Interview of e-Niro taxi driver
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nice interview taxi driver seems like a great guy 👍
+thinkabout He is indeed a great guy.
What a nice taxi driver! And cares about the environment, that is rare in his class of work! 👍
It's been hard to get an ev before now and it kinda sux about the 25%vat thing he said although most buy 2nd hand anyways
That's the best advertisement, straight talking from a taxi driver.
yep, I also experienced this when I ubered with my LEAF, people were very curious and asked questions pretty much on every ride, I changed many more minds than I normally would
I like how this guy wasn't a Tesla or Mercedes fanboi.
Good job Uncle Bjørn as always ! :)
That waiting time the driver mentioned is called "deadhead" time. It's a major factor in planning transit routes and systems. Planners have to minimize deadheading to maximize the revenue generating time. With EVs, the drivers/bosses/investors still lose money while deadheading, but the operation of the car doesn't harm the environment. With a fossil taxi or bus, you contribute the majority of the GHG harm during operations with no passengers. Bus garage location and dispatch centers for taxis are key -- and charging stations for EV taxis. The systems need them as close as possible to the locations where they can operate/make money. Delay, inefficient routing, all of it wastes money. I'm a transportation reporter and I find EVs fascinating!
What a really nice chap, very refreshing to hear him talk so honestly about his job and the car he drives. Thank you.
What a brilliant taxi driver 👍
Great personality, fantastic English, amazing EV knowledge, and even wearing a smart jumper with a Norwegian flag on it...
Welcome back to Norway
Great interview bjørn, if you ever fly into Stansted Airport message me and I'll come and pick you up in Beverly ;)
Great interview, lots of useful insights! Recently i had a quick talk with a taxi driver, who was also using the KIA e-Niro and he was very positive about the car. Thx for uploading!
The sound comes from the reduction gear box, some Kia eNiro, and Hyundai Kona EV have that issue.
I live in Graz, Austria. There are LOADS of EV taxis here: mostly IONIQs, e-NVs and even Teslas! I had a chance to sit in an IONIQ a few years ago and it was amazing. Still waiting for the opportunity to get into one of the Tesla taxis.
I was just in Graz a few days ago and I noticed that, too. It's the first place on my month-long trip to 15 cities in Europe where I saw a significant number of EV taxis. Way to go, Graz!
So interesting video. It's always good to see how a car performs in a professional scenario. And Mr. Taxi Driver just made it clear for us.
Thank you both.
Sunnmøring! Ekte folk.
Bjorn really glad you can understand him. THANKS!
Well done Bjørn. A good interview with the nice taxi driver. A very good way to test comfort and city performance.
Great interview and good to see real practical use of an EV on a day to day basis.
A very informative video Bjorn. We would welcome similar video conversations.
Excellent interview. You should have asked him about drivers comfort. 10 hours in a car seat each day should make him an expert on that area. Bet the cooled/ventilated seats of the e-Niro first edition will be nice in the summer.
Insightful! Great interview.
Good one Bjørn! very interesting indeed
I am happy to find this video! I haven't seen it before. I am considering both e-2008 and e-Niro as my next car.
Great film, interesting topic. Really nice taxi driver. Well done.
Great video, interesting insights from the driver!
Excellent vidéo again Bjorn! Very interesting to have a taxi driver's insight (this guy is particularly nice and interesting). I'm a model 3 first day reservation holder in France, but I was disappointed by the super long wait and restriction of choices and my test drive was sadly underwhelming! It was a performance M3 and I found the ride uncomfortable. While I'm sure the non-performance will be better, and the addition of the tow hook is very nice, the e-niro sounds like a great family car for the price.
Teslas are too "connected to the road" for us normal people; only the racing jockeys like that horse-piloting feeling, and they are always asking for "more road feeling! more road feeling!" when most of us would rather do without the constant concussions and brain damage caused by all of that "road feeling". Also, in the same vein, Teslas like to give you a lot of "road sound", unlike many of us sane humans who would rather not feel like we're driving a motorcycle when we've just come out of a sublimely quiet luxury fossil-based vehicle. The Tesla jockeys even go so far as to measure sound wrong: they find an empty smooth track and drive slow on it, which is totally missing the point. The point is that in a Mercedes you won't hear the motorcycle next to you, the bus next to you, the truck next to you, and the tires and wind noise, and the electric motor, nearly as much as you would in a Tesla. (Yes, Mercedes engines are quieter than Tesla motors in the cab.) The racing jockeys love that loud sound; most of us do not. The people driving the decisions are idiots.
