Can an EV Electric Car Get to the Top of a Volcano? 3715m Above Sea Level!
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2023
- Can an EV Electric Car Get to the Top of a Volcano? 3715m Above Sea Level!
Lets find out as we take a Fiat 500 All Electric Car to Mount Teide in Tenerife. Can this little EV prove that an Electric Vehicle can be the future of motoring? What will the infrastructure be like in the Canary Islands and will their be enough charge to get to the top and back as there are some steep climbs and winding roads that will surely hammer the battery and lower the range on the way up.
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You've hit the nail right on the head. Everyone remembers covid where everybody was told, stay indoors etc. This is just another way for us all to be kept under control as the infrastructure just isn't there. Not forgetting how many people will actually be able to afford them?
People get scared too easily now Lee keep the fight up my friend and if we stick together they will have to listen in the end or a revolution might happen
No comparison apart from both measures will save lives..
Malkie, spot on on both counts👏👏
Affordability really depends on what one needs a car for as there are secondhand EVs on the market for as little as £5k if all you need is a car for the average daily commute. Used prices have fallen dramatically this year as availability has increased. Previously long waiting times on new EVs kept used values high, but post covid manufacturers have increased their production, with 7.2 million EVs being sold last year globally.
The Covid lockdowns were a blunt tool to reduce the spread of the disease, but due to the government's reluctance to impose them, they were longer and costlier than necessary. That reluctance possibly caused 20k-30k more lives as the disease was allowed to spread for 4 weeks unabated.
@@outcast-man Resistance is futile
Fantastic video. Such beautiful scenery which shows off Tenerife in all its it’s glory. Loved the EV element too. Thanks again Lee.
Blimey that went better than expected, great video lads but had to smile when the first charging point had a canopy over it and yet in the UK they all seem to be open to the elements - must be down to our better weather !!!!
I would imagine the cover is to keep the car cool rather than the rain off one's head while charging. Even in the UK, purpose built charging hubs do have canopies often covered in solar panels.
Probably your best EV vlog. Ironic that a charging station in Tenerife 🌞🌴 has a roof cover, unlike so many in the UK. 🌧️🌨️
I love you rants about EVs, but I also love to see when it all goes well and you can actually enjoy it 🙂 I can imagine that it's an awesome feeling that you can charge the car by just going downhill! 😀
Considering Tenerife is only 50 miles long, it would seem that an electric car is ideal if you can charge it overnight.
Hope EVs and public charging take off in Tenerife ,no noise no pollution great for their tourist industry.
We walked from hotel Columus to Lillie's and they were closed before 4pm. We did the walk earlier another day. Dan was offish and didn't want to know us. His wife was lovely but they'd run out of everything we asked for. My husband refuses to set foot in there again 😠
That's awful!!
The friction brakes do not add to the charge into the car. Only the regen system does that. The car motor acts as a generator. A fuel car does NOT add extra fuel into the car as an electric car does. Be better if your passenger understood the physics of an electric car.
Good evening Gentlemen. What a very Good road trip you made. What a Lovely little motor the Fiat 500 was. You did very Well reaching the foot of the very Gorgeous Mount Teidi. Brings back many Happy and Fun memories of my Friend and Myself travelling up Teidi in a Jeep Wrangler bright red and a Manual. Also we went up the cable car to almost the Summit of Teidi. The views from the Volcano were breathtaking. And then after that we came back down in the cable car and drove on to Pueto Del A Cruz. It was a Superb day out in a Jeep. Only costing us £ 50 pounds for the day, bargin. Glad You Gentlemen enjoy your road and deserved a Good pint of Alambra later on. A really Good High Quality movie to enjoy very much. Thank you very Lee and Dan. Jonathan.B. 😁😁😁😁😁😁💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great Vlog Lee I enjoyed that for lots of different reasons because the content was so varied 👍I need to get back there now looking at the breathtaking scenery !!! Take it easy.
Zero emissions from the car ... next to the Earth's third largest volcano! Nice irony.
I have a 2006 Peugeot 207 Sport diesel 1.6HDI and it can do 700 miles to a tank!
Breathtaking views Lee.
Been a long time since I went up Teide (not a euphemism of any sort 😁). Remember those cable cars well.
It’s notable how few electric vehicles there are in Tenerife, so much lovely old 90’s and early 00’s stuff still on the road there though. I guess cars last forever where the rust doesn’t get them.
Arthur's Seat here in Edinburgh is an extinct volcano.
Still stunning.
FYI.
Totally agree. Love Edinburgh, my hubby's from there. We try to go back up as often as we can, re tracing childhood memories. See ya again soon Auld Reekie 🥰
Wow,thank you Lee & Dan really appreciate & enjoyed this vlog to the famous volcano, love the above the car shots the scenery was lovely,we have not gone to the volcano when in Tenerife.😊
It's not the lava that you should worry about, it's the pyroclastic flow. You can't outrun that.
