Hey guys, welcome to Carcast, I'm Matt the Motoriter DeAndre here with Alistair Weaver

from Edmunds.com, another episode of our Alistair Edmunds, a Carcast and Edmunds podcast.

The first episode I think was pretty well, although we talked mostly about what could potentially happen

on your road trip with an EV and for part two, I think we should definitely talk about what

did actually happen on your road trip for EV. I know we were like, we're doom and gloom for

40 minutes last week and they're like, but none of that shit's going to happen. Don't worry about

it, you're going to be fine and just do it. Just a road trip to Monterey, LA to Monterey.

Yeah, how'd it go? Many badly. Do you want a rat? The vacation was beautiful. We had a beautiful

vacation with the family. It was interesting being out like, because I was out for car week,

three weeks ago and I was back actually staying at the Quail Lord to where the famous Quail

event is. Yeah. But it was a very different world when it's not car week. So no, it was super nice

to have a weekend with the family. But I'd convinced my wife and I was like, the kids love tricks.

The kids love the tricks. The kids are four and 18 months, so they're pretty small, but they just

love the whole truck thing. And I was like, right, we're going to take the Rivian because it worked

for everything in. Great. So charge it home, stuff it full of electrons and off we go. And then of

course you're like mentally thinking about it. Okay, we're going to get to, we're going to drive

a two and a half hours, we're going to get the cars, the kids in the car seven, set off about seven

thirty, drive for two and a half hours, booked into a, into a cheat motel, somewhere up the five,

fast charge your next to it. Charge before we get a bed, jobs are good and get up in the morning,

complete the journey. Everyone wins. So that was the theory. So electrify America should have

four, three hundred and fifty kilowatt charge was the fast as you can do at the moment.

Then one additional one, which was a bit slower. So we arrive at like a twenty to eleven at night,

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