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Nice that your DJI mic also got the holiday update 🙂

You could be the longest owner of a Chevy Bolt in history. How many total miles are you up to now? And how long have you owned it?

I can do 18 of my Greater Boston shopping trips before passing the miles of one of yours... good way to demonstrate why range still matters for drivers in many parts of the country. Thanks for taking us on a retail road trip!⚡🛒

EVgo putting all Delta 350s at the Chico site rather than their usual mix of 350kW and 100kW stations is an interesting choice. Love watching these, great video!

I used to own a business in Chico 20 years ago. Saw that evgo site go up and thinking that was a good improvement to the city’s infrastructure. Then to suddenly see it disappear.

Huge thank you for your video, I ordered an adapter to use 240v from my garage and it works like a charm with the 2017 Chevy Bolt charger, enjoying the faster charge times because of you.

Sold my Bolt in 2022, forgot about this channel, moved to tesla community but today accidentally remembered it and found that you're still doing best thing ever - enlightening Bolt owners with new tricks. So long! Thank you one more time being my first EV inspiring mentor 😊

Shop around for tire pressure sensors. I just replaced a detective unit in my 2019 Bolt. In South Georgia the prices were as low as $74. each Installed to $120 each installed. Parts store offered a set of four for $155. to install myself. But you need tp go to a shop to program them to your car.

Owning a Bolt I can say everyone speaks of less to maintain, but from my testing just maintaining the battery temps year round will run approx 600 dollars, Compared to the Ice Focus it replaced, the Focus used about 680 dollars last year total in gas for me. Will see but have a feeling after I run this car a year the combined charging will put it well above my costs to run that Focus on a yearly basis.....so not as efficient for me and my driving habits. I like the Bolt, but reality is, it will not save me money.

Used my CCS to NACS adapter for the first time on a trip from Houston to Dallas in November. The Tesla supercharger site was at a Buc-ees. I just wish Chevrolet would develop a decent EV app. On a 250-300 mile trip, I usually make a 30-40 min stop to eat and charge. The lunch stop would be the same length in a gas car.

This Loomis Costco sites now has Costco branding on the chargers. They were not present in late October. this is similar to the New Costco Pleasanton that also recently have EA chargers.

I totally agree, I drove over 50k miles this year. All across the US. I watch people doing stops on long road trips. Everyone is taking their time. No one jumps out of the gars, fills up and goes right back on the road to drive another 3 hours. Everyone I see is relaxed and in a way actually doing everying slowly to extend their stop. My Model Y is almost always faster than I can do anything. On regalar road trips, my ratio of driving vs charging is 8.7 : 1. Ans there are EVs that charge faster than mine. As of today (late 2024) EVs get you from A to B just as fast and convenient as a gas car because they align with human behavior when it comes to comfort. Honestly, the only ones that make the theoretical argument that 'I can gas up in 5 min and drive another 500' are hard core EV haters in online discussions. Has nothing to do with reality.

V4 should have the adapter built in

that ct ruined your video....

Eric, At 18:20 you discussed the charging rate at BP pulse. It had a base rate of $.40/kWh and then variable rates on top of that between $.15 and $1.50. That is highway robbery. Up to $1.90/kWh 😮 I believe those cables are also limited to 200 A so I think a 400 V car would max out around 85 kW on those 150 kW stations. The only way you’ll see 150 is on an 800 V range vehicle.

Here I thought maybe you were picking up a new Equinox!

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I dont know if we neeed 5 minute charging, but there are plenty of times where I'm just going in to pee and pick up new snacks. So like all of 5-8 minutes. For actual food breaks, yeah, the 20 minutes it takes me to get from 10-75% is no big deal. I've done several cross country trips in my model 3 and I'd say half the charging stops I wish they were faster as I don't need to really do anything but be driving. As you said a car with longer range could help with that. If I could refill 400mi in ~30 minutes that would be great. Even on the freeway after 3-400mi I'm ready for a half hour break no matter what.

Great video. I know you are good at what you do because I live in Georgia yet I watch to see what’s opening in CA! I agree to a point that too much is made of the Bolt’s slow charging but it is still much slower than other EVs and gas vehicles for very long distance trips. I just drove from Atlanta to NY and back and while I agree that most of my stops were barely long enough for me to use the bathroom and get food, I had to stop way more often compared to a gas car especially. I’ve made the trip many times in a gas car in around 15 hours and it took more like 21 in my Bolt. The difference is while the stops are about the same length, I have to make way more of them in my EV. In my Volt, I could do the trip with 3 gas stops but I need 6-8 charging stops in my Bolt. I am not saying that to complain. I really the slower pace. I found that I’d get nervous about making long stops in my gas/hybrid car as if someone is timing me where in the Bolt I fully embrace the slow pace and enjoy the time spent reading or watching TH-cam channels like yours.

