"morning" morning today's video is about the EV community and how tight-knit
people in the EV community are so for example Dean was one of my very very
very early subscribers and then I found out he ran a company that ran charge
Points and we've become friends and we came to know each other and now we decided to
team up and do a partnership between the company I work for
Luigi motors and his company ecoplugg that fit charge points and today we're
driving this Zoe from Derbyshire "special delivery" yeah to a special VIP to Troon
in Scotland now the reason I'm driving first is I
want to prove that I am better at driving
ECO than Dean so at the moment just for the video record I'm on 4.3 miles per
kilowatt "as ever Nick's got his numbers wrong and"
"its actually 4.13 for clarity" What did i say "4.3" did I I'm not good with numbers
"its alright well again I'll get 4.4 anyway so don't worry" don't worry Dean
Dean's definitely going to be worse than me the VIP is Eleanor charmers
father she's electric who's done the guest vlog for me in the past
so she's the VIP its her dad whose finally been convinced to go electric after much
much badgering from Eleanor and also Euan Mctuck by the way if you haven't
seen Euan Mctucks YouTube channel and you're interested in all the really
technical geeky geeky geeky stuff about batteries you want to check out
Euan Mctuck's channel it is extremely interesting "it is brilliant" we'll see you at the service
station where we find out the Ecotricity charger isn't down like every single
journal report out there how far until the service station Dean "18 minutes"
"17 miles" can we stop in a bit "yeah" because I've got i need a pee
I've got bladder anxiety "bladder anxiety" yeah bladder anxiety
"he's taking the piss aren't you"
Well i will be YEAH
ohhh but now this is a pointright
this is a proven point this is a Renault Zoe
it's got roughly 80 to 100-mile range in the summer and I need a wee before we
i need a wee roughly about the point we're gonna hit a charge point we should
hit a charge point with 15 miles spare I need a wee now so I could of just stopped at Lancaster
services there and charged up and gone for a wee but we're gonna go to the next
service station because Dean told me I have to and I need a wee now anyone who
can do 200 300 miles on a charge without wee'ing
"you think they're lying" oh yeah course there lying if you can do 250-300 miles
"everyone in the comments is gonna disagree with you" no there not
"they can do 600 miles quite easily"
There both working Mr telegraph and Daily Mail the charges are
both worth and that's two charges both working where you always say there down
"100% success rate so far" yeah i really need a wee
"come on then hurry up you forgot to open your flap"
*laughing*
that's getting edited out
Charge "its really difficult to plug in"
a Few moments later
a few moments later
oh i need my wallet
well we've sold a car to a friend of ours
Elinor she's electric and we sold the car to her father this Renault Zoe 22
kilowatt and we're driving it some distance a little bit
"about 280 miles" yeah 280 miles you check it "i think so" a crazy journey I agreed
with Elanor's dad that I Drive it halfway and he'd meet me halfway and then I was
going to sort a lift getting back then Dean volunteered us to drive it all the
way so we're now driving it all the way which to be honest if you haven't just
think we did a periscope yeah we just a periscope a while ago you
haven't seen the periscope go and watch it yeah and supposedly we're quite funny
together "allegedly" allegedly and allegedly Dean did not fart before
"allegedly" allegedly "it's zero emission vehicle" not anymore
there's more emissions and oh I had a Gregg's pasty before "did ya" yeah yeah beans
beans beans the magical fruit "the more you eat" the more you "good for your heart or something"
No toot
welcome to Nick drives more efficient
than Dean's the "i blame the weather" no you can't blame the weather
Nick 4.13 was it 4.12 "4.13" 4.13
dean is 3.80 so mr i could drive more eco than you is
failing miserably yeah the next charge points looking
squeaky bum time "yeah you'd know about that" hey everyone knows the periscope mate you've got the
squeaky bum yeah so we're currently what we on eight point five miles from
the charger fourteen miles range "9 miles stop miss quoting figures" 8.4
it says at the top that's nine minutes
oh that's what the exit is and that's the actual charge point "correct" right right so
eight point eight miles to the charge points fourteen miles range we don't make it
it's because Dean drives to fast weirdly EV bingo was going really well south of
the border "nick told me we'd be in EV heaven and I've seen 1 model s so far"
yes Scotland you've let us down I was expecting more Ev here than than well
south of the border we'll get there
it's not your roadster "shut it #Rudeness" #misterwewon'tmakeitwewon'tmakeit
oh we made with loads of miles left
Anyway were coming in to Gretna Green Dean and me are gonna get
married we're like a married couple he's farted in front of me countless times now so as
good as married ain't we dean The no so zero emissions Renault Zoe it was zero
emissions until Dean got in the car Gassy "sweet cheeks i've seen your video" OI we don't mention that on this vlog
because people some of my subscribers haven't seen that video and they never
will so I'm going to end it now before Dean tell
