Kyle and I agreed to post our videos today but Kyle ended up not finishing the editing of his video in time, so I couldn't include the link. He'll post his video in a couple of days and I'll add the link in the description as soon as he does.
@VotecEV2
6 ай бұрын
Stafford !! I had that EA station on my travel list last spring going to Hatteras. The Leaf required 3 stops from here in Ohio to Frisco, NC. I stopped the night in Stafford in a very nice motel. Resting an hour I got up to visit that EA from boredom, but the Nissan dealer across the street was FREE on Rt 1. Still stopped in Newport News for scheduled 3rd stop anyway plus eat lunch next day. 1643 miles round trip, avoided DC on way home, what a mess that was, not been through DC for 40 years during an ice storm in Dec 1984. 3 ABRP stops were east of Pittsburgh EVGO Sheetz, Hancock, MD ChargePoint & Newport News, VA EVGO WAWA. Did 2 Nissan dealers on way back in VA for free. Tesla Model Y needed charge in MD on way down, no CCS adapter, Model 3 at Greenbriar Mall in Chesapeake, VA same thing down to 1%. Gas or EV I'm 2 days to Hatteras or Myrtle Beach, neck & back injuries. VotecEV on youtube
@AhBeeDoi
6 ай бұрын
@@VotecEV2 Rod tripping in a Leaf makes you either a hero or a martyr.
@VotecEV2
6 ай бұрын
4.8 miles per KWhour to Frisco, NC, 4.5 miles per KWhour return, avg. of 4.65 miles per KWhour. @@AhBeeDoi
@VotecEV2
6 ай бұрын
It was 4.8 miles per KWH there and 4.5 miles per KWH return. kzitem.info/news/bejne/kqx_1aWQqIOSjHo @@AhBeeDoi
@VotecEV2
6 ай бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/kqx_1aWQqIOSjHo
@billlyl3725
6 ай бұрын
I don’t go the movies anymore. I just watch 90 minute EV-related videos 😊
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
Nothing like the early roadtrips with Kyle & Alyssa over an hour long. Couldn't wait to get an EV and hit the road.
@lemongavine
6 ай бұрын
Have you tried watching at 2x speed? 45 minutes is better than 90. I watch all videos at 2x, except music videos and sports highlights, lol
@billlyl3725
6 ай бұрын
@@lemongavine good advice but I like to live life in the slow lane when I can! I’ll try that though 👍
@DYT-jx4jp
6 ай бұрын
yea, I can relate :-)
@lemongavine
6 ай бұрын
@@billlyl3725 I agree, but it makes these long form videos more “attainable”. I would likely skip most of them if 2x wasn’t an option
@davemayo70
6 ай бұрын
Out of Spec Mom still changing his diapers. I spit out my coffee that one! 😂
@markfitzpatrick6692
6 ай бұрын
He’s a youngster around 30 with 20 some cars . I am 5 years older than Tom . I loved Tom’s comment about Kyle
@MrJinske
6 ай бұрын
@markfitzpatrick6692 Maybe so, but Kyle's reviews, his passion and ev intelligence is second to none.
@AhBeeDoi
6 ай бұрын
After a 1,000 miles, a difference of 4 to 6 minutes is a dead heat. Great video.
@JOESMITH-qs8ue
6 ай бұрын
According to him it was only 102 miles to 114 miles. :(
@MindofMatter
6 ай бұрын
I was thinking this too. The fact that they were talking about less than ten minutes difference across 1000 miles is both a surprise success for EA and almost a tie. Good day for EV charging in general
@Noisy_Cricket
6 ай бұрын
And they would have won if EA had put its stations closer to the highway.
@keithwillis3761
6 ай бұрын
EA being even comparable over 1000 miles is impressive, considering how poorly rated they have been in the past. Great content! Thanks.
@greenne
6 ай бұрын
During the daytime it would have been a different story...I am 100% confident there would have been issues
@keithwillis3761
6 ай бұрын
@@greenne I don't disagree. But it's impressive even if they didn't have a rush hour load on the system.. The system has to be built up to take heavier usage. But even with no load on the system this couldn't be done just a year or two ago at any time of day. It's a step forward.
