I was confused as to why this didnt show up in my RSS feed, but turns out i dont have Connextras in there
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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I didn't realize the channel difference until I posted, but still the same guy. I kind of love his Connextras videos more
It's easy. If he doesn't wear his jacket, it's connextras
I got my first EV about a month ago. I charge off a 120v 15a outlet at home and I've been fine. Yes, it would take 2 days to go from 0 to 100%, but that's not necessary. It only takes a few hours to charge the 6% I average per day.
That video is well done and good at laying it all out. I wish I could get my brothers to watch it.
The thing is, I came here as devils advocate, thinking he was going too strong on level one. But he did well.
- I had a similar discussion with my older brother, where I tried to convince him level one was possible, especially short term, but that he’d be happier with more. He installed 50a level 2, after I explained it’s the same as an electric range circuit (that’s what I have. Almost always more than I need but nice to have)
- no luck at all with my younger brother. He works for a legacy car manufacturer and is convinced EVs are not practical. They found it impossible to install chargers at a plant since it would need the power of a city ….. since they assumed every spot needed a fast charger and that all would be in use all day
I get the 2nd point is inaccurately assumed, but it's a going point to possibly bring up just really just how much fossil fuel is being burned by the factory in travel alone.
If you need the electricity of a whole city, then every day those cars are burning that much.
I even had my work as an example - we have 8 chargers, 30a level 2. That’s lower than many of us get at home
….. but that’s the point where a better goal should be to just make up for energy used by the commute. The reality is most of us move cars at lunch time. 8 fairly low end chargers is sufficient to top off 16 cars in a standard workday, and that’s without “smart” chargers that can rebalance when some cars use less
That factory didn’t need bigger chargers, and could easily halve that if you don’t expect people to share
Technology Connections is great. The last video on renewables helped make my mom look into EVs and this one might convince my older brother since charging was a main concern of his
A great option for some that’s worth communicating. That’s how I charge mine. Only once or twice in the last couple of years has it given me anxiety—which turned out to be unfounded. Not a heavy driver though, I don’t plug it in every day, and my range is nearly 300 miles.
My older brother need to see this, but then he won't even watch past 1min mark.
Pretty funny seeing two different comments regarding their older brothers. Do you guys have the same brother?
We all have that brother that whine about limited range but they only ever drive 200km per month
it's an IMO valid point to raise if you are very likely to have surprise trips that can take >150km in each direction. Not very hard to achieve in a day of work.
Additionally the fluctuations of summer vs winter range. Our work EV slashes the summer range of >300km by 0.5-0.6 resulting in a range between 200-180km depending on the temperature and street elevation.
Yes but how many surprise trip one would usually have? My brother have 1 for about 2 years. It's valid point until one look back on how much they drive, because people usually do that to just spite the *better option. And my country is tropical so no huge temperature swing for now, and distance to desired destination usually about 150km to 300km one way, not to mention there's charging point on highway which you can just let it boost to 80% for about 10-15min, which he would need to rest anyway. His worries of "once in a while long distance trip that can used up all the battery in one go" did not happen for at least a decade now, the most recent one he did is 80km one way.
It's really depend on the person and they should totally reflect on how they drive before brushing off EV entirely, which he did.
*good public transport is better.
We made it work for several months with our EV and a Level 1 charger cable ran out the back door before I could get the time to install the level 2 charger. For regular commuting around town, the wall plug would keep up. For longer trips, we would have had problems and had to have sought out level 3 chargers until we got the level 2 install finished. Level 2 charging at home was a game and cured range anxiety for us.
Well, at least this video might convince my older brother, especially with current gas prices