Are you busy right now I wanted to bring something important to your attention regarding the latest Non Tesla adaptor updates for your Chevy Bolt and others to beging charging at Tesla Supercharing stations Version 3: I need to know if in your opinion right now, only the later Chevy Bolt verion's like the 2022 model line are going to be compatible?

I’m about to get one Wednesday. Is it a good choice?

For the most part, except in a pinch, Tesla owners have no reason to use anything but the supercharger network. They have much better coverage and locations, and their price to charge is much lower. Many public chargers charge 2x to 3x the rate that Tesla superchargers do. (Tesla owner with both a 2018 model 3 lr awd, and a 2020 model x which just returned from a trip from our home in SE PA, to Pahrump NV and back all on tesla superchargers while towing a camper trailer). Funny we just got a ccs upgrade to our model x upon our return anyway, and the mobile tech was trying to talk me out of it saying we will probably never use it as another upgrading owner never had to use ccs and that was the only other upgrading owner he new of. I told him thatI do prefer to be prepared and have it even if we may never use it, but what he said speaks volumes.

Hopefully useful feedback: You kind of glossed over the "little divet" to release the J-clip. I could hardly see what you did. May be closeup?

Question; I've heard Tesla's can do tow charging. Can the bolt/volt do that? Another Question can you run your AC while connected /charging at a charger?

I never thought of this scenario, are there any road side service for on-the-spot emergency EV charging?

Ive got a 2017 bolt with a battery replacement in dec 2021. Torque Pro says I have 60.3 kwhr on it fwiw.

Thanks for the content! Condolences.

Over 1000 miles in a day is rough for any single driver regardless of the brand or method of propulsion.

Forgot why I stopped watching your channel bud I used to love your content but then you went a little nutty being against Tesla so much I think we should all be be happy all charging networks are opening up to everyone but for whatever reason you keep throwing in that low jab in every video about how Tesla this and Tesla that very annoying I hope that when they Tesla eventually opens up you keep to your word and don’t use them at all but I am sure that’s not gonna happen because we all know we need them

I don’t think it would be wise to own this particular Chevy product out of warranty. if I owned one, I would be getting rid of it before that was up if I could afford that. I do wonder how these will hold up overtime Chevys reputation has kind of gone in the toilet in my opinion.

Looking forward to some more road trips! I enjoy the road shots of passing through different landscapes.

Thanks!

I think all EV owners would agree that DCFC providers really need to up their game. The demand is completely overwhelming the supply.

God said in revelation 21:21 to Pave the streets with permanently sympathetic magnets to the fermie cells of the earth sun galaxies magnetospheres and put gold coils underneath cars trains to mitigate climate change by siphoning of Earth's increasing double torus magnetosphere due to the mystery of the 7 star crossings in one rotation of the galactic bulge Jesus held in his hand.

IMO there's little reason to not keep the A/C on when charging Bolt via DCFC. Unless you're on one of those ~25kW chargers you're not going to be slowing your charge by using more power due to the Bolt's charging rate & curve. I guess technically on a 50kW charger under ideal conditions you might slow your charge by a very small amount for the first few minutes of the charging session. Slightly off-topic but would you like to know my theory as to why GM vehicles still can't use SuperChargers (other than the handful of Magic Dock sites)? IMO the poorly trained monkey that develop the steaming pile of excrement that is the My Chevrolet (or My Whatever) app can't figure out how to make the authentication and activation system work, so GM is holding up the entire process until they cobble something together (that won't work reliably). I surely hope when we're finally able to use SuperChargers that we'll be able to use the Tesla app to activate them because if we're required to use the My Chevrolet app I very much doubt it will be reliable enough that we could count on being able to charge at a SuperCharger.

Welcome back... BigBarney

How did I miss this video

Yaa there is chaademo still on that evgo

Yaaaaa a new video.finally something good to watch

That should tell you people have no respect really sad to see

Welcome back, thank you for your post. Condolences for your loss, look forward to your next video. Hope that the charge point won't get that site running in a reliable fashion. I have a friend that lives pretty near there. I'll have to check in with them and see if it's a site that they have used and if they have seen it to be regular or not. They went from a Subaru outback to a review R1S earlier this spring. I need to check in with him and see how it's going.

Express plus needed to ramp up at all cost…4 sure. It a great charger… we need them everywhere. And their app map needs the ability to filter and search the express plus units exclusively

Hello Sir, do you inflate your tire up to 47psi? Door frame says 38psi though. Please explain your thoughts here.

Hello Sir, what should be the tire pressure? Door frame says 38psi. But seems you prefer it higher?

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Eric - regarding the broken Redding Turtle Bay Chargepoint dispensers impacted by the Rivian. I know people at REU and talked to Redding Electric Utility's EV charger coordinator. He blames Chargepoint and their electrical sub for a botched repair and then abandonment. He said the sub that showed up didn't seem to know much about electric chargers, and came prepared to replace two dispensers and repair the conductors to one dispenser, but found out the impact had disrupted the conductors connected to the second one, too. He left and no one from Chargepoint has ever returned. REU's staff sings nothing but praises for Tesla's teams that coordinate installation + do on-site servicing. Organized, efficient, prompt, professional. Explains the rapid installation of the 44-V3 dispensers at the Holiday Inn on Hilltop just across I-5 from Turtle Bay.

