Nio EL7 1000 km trailer challenge part 1

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This video was brought to you by a Battery planner cam power Marcus Beale Steinberg and Bill componente Yo what's up we're now at Circle K Learning school and we're gonna do one Thousand kilometer challenge with Neo El7 this is one that the Neo provided uh I guess ideally I should have done with The et5 but what they were they are Close this car is remarkably efficient Anyway so yes here we have it and then I Have booked our where they got in the Trailer it's this one it's the big one Yeah by the way so this is this is learn School last time it was from albinster But this trailer here Is supposedly the one I used with the Eqe And this one Has take a put in oh it start Raining now So we're gonna avoid that one but I Checked the license plate On this one over actually starting this One is also big double axle Yeah Uh and it's not kaput So let's now try so it has automatic uh Tail everything Um trailer hitch so we just go inside The car Yeah and then you go here Wait for the lag and then go to Where the heck is this I'm driving maybe

A tow hitch But you want to extend it yes And then if you back up now There there's a tow hitch so now we can Back up and Place it Right on that wait it's a big one Which one is this one this one so let's See now first test is just to see how it Is to back up yeah it's fine it's fine Okay see Very nice that you see you see the 3D Here Birds view plus the backup camera And also nice perspective so that is Good Now we just back it up here Like a ninja oh Because you play this place it There wow okay Precision parking for the Win Okay well like is this Trailer Connection Echo trailer connector error Check connection And then is this the trailer connected Okay I'm gonna turn on trailer mode Wait trailers left turn signal fault are you kidding me Um is there something wrong with the Turn signal well good thing is doing a Self-check that's the first car I've Seen that does a sales check but I have To check here I just connected it like I Done with any other trailer It could actually be a fault in the

Thing but can I suppress that no I Shouldn't be driving around this well it Doesn't mean that I have to use the Faulty trailer Okay um maybe I should try to connect it And see if I get the same error over There Right finally it works so it turns out That the cable the first cable I got Some of the pins were pushed in so I Went into the gas station I got a new Cable it works now so this is a nice Bonus that the car has a trail itself Test okay so what I'm gonna do now is if I do this Wait Um Okay I can't test normally with other Cars where can I push the brake well I'm Charging yeah maybe I should not be Charging but Da da Okay let me check Let me just check that everything looks Okay ideally you want to have a dude to Help you With not another blinker went off Because Okay I need to just test everything I Know You need to check tire pressure all Right I checked all of them They have 3.6 to 3.7 bars All good

Right you see we have tow hitch on Trailer mode on and tow hitch is to just To deploy the tow heat you can have a Bike rack for example on it and then Trailer mode is done with the trailer Maybe it restricts some stuff we'll see About that one and if you go to Navigation now you see that I've Navigated to ionis trim stud and the car Estimates this one it's a bit cryptic it Estimates range at destination at Arrival I mean 336 kilometers it doesn't Show you how many percent but we can Calculate that based on this one because Now we have 98 whatever 505 kilometers So it means that the car thinks that we Will ride with 69 battery ain't gonna Happen buddy we might arrive at around I Don't know 20 30 percent So yeah we will finish starting in three Minutes I'll check the time and see it's Yeah 316 so we probably start at 3 20 Then and then as usual I cannot reset Consumption data because you have need To have the account press the bill Account you see here Which should have the oh sorry there but Okay anyway as I can't reset but so we Will also count this one And then we will just count 1 000 Kilometer from here until yeah whatever There's supposed to be a trip meter here But also that one um why we can't access It because we are charging I'll check it

Out once we finish charging and then we See but uh otherwise we'll just use this One All right we finished running that was Very long minutes but here we have a Trip meter here since start okay we can Use this one so the starting time is Going to be 325 all right let's go All right we're on the move and there Seems to be a slight problem Um When I try to activate the cruise Control here It's this unable to activate ACC in Trailer mode what Are you kidding me You cannot use adaptive cruise control This is the worst I've seen so far Tesla Released by default you can use AGC of Course but not Auto stair many other eqe Could use Auto stair and of course Adaptive cruise control Um well okay let me try now so it's in The LCC okay if I use this one Okay what happens then What can I build can I at least just use Dumb cruise control Maybe press on hold What I mean Oh Jesus man I already draw the freaking Maxus pickup truck without cruise Control Are you telling me that I cannot use

