Hey you and welcome I'm Mr. Berry and in this whole video i want to talk about the update to
google maps basically makes it easy to find roots and pathways which are more fuel efficient
and better for evs and according to many of the comments in the past here or recently
people want to see ushi more so here's ushi i'm going to give her a little beef snack there
and hey if you like ushi you like the videos on that make sure you do click on thumbs up
share the videos as that really helps the channel there so there's ushi and her little snacks
and by the way ushi is a japanese word that means cow and so if you look at ushi she looks a little
bit like a cow with that with these spots these white and uh white coat with black spots and uh
alrighty so let's learn more about these changes and how we can actually use google maps to find
energy efficient ways from one place to another
hey and here we see the screen of my cell phone up there now in order to get this all you have
to do is make sure that you do have the latest updates on your phone which should be automatic
all right so you start your google maps app and when you're inside the application
you'll see this screen here if you notice you have your little avatar up there at the top
go ahead and click on that or tap it with your finger and then it comes up and it will say your
name and your email address at the top and then what we're going to do is we're
going to go all the way down and click on settings so go ahead and tap settings
from settings you get this window open up and then from this window what we're going to do is click
on electric vehicle settings which if you scroll down you'll be right after maps history
and right when you click on uh electric vehicle settings you go to this screen here
and now notice this is your plugs well you see not every ev uses the same plug
so uh let's look at some of these plugs now so click on or tap add plugs there we go
and i'm going to describe some of these plugs that we have there the very first one is j1772
and that is a standard plug even teslas can with an adapter plug into the j1772 plug those are
usually the free chargers that you see in front of supermarkets or in many other locations there and
so j1772 is compatible to every eevee out there which is kind of nice whether you have a nissan
leaf mitsubishi imeve or any of the the newer cars there you will be able to plug into the j1772
plug the next ones that we see there are the ccs and that is for like if you have a mustang mock e
you also have the ccs now a lot of people don't know is that the ccs if you look at it closely
it's the exact same plug as the j1772 except you have that little bar at the bottom and that's
the same is true for the ccs combo 2 that you see down there on the list so if you have a
mustang mock e or any of the newer gm products out there such as the chevy equinox the hummer
ev and all the others uh guess what it's gonna be coming with a ccs so you choose that one
the what's nice about the ccs it is a quick charge so it's a fast charging um over a thousand miles
per hour charge rate on the highest level now will your car actually you know
do that will actually consume or allow it to be recharged at that higher rate
well that's the question because many of the evs out there even though they may connect to the ccs
port there they won't take advantage of that full speed maybe maybe half that speed or so
on many of the new cars unless you're talking about the porsche tycon which actually can take
the full advantage of ccs type 2 as you see there is kind of a unique standard
it's for some of the older evs i haven't really seen it on any of the newer ones when i go out
and see the the kona or the ionic evs they're all ccs so the type 2 is kind of a
not really used in any of the today's evs let's go all the way down to chatimo now
chatimo what's really nice is you can use chademo with a chatimo adapter so even if your car takes
tesla or one of these others you can actually buy a chatimo adapter for not too much and the chatimo
adapter or the chatimo plug as you see there is actually used for nissan and mitsubishi so if your
vehicle is a japanese-made vehicle such as nissan or mitsubishi then guess what it's chatimo
as well as another plug next to it is j1772 next below that we see tesla and what's nice about
tesla is it is a fast dc charger uh just as fast as the ccs with the newer versions versions four
there you actually see it as fast as the fastest ccs chargers which is kind of nice also
with adapters we now have adapters in north america so that you can plug a tesla into ccs
or the j1772 or even the chatimo so hey that's kind of nice uh so when you get
your tesla you can actually connect it to any of these that you see here uh minus the the uh
the type ii which i like i said i don't really see the type 2 really in north america next we
have the generic wall outlet now the wall outlet can be a like a nema 1450 which is a
volt ac but it also can be a 120 volt ac such as at a many places that's really slow
uh charging so um if if that's if you have the plug for that which i think every car
comes with those adapters the plug another you can add those as well basically when you choose the
plug it's kind of nice because you can actually use google maps to find ev charging stations with
those plugs all right so let's go ahead and i'm going to click on some of these as you see here
i play i clicked on the j1772 chat amo and tesla because it was the ones i use most with my tesla
next after that we click on okay or the check mark
and notice it comes up to this window just to kind of confirm that hey your plugs are those
and we're going to click on that little arrow to get back to the main settings here and now
what we're going to do is we're going to go down and go all the way down to navigation settings
all right now once you're into navigation settings you'll notice that it comes up to this window here
and we have root options now these are either on or off so you can have avoid highways avoid
uh toes uh avoid fairies you can avoid those or not and then right below that is prefer
fuel efficient roots now this is kind of true whether you're having a gas powered car a diesel
a hybrid or an ev now um on that what we're going to do is we'll turn that on and notice it says
maps will suggest few efficient routes by default when arrival times are similar which is kind of
nice and one thing too is it will show that route with a leaf on it so there'll actually be a little
you'll see a little leaf there next to the time to show you hey this is a fuel efficient route
while we're talking about fuel efficiency if you ever owned a gas car
you probably noticed that if you're driving through stop and go traffic your fuel economy goes
down it's not a very good efficient engine there to stop and then go and then stop and then go
that's not true for evs in fact the opposite is true for evs so let's say that you're going
