Living with an electric car? The TRUTH!
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Published 2022-02-10
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Have you ever wondered how different add-ons and accessories could reduce the range of your electric car? Well, we have, so we’ve pulled together this video! We’ve got our hands on the Skoda Enyaq, and we’re putting it through a series of tests to see how its claimed range holds up in different driving scenarios.
We’ll start off fairly lightly, with Mat just driving the car as anyone normally would. He’ll then up the stakes, though, driving with everything turned up to the max, including heaters, wipers and full beams!
But that’s not all. Once he’s undertaken that test, we’ll add some other equipment to the car, including a ski rack and a roof box, all the way through to towing a caravan! Oh, and don’t worry, this is carwow after all, so you know we’ll be launching it 😉
So what do you think, will the Enyaq's range hold up? You'll have to keep watching to find out!
For further insights into towing with an EV, check out our dedicated page: bit.ly/Towing-With-EVs
And if you’d like more expert advice on caravans and towing in general, head over to the Caravan and Motorhome Club’s website: bit.ly/Caravan-and-Motorhome-Club-1002
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All Comments (21)
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Would you ever buy an electric car?
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Best review ever. Cant get more precise, comprehensive, or understandable than this. Thank u carwow.
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No matter how bad my day is, watching Matt doing his silly things, make me smile every time 😂
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Thank you for this video. As a caravan owner, with a caravan currently of 1300kg, I think electric is a long way from towing and will give real range anxiety. Will be sticking with diesel for a while yet I think.
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What people don’t seem to take into account is the fact that range anxiety sets in when there’s about 30 miles range left, if not before. It’s all very well saying a 230 mile range, but no one is going to run it down to that. They’ll always be desperate to charge when they’ve done 200 miles unless they are going home and can guarantee a charge within the remaining range.
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Can you do this comparison with a combustion engine? I'm curious to know if it makes such a difference as it does with the EV.
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Car weight would have a bigger impact to range during stop-start scenarios. The biggest issue with added weight is when moving up to speed from standstill. Since you started your test at a constant speed the weight would have minimal impact. I imagine over a long drive through traffic and motorway you would see a dramatic impact to range by having a large cargo load.
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Really enjoyed this review. Answered a lot of questions I had regarding EV's. Thank you
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Great video Mat,proper real world video for EVs, first video that I’ve seen for any channel,thank you.👍🏻
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I would like to see the least range you can manage by combining lots of the disadvantages.
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Great information, Matt makes is fun to watch boring stuff, love it Keep up the grind🔥🔥
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Being practical minded, this is the kind of video I like to watch. I'd really like to see a similar video comparing Tesla Model Y Long Range and perhaps several other similar EVs that offer the ability to tow.
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Just before New Year's Day, we drove a Tesla Model 3 from Calgary to Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) in -27 C weather with a wind chill of -37 C. The range was cut in less than half. Also charging at a Tesla Super Charger took over 45 minutes (as opposed to the estimated time of 30 minutes on the display/computer). So instead of over 300 km range (std battery), we got less than 150 km. The 300+ km trip took us more than 8 hours to complete with 3 charges to full and cost was about $33 in electricity. Our chase vehicle (Honda CRV) took $38 of regular fuel. Therefore, in very cold conditions like in the arctic and Canada, it is not very practical. BTW, we even turned the heat down and drove slower to save power but the range was still less than 1/2. We spoke with a brand new Tesla owner at a supercharger in Red Deer and he said around the town the range in this weather was about 55% of the indicated range. It is posted on my Facebook page on December 29 if you are interested in more details. Cheers.
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I love this type of testing. Great job Matt! Please do more of these types of reviews using other electric vehicles. Thanks!
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This is a great video idea! Would like to see this done with more cars to see which electric car is the best at towing
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When you calculate the cost per mile for all those tests and do that with home charging and super charger rates while away from home the running costs are horrific!!! Not to mention how much coal was burned to produce all that electricity!! EV's have a way to go before they make any sense!! There is a very good argument that the best choice is still an efficient mild hybrid!
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First class review, the truth ! I have had 5.5 miles per kW with Kona, driving slow country roads, gave 320 miles one charge.
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Hey Matt great review was chatting to my mum about taking a caravan from Birmingham to Cornwall and having to stop and charge it 3 times. She raised a good point, how are you going to park an suv hooked to a caravan and get to a charging point they are for cars only.
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For the germans 😄 3.0 mi/kWh = 20.7 kWh/100km @60 (96,6 km/h) 2.6 mi/kWh = 23.9 kWh/100km @70(112,7 km/h) 1.9 mi/kWh = 32.7 kWh/100km @5 people 1.3 mi/kWh = 47.8 kWh/100km @caravan
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Your videos are great. Thanks for details you go in to.
