amazing

That 100 mile range was probably done on a dyno

@MonaichFother

7 жыл бұрын

He needs to another "micro mile" test now - drive like a saint with no air conditioning & everything off etc

@douglascooke1926

6 жыл бұрын

In Eco mode with the AC off.

@mileshanna6480

5 жыл бұрын

At 24.5 MPH

@carmen071972

5 жыл бұрын

100 miles, 100 likes:)))

@captsirl

4 жыл бұрын

It was done on a train

T-shirts that say "WILDLY INACCURATE"

Honestly that's not bad for a four year old battery considering you were in sport mode, running AC which is a huge draw on a battery and you weren't trying to hypermile. It could have gotten the 100 miles without AC I bet.... Not bad really especially for what you paid for it....the original owners? Well, too bad for them. .lol@the battery reading btw

@mipmipmipmipmip

6 жыл бұрын

the thing is, if you don’t know how much capacity you’ve left at any point in time, it’s impossible to plan any kind of trip! Maybe it’s possible to build a makeshift meter of battery capacity

@jorgemendez4517

6 жыл бұрын

genesishep at four years you shouldn't lose more than 5% of the range in any good electric vehicle

@snigwithasword1284

6 жыл бұрын

The volt meter (the gauge on the right) is accurate but not especially linear, if you want to be precise you need to measure watt hours and know how many your pack's been charged to, in a word you need a Cycle Analyst.

@MrWirelesscaller

4 жыл бұрын

@@jorgemendez4517 Like you said "any good electric vehicle", I don't expect any "good" 1st gen product from China, in fact I only expect it from a rebadged name brand and not from a start up.

@raven4k998

4 жыл бұрын

@@mipmipmipmipmip I would be more worried about the spline shaft for the motor and transmission getting stripped out it wouldn't be the first time it happened to a wheego

Sometimes your life runs out when you least expect it.

There is most likely a way to re-calibrate the charge-meter to get a more accurate reading. Next time you do a test, it might be handy to bring along a generator. ;-)

85 miles with AC on, sportmode and highway driving for a car that could do 100 miles, i'd say pretty good

85 miles with AC on doing "normal" driving is actually pretty good -I'd have guessed 40-60 miles myself. And hey, I don't know any petrol cars that let you drive the extra few feet home after they've run out!

@JeffDeWitt

6 жыл бұрын

But at least with a gas powered car you can put in a gallon of gas and get to a gas station, you can't exactly put a gallon of electricity into an electric car.

@microdesigns2000

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff DeWitt as he was hoping for the last few feet at the bottom of the hill, I was thinking about a tow truck or a trailer, but then I noticed all those houses he was parked in front of, each with electricity. "... Excuse me, I'm stranded at the end of your driveway... and I was hoping that I could borrow a cup of electricity..."

@GGigabiteM

5 жыл бұрын

It's called coasting. I ran out of gas in my truck once, which was entirely my fault. I *had* enough to get home, but ran into a traffic nightmare a mile long, which idled all of that away. I made a B line straight for the closest gas station, ran out of gas about a hundred feet before I got there, my engine cut out and I managed to have enough momentum after shifting into neutral to coast into the gas station up to the nearest pump.

@LavenderBluz

5 жыл бұрын

yeah but normal driving in a gas car is 400 miles :/

@TheCrazyCrewNL

4 жыл бұрын

@@LavenderBluz only 400?? 600 at least.

Accually - it might be voltage. 75/30 = 2.5, 99/30 = 3.3, which is the range of empty to nominal battery voltage for a LiFePo

@NineSun001

2 жыл бұрын

You mean, that a company which was specifically founded to build e-cars was completely unaware of the specs of their own battery? Sadly that sound reasonably.

@untitledperson6913

2 жыл бұрын

makes sense how they say that going to 0% destroys the battery

"Already at 98%" **looks at phone battery** *OH MY GOD*

I honestly don't watch many car videos.Doing it day in and out at work 45+ hours a week and then my own KZread channel. I really enjoyed this episode.

