Florida Keys In My Rivian Without Planning - Not Recommended
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- One of my main reasons for going to Florida in my Rivian R1T was to go to the Keys and be able to say I've been to the Southernmost Point in the continental US... I did that, but not a whole lot else, during my day trip down. Watch to find out why I wouldn't recommend this.
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It’s not a road trip unless you get the drink!
Trenta strawberry açaí, everyone knows the rules
If you'd gotten off the main road & driven around Big Pine Key, you'd see the famous "Key Deer" - they're a geographically isolated deer population; tiny, adorable & nearly tame. Great experience to offset the STRESS of having an EV!
The EV part wasn’t stressful to me - though it certainly could be to others. My “stress” was because I definitely didn’t plan enough time to properly enjoy the visit.
Lol come on the EV part is the fun part! This truck is great!
I did this trip in my Ioniq 5. It was pretty easy, Top off at the Electrify America in Key Largo for the trip down. The speed limit is 45 much of the way, so our efficiency was crazy high. The return trip was a top up at the Electrify America in Key West. Easy Peasy. Lots of Chickens around the Key Largo chargers.
I live in the South Florida area. My wife and I just did this in our Tesla Model S. Let's just say the charging in in Key west isnt there either for Tesla's yet either. Also stopped at Florida City and then went down. It's a nice drive and really am adventure with an EV.. lol. That supercharger on Big Pine Key has small deer that walk around right on the street there behind Winn-Dixie. They'll walk right up to you if you're still enough. It seems like Electrify America never works... Sad
Just FYI - if you use the Bonvoy app by Marriott - you can search for hotels using the Filter for hotels with EV charging. And can search along a travel route. Super easy.
Still need to look at PlugShare to see what kind it is and the Bonvoy pricing isn’t great compared to Priceline
Ah, the “charms” of South Florida! If you’re still down here in Florida, you might want to check out 7-11’s new DCFCs (branded as “7Charge”). There are several in the Tampa Bay area, as well as in Melbourne.
Yes and they have failed me every time I have used them and 7-11 does not know how to handle refunds efficiently.
@@FoamyDave Well that sucks. Thanks for the heads up.
I appreciate how you show the SC stations too. It really speaks volumes to see an 8 or 12 stall SC with all units empty or all units working properly in stark comparison to 4 CCS units with some broken, some with a line, etc. It shows fast charging can be done right.
Thanks for making that journey. Now I know I have no need to drive to Key West. :)
I mostly did it to check the box 🤷♂️ seems like it could be a cool place if you have a week during a less busy season and don’t care about spending $300-500/night for a decent hotel.
My hope is that you rated the various dispensers on Plug Share and Rate Your Charge. Thanks for the video!
That was fun Brandon. If the hotels are anything like when I was a kid, you didn’t miss anything. Glad you were able to make the trip. EA has to step it up.
All the hotels seemed really mediocre. If I could’ve gotten something nice for ~$300 that would’ve been worth it to me
@@brandenflasch Yea hotels are expensive on KW.
I’m planning a road trip from MN to Key West this April in my R1S. My wife will fly into Fort Lauderdale where I’ll pick her up and we’ll continue the trip from there. So I appreciate you scouting the lay of the land ahead for me :-). Hotels are stupid expensive and they have poor reviews. I honestly would have preferred to car camp down there, but the wife would have none of that😂.
Agreed! Best of luck with your travels and hopefully it goes better than mine did.
I tried a ChargePoint chargers over night and got charged over $35 and car was not even empty. Those things are a huge ripe off.
With Chargepoint units, the site host determines the price, not Chargepoint. Every unit is priced separately. This one was free.
When has any EA site ever had 100% functionality
Your title was very misleading. Everything seemed to work out just fine for the usual EV roadtrip.
Misleading? No.
You should come back to Islamorada with Kalie and stay at the Cheecha Lodge. It's expensive but worth it for an anniversary or other special occasion.
6:38 I saw a high clearance SUV with Lithuanian plates a few days ago in Silver City, NM. That's a long way from home.
9:56 Thanks for saying Quebec the correct way! Few people outside of Canada pronounce it correctly.
10:20 That's called a seagull intersection; also known as a turbo-T in Florida.
11:25 I don't think the EV6 owner needed to call EA customer support, all they had to do was unplug the Polestar. I guess they were afraid of doing that, even though it would be justified since the Polestar finished charging.
27:06 That charger should be fully functional. Try to activate in the app. The terminal screen on the dispenser says that it is just set to "log to screen off." So the screen is turned off but the unit should work.
