Thank you for really trying to point out the climate connections.

Awesome car. Must visit Drive EV when in Taupo next.

Another great video Gavin! I recently I took a road trip in my EV6 LR towing a 4m aluminum boat (aprox 750kgs) from Auckland, around the East Cape and back again. All up it was slightly over 1,100kms. What I found was that the trailer and mountainous terrain reduced my usual ranger by about 30%. Really not that bad! The main niggle that I had, as you rightly pointed out, was having to unhook the trailer in order to plug in at most of the chargers. But that's a small price to pay for a cheap and eco-friendly holiday. Admittedly this is a relatively small boat, but I personally believe that with prevalence of charges and rapid charging speeds of many modern EVs, the old argument that "EVs can't tow" is becoming less and less of an issue.

Potato potato potato! Loved the video! Watched it with the family and they're now fans too 😂 Towards the end, when you were putting the Leaf in the garage, was there a blue motorbike in the background?

Tesla Hulk smashed it! Great video and look forward to updates on your work in progress.

Someone please make Gavin a packed lunch the next time he goes on one of these epic road trips. Or at the very least, maybe pre-boil one of those potatoes for him. I’m concerned about the recurring theme of starvation in his vids

Hulk? Should have been called Kermit. It’s not easy being green you know. 🐸

Great expedition. Maybe in the future, trailers will be slightly powered to drive the trailer wheels and make for no range loss.

@BenMitro

Жыл бұрын

What if you get extra battery capacity in the car and save on the motors, inverters, batteries and conformance fees for the trailer?

As someone who’s just been a passenger on a few 8-10 hour days , having a vehicle that will literally tell you to go take some time out to stretch your legs and eat something every few hours while it chargers is hardly a bad thing, for people’s safety and well-being if nothing else. If anything I would even view such enforced stops as a good thing. The only real problem you run into is when the charger is in use and there is no alternative, something more chargers could well and truly fix. Also educating people and having more widespread and integrated alert systems to let even the newbies know when people are waiting even if they don’t have PlugShare.

3:37 "The Leaf is intact". Pans around to show pretty much everything missing from said Leaf. 😅😅

Its P100 without the 'D'. Its not a dual motor car but does have the 100kWh battery. Probably the only one in NZ, maybe the World :)

Hey Gavin, the examples of towing capabilities for e.v's makes for great content. Another hurdle for potential buyers, (that constantly comes up in conversation) is battery degradation. Is there a possibility that you could cover this in an episode? (As well as a MY Performance review) 😬. I constantly refer this channel to people I speak to about e.v's. So your take on this subject would definitely help with bringing more to the lightside. Keep the content coming.

When will Ecotricity come to Australia?

Speaking of climate change, how mad is that petrol station having all of its lighting on in the middle of the night despite being closed? It's not the only business guilty of wasting energy. You see it all over the world, particularly in empty office buildings. Energy efficiency matters when it comes to climate change action.

You could still do the trip at night, but come prepared with pre-bought snacks. 😉 I've got a video coming out soon, you'll see how to pre-snack. 🤣

Cool stuff, evs are great for towing as 40% of your energy doesn't go out the tail pipe under load.

Love these videos. Absolutely amazing. NZ is so far ahead in the EV adoption curve than Australia. Please do some videos in Australia.

@53glowe

Жыл бұрын

Yeah....NZ is so similar to Australia in travel distances and population centres 🤔

The hyper rapid charger said "Karte wird geprüft"? Did they really forget to translate this?

What's Hulk's PSC?

Fantastic review, can not wait for the cheap Tesla. Bob

Hi Gavin, are you shure this is a P100D because I'm shure there was no 100 serie with the old tesla nosecone and gray seats. To me it looks like a P85D but I'm not shure

@RaglansElectricBaboon

Жыл бұрын

Its not a D but it is a P100. Originally it was a P85D but it got a 100kWh battery :)

@ConstantijnKool

Жыл бұрын

@@RaglansElectricBaboon Lucky the 100kw packs are way better than the 85 ones!

@katikati113

Жыл бұрын

Drive EV transplanted the battery into it, wad a P85, they also did a ton of other mods on it . Check out their Channel, they did some videos of what they did to Hulk.

Towing test is not 1.5 ton most Caravan's have a 2.5 to 3 ton's. NZ is lucky most of the roads are better than Australia. I really like the idea of towing a Caravan with EV but then need more offroad options. It will get there but not yet.

@NZVideoGuy

Жыл бұрын

I own 3 caravans. A 2 berth which weighs just over 1,000kg, and 2 four berth, which weigh 1,200kgs. I don't know where you got the idea that caravans weigh so much?