@gunter7299

6 жыл бұрын

Amesie's Automotive Corner I enjoy your videos and your personality. Would love to sit down and have a coffee with you but you are all the way north and I’m all the way south

@gunter7299

6 жыл бұрын

Amesie's Automotive Corner I enjoy your videos and your personality. Would love to sit down and have a coffee with you but you are all the way north and I’m all the way south

I have a small EV like this and I have a 50 foot 14 gauge extension cord for the "just in case" moments like you had. I have had to use it once and thank goodness I was by a friends work to plug my car in to charge.

Seems like the battery meter is based on 0 to 4.2v per cell and not 3.3v to 4.2v per cell.

@hachikiina

4 жыл бұрын

it was actually configured incorrectly

@nightmareinaction629

4 жыл бұрын

they are lifepo4

@ai4px

4 жыл бұрын

@@nightmareinaction629 touche`..... ok, I suggest the battery meter is based on 0-3.5v per cell. The point is that it is a 0 to something scale and not an expanded scale meter.

@scratchpad7954

4 жыл бұрын

It is very possible, but the battery pack in the Wheego is not a lithium-ion battery pack like the one in your cell phone or laptop PC. The Wheego Life, as its name implies, runs on a lithium iron phosphate battery pack.

How far could a wheego go if a wheego could go far?

@ryanadkins3724

6 жыл бұрын

Isaac Roder a wheego would go as far as a wheego could go if a wheego could go far

@thetrico

4 жыл бұрын

Or instead of wheego maybe call It WeDontGo :)

I normally watch the dudes in their Lambos like Vehicle Virgins or the Stradman but this deserves to have more subscribers its far more entertaining seeing the other side of motoring lool :D

You don't need to go up the hill, you just need a really long extension cord. ;)

"you can do it" , "I believe in you"... LOL even the car doesn't believe that itself.

A battery meter about as accurate as the one on my laptop. Part of me wonders if something overheated somewhere in the electrical system after all of that """high-speed""" driving, since it actually got you home after you let it sit for a while.

eBike rider here, the amperage meter is always the better "battery meter" in my opinion. I drive a 2500w bike and once it reaches 1500w it's time for me to hurry home bc it'll drop to 200w in about 15km lol

famous last words: "I don't know if it's a placebo or not but the car feels weaker than when I started, it's probably just in my head"

My car in high school had a gas gauge about as accurate as that. It would go down normally for the first third or so of a tank, hang at about two-thirds full for a suspiciously long time, and then suddenly go "Oh, actually you're into the reserve now." It never quite stranded me, but it was not to be trusted.

So basically it'll do around 100 miles or 160 km city driving without AC? That's perfect for a daily commuter.

They see me rollin, they hating. Patrolling tryin to catch me ridin wheego.

Swap the weego into the trabant. 300 miles with the weight savings and a top speed of atleast 90

@stevethepocket

6 жыл бұрын

You'd probably eliminate most of the weight savings with those heavy batteries, even with the plastic body. Maybe if he could get some conventional lithium ions, like that one kind everyone uses for EV conversions. Could be worth it, though, if he could also transplant the regen brakes somehow; that's something off-the-shelf EV conversion kits don't have.

@notroll1279

6 жыл бұрын

The Trabant had a top speed of about 70 mph and no creature comforts like an AC. I don't know if US stations sell pre-mixed 2 stroke fuel - otherwise you'd have to concoct that stuff yourself from regular fuel and oil. Which is a procedure as godawful as the car itself.

@loganrogers9157

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure id want to go 90 in a trabant. I'm not even sure id want to go 70

@goclunker

5 жыл бұрын

@@loganrogers9157 You should watch the video of a grandma doing 140km/h in a Trabant in Poland. Its a late Trabant 1.1L but still...

You deserve so many subscribers... Your videos are always entertaining, and informative. You should have millions of subscribers... You will someday. Mainly because you're awesome. Thanks!!!

85mi seems about right... with A/C, and on the interstate at max speed the entire time. Maybe the meter is showing voltage instead of percent???