through stop and go traffic every time you're slowing down or putting on the brake instead
of the energy just dissipating in heat on your brake calipers and on your pads there
what's actually happening is the energy is going back from kinetic energy back into electrical
energy and recharging your batteries teslas by the way this is automatic as well as any of the newer
vehicles there the nissan leaf the mitsubishi imev the hyundai
kona and all the others there those are all equipped with the type of system that basically
recoups the energy every time you break which is really nice so this is kind of a standard feature
in in evs for the last we're going to say seven years or so which is kind of nice
because regenerative braking is a good thing every time you slow down or break boom that energy
goes back to your battery system and that's why we're choosing and turning that option on there
there we go i just turned it on notice that i've turned on prefer a few efficient routes
next is the tow price and if you are living in a community such as on the east coast that
have a lot of tow passes there then it's kind of nice to have that turned on that way when
you're traveling you know exactly how much it's going to cost to get onto certain roads which is
kind of nice all right so let's work this out here and what i'm gonna do is i'm actually gonna
type in some destinations there so one thing here is kind of nice if you just
type in tesla supercharger boom it shows all the supercharging stations which are tesla
in your immediate area which is kind of nice and next what i'm going to do is i'm going to
type in just electric vehicle charging stations and you notice as you're typing in the electric
vehicle yo tank it will put in the rest of the the uh the text there for you so notice here these
are ev stations which are not particularly tesla they may be ccs j1772 or even chatimo and
it will filter the stations according to your plugs which is really really nice
and so here we have a little map of my immediate area showing all the all of the the stations there
you notice there's one of them where that has a heart you can add stations to your favorites
simply by clicking or tapping on the station or holding your finger on it you'll see the option
to add to favorites add to your favorites and then boom that's one of your favorite
stations maybe it's a station that's near your home like down the street right so um
anyway so you can see here's eevee go charging stations as well as others such as chargepoint
in fact there's over 20 different station types or companies that have ev stations and you're seeing
them there when you do that it just brings them all up just to let you know if you're new to evs
each of these stations require a payment of some kind unless it's a free station if you're using
plug share which i have videos on that there's the link above me there if you're using plug
share you can actually add a filter to the search which only shows up or shows the free stations
believe it or not but many of the stations that you're looking at here are absolutely free and um
why is that well when people put up an ev station in front of their store
some say well hey just allow it to be free just plug in and there you go the thing is they're not
the quickest stations so the stations which are free are normally a little bit slower or maybe
like one-fifth the speed of stations that you'd pay for so plug share allows you to filter that in
and allow you to find the free stations or find the stations that require a payment
for example if we were looking at let me go back to tesla superstations or supercharging stations
here we are back to that um those stations require a payment but you don't need to show
your credit card every time you simply drive up with your tesla plug in and it charges the car
automatically there on your main screen in your car you actually will see how much kilowatts is
being poured in or how much it's charging your car and also the cost per kilowatt as well as the
the overall cost for that session you'll see that instantly on the car on the screen there
and so you don't have to worry about you know char you know being paid or paying too much i should
say all right anyway as you can see there are many many different tesla supercharging stations
as well as just generic electric vehicle charging stations for uh any area that you may look into
there all right so let's plan a little true trip here and let's say it's from my place there
in california there in fresno and i want to go all the way down to a charge point station down
in la and this shows it's 224 miles now the nice thing is uh for my tesla my range is 350 miles so
i'd expect to still have many many miles there over over 120 miles of excess range or still in
my battery tank right when i finally get there if you're driving a chevy boat their ranges depend on
depending on what year it is it can be anywhere from 250 miles up to 280 miles for the brand new
chevy boats and all that by the way charge point is what you'd be using with the chevy boat with
the ccs charge okay so you'd start up there and you'd go down all the way down to la and it would
guide you there now you could turn on or off voice you can also send it to your device you can
actually send it to your car or to your another device there that you have in the car depending on
what you have there could it could be your tesla because with the tesla you can actually now log
into your google account and use google maps right on your screen a lot of people don't know that
um the same is true with plug share and as well as a better route planner all three of those are
are excellent ways for finding uh paths or making a trip planning a trip if you're buying an ev
or you already own an ev and you say hey how to use all this technology remember
this is found on your phone it's google maps next is the plug share which is actually
a little bit better and again i have the the link to plug share you say well how is plug share
better what's the difference well the difference is when you're using plug share you can filter out
free charging stations versus paid charging stations you can actually click on a charging
station and see images of that charging station and see reviews active reviews of that stations
so there you go now you know how to use the google maps there there's options to include evs there's
ev options there or even just to change it to the most fuel efficient options there notice that in
there you can also choose what kind of car you have whether it's a gas powered car or a hybrid
or even an ev that option is there in that as well now if you're not seeing these options maybe you
have an iphone and you just haven't received the update well the update should be out any day now
for most android users guess what it's already there and working for you hey if you like these
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