No water? There's one time that a hydrogen fuel cell car might have some value over BEV... ;)

I'm confused. I saw this video yesterday yet it's only just been uploaded. Did your crashed car become a time machine? ;)

@kelvynbettridge

Жыл бұрын

Different vid

@em_pen

Жыл бұрын

@@kelvynbettridge No, same vid, followed the link from Mastodon. Maybe the link worked before it was available for public viewing. Or it was edited and re-uploaded. *shrug* Either way, worth watching :)

As of now, there is no RUC for EV. But once the RUC kicks in , the petro vs EV running cost come close ....

@slimjim1125

Жыл бұрын

Haha not even close mate. There is still a massive price difference between petrol/diesel and electricity. And RUC's may come in at a lower rate compared to the others too, in order to incentivise EV uptake while giving some money to the govt.

An hour filling up at each station....stuff that :) Let me know when these toy cars are like real cars

@EcotricityNZ

Жыл бұрын

Hehe, that's an older electric car, mate! Check out some of the reviews I've done with new, high performance toy cars. Spoiler alert, they eat "real" cars for breakfast! :D All the best! -Gav

why did the leaf have no door s half the weight of the car gone

Kiwi EV strikes again

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Hyperbole does not support your case. “ Destroying everything in their path” while driving through an area of slippage but with road surface and Armco barrier still very much intact. Just the facts mam. Just the facts.

How is that a Plaid when it's a 2015 Model S? The Plaid didn't come out until years later.

@katikati113

Жыл бұрын

Who said it was a Plaid? It WAS a P85 but DriveEV put. 100kWh battery into it... plus other upgrades.

@firefox39693

Жыл бұрын

@@katikati113 He called it that.

Are the climate action statements are requirement of Ecotricity? Reminder there are plenty of reasons to electrify the car fleet without resorting to questionable propaganda that can distract from all the EV goodness

@Zarphag

Жыл бұрын

Feel free to question the science behind climate change by peer reviewing all of the thousands of published papers on it...

@urbfr389

Жыл бұрын

Yes… Everything is fine with the climate, no change and absolutely nothing caused by massive burning of stuff. Move along, nothing to see here. Give my regards to Murdoch and the Saudis when you bump into them.

@53glowe

Жыл бұрын

Huh 😐

its only green traveling when charging/driving using green energy. The electricity still need to be made..... And driving around for fun is not eco friendly Ofcourse i like the revieuw but thinking green is just staying at home and charging from home. Even the solar aray had to been produced to give power to the carr so end the end i realy dont now how green we all are. I realy hope evs last 30 years bechose the price of evs is at least 30-40 more expensive. The montly payments if keeping a car for like 4-5 years is around 750-1000$ so how will ppl affard this. The tested car is well over 100.000$ here. great revieuw world is just not ready to go green

@slimjim1125

Жыл бұрын

The majority of NZ's electricity production is via renewable sources (hydro, wind, geothermal etc), so the impact on the environment is very little compared to other countries.

Proof of concept, in limited scensrios. I am driving Auckland to SI for 3 weeks doing 3,000 kms. Electric cars are worse for carbon until the car gets to 7 years old. So actually, you are making the environment worse by buying a new electric car! Oh the irony. Make sure you don't buy anything imported, or export any goods, est meat, etc. Such a sad life!

@theunknownunknowns5168

Жыл бұрын

What a load of BS you speak. You a smooth brained imbecile. Dickhead.

@theunknownunknowns5168

Жыл бұрын

Your a lying f tard.

@xiaoabrose

Жыл бұрын

People need to lighten up! You don't need people to agree with you unless you want to live in an echo chamber. Movement of goods via trucks/sea are far, far worse than any private pollution. Also, I don't think it's appropriate to try and use this tragedy to promote your business, especially which the truth is far less obvious and complicated.

@theunknownunknowns5168

Жыл бұрын

​@@xiaoabrose ​@Albert Mc Wot?! If you are neurologically diverse I do apologise. Electric vehicles are NOT more polluting than internal combustion engine vehicles. Being wilfully ignorant and spreading lies about that that have been comprehensively proven false many, many times by respected, internationally recognised organisations, this ignorance deserves no quarter. It is not an "echo chamber" if the opposing views are damaging lies with naught to evidence the falsehoods of which you repeat. Not all opposing voices are equal, stupidity and lies is not equal to empirical evidence. I will suffer fools like you with extreme prejudice. You sir, are The echo chamber.

@stuartirwin3779

Жыл бұрын

Your statement about carbon footprints is completely false. EVs are ahead after about only 20,000k!