@Paul-cj1wb
6 ай бұрын
@@greenne LOL. That's the only time anyone can use 100% and EA on the same sentence. That you're 100% confident there will be issues.
@markhinkley4271
6 ай бұрын
Fresh pizza, and a cup of coffee in the middle of the night. You guys are rocking the road trip!
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, we won!
@FoamCrusher
6 ай бұрын
Heating the pizza oven and the coffee maker cost you time and money!
@greengrass89
6 ай бұрын
IN-FREAKIN-CREDIBLE! I just want a Lightning now. What an awesome race. No one else is doing content like this. This is Top Gear level competition and im so here for it!
@LF-du4uc
6 ай бұрын
Honestly I was more fascinated by the pizza saga than the EV part lol!
@CoRektOh
6 ай бұрын
Like seriously!
@ecarfun
6 ай бұрын
Ya, I'm going to be talking about that at work. lol
@tazeat
6 ай бұрын
It always blows my mind how close all the states are on the east coast, multiple states on one charge!
@benwinslow3101
6 ай бұрын
Haha, Pete's Lucid hat is the perfect fashion accessory for this challenge!
@vincentrobinette1507
6 ай бұрын
That "Lucid" hat is what got them the extra .3 miles per kWh, despite using extra power on the pizza oven and coffee maker. Both of those appliances rely on heating elements, which use more than a kW each! (Shhhh...Don't tell Kyle. He'll think Dave and Pete cheated)
@kyleraine2395
6 ай бұрын
Overnight definitely helped. Did almost the same trip on a busy summer weekend in 2023. To avoid the EA congestion i used some of the new Circle K stations.
@MindofMatter
6 ай бұрын
For sure, totally different conditions otherwise
@jk-vn5kv
6 ай бұрын
MYP owner here, you came close to selling me on the Lightning. Maybe I will get a test drive in real soon. I traded my F150 in for the MYP. I do like the larger space of the truck but I really enjoy the Tesla. Should be good competition in the future. Still looks like a few more years before larger mainstream adaptation due to the FUD that the entire country is going through about changing to EV's. The entire episode is just resistance to change.
@KennyGreenPersonal
6 ай бұрын
Was in the same boat as you, and decided on the Cybertruck. You get a pickup that's about the same size as an F150, same bed size and interior cabin. BUT you get all the Tesla benefits. It's an amazing vehicle.
@darpompie4354
6 ай бұрын
@@KennyGreenPersonal Yah okay,,,, Benefits? like the CT purse frunk and lack of the million accessories the F150's have. To each their own. I was intrigued when they said it would be getting 500 miles of range for 39k. Which is then cheap for putting up with all the short comings. If prices were at par, I would definitely take the lightning. Just waiting to see what Ford does with its next gen in 2025 before I go for it.
@TheReal_JG
6 ай бұрын
@@darpompie4354 the CT was never gonna get 500 miles from the initial 40k base price when it debuted. The estimated range was 250 miles. On the other end, I was hoping for the 500 miles from the top spec CT, but it's only gonna be 470 miles.
@hwirtwirt4500
6 ай бұрын
@@KennyGreenPersonal Tesla "benefits", like rust, shoddy workmanship, ridicules pricing etc.
@Bullit151
6 ай бұрын
Loved it. 3 mins is basically a photo finish after 18+ hours.
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
For a trip that would be done in 12 hours in a gasoline car. =) Don't get me wrong, I love EVs and own two of them (Tesla 3 and F150 Lightning), but spending 5 or 6 hours waiting to charge is a pain... especially since I have done NJ to Northeast Florida overnight numerous times. It took us 18 hours one time, to go to Palm Beach from NJ.... and that included waiting 3 hours for a tow truck and 2 hours driving in the tow truck to Savannah Georgia when the Hertz rental car blew an engine on the way... (Chrysler 200...)
@Jtaugner
6 ай бұрын
@@SlavGuns Thanks for showing you didn't actually watch the video. How does going 80 MPH over 1000 miles equal 12 hours? They even broke down how long they spent charging and how long they spent actually driving.
@Paul-cj1wb
6 ай бұрын
@@Jtaugner Probably never even been in an EV. "spending 5 or 6 hours waiting to charge" totally proved your point. He never even watched the video.