Bjorn calling you out Fortum... Better watch out! :D
BREAKING NEWS The "cogging" noise at low speed is NOT normal. The dealer I bought my Kona off has replaced one motor in a Kona already. They want me to bring my Kona in to check if it is the same and if so order a replacement for South Korea. The eNero and Kona have the same motor.
Regarding the noise the car makes; I wonder if it's related to the same as referenced in the video 'The 2018 Nissan Leaf Reduction Gear Fault?' on the CZcams channel 'Fancy a Bev Mate'
A german youtuber interviewd a taxi driver at a SuC and he said that his first Model S had more than 400000Km in 3 Years when someone crashed into the car and the new car (Model S) already had more than 100000Km in one year.
Different routes?
@@bradallen1832 I don't know if I understand the question correct. It was a taxi driver in Germany (Bavaria) not in Norway. Seems taxi driver here in Germany drive a lot more kilometers. German video czcams.com/video/gUHGZCqgYmk/video.html First car 408k Km in 2,5 years, second car 125k Km.
This was a class video. 👍
Love the driver!
Great video as usual! 80 Euro for the taxi run 😱
Great information Björn with a wonderful taxi driver in a super car. Unfortunately e Niro is simply not available in Germany.
Love it! Very interesting.
Awesome intervju Bjørn, so mush good information on how the taxi system still is controlled by the fossil industry :-) People need to know this.. great work.
Things are changing that as we "view"...
Lots of info in this spontaneous review..is this the only e-Niro being used as a taxi I wonder..Mind you, just took Mrs. e-Niro to Poitiers airport this afternoon, a sort of taxi then. Have done 5,000 km in mine now and loving it to bits.
very interesting perspective
Interesting taxi statistics, 35% driving only in a 10 hr shift, cannot hire drivers etc. How is it other countries?
Just finished a 7 hour shift for Uber in Glasgow, Scotland. Constant driving, only stopping for toilet breaks. The students have just finished their exams, and there are tens of thousands of them.
@@StevieHypno Yes, we need Uber/Get/whatever. Even when I can afford Tesla I would not dare to take taxi in Norway, it is just crazy expensive.
@@alconaft4343 Uber/Lyft etc ship 25% of your money out of the country, as well as are generally not the best companies to work for as an ""employee""
Norway has a history of being protective and I doubt they'd let a company like Uber in
Such a nice guy
Very interesting video! This Man saves about 3000€ per year!
In Greece we are still thinking about this... I think so this year allowed or vote to have e-taxis!
Good job :)
@Ali Alexander That is true! we pay vat, we pay road tolls, we just don't pay for emissions fee that cars over 90g/km pay and we save some money for customs clearance! that's all! Greek goverment.... sucks
but I was the brave one and I got vw e-up (20,000euros not that bad) for 15,5 months now and I am very happy for that choise :) and my next car will be only electric :) (I guess this time I will got for something with bigger range cause that is quite small range car)
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Fascination discussion, thanks, Bjorn. I would like to know how and if that same luggage would fit into MC Hammer ? I suspect it would fit ok ?
Delivery time of e-Niro in Germany: 12 month +++. :-(. KIA: They dont have enough batteries...
I miss Téo taxi in Montreal. It used to be a 100% EV taxi company...
Hi Björn! I think you made a mistake here. Interviuwing a TAXI DRIVER in this car, that person for sure must be Robert de Niro...
You talking to me?
You talkn ta me
Interviewing de Niro in his eNiro.
De Niro in his El Niro.
Ha ha Kevin, exactly! Epic movie with a highly energy-loaded Robert e-Niro...@@kevinbreslin5718
The Y would be better e-Niro replacement than m3 I suppose
An 8 to 9 year used late 2019 or 2020 Model X would probably hit the sweet spot, but that won't be available until 2027 to 2029.
Ubergreen allows me to ride in "green" cars for cheaper than fossil taxis. Unfortunately I had only hybrid drivers. But I hope I will get an EV uber car soon!
Very interesting insight into the EV Taxi business in Oslo, thanks Bjørn 👍
Hmm, My not quite 1 month old Kona, which has the same drive chain as the Nero, has what I would describe as a "Cogging" noise, very slight but you can hear it. I was under the impression that cogging at very low rpm, was typical for permanent magnet synchronous motors. It is only there when power is applied at very low RPM. At high RPM under acceleration there is the very pleasant "Turbo Like" inverter whine very low level. I am not sure if the cogging noise wasn't there when I fist got the car as I was suffering what I call ICE deafness. I couldn't hear the VESS! Now I can hear the VESS loud and clear if the sound system is off. The liberal application of ACDC will drown out any noise hehehehehe....