85-mile range is really good, especially with an air conditioner turned on. Sounds much better when you say 136 kM. I would be carrying a small (charged) Battery Pack inside the car, that charges from the Regen Braking, but cannot use the stored power without flicking a 'Reserve' Switch on the Dash.

awesome job! lovely material. you are so natural, and real; thanks

Very much enjoy your vids bro. Each ep is like an ongoing saga of this hapless little car! Please keep making new ones. Likd n subd ;-)

About 15 years ago I borrowed my Father-in-law's Aerostar van to move my wife and me into our first apartment. It went well, we had 1/3 tank when the car just died in the middle of no where. We called him up, since he was going to meet us anyways, he brings a jerry can, and then says, "oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, fuel gauge is broken and 1/4 means empty". Sounds like my father in law programmed the wheego fuel gauge :|

Hilarious video, love the way you review stuff.

Huh, I drive through right where you started all the time, since I work up in Fenton lol.

A good electric car can be run down to 0% as the battery control hardware will shutdown the car when the power gets low. Say around 3.3v for each cell

@greatcanadianmoose3965

4 жыл бұрын

But is it a good electric car? Do you REALLY want to risk it?

@Vok250

4 жыл бұрын

looks like this car considers 0.0v as 0% lmao!

"if you hit zero percent battery it automatically voids the warranty" *Look if my ShwongDong trashcan broke I can just go to the hardware store and buy a new, probably better Rubbermaid trashcan for less than $30*

7:12 when someone insults your restored rally Trabant

The sun lighting at the end was the icing ot the cake. Man this video was fun :D

Really enjoyed this video! You need more subs and views!

@automisery484

5 жыл бұрын

Dont we all. kzread.info/dron/-4-FbiKTTKniuxFIM_GjAg.html

You need some harbour freight solar panels.

Not bad I have an electric 2014 smart it was suppose to be able to go 90 miles brand new but since year two it says it's range is 68 miles.

Thanks for this post! A load of laughs!

I love that car it's brilliant!! I want one.

It’s crazy watching it 3 years later and just knowing where it all went wrong

Yet another hilarious video.

Glad you made it home, you remind me of Rodney( Genius character in the Star gate atlantis franchise)

Trying to get up thhe hill reminded of The Little Train "I think I can, I think I can!"

I love your channel I didn’t know you live in Missouri too

As a Smart Electric driver - 87ish freeway miles is actually impressive. My 2018 Smart ED couldn't do that, using about 15kW draw to maintain 60mph - I'd be lucky to get 60 miles. Since the Weego battery pack is 30kWh, is it almost double the 17.6kWh capacity I have in my car - not bad for the 2013! Smart cars are built for cities - not road trips :)

Some electric cars have low propulsion shutdownsand if you have one cell that dips below a certain current the propulsion unit will go into limp mode and eventually stopeven though the rest of your battery may still be fine it could be a single cell that is faulty

It would have been a lot less funny if you didn't end so close to your house.

You certenly did not run the battery completly flat. Pack voltage was around 85V. That is low but not deadly low.

@snigwithasword1284

6 жыл бұрын

According to the specs on the Wikipedia page, the battery in this is 36s LiFePO4, 85v divided by 36 is 2.2v which is REALLY low for this battery chemistry, the usual low voltage cutoff is 2.6v!

@Salty_reviews

6 жыл бұрын

I thought 3.3V per cell is the lowest before degradation occurs.

@snigwithasword1284

6 жыл бұрын

My white lab coat seems to have gotten up and walked off on me, but I frequently run my ebike down to 3v / cell. 3 - 3.3v / cell is pretty typical for most lithium chemistries but LiFePO4 runs quite a bit lower. Regardless of chemistry there is no black and white threshold where degradation begins. Anytime you use your battery there will be some degradation, but not running it down to your low voltage cutoff (LVC) will go a long way to reduce it.

Maybe the odometer was disconnected for quite a while??? would explain a lot of things

@williammacdonald4615

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Myself in a modern car, the odometer reading doesn't come from the screen. It comes from the car computer and you can't disconnect that.

