I'm Done with Electric Cars! Going back to Combustion Power - Here's Why!

hi i'm steve ross good morning and welcome to saint stephen's green shopping center here in dublin i'm here to pick up this 2-1-1 registration tesla model 3 and i'm going to give it a little bit of a test drive and yeah i'm gonna hire this car see what it's like there's been an awful lot of talk about these cars so i've never driven one before so i'm gonna take one out and see what they're like yeah and i have a bit of sad news about my honda e yeah it's gone so is this gonna replace him am i saying goodbye to electric cars can this change my mind i don't know i decided to hire one to find out a bit noisy here they're doing power washing next door there so yeah ufo drive here in saint stephen's screen shopping center tesla model 3 let's take it for a drive see what it's like okay so i'm just going to unplug it here ah it's still locked anyway we'll hop inside and yeah a nice flush door handle here now it says on the screen that we have i think it's 415 kilometers of range yeah there you go 415 kilometers of range nice big screen here we have all the wood trim nice soft touch plastics up here as well on the dashboard and also down here there is no usbs there's two usbcs back here for the backseat passengers this is rattling so not good new car and yeah it's pretty nicely finished other than that now we have two i i'm guessing these are charging pads yeah because there's no usbs here for the front passenger so yeah i don't have wireless charging on my phone but yeah they're pretty nice car um i don't really know the idea of this sort of a magnet thing um i don't know why that's like that but yeah uh yeah so pretty nice car we're going to see what it's like and we're going to go down to port leash which is about 85 kilometers away and we're going to see what sort of range we have left from our 415 kilometers so we'll see what it's like on the road this is the standard tesla model 3 so yeah don't really like the steering wheel it looks very cheap like something you'd see on a dasia sandero or something yeah not a nice steering wheel at all but yeah i do like the um the handles here it's a kind of a electronic opening it kind of pops open there when you press the handle kind of gives it a little bit of an opening there just on the bottom so i like that and then you can just manually open it here with a handle so that's quite nice and then you get this warning screen then look may cause damage to window trim if you manually open it what sort of nonsense is that but uh yeah and then if you want to open the glove box you have to press this button here to open the glove box what is the idea of that i've no idea why that's there why isn't there a button on the uh glove box itself but yeah it's pretty um i have a leatherette finish here on the seats as well uh the back seats ah they're okay i sat in the mirror earlier there's about an inch and a half of headroom in the back and we also have a pull-down armrest there as well with cup holders on it and yeah we have a flat floor in the back as well um leg room is only just okay behind my driving position not that great so yeah we're gonna i do like the sunroof yeah it's like a panoramic goes the whole way across so yeah i'm gonna hit the road let's see what it's like just as well i watched the um the little video that shows you how to disconnect it there's a small little button on top of the charging cable you gotta press it and then wait for the blue light and then it is unlocked so yeah i think uh we'll see okay let's put it into d um there is no handbrake release button so i'd imagine you just drive off this is the app by the way so yeah you just put that on your phone and you can lock and unlock the car um i have buzzing noises here i have my indicators coming on i don't know what is the story what why is it buzzing i don't have the hazard lights on why is it buzzing i have no idea i'm gonna just drive forward a bit is that gonna shut up is it going to shut up have i got a door open maybe maybe maybe the bonnet is still open is it i have no idea put it into p i'm gonna try the bonnet there's a buzzing noise happening the indicators are flashing now the mirrors are going in and out what's wrong with this car huh um oh hang on have we got it uh regenerative braking temporarily reduced regen will increase as vehicle is driven is there anything else i need to know i don't often drive american cars what is going on i have an unlock is this going to shut up please shut up is that it is that it no it's still gone what's going on with this thing is it going to shut off please is that it is that it okay finally it has shot itself up but saint stephen's green shopping center is looking well i was in there earlier on just getting a few presents for my nephew and nieces so yeah it's looking good inside um if a bit dated looking but still nice shopping center oh look at this look it's even look you see that it's it it's detecting the pedestrian you see that look even the guy in the bicycle look see the guy in the bicycle he's detecting them as well yeah