@billhaines9991
6 ай бұрын
Damn, guys - that was a Great video! and Tom doing the Pizza Oven on the console was Epic!
@darinbrazil5496
6 ай бұрын
Tom has a camp kitchen in his lightning lol
@arnecarlsson9740
6 ай бұрын
The two best, Tom and Kyle made this amazing race! Fantastic story! 👏👏👏
@rexlutgen6361
6 ай бұрын
I gave the video a like just as soon as the pizza oven came out
@andrewhurstcars
6 ай бұрын
Great trip Tom and Kyle 👏🏻
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
EA along I-95 corridor is generally overcrowded during the day. Traffic at these stations has been increasing in recent years and wait lines are typical.
@Paul-cj1wb
6 ай бұрын
Not a problem for Ford EV drivers anymore. And by the end of this year, it won't be a problem for most EV drivers. I doubt any will use EA or EVgo anymore unless they have a 800v EV. And at that, that's only for times and areas where Tesla doesn't yet have an 800v V4 nearby. And they're basically only installing those from here on out. And they install 20 plus stalls per week.
@PumpUptheJam81
6 ай бұрын
@@Paul-cj1wbIf they come out west they are going to wait. Even Teslas wait at tesla stations.
@Paul-cj1wb
6 ай бұрын
@@PumpUptheJam81 It's simple -- never charge during peak times. I look at the Tesla mobile app and only charge up when there are plenty of free stalls and it's cheaper to charge. It even tells you which Teslas are heading to that specific station you have selected so you can plan around that as well. It's the same with those that don't fill their tanks up on their ICE vehicles prior to going to the beach during summer time and have to wait in long lines on the highway on the way there and pay much higher prices. I have never understood that logic.
@marklefler4007
6 ай бұрын
"He Kyle, how are those potato chips"!
@davidmenasco5743
6 ай бұрын
Cut to Kyle's truck -- back seat full of chips!
@middler5212
6 ай бұрын
That pizza oven is so dangerous! But certainly creative!! 😆
@ConservatEV
6 ай бұрын
Keurig…. nooo! That plug can handle an electric kettle, a decent drip kit and a hand grinder would be much better coffee! And, Stocking Mill Coffee Roasters is in Daytona, could have nabbed some awesome beans! But really, it’s a very impressive vehicle with all those plugs, offers a lot of options. I’m impressed, Ford has a great start on their EV models! 22:36
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
One of the reasons I bought the lightning, as a KZitemr I can charge all my camera gear on site, wherever that is...
@killabyt3
6 ай бұрын
LMaooo the pizza oven
@vlad2838
6 ай бұрын
Super entertaining episode, Tom! I’ll bet that Keurig at Walmart was cheaper than three of Kyle’s Starbucks. And, yes, Pete rocks! 🤘
@motofunk1
6 ай бұрын
That pizza oven is like the modern day version of the baked potato on the motor under the hood.
@freundron
6 ай бұрын
Gee Tom - Pete Bremy was "Keepin' (you) Hangin' on!" Wow, what a blast from the past! Fun times!
@Tooradj
6 ай бұрын
Finally a race worth watching. Love this post.
@krkope8277
6 ай бұрын
OK, really fun video and Tom, congratulations are in order. If you haven't seen the announcement, Mary Barra got tired of your grumbling. When Chevy lifted the stop sale on the Blazer, they quietly mentioned they upgraded the software to include a % SoC display. First Kyle saves the Bolt and now you get us some hard data. You guys are EV Titans!
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Really? I didn't hear that. I've been relentlessly trolling them for years now to do that.
@krkope8277
6 ай бұрын
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Oh, I know believe me. It's buried in an article at GMAuthority by Jonathan Lopez dated March 8 about the lifting of the stop sale and price drop. I wouldn't have noticed it if it didn't immediately make think "Tom's gonna take a victory lap." Quote: "revised Driver Info Center graphics that incorporate a battery percentage dispaly."
@johncarson1427
6 ай бұрын
Great race,and really equal in real terms. Exciting banter and speculations during the race. Thanks for the ride. I bought a Tesla based partly on the reliability and availability of the Supercharger network. I happy to see that Electrify America is stepping up their game.
