INTERVIEW: Life with an EV During Winter Storms
The David Knight Show
David Knight
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Eric Peters, EPautos.com reports on his experience with 2023 Fords F-150 Lightning Truck and Mustang Mach-E during ice storm and power outage. And why are AM radios omitted from EVs?
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| 0:00.0 | All right. And joining us now is Eric Peters. I've been very anxious to talk to Eric |
| 0:08.2 | our last couple of days. We're scheduled to have an interview on Friday, but it was out of |
| 0:12.7 | electricity. And I thought out of power. And I thought that's interesting because these got a |
| 0:18.1 | couple of, you know, brand new Ford vehicles, one of them, |
| 0:21.5 | the F-150 lightning truck, and the other one, the Mustang. And so welcome, Eric, and tell us a little bit |
| 0:29.4 | about what's been going on as you're trying to review electric cars and you lose power. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, well, you know, it gave me some insight into what it's actually like to live |
| 0:38.4 | with one of these things. As it happened, we had a nice storm that rolled through the area, |
| 0:42.5 | and that knocked the power out. And of course, that meant that I couldn't charge the thing at home. |
| 0:47.4 | And that was problematic because prior to that, prior to the power going out, I had driven |
| 0:53.2 | it around just a little bit |
| 0:54.7 | and it would winnow down the uh... the range to not very much and so it was |
| 0:58.1 | necessary to plug the thing in |
| 1:00.3 | but the power went out so you know if i hadn't had another vehicle to drive |
| 1:03.8 | it wasn't electric i would have been stranded and i have discovered and look over |
| 1:07.3 | the course of driving electric vehicles now for the past couple of weeks, |
| 1:17.6 | that unlike every other vehicle I've ever driven in the past 25-something years, I can only drive the thing basically every other day because of this lag time that occurs in between having to |
| 1:23.3 | park it and charge it and being able to drive it again. A lot of people don't know that you cannot |
| 1:28.0 | charge one of these things at home any faster than in a couple of hours. That's using a 240-volt |
| 1:34.8 | dedicated circuit. And you have to have an electrician come out to run a dedicated circuit from |
| 1:40.2 | your panel to do that. And that's going to cost you a significant amount of money. And if your house only has a 100-amp panel, you're going to have to get your panel to do that and that's going to cost you a significant amount of money and if your house only has a 100 amp panel you're going to have to get your panel |
| 1:47.9 | upgraded and that's going to potentially cost you as much as three thousand dollars |
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