pretty cool so what i really want to touch on in this video is just the charging network and the headaches that i had using it with a honda e so the hyundai e had a very short range i mean it never reached the wltp figure at all 220 kilometers uh from a 35.5 kilowatt hour battery pack it never did reach anywhere close to that figure turn left onto patrick street swah in frederick yeah so 120 odd miles claimed range but i really only ever got about 85 miles so yeah it was about 35 miles off what it had claimed it had and yeah i wasn't too happy with that but the car itself really did like the car had no problem with the car okay small boot small rear space but other than that i loved all the tech i loved all the preheating and yeah heated steering wheel and seats and all of that really did like that but the charging network let it down and you would have seen in videos that i shot uh especially the one where i did 1 000 miles in the honda e took me 29 hours and 24 minutes um yeah you will see the problems that i had with the esb network now the tesla network there's not enough of them in ireland i've driven enough around to know that there's just not enough of these charge stations um getting fitted in ireland oh i have to leave the uh the horse go by that's nice yeah oh yeah there's plenty of pickup in this car look at this that is nice nice pickup you will encounter this if you're buying an electric car as great as they are you will have such a headache at the charge stations all this hanging around and then the next thing you know you're going to pull into a charge station your wife girlfriend or partner is going to be beside you and you're going to um encounter people ahead of you at the chargers and she's going to turn around to you and say how long are we going to be here and then you're going to say um well what you want to say is probably an hour but then you say oh probably 45 minutes no it's not it's gonna be over an hour by the time they're finished and by the time i'm charged in it's gonna be so long yeah so what you're also going to encounter is when you're driving into a charge station i'll turn right onto garner road you're going to have that real uh awful feeling in your stomach where you're just how many people are ahead of me is there anyone at the chargers is there is there a problem with the charger yes you will face all of these things when you buy your electric car but would i would i buy one would i buy one of these well i wouldn't of course because it's full electric i'm gone i am gone from full electric so this is where some of you i have already turned off the video because uh i'm gone back to combustion albeit it is a hybrid car it's not a plug-in hybrid uh maybe in the future i'll get a plug-in hybrid but um no i've gone back to combustion no plugging in no charging no nothing okay we're nearly up to motorway speed limit here now around 120 kilometers and the suspension not the best on this car i've said it already it's not very comfortable and there's a lot of road noise yeah it's if you were thinking of buying one of these cars you definitely need to test drive one maybe hire one at ufo and yeah just that suspension i couldn't i couldn't buy this car with this suspension and even over bumps during the city the drive there it's just boom boom you know hard no the suspension on this car would definitely let it down big time in my opinion the steering is good it feels direct [Music] yeah the seat is comfortable driving position is good i've got decent knee room here as well that's okay i'm six foot two i've got plenty of headroom so and a noisy armrest okay but yeah we are yeah we haven't got too far to go now we pull in and then talk about more charging okay we're just pulling into the supermax plaza here in port leash now we could have pulled into junction 14 where they have four fast chargers but i decided not to do that so um i can see here there are two electric cars charging ahead of me so this is what you're going to encounter this is what i was talking about you come in and there's people ahead of you now i have no idea how long they're there i could i could go onto the esb app and it would give me an idea but um oh hang on a minute now look at this there's two people charging at the one charger now i'm curious to see how they're able to do that because i tried that before and it wouldn't work for me and sometimes it doesn't work where you're charging two cars at the same time so i'm just going to ask those people are they actually getting charged in both those cars at the same time because this is an issue with these chargers as well where um even though they have two cables ccs and type 2 you can't charge two cars at the same time but one of them is a nissan leaf so it could be charging on chademo there could be a chademo cable maybe i really like the reversing camera that's very good in this car okay with this one pulling out in his nissan leaf and the hyundai kona so these two cars were able to charge at the same time and the only reason for that is that he was charging in chattanooga and he was charging on ccs if he had