@ericcomer8750
6 ай бұрын
Pizza oven in the f150 is classic, great content
@simonthebroken9691
6 ай бұрын
Tom, you make a great butler for Pete. Haha 😄 Great content. Thank you 😊
@plantmaninca
6 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this! I want a lightening now!
@charlieruppert1423
6 ай бұрын
"I can't complain a single bit about EA charging infrastructure". except almost every stop had out-of-service chargers - and only a couple that worked! Imagine doing a road trip and having to wait two cars back for a charger.
@hwirtwirt4500
6 ай бұрын
Miraculously none of the charging stations they used had any out of service chargers. How could that possibly happen?
@ekaddo
6 ай бұрын
Awesome content. Good to have choices when charging. F150 is very comfortable for road trips.
@Martocciaweb
6 ай бұрын
I think Tom got really lucky with the EA chargers. If this road trip was repeated again with different departure times, it seems likely that he wouldn’t have been able to get an available and working 350kW charging station every time. Another interesting race to try would be three vehicles, one Tesla, one EA, and one either one.
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
The "other" vendor chargers on the I-95 corridor are slow charging compared to EA. Infact EA is the only game on certail legs.
@dandaigle4546
Ай бұрын
this is epic and absolutely educational and at times humorous, thanks for this video
@shrichaudhary
6 ай бұрын
You guys rock! You have done a great service for the movement to electrification of transportation. Wonder what you’re gonna do five years from now when all of this will be a history and driving an electric car will become the norm in America.😂
@natchawannattiya1345
6 ай бұрын
What an epic race and epic video you produced. I love this kind of content. Thank you so much for sharing your experience, Tom! ❤
@stockdale1
6 ай бұрын
Excellent video Tom and Pete. 3 mins over 1k miles - I’d call that a draw and with double the chargers Ford is the winner!
@ShawnGBR
6 ай бұрын
At a pinch, you may be OK at a 150kW with the Lightning. Some of those 150s are really 350s with half the power modules meaning they are really 175kW chargers, 500 Volts at 350 Amps max, and your Lightning was pulling 164 to 165kW or so at the peak. Even if it's maxing out the Amps on the EA hardware (350 Amps), that means it's pulling around 470 Volts maximum (which would mean the math adds up because that makes it 164½kW) so even a half-power-moduled "150kW" rated charger would give you all you need. (EDIT - just saw the 3rd charge was a max of 168kW and the 4th tickled 174kW - so long as your max is under 175kW and it turns out the truck can pull at 350 Amps, it absolutely checks out. It would only be if you could take 500 Volts and above that you'd absolutely need the 350s, and when Munro did a teardown of the F150 it had 400-volt architecture.) I really wish EA and EVGo would update their GUI to show Volts and Amps like the Ionity chargers do in Europe, it would answer so many questions we could have about how many Volts and Amps are being pulled in a charge (and show how the voltage is usually kept constant and it's the current, the amperage, that goes up and down during a charge curve).
@WarpedFlayme
6 ай бұрын
I keep a Bluetooth OBD adapter in the glovebox so that I can watch the Voltage and Current when fast charging. The Car Scanner app can pull all of that data and WAY more.
@ab-tf5fl
6 ай бұрын
The max power the trucks ever drew from a 350 kW charger was only slightly higher than 150 kW anyway. Obviously, every minute counts when you're doing a race, but a normal person road-tripping at a normal pace, if the 350's were all taken, they could probably just plug into a 150 and barely notice the difference. Especially since anyone really trying to travel from New Jersey to Florida quickly anyway would be flying, not driving, to begin with.
@arvind0rjillako
6 ай бұрын
I concur! My Lightning has pulled 165kw from those 150 stations.
@stanislavjaracz
6 ай бұрын
Thanks, Tom. Great entertainment and yes, it was a long one, but justified. I think that you went on a mission to show A and ended up showing B. A: no difference between the two networks. B: You can drive electric truck from NJ to FL fairly quickly with no anxiety of any kind. And this is very positive message next to the videos of e-trucks towing heavy mis-shaped trailers with complaints on range and charging. Well done. I have tons of data from my trip to FL so my complete report is heavily overdue. My mission was different and that's how we need to be. Show that EVs are good for everyone.