Cruise control for the 1000 kilometer Challenge I have to try to fit holy Man Wait why is it fogging now Why the heck is it fogging Uh uh I have everything on automatic And it's fogging Well if you go to climate control here Yeah AC is okay Okay without the way but at least it's Not as bad as the boxes the other Chinese car But no cruise control man I have to Find out how you can at least set manual Cruise control Right I figured this out Um you have to disable trailer mode but You have to be in park and able to do That in Tesla you can disable and enable Trailer mode while driving but it's not Recommended if you're pulling a trailer You should have Trailer Mod on Um but just the fact that I cannot even Use cruise control here then yeah I'm Taking that risk there might be some Safety features that is disabled for Example trade trailer mode in Tesla will Have some trailers way mitigation the Car will actually do some I don't know What the heck it does with the senses With the ABS and some sensors and they Will then reduce the sway and so that You don't get those dangerous Wiggly Wiggling that you guys see on YouTube

And then some dude crashes with a Caravan yeah Um but okay so that one is off and Another thing on that check is if you go Here And you go to parking camera It says that that only works up until 16 Kilometers per hour actually What that symbol means Up until 15 kilometers power or 15.99 Kilometers per hour So we can't check the backup camera While driving that's also a little Bummer uh what else is it yeah but at Least now I can use LCC So I just have to be careful ABC watch Out fortunately the Neo doesn't do any Weird but it could in case of some Emergency it will just maybe twist the Wheel I'm not sure yeah but I just have To be careful and be ready to take over If if something happens but yeah just For convenience but I don't recommend This hopefully Neo will fix this and at Least allow you to have some kind of Cruise control done cruise control or Preferably ACC just like the rest of the Industry while you're pulling trailer But this could be A stressful man if you have to drive With a trailer Uh or a caravan all day and you cannot Use cruise control because I wonder

The mother Truckers They are pulling a big load Do they have cruise control I'm pretty Sure they have otherwise it'd be quite Tiring to drive five hours four hours Four and a half before they have to take A rest at least Without cruise control And then as usual I choose to cruise at 90 kilometers per hour I have to go at 91 now that's 90 GPS speed yeah just to Match the other cars I've tested also It's barely legal 80 is the legal speed Yeah I know but um if I drive with 80 I'm going to get lots of mad mother Truckers behind me Oh yeah I did a little bit of adjustment There I can feel it on the steering Wheel okay And yeah we have vespie here which is a We have a swap station over here Um why are you not swapping here well I Will tell you why because we still have 81 battery and the swap actually takes Some time we have to unhitch the trailer And also we only get 90 so it's Pointless it's up here it's way too Early so we will see from now on where We swap [Music] We are now at streamstad and guess what They have fixed some of the charges here Let me check it Okay the light there is kaput

At least the other lights are working Wait let me see This one is kaput The other one seems to be okay so There's only one broken charger right Now nice okay so I have the top of here Uh this seems to be the best deal You see we're getting uh 96 kilowatt yeah I calculated we need to Top to around 60 percent and I want to Take a little break over here we have Gas station here Um okay and then inside the car Looks like this So this is from Oslo 56.9 kilowatt hour And then on a trip I can't see the trip Now Um yeah I need to calculate I wrote down Everything but we should have around 400 Watt hour per kilometer which is Plausible because the car supposedly Consumes slightly less than Uh 200 around 180 something watt hour Per kilometer and then the trailer adds Another 220 ish yeah so this is what I Experienced from the other test also so Yeah we will stop here this is we just Have to follow there I only do it for Now at night it works next stop is going To be I own this is So you can just do this I own it Foreign What Oh then they found it okay he didn't