Different world up there, I guess, when you see how much infrastructure is between Sacramento and LA. This sort of reminds me of the Portland, ME to the mid-Atlantic situation. We take for granted that there will always be an option on I-95, but if you're heading to northern Maine/Canada, that EVgo membership and ChargePoint app is going to be a lot more useful than an Electrify America plan.

Long time EV enthusiast but first time owner (since Jan). Bought a 2019 Bolt with the replaced battery. I’m surprised the number of (non-Tesla) EV owners that don’t know about PlugShare or ABRP. I stopped at an EA and chatted with another Bolt owner who has had her car for 3 years and was getting ready to trade for a PHEV because she hated how long it took to charge to 80% on DCFC. I recommended instead she look at an EGMP car if she road trips a lot but seriously consider ABRP. I rarely charge my Bolt past 60% on road trips because that’s usually enough to make it to the next charger with about 10%. I’ve been following your vids on and off for a while so I know you’ve had GOM issues since having the battery replaced. Personally I have put 10k miles on my Bolt in 7 months driving all across the western US (even through Yellowstone!) and haven’t had an issue. I’ve had it at 100% and “Propulsion Power Reduced” but never had that sharp drop off like you experienced here. I wonder if the dealer didn’t update the software on your car? Or maybe there is some underlying difference between the 2017 and 2019. I have noticed my car must have a fairly large top buffer because even at 100% SOC I can still get about 15 kW of regen but when it hits population reduced it’s practically dead. Also just curious: when the 2017s and 2018s got their batteries replaced, did GM also swap hilltop reserve for target charge level? I never found out.

Is this really a worst case? Maybe just call a cab?

Are you going to be able to use the Tesla chargers via the NACS standard adaptions? I remain happy for having chosen to overlook Elons nonsense.

Hopefully your battery doesn't have a bad cell in it.

I'm surprised you don't know this being such a veteran Bolt driver (at least didn't appear to when looking at the DIC) but the way the battery bars are displayed on the Bolt, each "bar segment" is worth 5% and the Bolt "rounds up" to the nearest 5%. As soon as it "ticks down" to a given number of bars, the battery is at exactly 5% * the number of remaining bars and will remain that way for the next 5% of the battery (visually "over-estimating" remaining percentage slightly). You were showing three bars when you pulled in to charge, which meant you were somewhere between 10% and 15% when you plugged in. The Chargepoint display corroborated this when it reported 14% once the handshake completed. The only ways to get an accurate read (closer than 5%) on the battery when _not_ plugged into a DC fast charger (that I know of) are to use an OBD reader to pull the percentage or to query it via the mobile app (if you still have an active plan).

Thanks for posting that Eric.❤

Eric, I’ve been watching and learning from you for years. Thank you for the lesson in humanity. I knew I could trust you before but now it reinforces that instinct even more strongly. ❤️

Hi Eric, I was at that Black Bear in Willows almost 2 weeks ago, and Nixon wasn't working, so I called it in, but there was a car plugged into the other charger, not charging at all, so I was forced to go to the Berry Patch restaurant in Orland. Anyway, I'm glad EVgo fixed Nixon. Hope your cat is ok.

I have a 5KW generator and spare propane tanks to provide emergency electricity.

I hope your cat is recovering well. Thank you for the videos!

Thanks Eric, excellent video. Sorry for your loss.

Eric, glad your cat was able to receive the medical attention needed during a crisis. Hope things continue to improve. As far as the EVgo site near a future PFJ, I saw in Knoxville, TN the last Leaf era station close only a few months before the PFJ project opened two in the vicinity. There may be some non-compete clause. I do not know for sure, but I do not think you will see both PFJ and the older EVgo station get ReNew attention. Thx for the video. I enjoyed watching.

I’m curious- in a situation like you saw with your Bolt, would a full charge on slow charging help calibrate things or would you need to drain the battery low to get improved estimates?

180000 on your Bolt nice , how is holding up, have you changed break pads yet ,

Eric, the low output power on the ChargePoint charger you observed may very well be due to hot weather: I ran into a similar situation in 29 Palms, CA. It was mid morning and the ambient temperature was already about 100F, but I couldn't get more than about 18-20kW out of the charger. Yet, I have been there in the afternoon on hotter days and have been able to get the full 55kW (for my Bolt). The culprit I believe is that the charger is on the east side of a building and the hose gets full sunlight all morning (and gets too hot to touch). In the afternoon it's in shade. That spooks the charger controller into derating the power. Or, maybe it's something else entirely...

I have a bolt. I live in an apartment without L2 access so i only DCFC right now. Take time to get familiar with the infrastructure in your area. Give up the L2 for a month and go out and rely on the fast chargers. This will build your knowledge, familiarity and confidence in the network. You'll know where to go, when to go and best of all where not to go.

Hope to see you at an EV Advocates of Ventura County meeting in the future.

Even if not an emergency, I simply do not have time to deal with outages like that. We have a model 3 with chargers everywhere here but if that wasn't the case I would have to pass on EV for now. Should improve (I hope).

Eric, at 9:35. You say those batteries are for battery back up. I was wondering if you know that to be the case. I would assume they are purely for Peak shaving and if the site lost power, those chargers would not be operational. Having it due actual battery back up can be substantially more Electronics and high power inverters. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great thing to keep their costs in check and not create excessive load on the grid.

Sorry for your loss.

Condolences for your loss. Take care.