Good thing about that site is that if the arco side gets iced, just use the habit side 😉

184k miles! I just rolled my 2017 up to 102k. you're the mileage leader! Mine's cleaner than yours though... ;-))

Broadly agree on not chasing gas fill up times, with the minor caveat that I wouldn't want manufacturers to tap out on improving the technology. I rarely need our Ioniq 5 to be ready in 10-15 minutes, for example, but it's nice to have the option of a quick stop when a station location is unappealing or it just aligns with a natural bio break. But yes, the five minute fill up should be de-emphasized as a target for EV parity. Always love the seasonal road trip vids from your region. If you go on another tree procurement run this year with the little guy, be sure to bring us along!

I always point out that people are always conflating the 5 minute gas station stop (like on the way home from work) with the road trip gas station stop. These are two very different refueling experiences and don’t really overlap. If people actually spent 5 minutes gassing up on a road trip, then places like Sheetz, WaWa, Buc-ee’s, etc wouldn’t exist. Entire businesses have been built around people spending 15-30 mins refueling their cars on a road trip.

That ElectricEra site in Williams will probably just magically appear overnight. They had that Costco station in Ridgefield, WA just suddenly appear on plugshare. It wouldn't surprise me if Williams or elsewhere pulled the same trick.

Use Kw for for charging and Kwh for storage?...They are not interchangeable.... Why use amps at all? ...Many cars have no way to get voltage anyway... Especially when cars are at different voltages...200a at ~800v is not equal to 200a at ~400v...

Did 3000 miles over the Thanksgiving week. Checked a couple Flying J locations, but did not see any activity. They did fill in several gaps in the routes starting from southeast Michigan. I think something like the Lucid is great as it will let you pick your stop, then you can stop long enough to do it again. Once you have enough speed that you don't have to wait an hour to charge, you need enough range to spread out the charges.

Please keep the channel going. I've gain so many insights on the Bolt and charging over the years. Always appreciate seeing equipment and cpo layouts before they come to my part of the Midwest

I ❤ your chill vibe. I think once people new to EVs get used to thinking about charging on a trip as something your car does while you're taking care of your own needs vs something you do THEN go take care of your needs....well then they'll likely find it easy to chill out too 🙂

Eric, you must have bad taste driving a Bolt EV with 55 kw 3 minutes max charge rate. Hahaha 😆. I, too, have a Bolt EV Premiere and a Tesla Model Y and will be test driving a Cybertruck this week. I'm just kidding. The more ev's of all kinds are great.😊

200 bucks for 4 sensors here in michigan at a mom and pop shop . My cruz tire sensor batteries are going bad right now because of the winter temps plus they are 8 years old.😮

Those scouting trips that come up empty make the scores that much more of a thrill, ImHO. Cool BP stations. New charger smell. Hummmm. Thx for the video. I enjoyed watching

You went to Mel’s Diner and were greeted with “kiss my grits”! Yet another entertaining and informative episode, Eric-thank you.

I was quite thankful for your video from last week. We drove from AZ to WA state this past weekend in our VW ID.4. It was good to know the new additions for northern CA. Since we still get 30 minutes free from EA, we try to stick with those chargers. That means leaving very early in the mornings to get to the chargers first. Anderson, and Yreka EA stations were actually great, and not busy before 8:00am. One surprise on our trip this time was the chargers at 7 feathers in Canyonville Or. That saved us a lot of waiting time, because it was basically empty on Saturday mid day.

You make some very good comments on charging times Eric. Thanks for the video. ⚡⚡

Costco can replace that bad TPM sensor. They did my 2019 for about $45.

Can’t believe you’re still doing these videos in your bolt! Power On! 😊

Still bummed I didn't have time to jaunt a bit further down to northern California when I hit the West Coast this past summer. Looks like such a varied and scenic region...not that the Columbia River Gorge route wasn't also lovely, but there were no OG Bolt EV bros on that route 😁

This is so cool. Wouldn't mind having an electric Ranger

Thanks! Easily changed my wiper in 2 minutes. Valuable info.

I was under the impression only the 350 kWh chargers were 800v capable for CCS and the V4 for Tesla.

Eric, Another informative video! At the Pilot/GM station in Weed, does the auto charge function work via EVGO or ? Thanks, P.Q.

TPMS sensors do indeed have batteries in them but they are not replaceable. The entire sensor needs to be replaced.

At 24:25 I hope that was not a card skimmer, on the charger.

Thanks Eric. Your videos are few and far between but they pack in a lot of information about the evolving Northern California charging landscape.