Find it in the autocomplete but it found It so that's uh huh no no Oh no is it really Closed at night oh I have to drive The long ass detour Okay I had to get I had to prepare in That case if um the wallet bridge is Closed then I have to charge extra maybe To 70 before 75 before I go That is not ideal Now let me show you now that it's dry Outside Um This one is not good it seems to be semi Kaput they put the tape there so I just Have to Loop it like this I want to show You that it has this Loop this has this Hook Point here that's good Um so if the equipment was in good shape I could do it like this no this is Barely legal it's not recommended but Yeah whatever Lots of the regions they tend to do it Like that anyway but I want to show you That over here This is actually very nice this is a Plus for Neo is that the charge port Just happened to be here right not front I don't like being in front I don't Recommend car manufacturer putting in The chart point in front because it Normally has something called such Smooth Fest in Winter it gets really Dirty in the front here and it could

Even freeze Kona people they can relate Knee in Nero people also put in the back Here is better there will be less dirt In the sign and the back there is even Better but here at least the advantage Is that you can then plug it in like This While you're having a trailer So um Fat eatron also had his own similar Position but on the other side but the Problem with fat edrin is the hood is so Damn long that it becomes Troublesome But it still works though especially Nowadays when the cables are getting Longer and longer so yeah this is a nice Bonus and then I can show you this is The big trailer the one also in Ikea I Think in the following Test I should try to book the trailer Beforehand and use this one as a Standard trailer Yeah but uh okay let me remind you guys That the weight of the trailer is not That relevant I have driven roughly 200 000 kilometers with trailer and my own Model X and I pull lots of cargo in the Trailer and I found out that way to this Trailer is almost irrelevant because What's what goes up must come down Um okay if you go up you will consume More but then on the way down you can Regenerate some of that stuff and then This route here is fairly flat too means

That the weight is almost irrelevant uh What brings the consumption up is the Boxiness of the trailer and then this is A problem with trailers is that they are Not very aerodynamic compared to a Caravan so what I've seen is that the Consumption increase with the trailer Here is quite similar to a very bigger Carbon but more endemic it's all about Aerodynamics you guys know that you Should know that in my channel that Something big like a Tesla Might have lower consumption than Something smaller Like a legacy automaker here All right so it's a Saturday morning now Which means that there will be some Traffic and normally if they have some Maintenance at night they will usually Open at six and it's now 5 30 soon so by The time we reach udavala it should be Close to Six right so we can just hope That it's gonna open but in case it's Not open then I need to charge extra I Calculated that 70 should be enough and We should have around 10 margin with a Trailer you want to have that margin Anyway so we are charting at 82 kilowatt We're gonna unplug soon but the Neo has 100 kilowatt hour battery and it can Battery swap but uh the the closest Battery swap station well besides Investor the next one is but it's Troublesome if you

Swap at cooler then you have to drive a Long distance all the way to Helsing Body which is not going to happen so Then you have to either swap again or Charge somewhere and the other swap is Advised by but every time you swap we Have to unhook the trailer So my best deal is actually to go to Speculative charge there and then we Swap here at wildbike and then we go Here The new one at supercharger and then I'll explain as we go because you guys Will forget about this but next stop is Going to be speculum Oh we're back on the road again Oh oh there's so much power I don't dare To use all the power 200 kilowatt oh Yeah okay yeah that's good okay and then Just enable this one Let's go yeah 91 there you go yeah so That was 22 minute charting stop over Here Let's see if we can beat plaid that we Can swap which supplied cannot do but The plot chart is way faster we were Hovering around 88 to 80 kilowatts on This session And we need to rely on actually some Charging we cannot just Swap all the way Unfortunately this is the reality of a New owners for the day so it is still a Realistic test So yeah let's see then the sun is coming

Up while it's already up it's 5 30 in The morning we'll be heading for uh the Unknown with the voila let's hope it's Open but yeah very nice that uh no no no What the heck oh come on here We have ventilated seats oh yeah and Also massage cut tap oh I want some cut Massage yeah at least the ventilation is Very nice when you're out doing some Stuff with the trailer and you come back Oh no but it It goes away too quickly okay oh yeah Chinese massage is the best Oh man I'm getting sleepy I think I need To take a nap So there is a resting area right by the Highway here I'm going to document that We exit at six exactly It's here okay Yeah you see it Energy wise shouldn't matter too much we Can also document that we have 53 Percent Okay let's pull out here Take a nap For safety Okay Missy I'm not sure where I'm Supposed to go now Uh Maybe not three okay or do I go here and Then go over there because over there It's more like a personal Transportation Stuff right I'd rather cover some of the windows

