Video | What to Know when Driving EVs in the Winter

In this review, Ciminillo plans to drive from Chicago to Milwaukee with a 100% charged Mustang Mach-e.

This test drive reveals what's needed for small or big road trips in the winter and how to gain some "EV freedom."

This 17-minute Ford Mach-e Mustang video review dives into EV winter driving and reveals that electric car drivers should always be looking for destination charging to extend trips and provide EV freedom. The trip documents a test drive by Jill Ciminillo, a contributor to Pickup Truck + SUV talk, and shows how driving at 75 to 80 mph and unexpected stops in the winter can quickly drain your battery pack.

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This review is great example of how a new EV driver needs ditch their gas mindset when it comes road trips and winter driving. First and foremost, EV drivers need to look or plan for EV charging opportunities when you embark on an extended metro trip (Thanksgiving) or longer road trip in the winter.

In this review, Ciminillo plans to drive from Chicago to Milwaukee with a 100% charged Mustang Mach-e — though the electric battery bar doesn’t seem reflect 260+ miles. The drive from Chicago to Milwaukee can be approximately 90 to 115 miles. The trip is going fine but the review takes a lunch break and then reverses course once they were near Milwaukee and come back home Chicago.

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On the way to Milwaukee, Ciminillo was driving at 65 mph and this conserved the battery range quite nicely, but on the way back Ciminillo states that she wanted to keep pace with traffic and was traveling at 75 to 80 mph.

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New EV Owners Need More Urban Charging Stations

Infrastructure planning for charging stations has been in the works for years, but will it be ready for EV consumers in 2021?

As a recent resident of Los Angeles, I was always looking for public charging for my Model S 2013 and its 200 mile battery pack via PlugShare. Luckily, I had workplace charging — Level 2 — as a day-to-day solution for my Model S that allowed me to add 15 to 30 miles every other day or when it was needed. However, Shell’s recent acquisition of a charging network drives home the point that the next wave of EV buyers need more urban charging stations.

Shell has signed an agreement to buy ubitricity, a European provider of on-street charging stations, and the EV charging network is popular in the UK with more than 2,700 charge points. Plus, the network provider has more than 1,500 private charge points — commercial — for fleet customers.

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More Pony Power from the Mustang GT Family

Yes, please. The Mustang Mach-E Performance edition will be offered and Ford will start taking orders for the EV in Spring 2021.

Ford seems to be having some fun these days, as the company announced a new release from the Mustang Mach-E GT stable and now will offer the GT Performance edition that can travel 0-60 mph time in 3.5 seconds. According to Ford, the automaker will deliver the Mustang Mach-E GT and GT Performance Edition next summer and start taking orders in Spring 2021. Here are some details about the new trim model:

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Electrify America to Simplify Charging with Select EV Models in 2021

 

Electrify America streamlines EV charging for a range of models in 2021, calling it Plug&Charge. Also, a Tesla owner reveals her beta Full Self Driving videos. 

Plugged In Weekly Newsletter taps into EV owners’ knowledge and parlays their information into guides, video reviews, explainers and podcast interviews on a weekly basis — Tues or Wed! Subscribe to Plugged In, follow on Twitter or find out what are the 3 essential components to an EV road trip.

While charging networks keep adding stations across the U.S., many EV drivers experience a cumbersome charging process when trying to initiate a session, think RFID cards, calling service number to initiate a session, etc. That’s why Electrify America is partnering with Ford, Porsche and Lucid Air, and offering Plug & Charge, an integrated charging process for the Mustang Mach-E, Porsche Taycan and Lucid Air owners in 2021. 

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EV Survey Winner is Ryland Erman and Introducing Plugged In

Plugged In - Buying Insights from EV OwnersRyland Erman wins the $30 gift card from Amazon for participating in the recent EV Buyers Guide survey from June. Erman is a fan of e-Mobility and he's been driving electric cars for about 15 years, while also buidling his own electric motorcyle. 

The EV Buyers survey was critical in launching the newsletter, called Plugged In (pluggedin.substack.com), which can be found on the substack platform that allows for content hosting and distributing newsletters. Plugged In is the source for EV buying insights from current electric vehicle owners.

If you know anyone that's interested in electric car buying information from EV owners on a weekly basis, have them visit pluggedin.substack.com or visit our Twitter page at twitter.com/grantgerke. 

One of the amazing findings from the survey is prospective EV buyers direct a lot of questions to current EV owners, nearly half (47%) of recent EV purchasers said that currennt electric car owners were the most helpful during the buying process, which can include research, testing and post-purchase. 

So Plugged In will gather EV buying information on all sorts of topics, including deep dives on EV charging (home, public, fast charging), EV explainers, EV and plug-in car reviews and, of course, podcast interviews with current owners and special PDF guides for subscribers. 

Plugged In is making it easy to learn the EV essentials by delivering to you twice a week the JUST buying information! The mission, like many others, is to accelerate sustainable transport. 

>> Visit Plugged In to subscribe & receive valuable EV buying information each week!
 

EV Buyer Survey in 2020 | Test Drives, Dealerships and the Community

Source: PlugShare

Below is a link to the 2020 EV buyer survey that asks questions about how you researched your new or used EV, including plug-in electric cars!

The point of the survey? EV Parade is looking to provide more targeted information on EV buying to its readers.

The survey is 2 minutes and there will be a drawing for a $30 Amazon Gift card.

>> 2020 EV Buyer Survey Link  

This is the Ford Mustang in crossover SUV form.  

4 Reasons Why EV Technology will Succeed and Weather the Storm in 2020

The Model Y rolled into the new year with momentum and just like any product in 2020, it was disrupted by Covid-19.

We’re close to the midpoint of 2020 and it’s been a troubling, trying and a dystopian year with Covid-19, social strife and uncertain economic futures throughout the world. For the EV and cleantech community, 2020 was to be "the year when EV technology broke" through to mainstream consumers due to so many new electric models from automakers.

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