So long as the earth is round wide will never run out of oil it is naturally produced under our feet
Hello Lee, thanks for producing such an innovative CZcams. The 500 was originally designed as a basic, cheap auto for Italy's masses ... to get them moving after WW2. When this 500 reached the UK a couple of years ago it was priced around £20,000 ... but the price has risen considerably since then. Italy being a mountainous country I didn't expect this 500 to fail here ! Tell Dan that petrol engines can be just as responsive as electric power. Nothing sluggish with my Fiat 128 in the 1970s or Alfasud 1.5 (which had two twin-choke carbs) in the early 1980s. Sadly since then ever tighter emission controls have meant petrol engines have a more sluggish response nowadays.
Great stuff Lads 👍
Great video Lee,Dan is a natural as someone else has pointed out and some of the comments were brilliant and so true,really enjoyed watching.❤
Drove up there a few years back and was running out of petrol and could hardly see because we drove into low cloud. The language and stress level in that little car was off the scale. Seeing that petrol station was a godsend!
I drove up there and down years ago, I scrapped myself coming down, foot on brake non stop, looking over a sheer drop "me no likey"
I was glad to get back to our apartment. I hated it.
Keep up the vlogs Lee 👍👍
Petrol 500 starts from £16,790 in the UK, electric from £28,195. There is an Abarth version which is a limited edition which I can't find a price for. Found a US Fiat forum where users were discussing how quickly the batteries degrade and one was quoted US$17,000 to replace it.
at the moment just NOT the future
@@darrenwilson8042 You've got a point there, they might actually go up in price just like many other things, Electronics usually get cheaper over time but the last time I bought batteries they were higher priced than ever before, I don't claim to know how this will all end up, but one things for sure the General public usually gets the Shaft.
Great episode. Thanks! Scenery and EV banter enjoyable. As for using a Spanish EV charger, it's fun in the sun. But we notice that as in the UK the charger was only 50% operational - plug B was taking a break. Same old infrastructure issues ...
Beautiful travelogue beautiful island and scenery ,Thanks Mac 👍👍👍
Fab little car Lee ❤😊💎xx
Brilliant one yet again. Hope you're watching the world's best electric cars on Channel 5 now very interesting I still wouldn't have one keep up the good work
Great video.. thoroughly enjoyed 👍
Great vlog Lee, beautiful scenery on the trip. Good info for anyone brave enough to take an electric car up there!😊
Great video. We've just returned from Costa Adeje in Tenerife, and liked Teide so much that we went up the cable car on two separate days. The roads are brilliantly engineered and are a pleasure to drive on. A bit more of a challenge is the road to Masca. Narrow road with passing places and lots of hairpin bends. Now planning our next visit to the Canaries!😊
Lee, I really enjoyed this one. Even though it was longer than most, it was so interesting the time just flew by. It's strange for you to have a positive EV experience.
I do know what you're saying about control and I agree that the goal is to get a lot of people to switch to mass transit but you can see, if you live on this island, I think your EV experience would not be quite as painful as it is where you live in the UK.
A few things, I noticed in this video, leaving that sunroof shade open the whole time probably has effected the EV's battery range. Leaving the shade opened means the AC would have to work a little harder and that would have an impact on draining your battery, especially on a hot day.
I love that selfie stick thing you use while in the car. It's amazing how it disappears but you can still see its shadow.
Too bad you didn't go on a day when the cable car was operating. I think it would have been interesting if you had gone to the top in the cable car. Maybe you'll make that journey again and go to the top?
I am surprised you didn't realize that going down from the mountain would increase your range. Dan's description of what's happening when driving down the mountain is incorrect. A petrol or diesel car will be more efficient when going down vs. going up but unlike fossil fuel engines, they won't actually refill the tank like EV's recharge the batteries when going down or breaking. Passively, all fossil fuel burning cars will burn fuel while moving. EV's can actually recharge while moving. In this one example, EV's would be superior, at least for going down the mountain.
Look forward to the next one.
Loved this video, 'impartial as can be'! 😂 Dan's quite good on the camera to isn't he, maybe he should start his own channel about Tenerife Life. Great great stuff Lee, this is proper Macmaster!
So ev all good for a change great vid fantastic views 😊
Excellent video Lee really enjoyed the blog reminds me of my trip there not by car but by coach and not burnt out like the one in your video lol.
I live in Tenerife and the cabildo,the government of the island,it is puting many charging points around the island ,so in a few months,you can go electric all around around ,without problems,apart there are charging place in gasolineras so no worries
Super video guys. Loved it. And Dan... Eggy bread lol Yes please. Have a great season Dan. Different view on an EV.