@danmyself5341

6 жыл бұрын

The odometer signal in a gas car is a pulse generated from the transmission and fed to the ECM.. In an electric car, pulses are counted from a circuit called a pulse width modulator, and in turn is compiled and displayed.

If this was a sub $10,000 car this would be a good deal.

You do EVERYTHING the hard way, guy.

Seems to me that with a double battery pack, the weego might actually drive at the promoted 35-75 miles range. But with the current pack, once voltage drops below a certain amount, it just doesn't have enough juice to push the vehicle.

Hell the little guy did real good

Is this A-pillar-plastic really coming off the windshield? :)

Really not bad at all. Highway uses a hell of lot less power then city driving.. constant 30hp or so to hold highway speed. That figure can go from 30hp to over 200+ depending on what your doing (and driving) in town just to keep up

Toyota calls this feature "crawling"

The modern adventurer.

Those wheego beeps sound exactly like the electric stock-movers inside a Walmart

That was fun!

I'm surprised it's still running. You bought a lemon and can't get over it lol

The title should just said,"How Far Can Whee-go Go On A Charge?".

10:20 it’s so tense! It’s like watching Sean Connery drive a humvee in a garage while being chased by Nic Cage!

Hey I was born in st. Louis! We lived in st. Charles. Is the city still a seperate entity from the county? Most don't know that the city isnt apart of the actual county. Or it didn't used to be.

11:26 - the song is Onesmatic - Transition.

Maybe it has a battery dip stick like the Trabant has one for gasoline. Well, Trabbi is much better than any electric vehicle.

@notroll1279

6 жыл бұрын

It may have more range than a Chinese knockoff smart - but in every other single discipline the Trabant is worse than any other object known to mankind (even, though only by a whisker, than a Renault 4).

@bibasik7

5 жыл бұрын

What about the Ford Pinto? Ford decided that it was cheaper for them to pay life insurance for people who died in car fires than to put a shield on the gas tank to prevent fires.

I would use one as a second car for sure,

It's like the MPG figures on proper cars..... done on a test circuit with duct tape over the door gaps and that.

LMAO I think I saw you in the Wheego one time on 270

I did pretty good!! I guess this is your first ev you have to add how old are the battery.

You took it pretty well. Because I'd have gotten angry and kicked the car or something.

At least they offer the battery voltage gauge, which seems to be a far more accurate battery level indication than the % reading!

Sounds like it’s overheating!

Weego advertises a hundred miles at what speed? Using what accessories?

Did I see you driving on a portion of “Blood Alley” AKA Hwy. 21?! 😬

Range is highly dependent on speed. As speed increases power needed increases by a CUBIC factor.

@agingwheels

7 жыл бұрын

Power required will increase at higher, but the amount of time that power is used will decrease. Traveling at 30MPH uses less energy than traveling at 60mph, but you'll be using energy for twice the amount of time in the same distance which will somewhat close the gap for the total energy consumption between the two different speeds. Correct me if I'm wrong. What I said may make no sense.

@MrKeke2502

6 жыл бұрын

it is wrong with electric cars because they have a single speed 'gearbox', in an ice car that may be true because of the reduction gear. But you would travel way further at 30mph than you would at 60.

@miloe436

6 жыл бұрын

@Aging Wheels - It's wrong. As with all electric cars if you will go a lot further if you slow down. Btw I think 85 miles on highway is a good range for this little car.

@TDG2654

6 жыл бұрын

Aging Wheels what you're saying is correct, however due to the fact that the relationship between required power and speed is indeed cubic, the time factor here won't matter nearly as much as you'd think

@MrKeke2502

6 жыл бұрын

So in summary : the slower you go➡ the further you go

i like the engine sound tho

reminds me of my three wheeled electric truck that tended to run out of battery when I was about a mile from the house.

Quite sure you can run the battery flat as the BMS will stop it going to a voltage low enough to cause damage.

I have an E Bike for years I suspect it is something to do with mass of amp and relative potential range. IE As my power is depleted IE further I ride less power there is for torque, And I wonder if that is why the gauge is meaningless or indeed technology allows more even draw on battery. But I am no technician, But love my E Bike.