@irfanhusein1445
6 ай бұрын
On a 3000 mile round trip from Los Angeles to Whistler Canada last summer, I charged exclusively on Electrify America. 23 charging stops with 2 chargers de-rated to 40 KW. No other issues. I was very happy with EA.
@Trk09dr
6 ай бұрын
Pete drove the whole way but Kyle made Dave push
@tobias_dahlberg
6 ай бұрын
Is there a video coming out from your experience with the Polestar 3 in north Sweden?
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Yeah. I had no time to edit it because we basically left the day after I got home from that. Probably in about 10 days
@tobias_dahlberg
6 ай бұрын
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Fantastic, look forward to your reaction to it. I saw they lowered the price by about $5K in the US too.
@tonys9413
6 ай бұрын
@@tobias_dahlbergSame here; also interested in figuring when the P*3 be available here in US. The P*4 probably better suited for me, but’ll take much more time to get it.
@tobias_dahlberg
6 ай бұрын
@@tonys9413 Production of the P*3 has started in China but US production seems to start in mid-2024 so in a few months. I'm also quite certain that they have to work through a pretty big orderbook before new orders get through, so if you order one today you'll probably get yours in autumn-winter. P*4 seems to start deliveries in early 2025 for the US market and in August for the European market. That's because the European orders will be produced in China, that production is already running. And the US orders will be produced in South Korea, which they are setting up right now. So it looks like US-folks will be able to order theirs in late summer, for delivery in like Jan-Mar 25.
@kenfields4181
6 ай бұрын
2 of my favorite stops on my round trips from Florida to Baltimore are EA in Stafford VA and Sheetz in Rocky Mount NC. Been to EA once in Florence and yes sketchy folk there then.
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
We avoid Florence if possible due to equipment reliabilities and lately overcrowding.
@newscoulomb3705
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the fun road trip! I'm glad you stuck exclusively to EA for this run because even on I-95, we're getting to the point where we're going to have competing travel corridors from both ChargePoint (Mercedes/Walmart) and EVgo as well soon. By summer, it might be possible to do this trip in a Lightning exclusively using any one of four different networks, which is of course a win for consumers because "choices." I will say that Buc-ee's stop at the end looked aggravating. Those are exactly the types of stops I try to avoid on trips. Too many people and too much chaos.
@JackRussell021
6 ай бұрын
I have been to Buckees before, so I knew how big they were. It would have taken 5 minutes in Google to familiarize yourself with the place, but you would have to know that this would be a worthwhile thing to do.
@ab-tf5fl
6 ай бұрын
@newscoulomb3705 I would be dying to know how close you could get to the Lightning trucks' travel times in your Bolt. I know from your other videos that a Bolt, if road tripped properly, can average above 50 mph on long trips. Kyle and Tom averaged about 55 mph, which is not much faster than this.
@newscoulomb3705
6 ай бұрын
@@ab-tf5fl It would probably be an hour to an hour and a half difference. Based on what I've seen, the best you can do long-distance in a Bolt EV is about 51 mph average trip speed including charging stops. So the Lightning would still come out on top, but the Bolt has the advantage of using slower chargers that are better placed, closer to the freeway, and have faster activation times (e.g., CPE 250). So overall, I'd expect to finish behind them, but not by that much.
@benwinslow3101
6 ай бұрын
Definitely a win for EVs all around. Awesome job guys.
@adamchoi8136
6 ай бұрын
If KZitem had an award ceremony for content, this would be in it. 😂the pizza was amazing and worth it.
@garyclark6747
6 ай бұрын
Nice of a fellow IONIQ 5 owner to make way. Chances are they were already in the curve deep enough a 150kW plug would finish it quite nicely. Location is amplified in this instance where minutes count but 350kW availability was key which time of day helped. Congratulations on proving the potential is there at EA to hang with the big dog. 1:35:01
@Okefenokee_Nole
6 ай бұрын
I'm interested in seeing the return journey from Florida to New Jersey using both Tesla and EA chargers, and then comparing it to your initial trips. This comparison highlights the added value of the Supercharger network, allowing for more efficient charging at optimal SOC during longer road trips.