If your prat mobile cannot negotiate a small kerb like that how do you cope with speed humps?
Bit of P38 & a couple of rattle cans of paint, that bus would look perfect 👌🤣
Really enjoyed the vlog Lee. 🥰🌞🥰xxx
Those roads look in suberb condition. Hint; carrry a couple of skateboards in the boot and skate back down in case the chargers don't work! Hah-hah!
Done that run many times now, but in a dirty diesel! 1st time we went it was 27° at the base and about 8° at the top of Mount Teide, not good when you're in shorts and flip flops ....
Lee loved it , you find a charger at base of teide but none working on the m1 etc 😂👍 good old uk
Wife has a 500e, she loves it
cool video, i think the fiat would be a decent run around for an island like tenerife
Your mates got one of those smiles I can't resist Lee... best keep him at bay or I'll be having palpitations 😅 all the best x
Best of both worlds, Tenerife and an EV vlog. Those Cheetos football are my favourite Spanish crips, they were 1 euro a bag and used to bring a few bags back with me. Can get them over here now, I've seen them in a few shops.👍
Lee I think long distance driving will be a thing of the past with these electric cars
Another top video mate scenery stunning mate and drive up looked amazing
I did that drive in 1981 in a VW Beetle Beach Buggy. Driving through the clouds was very cold.
Looks like a great little car to be fair. Didn't understand why 49% with 53 mile left that's not very good. Cracking vlog guys enjoyed it 👍 weather looks great too 👌
The car's guess-o-meter would have calculated the remaining range on the journey up the volcano. Normally, 49% would be more like 75 miles.
Brilliant vlog with Duncan ( chase me ) norvelle. Sorry Dan. 😂😂😂. You need your channel your a natural pal. Great vlog
Someone needs to invent thin solar panels to power cars in places like Tenerife
Wasn't expecting that but really nice vlog!
Nice One Guys 👍.
The other thing you forgot to mention was the population per square kilometer. Refreshing to not see roads jammed up with traffic nose to tail. Like the poor sardines living in the grossly overpopulated UK ...🤔😳😏😏😏🇬🇧
The UK isn't overpopulated, but our roads are very congested, especially in cities. Apparently, the average UK driver spends 115 hours a year sitting in traffic, and in London, it can be quicker to walk than drive.
@@FullFact548 We are long past full....If you think otherwise you're either stupid or in denial...🤔😳😳🙄🇬🇧
You went to Mount tedi late in the evening when everyone was gone home i,f you went at tourist peak time ,would the charging points be free?
Look at the state of those roads!!
I feel like an extinct volcano....not had an eruption for years.
Looking forward to this one. Keep them coming Lee.
Isn't it a dormant volcano?
Family Channel!!
No wonder there's no elec cars charging up with no drop kerb ,,cracking vid ,cracking weather ☀️☀️
That was an awesome trip, I gotta say Dan is great in your video's, The car was cool, small cars are always fun to drive,
I can appreciate what Dan was saying about an instant response as you hit curves up and down in an EV versus the same car with a manual transmission, I can see how this works well on a small island like Tenerife but for me personally its a no go because its too inconveinent and too expensive to buy .
I really enjoyed the drive and the views, the roads look in good condition and Tenerife in general looks so clean.
Mighty good Craic 👍 🌍❤️☘️
In Ireland, a hybrid fiat 500 would cost €22.000 and the electric version would cost €40.000
Informative. But how many hours did you spend behind the steering wheel, compared to your co-driver?
Great vlog you and your apprentice did a great job
I enjoyed watching 😂
You didn’t need to charge the car as you had 98 miles remaining at the garage and it was nowhere near 98 miles on the return trip.
Bravo! At last, a positive EV video from the MacMaster. But, OMG, that was painful to watch! Whilst charging while you go off and do something else is sound practice, the car would have easily made it back without paying for a charge. I understand now why Lee has such problems here in the UK now! 😂😂😂😂 Beautiful scenery though..
Yes very positive, everybody just get the Fiat 500 Abarth, and have some fun!!! Good advice is priceless....
Great video with Dan. He's a natural, but he is from Mansfield after all. Anyway, I've been & gone & done it!! Ordered a hybrid today, only half way there 😂 but won't get range anxiety at least! We'll still beat ya to Scotland 😂
A couple of things I take from this. It looks like most European countries are already more prepared for ev charging points, even in the most obscure places. The other is that Fiat make the best small cars, ice and electric as it turns out. I can vouch for their ice after discovering and buying an old 57 plate Panda 100hp. But I agree it would be nice to have choice and not be worried about being priced out of driving in the near future with the way the British government is going
I have been quite intrigued with this video boys, because I live on the next island of La Palma. As this island is smaller than Tenerife, though much steeper, the dreaded EVs might actually work here.