Here Um And then I have my storm bike pillow Yeah Now we just recline and try to get some Sleep but I can't sleep too long because We have to charge a specular before A lot of stuff happens oh it's six in The morning now But yeah okay Safety First Oh man we are back on the road It was 7 15 when we started driving and So we had a one hour and 15 minute stop Here well okay so we postponed the later A little bit so hopefully Um we develop bridge is open by the time We get there in about half an hour [Music] [Applause] We are now at hog store charging up at The supercharger I bail out first I Wanted to go to uh specular but then I Checked the availability you see Half the Stalls are available and I know The layout which means that there is a High possibility that I have to unhitch The trailer and that means I will be Losing maybe three four minutes total When you're unhitch and then hitch again So that's why I decided to stop here It's way safer it's freaking empty here No one else is jaunting except for me So we're getting 102 kilowatt so yeah You see here

Plenty of stalls uh dry true stalls and Since we hire seven in the morning uh no One else is charging so it's super safe To come here uh yeah I think it Shouldn't be any big disadvantage but by The way you can you will see now that we Actually have to charge uh we can't just Go and Swap all the way unfortunately There's not enough coverage for Neo to Just Swap all the way so yeah All right so far so good let's just sit And wait a little bit And then let me show another plan is to Go all the way to wire bike and I have Navigated to the the Schwab station it's Not The Power Swap station Okay But that's 150 kilometers away so we Need to charge to around 75 percent Before we can leave a double take 15-20 minutes I think We're back on the roll again and uh yeah The scene start here resets every time We stop and charge or some I'm not Sure but yeah I have to look at the the The trip meter not this one but the Other one Here in my el7 And then The car over reports Distance by 2.3 Percent I just measure it to its Thermostat but okay I need to calculate What this one should be at the 99 points

But one annoying thing is that I had Navigated to the swap station but then I Just went outside Briefly to unplug came back in started Driving it forgot the navigation so this Is super annoying that the navigation is Not persistent uh So I have to do this Again every time like why can't they Just remember it because we are going to Go there it's just that I have to exit The car for obvious reasons Okay whatever let's just keep going keep Truck keep on trucking I know I can see here that there is uh Some kind of yellow icon there for Trailer And then some other icons on that one Okay It's doing the floctation you see that 70 kilowatt It's doing the Chinese fluctation 76 76 Of course every time I want to Demonstrator and then it drops And then it goes up again yeah because Now it's a little bit tricky since we Have a little slope I mean a little Boop But normally it will fluctuate it will Go uh plus 10 I mean 10 and then yeah 49.50 And then 46 and 40 you see And then go a little bit low okay and Then go up again That's okay yeah

So it's not I can actually feel it I Wonder if this affects the consumption Of the trailer because it's doing this Slight uh Power thing right and then uh In the back here there's a piston that If you push it it will then activate the Trailer brake so maybe it's activating The trailer brakes on micro transactions Hopefully not [Music] Thank you Well we're almost at World Bank and yes I charge a little bit too much to see we Have 14 now it might be 13 by the time You get there but yeah like I said I Want to have that margin just in case in Case we get some power limits all right So the swap station looks like this 6 Hour 600 kilowatt hours another way Only 200 kilowatt hour batteries Available but no one is there so that Means we can just go in there but we Have to unhitch yeah we can simply not Battery swap with the trailer Unfortunately so that's gonna cost me Some time I will document how long it Takes Just get in there first We're here let me see time uh 9 52 okay This one this is gonna be quick I found A place here we could just do it quickly Wait where's the other glove Foreign Okay okay

I'm quick to do this Um I'm just put it here On the ground Wait it's gonna be hot Man's not hot well man's hot We're losing time now this is not Deductible time because this is the Reality Of New owners Or unhook this one Oh It's on the flat surface that's good Okay the ball is free Yesterday Clumsy solution That didn't take too long let's go for The swap

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