@MarcB707
6 ай бұрын
Fantastic vid and thanks for the inspiration! Can’t wait to put in an espresso maker and small oven for baked goods on next road trip!😅
@Miata822
6 ай бұрын
Your EA road tripping experience pretty well matches mine driving around the middle of the country in my Lucid GT. I do plan my trips to avoid rush hour charging in big cities, and don't really mind charging on a 150 since I get 170 there anyway. Then again, I'm not racing. Maybe I have just been lucky, but EA really hasn't been a problem for me.
@dpsingh6421
6 ай бұрын
Hearing your comments on the smoke generated by the pizza oven and having to "roll down" the windows, I couldn't help but think of old Cheech and Chong movies from the 70s. They frequently ended up with a lot of smoke in their vehicles, but they were in no rush to roll down their windows. 😂
@forrest1948
6 ай бұрын
Anyone contemplating buying an EV, any EV, needs to watch this video or Kyle's video.🤔
@brettscott7614
6 ай бұрын
Fantastic testing and surprising result. Well done, dudes.
@SteveBirkett
6 ай бұрын
This has been my experience with EA over the past 18 months: no major issues unless it's peak travel time. Congestion is the biggest problem and four stalls + free charging plans = delays. Worth noting too that Superchargers on I-95 will also be much busier in the daytime and soon they'll have the added burden of the early adapter models potentially taking up two stalls. It would be interesting to watch the same thing attempted with Memorial Day traffic...🛣️👀
@trippplefive
6 ай бұрын
EA got in shape quick once ol' musk opened his charge network
@4literv6
6 ай бұрын
Dont forget farley blasted them pretty darn good last year when he tried road tripping a lightning platinum. 👍🏻😀
@Michael4Reall00
6 ай бұрын
It would be awesome if you do exactly the same trip but with a Tesla model 3 with Tesla superchargers and electrify America
@kevincurry4735
6 ай бұрын
Kyle used to live in Rocky Mount and has made a couple videos there.
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Yep. I am in one of those videos, so I was familiar with that stop
@kevincurry4735
6 ай бұрын
I grew up in Roanoke Rapids and just good to see area on video. Great time watching your trip.
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
I must be really driving slow because I routinely get 2.3 or more on my SR F150 lightning.... I am betting just slowing down, you will save that time on a road trip not waiting for it to charge. Averaged 2.8 on a 170 mile RT the other day split between highway and city. Going over 65 mph really kills the efficiency. You guys should do a test, have someone drive the speed limit, and someone drive 5 or 10 over and compare total trip time. lol. I might be down for that.
@ChrisClark31415
6 ай бұрын
Next time you do this, you should add a requirement that you have at least 20% charge remaining at your end points just to avoid the "short-fill" advantage.
@jamesengland7461
6 ай бұрын
They were at 5 and 6%. Same net effect
@josephgindi5182
6 ай бұрын
Kyle might have won the race to Florida, but Tom won the race to post his video. Three days later and still waiting on Kyle.
@nkgoodal
6 ай бұрын
I appreciate your content and charger reviews. Great race! F150 Lightning is very impressive. We just got a Genesis GV70 Electrified (primarily for my wife) and we love it. Would love to get a Lightning for myself later; we still have one gas burning car. We just picked up a Chargepoint home station and am enjoying learning and using our EV. Genesis (and other Hyundai Group comanies Hyundai and Kia) have awesome charge rates; I've gone from 15-85% (with no-one waiting) within 18 minutes. Peak charge rate was almost 230Kw per hour.
@yolanda4731
6 ай бұрын
I was cleaning out my MIL’s garage and found an electric turkey roaster. I’m taking it camping with the Cybertruck. I’ll let you borrow it for a thanksgiving road-trip 😂
@jamesengland7461
6 ай бұрын
4 hour drive to Grandma's for Thanksgiving? Perfect! the turkey will be fresh and hot!
@winstonallthingselectrical837
6 ай бұрын
Buckeys for the win with those beaver pellets and brisket! I just noticed we basically have the same truck lol and I put the same F150 Lightning logo on the back of mine because its the best!!! Awesome video!!!
@ChuckJ1944
6 ай бұрын
Love it! you guys are great!