Tazacorte, the town where I live, has just installed a couple of charging points by the town hall and there is another down in the Puerto to my certain knowledge.
I went to the Gran Telescopio de Canaries (GRANTECAN) last month on the Roque de Los Muchachos, the highest point on the island. The support vehicles were EVs and they had chargers for them there.
In Sept last year 2022 I bought a Mild Hybrid 500 Dolcevita plus for 18000. In June this year I bit the bullet and exchanged it for a 500e RED for 32000 - love it by the way
Battery degradation is not really an issue except in the old Nissan Leaf with no thermal management. Tesla have records and it loses about 10%-12% after 300,000km (under 200k miles).
That looks a pretty good ev great vlog lee
Does your Taycan regen on braking or deceleration because you never mention it
Good vlog that Lee
It was in the Canarian Weekly a few days ago about the bus. It was a bus full of tourists that caught fire Fortunately no one was hurt
Come along guys! Going downhill will always add range as then car will be constantly braking using the regenerative brakes. So, you only need the car range for going uphill.
😊😊😊😊 OMG what a great vlog thanks Lee😊😊Now I have to edit my comment A CHARGING POINT>. HORAYYYY
Lee, "range" is the distance you can physically push it before you fall over
Always wary of hiring a car. Gotta be careful with any damage that might've been there before.
I’m totally convinced that you are an EV convert ! Go on admit it you love em. What will your next car be after the Porsche ?
I agree. I don't think he can be parted from his electric car even though it gives him nothing but grief! Bit like having a temperamental girlfriend!
Give me a planet killer Diesel any day of the week 👍
87kW 42kWh 3dr Auto £27,552 Fiat 500 Electric
Thought Dan was brilliant such a nice guy.
It’s been a interesting drive in the electric fiat 500 great scenery too
As a happy pedestrian, i don't care EV's,Petrol,Diesel. Just get me from A 2 B.Some breathtaking views , enough to make the journey worthwhile ,but why not make the final push to the summit and show us the volcano. Yes i mean walk to the top,the peak and 'Av a butchers, and i speak as one of great "why should i bother??"team. Feet up watch the videos,the vlogs,read about it in books,all with a cup of tea or something else to hand a 🍸 😊. Ah,but Lee you and your chums let me see the sights and dream without the sweat. How very civilised. So mucho grass c arsenalcheers 1:07:46
😊😊😊😊 This will be very interesting so let’s go😊😊😊😊😊
Interesting Vlog
Hi again if it was busy the charging points would probably be taken and a queue depending on your timing 🤔🙄😕😁👌❤
Hubby and i went up to the teide...it was amazing....said to hubby about the charge point...maybe take it out and try the other LOL and then the other guy says exactly the same just after i had said it LOL
Nice vid , Dan would make a great CZcamsr
I live in Tenerife and have a 10 year old Nissan Leaf with 24kw battery. It has done 85000km and the battery has degraded to 85%, but it still gives me around 100km on a full battery and I can easily get around the whole island with a stop or two. You wouldn't have been charged at the cable car as almost all the street/car park chargers are free, a few in the popular tourist areas charge something like €2 for an hours charge, which gives 7kw per hour so not expensive. The free street chargers (and also most supermarkets) charge between 3 and 7kw per hour - the 8 at Leyroy Merlin in the south are free to use and give 11kw per hour - and most of the free chargers don't have a time limit so you can park and leave car all day. There are a lot of charging points around - my app shows almost 200 locations in Tenerife - and some of those locations have up to 8 charging points. There are a lot more new points appearing all the time. There are also quite a few 50kw fast chargers around, and a 60kw charger on the TF1 near exit 16 - but those can charge anything from €0.21 to €0.45 per kw. Have a look at the Electromaps app - that one shows them all.
Plenty of hills when you move to the peak district
High Lee Great vlog I commented yesterday and the comment disappeared? Oh well looked like a great experience take care
Odd, not removed anything unless it’s a link which CZcams don’t allow.
05:15 so much for the family channel 😂😂
As for the lava waiting....I live a few kilometres from Tajogaite, the volcano that erupted here on La Palma. I assure you, you do not want to get in the way of the lava!
Your experience with the charger is typical for any charger type that you haven't yet used. It's always a bit of a twat! 😂 I usually succeed in the end but the air does go a bit blue while I'm working it out. 🤣
Great video again Lee. I think I will rent a petrol car next year 😜
Hi Lee. Great vlog by you and Dan. Thank you both. Quck question, all your EV vlogs ive noticed that youve paid by card or phone. Are there any options to pay with cash like normal petrol stations? Ive nothing against card or phone payments but i like to think there's the cash option available too. Or is this yet another step towards a cashless society?