22 - The Road Trip

This is Episode 22 of ‘EV Musings’ a podcast about Electric Vehicles and things that are interesting to Electric Vehicle owners. On our podcast today we’ll be taking a long range road trip in a short range EV. It’s all well and good with EV Vloggers doing these 1000km road trips in a Model 3 or a large capacity battery vehicle with fast, high powered Ionity or Tesla Superchargers along the route. Under ideal circumstances you can do a trip like that in fewer than 12 hours.  But what if you want to do it in a ‘normal’ everyday EV with just the charging network we have in the UK?  Today we find out what's possible.   LINKS 'N' STUFF Timestamps Intro: 00:08 Feature topic: 02:21 Cool things: 24:18 Outro : 28:48 Some Statistics from the run (NOTE: Timings are approximate and do not indicate exact time spent charging rather they indicate the overall length of the stop). Leg1 Hitchin to Ponton Arrived at 08.50 with 10% charge. Left at 09.25 with 90% charge Cost £5.90 for 23.61kWh Alfa Power Leg2 Ponton to Doncaster Arrived at 10.39 with 23% charge. Left at 11.15 with 85% charge.  Cost £7.89 for 22.96kWh Geniepoint Leg3 Doncaster to Gristhwaite  Arrived at 12.27 with 35% charge. Left at 13.00 with 91% charge Cost £7.99 for 20.5kWh. Shell Leg4 Gristhwaite to Sunderland Arrived at 14.00 with 36% charge. Left at 14.43 with 98% charge Cost £7.75 for 19.87kWh.  Not-So-FastNed Leg5 Sunderland to Kendal   Arrived at 17.15 with 19% charge. Left at 17.57 with 98% charge Cost £8.41 for 24.02kWh. Instavolt Leg6 Kendal to Haydock Park Arrived at 19.11 with 34% charge. Left at 19.43 with 82% charge Cost £2.28 for 15.2kWh. Polar Leg7 Haydock Park to Cannock Arrived at 21.30 with 8% charge. Left at 22.00 with 92% charge Cost £7.98 for 22.8kWh. Instavolt Leg8 Cannock to Milton Keynes Arrived at 00.35 with 15% charge. Left at 00.54 with 52% charge Cost £2.50 for 16.61kWh. Polar Links to Articles etc. A Better Route Planner com: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ Simon’s video of this trip:  Part1: https://youtu.be/XISJoBFQlCU Part2: https://youtu.be/8J586GVmOho Cool things Cambridge students build an EV - https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-students-build-electric-car-17198047   Social media Simon Roe :  https://twitter.com/theevside and Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWjTTQM5s3W3J9sXL0KMcw Gary Comerford:  https://twitter.com/TheRealGaryC  EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEv and Facebook www.facebook.com/The-EV-Musings-Podcast-2271582289776763 “So, you’ve gone electric?” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X