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
The Brunswick Ga EA station is one of the fartherest off the highway of any CCS charger on I-95. Should of stopped at Yule FL FPL station right off I-95, another 50 miles from Walterboro.
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
You're right. I didn't do ANY research before the trip. Just hopped in the truck and set out. Searched for the chargers en route.
@BillB33525
6 ай бұрын
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Shame a few minutes didn't go your way for the win. But very interesting adventure, the charging Gods have been with us on this route and the short wait lines have been the only impediment to a perfect roadtrip. Can't wait for the next adventure.
@bgharvpullatrain
5 ай бұрын
I guess I have never pulled out to early like Kyle.
@TaxmanHog
6 ай бұрын
Great competition !!!!
6 ай бұрын
got to love these ev race challenges
@MDillonEV
6 ай бұрын
Why would anyone drive in along the front of a Buckees or a Walmart, Hello. Drive the edges! Awesome video though. I had a blast watching. Do more of these please.
@ryanfagan4563
6 ай бұрын
Awesome guys! Love these kind of videos!
@steinmar2
6 ай бұрын
The pizza oven was the best part 😂 Now you need a mobile freezer for long trips as well and only switch driver and charge ^^
@RustyCabot
6 ай бұрын
Great video! Can't wait to take my Lightning on a similar road trip. Having said that, you mentioned an EA subscription that gives you a 25% discount when charging. How does that work with the Blue Oval network? Do you have to disable plug and charge and use the EA app or is there a way to get the discount through the Ford Pass app / Blue Oval network?
@SeamusLavery
6 ай бұрын
This reminded me of some of those Top Gear races.
@tazeat
6 ай бұрын
It's still a single fuel stop in a gas f150, with any bathroom or food stops anywhere you want them. Can I get an electric lightning for local use and a gas f150 for everything else at least until we get true fast charging on these things? I mean we kind of already do something similar with our Y and my gas F150.
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
Yep... unless you have a family and NEED to stop every 2 or 3 hours anyway, an EV on a long road trip such as this adds 30% to 40% or more to the total trip time. When I travel by myself between NJ and Florida, I would stop once in the Fredericksburg VA area for gas and starbucks, (20 mins total), and then IF I need a quick bathroom break in SC, and then Florida. On a recent trip in a Tesla from PA to TN/Kentucky, it added another 4 hours to the trip, especially since one of the Tesla superchargers in WV was SUPER slow... and there was almost no alternative around.
@tazeat
6 ай бұрын
@@SlavGuns I wish my kids timed their stops with charging and that charging had more reliable bathrooms... Or that the highway rest stops had charging.
@MDP673NJ1
5 ай бұрын
Great video. Yesterday for the first time I drove in a EV the F150 lightning on a test track I was highly impressed. The acceleration 0 to 60 in 4 sec is sick especially for a pick up. The handling while aggressive driving equally impressive. Its been a true opener and my skepticism almost all gone for the exception of the battery life and charging networks. Other than that performance was great and so was comfort it literally felt I could live in there thats how comfortable and spacious it was. Honestly I've been looking at the lightning and the mach e gt I'm kind of undecided. I currently drive a land rover so I like the space but I'm concerned of the size of the f150 at the chargers. I'll be mostly be driving 30 miles a day 😂and occasionally once or twice a month take a ride to Atlantic city from north jersey.
@Defianthuman
6 ай бұрын
New Jersey me too! I live in south Jersey about 15 from Philadelphia. Is it because you can only use v2's on Tesla Supercharger network.
@gchetail
6 ай бұрын
It feels like if you know you're going on a road trip it's worth taking the discount plans
@HoundStuff
6 ай бұрын
Very cool, nice work everyone!
@paulchristenson5256
6 ай бұрын
When was this run? Looks like trees and other growing things were in full bloom?
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Last week
@williamblue9996
6 ай бұрын
Well done I listen to the whole thing.
@jonmcandrews2131
6 ай бұрын
This was a GREAT test/challenge. Should try it again during the daytime hours. I think it would lead to much different results. The pizza was great! But maybe a bit safer to do at the first charging stop!