A man like you...needs a city car... remember those

Holy crap you live a stone throw away from me!

*do you not have a guage for temperature? could your lack of range maybe result from no or poor cooling like the first Nissan Leaf? might be something to look into*

When you showed the interior shot in the Wheego vs Smart comparison, the speedometer only seemed to go up to 80km/h... 65mph is about 105km/h, so does the range auto adjust, or does it just send the needle way off the top of the dial when you go flat out? EDIT: dammit, immediately after writing that, big ol' zoom on the dashboard and the speedo says "mi/h" on it. Which is a very odd way of writing the units (vs MPH), therefore how I thought it said km/h before. Gah. Anyway, W/m is probably meant to be Wh/mi, for watt-hours per mile. 271 is... eh, fairly decent. Equivalent to about 168 Wh/km, which puts it within the more efficient band of electric cars, though not THE most efficient. If you know how many kWh your battery holds, you can use your average Wh/mi to figure out how many miles you should be able to cover on a full charge - for example if that 271 was your average (the meter seems to go a lot higher as the video progresses...?), multiplying by 85 suggests the battery has about 23kWh usable, which until fairly recently was pretty damn good for anything other than a Tesla - even the Nissan Leaf had only 20kWh to start with, and these days comes with about 30kWh. (And, funnily enough, if you multiply the Amps by the Volts that'll give you a result of your instantaneous power output, which can be another way of estimating it if you get a fairly steady answer at a particular crusing speed... kWh divided by kW gives you how many hours it'll run for at that speed, and of course hours multiplied by MPH gives miles) Also I wonder how the controller software is squaring the circle of being in "Sport" and "Econo Mode" at the same time? And does sport give you some extra acceleration and top speed, or would it cruise at 65 just as well in Drive as Sport?

My bike has 72v battery at full charge it’s 85v and cuts out at 60v, 60=0 for me, maybe you only get to work within 30 volts of full charge, would be good to get some more experience with voltage on some other lower power setups

Do you like having permanent streaks in your windshield?

Couldn't you just pick it up and carry it?

I would have turned off the AC when it started struggling

You only ran it down to 80 volts, you shouldn't worry about damaging the battery unless you leave the lights on or the like and run it down to zero. I thought the percent meter might be based on watt hours, but it sounds like your battery has not lost much capacity since it was new, so no idea. Watch the pack voltage if you want to go for range again, it's definitely not linear but it's the best you'll get without installing a Cycle Analyst. I have no doubt you could get 150+ miles hypermiling. Of course, if you kept it under 30mph you could probably get 300! XP

Why did you post this AFTER the video where you fixed the range gauge?

I'm surprised there isn't a hack so you can recalibrate the gauges and other settings. Has there been any software updates since you bought it?

You picked a bad road in Illinois for a car with bad suspension. 255 in IL is just literally the worst road for potholes and bumps. I live in Herculaneum which is just down 55, so I travel on that a lot to get to 64. Man I hate it.

It kinda makes sense why the battery indicator is inaccurate. There’s circuitry that keeps track of charge cycles, and a cycle is when the battery goes from 100% to 0% and then back to 100%. But when you go from 100% to 80% and back to 100% every time, it can cause the battery to recalibrate itself to show 0% as 80%. It’s the exact same thing that happens with phones. People charge them from 30% to 100% every night, and the battery starts to think that 0% is actually 30% and it’s why they die with charge left. It’s why you should fully charge and then discharge your phone every now and again, it can recalibrate the phone to actually know what 100% and 0% are. *Too bad you can’t fully discharge this car*

What do they discharge the batteries to I mean I don't know what batteries are but assuming lithium ion if they are discharged to like 3.2 or 3 volts 0% should be fine as long as the BMS does not have some stupid that does not let you recharge when it gets to 0

It's fine to discharge li ion cells down to 2.5V

HA! everyone's passing him left, right, and upside-down!!! :-D

Well well, i have watched this video some times, and just noticed that the battery voltage was very low, so... that might be an indication of range.