chosen type 2 he wouldn't have been able to charge because there's something wrong with these chargers the way you can charge on type 2 and ccs at the same time so yeah just another problem you will encounter when you buy an electric car and by the way the nissan leaf pulled in here as well and he couldn't use the chatimal because there seems to be some issue with it so i'm not sure what the issue is but he could not charge and yeah so we have ccs chademo and type 2. so yeah i'm going to charge this up now it doesn't give a percentage what's left in the battery pack it just shows you the amount of kilometers you have left to drive so in this case we have 288 now we arrived here at 289 kilometers and 85 kilometers to get down here we left at 415 kilometers that means it took 126 kilometers of range from the battery pack to drive 85 kilometers so that is a 41 kilometer discrepancy somebody's after leaving their their child seat here as well if you want the free child see that there's one important leash okay we need to open up the charge port so i need to press on that yeah okay let's uh i just want i'm just curious to see how quick it charges so um let's just get our card here and swipe it look that's that's only available look so this is what i'm talking about firsthand another problem with the charger like what is going on with the esb and these chargers so the guy in the nissan leaf told me there was a problem with this but i thought he was trying to use one of the other cables but now it seems that only ac is available so let me cancel that again and just click it again this is absolutely ridiculous here let's move over there and see can we charge this bloody thing okay so let's swipe here and we want ccs okay now there should be no issues at all with this one because the man in the corner was able to charge no problem and you see these electric cars will apparently have to keep this pressed in until there is a proper connection okay so okay swipe the card okay checking card come on come on is it going to work give us a green light give us a green light is it working you keep it pushed in huh come on oh oh oh oh oh this is going to go green come on it's flashing it's flashing but it's a charging oh we have contacts hallelujah and lights are still flashing for what i don't know okay we're 69 okay about five minutes later and the display is showing that we have 35 minutes to charge to fully charge so we found out why the child seat is left here a child got sick in it so they just dumped it here what the hell by the way i'm not responsible for any of the curbing here yeah all four wheels are curved as i said and i have photos taken and i put them on the app so if you're hiring one of these cars look for damage put it on the app report it just in case you're charged for it okay charging stopped we are at 416 kilometers so that took roughly half an hour just over half an hour to go from 69 up to 100 as i said already the charging that's the headache okay so the tesla seems to be charging an awful lot quicker than the honda e but then it is an awful lot more expensive than the honda e now let me just tell you a quick story with me and the honda e and which was almost the final nail in the coffin for me with electric cars so i pulled into that alone there's two fast chargers in athlone and one was occupied one was free i pulled into the free one and tried charging nothing was happening unplugged swiped card again nothing was happening so here we go another problem so i rang up the helpline and they said oh yes that charger needs a reboot i can do a remote reboot it'll take about five minutes and i'm there great hang on the five minutes and voila the charger starts to work again you know so this was 12 midday on a saturday that this happened and i asked her at the other end of the helpline when did the last person charge on that charger that was given the problems and she says oh yes it was thursday and that was it bye bye electric car so from thursday to saturday nobody thought to ring in and tell the esp there was a problem with the charger and even worse the esb didn't detect that there was a problem with the charger and do a remote reboot and the problem with this one is somebody gonna ring in and tell them about this one probably not so when somebody comes in to charge in ccs it's not gonna work they're stuck with ac 43 so yeah that is it kenneth but let me just tell you one thing if you are getting an electric car in 2022 best of luck and enjoy the headaches please don't buy a tesla they're okay but yeah the charging will wreck your head we're out here guys thank you very much for watching and i'll chat to you again very soon for another video take care gee [Music] kenneth open up the glove box there open the foot glove box no the glove box open it up there where is it yeah a glove box box no there's a glove box on the first side open it up there is it no today there that is the biggest load of book

Channel: Stavros969

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Length: 19min 6sec (1146 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 25 2021