31:52 Both cables should work, I think someone put the cable up there because the holster was broken. Like I said before, those ABB Terra units have some of the worst cable holsters that break easily.
6:40 wow what a machine! It has the unimog vibe but the chassis looks more like an on road commercial truck. I remember my brush with unimog ownership and those wheels and tires must have been 3 feet high. Big puppies. And that was a spec for sale used in Colorado about 1993. I bought a Toyota pickup for the same price. Way more practical and made several cross country trips in that thing, something no unimog can do since they have about a 50 mph top speed apparently.
Someone commented on Twitter that it’s likely a former fire truck
@@brandenflasch oh that makes sense. Old ambulances and small fire trucks have a lot of the nice bits you’d want in an RV/van life type of vehicle.
Sweet trip, the best plans are no plans... awsome vid. Arigato
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to see charging curve on that rwd and more stats from your trip. Just one think - buy an external mic 🫶 Tak care man!
Thanks for taking us along!
Seems EA makes zero effort having their chargers functional. Unless the cars are ID4s don’t they miss out on profitable revenue? Seem to be run like a non profit. Or are non Tesla EVs still exotic in Florida? If they apply for federal funding getting existing truly up at least 80% should be one requirement before any payment done. But I bet the government will pay for plan and not execution.
Funny you mentioned it seems like you’re in SoCal but not really and it’s very disorienting. I came from SoCal and now in SoFlo and I’m disoriented by the horrid drivers daily!
EVs seem really fun but it just doesn't seem like the infrastructure is there if you're not living in a large city
Been to Key Largo several times and always been a great stop. Sad to see the condition it has evolved to.
Thanks
So even with all the problems of broken EA chargers, the bigger issue was finding a hotel with vacancy during a holiday.
1:27 points at EA charger near my house. Pretty rough? What?
any reason why you never show driver+ on the vlogs? I would like to know your thoughts on it.
There isn’t a whole lot to show.. it works well 🤷♂️ I used it probably 80% of the miles of the whole NC FL trip when possible. Wish it worked outside only mapped roads.
$20 for a single crowler of beer is just offensive...
It truly is… I sincerely hope my shock at the price showed on my face.
And i thought that the beer at the Oktoberfest is overpriced :D
I feel like that chademo is broken more times than not. Plugshare history there is interesting.
I enjoyed it..
Brandon I’m curious if you find EA best to activate payment by swiping right in the app on the right charger or what is my go to method, and that’s opening my phone’s virtual wallet and holding it up to the NFC reader? I say it’s my go to method and it wasn’t always that way but lately I realized two things about using the phone wallet. First it might take 3 to 4 seconds before it’s read and you hear a beep from the charger’s NFC reader to confirm it was read. And Second, before I became educated I was trying that virtual phone wallet against the credit card reader. And maybe that’s fine if you actually want to bypass your EA account and pay with a real credit card. But it always bugs and says “card not accepted” if it’s the EW virtual card there where as next to the grey and black hand with the waves symbol that’s where I get the hood beep and 95+% of the time this starts the charge for me.
I used to use swipe to start almost exclusively but that’s been super unreliable lately so I switched to Apple wallet card activate and that seems at least consistent
I guess you would hate a major city then, when I lived in San Francisco in the early 80s the crappy Holiday Inn was 350 a night. Hahahaha
Major cities are highly variable for hotel pricing - some are cheap, some are nuts.
@@brandenflasch really depends. If things are cheap it’s for a reason. Mostly that nobody wants to be there. LOL
@bradg7373 not necessarily. For example, Charlotte has very reasonable hotels
@@brandenflasch london, paris, ny…charlotte? Hahaha. Hope you had a good time anyway
Great vid
Rivian has a useful navagation app.
So how was the beer?
Good, but overpriced
It’s pronounced “Door Al” Doral.
Could you do a video of a rivian n 3 feet of water, as rivian states that this s doable? Also, how fast can you drive in that much water? For how long? Can you charge n 36 inches of standing water? Would you?? Will the charger function in 3 feet of H2O? All good questions I want answered!
There are quite a few videos online showing rivian going through water
Looks like a cruise ship is in town
Dope ride!
Come say hi on the way back up!
How long were you actually in Key West? Definitely a fun, but long, drive.
Probably an hour
$20 Beer 😮
Right?!
Let’s face it 99% of persons on the EA customer support line probably can’t afford an EV.
Unfortunately probably true. They still do a really good job.
So rather than enjoying one of the most beautiful parts of the country you go visit a bunch of chargers that you don't even need? What am I missing here?
Not everyone enjoys things the same way
too annoying!