@Dannyeod
6 ай бұрын
You should do a video with @outofspec on the benefit of drafting vehicles. I just drove 1200 miles with a head wind the whole time. M3P did a good job of updating the navigation if I wasn’t able to draft and I had to be smarter than the nav
@WestCoastChicano
6 ай бұрын
Gr8 road trip. I currently live in El Paso, Tx but when I lived in LA I used to drive to my mom's house in El Paso and it was an 800 mile trip. I never stopped even to eat. Just gassed up and I was gone. It took about 12 hours. I have a new Bolt EV. I would make a trip to LA but I would be a little nervous because of the charging infrastructure. If I did today it might take 18 hours lol. Gr8 video as usual, guys. 🚗🇺🇲🔌⚡
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
would take more.... the Bolt has a very crappy/slow charging curve. lol.
@dpsingh6421
6 ай бұрын
Wow, talk about traveling in style - dining on pizza, cooked along the way. Do you have an estimate on how much energy was used by the pizza oven and coffee machine?
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Not much, really. It might have cost me a mile or two, but no more than that
@quincypierce4906
6 ай бұрын
What converter was you guys using to use the pizza oven and the coffee maker?
@SlavGuns
6 ай бұрын
You don't need a converter. The Lighttight has a crap ton of 110 outlets. there are 2 or 3 inside the cabin, 3 or 4 inside the Frunk and depending on if you got the ProPower package or not, 2 or 3 in the bed of the truck.
@ken830
6 ай бұрын
Knocking on someone's window to ask them to move is probably not fair or representative of normal people's EA experience... I know I wouldn't ever do that..
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
I've done it 5-6 times before when I was doing charge recordings and only once did the person not oblige.
@ken830
6 ай бұрын
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughneyEven that one time failure is enough reason for me to never do it. How awkward it would be to sit there next to you after being asked... That's probably why most people obliged... To avoid the awkwardness.
@QALibrary
6 ай бұрын
I did say on your Twitter when you said it was a race - I did say there be under 30 muintes in it
@satyakorrapati
6 ай бұрын
To fix this situation the GOV needs to step IN and tell all the Car companies we following NAC 😊
@BeckerGOP
6 ай бұрын
I too have an F150 Lightning Lariat and am very pleased with it. This trip cost $177 (17.5 cents per mile). Anybody know what an ICE F150 would have cost for gasoline on that same trip?
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Probably close to that.
@BeckerGOP
6 ай бұрын
My Lightning has cost me an average of 5 cents per mile over the winter. The economics works quite well for local travel. Based on your experiences, there is zero chance of me taking my Lightning on a road trip. An ICE vehicle would save about three hours and cost about the same. That's a no-brainer for me. @@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
@GeeDeeBird
6 ай бұрын
EA has nothing to be ashamed of here. Well done!
@greenne
6 ай бұрын
Great video..
@MikeSTGL
6 ай бұрын
Wow , surprisingly close !!!
@randygreen7871
6 ай бұрын
Great video lots of important info, thanks for sharing. It cost 3 times what it would've cost us to make that same trip in our Camry Hybrid at $3.00 a gallon for gas. So triple the cost in an EV and only one 5 minute gas stop, and close to 4 hours shorter to make the same trip in a Camry Hybrid, just sayin!
@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, but it would also have cost half what it did if we drove EVs that were comparable to a Camry hybrid. You really can't compare the cost to fuel a full-size pickup truck with that of a midsize sedan.
@jimmurphy5355
6 ай бұрын
Did Pete drive the bus back in the early days when Vanilla Fudge was touting?
@gregyohngy
6 ай бұрын
The pizza maker is about 1200w per hour and the coffee maker surges to 1500w initially.
@777Outrigger
6 ай бұрын
Plug into a Supercharger and it takes 7 secs to start charging. Same for Ford EVs too. Plug in at a typical CCS charger and it takes 30-40 seconds to start charging. Count 4 charging stops and that's 2 minutes difference in time. Even with the rare perfect 4 CCS starting stops, you're still 2 minutes deficit.
@4rwayner7
6 ай бұрын
I hope you can show the average rate of charge for both of you. I see you are averaging 130 plus so far.
@MrJinske
6 ай бұрын
Tom once again has learned his lesson Kyle is a beast. Tom always behind Kyle.
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