you can find it it "you can't delete things off the internet" no you can't
delete things off the internet but you can stop you from finding them the weather forecast is
"dry sunny and 15 degrees" dry sunny well were in Scotland
This is clearly dry sunny and 15 degrees look look look how dry dry and and warm it is
"and sunny" yeah "and that says 15 on there" nonono 6 degree in Scotland is a
heatwave this is the hottest weather they've had this year you know
it's absolutely scorching today in Scotland
this isn't rain no no no this is not rain dean this this is this is just it's
"mist" Mist yeah it's a little bit of mist its fog
They call it fog in Scotland yea little bit of fog
Oh Australia have now got the Renault Zoe congratulations Australia yeah yeah
"shame its not in America" yea America need Rena Rena rental Renault Renault everyone has a go
whichever way I say it "french company sells cars" yeah the Friends group the sells cars
like this one yeah they don't sell in America and nowhere in North
America Canada "i know pull your finger out" yeah come on Eric I know you watch my
channel and you know exactly who I'm talking about
"hello" hello right well this is
Actuality the first supercharger i've actually ever been up to close and seen "there you go novelty" Novelty for me
not a novelty for you "well i don't use them that much" how often have you used it "needed it about 14 times now in the last 19500 miles"
Yea so Tesla why on earth if you stopped free
supercharging with your refferal code when hardly anyone uses it seems a bit silly
"they started it again i think" no no no no one £100 credit that's it it's a
bit poor that Tesla "yeah yeah how many people absolutely milk" just put a
fair usage policy "i worked it out if you did something like 150 thousand miles something like four grand"
"a year all runned over the whole life of the"
"car in electricity costs so if every so often did that vast majority of"
"people charge at home because more convenient so" now how to film some of
the Scottish a roads what a beautiful place honestly Scotland I've never been
before this is the first time north of the border north of the border obviously
but what an amazing place honestly Scotland is beautiful you've never been
before it is stunning now I live in Derbyshire I live in high
peak I am used to roll in beautiful green countryside but Scotland just has
more of it I fought I lived in a picturesque little part of England but
Scotland is just all picturesque it's absolutely beautiful absolutely
beautiful now this long-range test of this R
model zoe has taught me a few things now this was a 3 rapid stop charge
trip so on this trip we have to take three rapid charges to make it up that
includes a full charge from when we left the garage and 3 rapid charges all
the way up we definitely stopped for longer than if we were charging in a
Q motor Zoe this is an R motor Zoe Eleanor's father is only going to be
using this for local round trip town where he lives he's not gonna be doing
massively long trips like we're doing the occasional trip where he might do
120 miles the extra charging time he's not gonna really notice I'd say this now
if you're going to do massive long trips that are going to require multiple rapid
charges you need a Q model if you're just driving it round town
the R model is definitely better the R model for me on this trip was more
efficient on low speeds any speed below 40 miles an hour
I'd say the R was better at miles per kilowatt hour once you went over 40
miles an hour there's no difference really between the Q and R they
pretty much do exactly the same at high speed there's no efficiency savings
which kind of makes sense because if you buying the Q you're doing it for long
distances and if you buying the r you're pretty much going to be
forty mile an hour speed limits anyway so that kind of ties into what the R
was made for like I said this is my first trip to Scotland and we're getting
married over in November only only a couple of days away and probably when
this this video gets released and we're probably gonna take a mini moon I think
in Scotland so the be another long trip for me to Scotland again and I love it
it's beautiful I definitely definitely definitely want to go back to Scotland
again well we've made "AND IF BY MAGIC" were at the vips "and look whats on the wall" a very very neat install from ecoplugg
all that was left was to show Elanor mum how to plug the car in and it was
pretty much as simple as that I wouldn't normally do a huge massive
trip to deliver a car on behalf of my company Luigi motors normally we don't
deliver cars but it was for someone part of the Ev family
I know El pretty well through doing my guest vlog previously and also many
chats on Twitter whatsapp other social media and she's become a member
of the family and that's the thing the EV community most people in it feel
like family to me and in fact that there's pretty much everyone I've talked
to on Twitter who communicates back with me who drives an Ev and is excited
about sustainable transport feels like a part of the family and I think that's
great it's it feels like such a lovely the tight-knit community and I
hope it stays that way as the family grows with more and more Ev drivers
every day so thank you for me from watching this week's video
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