Cogging is specifically when the electrical machine is not powered. The PMs in the rotor tends to allign along the positions with minimum "magnetic resistance", leading to a so called cogging torque. This can be experienced for example turning by hand the motor wheel of an e-bike.When the electrical machine is powered, then the torque is however pulsating due two contributions: the previous cogging torque plus the interaction between the stator and the rotor magnetic field. And globally this is specifically called torque ripple. As the speed increses, the rotor inertia acts as a filter, therefore the impact of this torque ripple is practically reduced.The significant contribution of the noise produced by an electrical machine, with this characteristic "electric" whine, is actually coming not from this oscillating torque, but from the vibration of the stator (which behaves like a speaker) due to "pulsating" magnetic forces. In a simple way, the rotor and stator would stick together like when you place a magnet close to an iron board.Actually the noise topic in electrical machine is of particular interest.It is right that an EV is, in principle, way less noisy than an ICE vehicle, in terms of intensity (volume). What changes is actually the quality of the noise: the EV produces normally an high frequency noise which, for long rides, can be however disturbing.
in a few years buying one or a few driverless cars to work for him :P
Welcome home you will have to review the new Mercedes Eq
A nice taxi driver
I wonder what he thinks of the Polestar 2, as a replacement when the time comes. After all being a Opel/Volvo brand man that might be a lot more interesting to him than a model 3.
I have a feeling it will be a thristy car like the E-Tron. Also he mentions the entry and seat height for passengers. I'd say it wouldn't be a good choice for a Taxi but good personal car.
Polestar is Volvo. Opel is owned by the French PSA Group now, and was formerly GM (not-Volvo).
First thoughts: oh yeah, interview with Robert de Niro about his movie 'Taxi driver'! ;-) No, just kidding. Cool interview!
A+ ☕😎 Interview this is better than📺.
🎤
I wonder what is this driver doing today? Still is he using e-niro? I always wonder what happened next, when I watch an old video.
For anyone interested, the taxi driver Martin has a youtube channel where he posted a video of the motor noise he mentioned in the interview: czcams.com/video/Dkp1NJEzAbQ/video.html
@bjorn
I just dropped a relative to airport and I was able to fit two large suitcases in back of model 3. There was space in Front boot for cabin baggage. Backpack ,neck pillow and knick-knacks went in the extra rear boot space ( where Stepney tyre goes ) below the cover.
Will try to shoot a small video next time in case that is helpful for your analysis.
Going by Mr. Taxi driver remarks model 3/Y ( even mid range like mine) would be perfect fit for his application. Specially model Y with front boot space and hatch back rear boot design. More range / super charging /rapid charging.
Wish Oslo has a way to choose only evs taxi while booking at airport. Specially since Norway is such an advanced country with so many EVs.
They should make it an option to choose EV in the taxi apps.
I Ireland this car does not come with any warranty from new when used as a Taxi. Its a shame as I would like one
Sometimes whenever you said E-Niro i thought you said “in euro” 😂
The perfect test for an EV and eNiro was his choice; drive and earn all day and charge overnight at the lowest cost...energy costs are 1% of sales turnover, what Taxi driver isn’t going to adopt this EV business case over the coming years?
Wheres Ammery?
Behind Bjørn of corse. Where else would she be?
+TeslIan In 2nd row.
Didn’t he say 10.000 for electricity ?
10,000 NOK = 1000 euro. He accidentally switched currency
10000 NOK is about 1000€.
+Marvin B Yes, 10k NOK per month.
Bjørn Nyland Per month or per year?
@@josepablomolinacarrillo3621 Per year given Norwegian electricity prices. At 220Wh/km he'd need to be driving 500k-600k km per year to reach €1000/month. At typical city driving speed of 50km/h... that's not even physically possible with 24 hour / 365 days of driving without sleep or bathroom breaks.
Jag var den du mötte idag på ica
+Maja Prenumerera Perttula Nice meeting you :)
And I though UK eNiro and Kona Electric owners’ servicing periods were too short. Norwegian owners have 1,000km/625mi less between each service. Seems both K. and H. are maybe just stabbing in the dark with services.
Still it could be worse - owners of Kia Sportsge 1995-1998. Had servicing periods of 6,000mi/9,600km or every 6mths. That must have been a wallets killer.
Uber EV ?
PhD level English of a taxi driver? what's the education of Martin?
Yeah, no kidding! That was good English.
Electric Taxis make so much sense. We starting to get them in Africa as well. Check this:
czcams.com/video/tedQxzjJ_Ss/video.html