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This video was brought to you by Steinberg a better world planner Mr Green Camp power and Marcus Beale Yo what's up we are now at Island doll And behind me here you see Nissan X-trail e-power E-force is called so this is uh well It's a fossil car but it has two Electric motors that runs the wheel and Then the fossil engine cannot Drive the Wheels directly so it's like actually a Diesel train in a way but yeah so why They have to attest this well because Actually for the longest time I wanted To do a consumption test you could say Yeah practically it becomes a Rangers But I want to know how efficient are These fossil cars when it's cold outside And what about when it's wet outside Or when it's warmer I mean that's the Does the consumption change that much And then how is the car affected by Speed so we're going to apply the same Test procedure that we do with fossil With electric cars is that we will drop At 90 kilometers per hour and then 120 Kilometers per hour so yeah right now The car is actually on but it's it's Acting similar to a to a plug-in hybrid That it has some waste heat in the Engine so it runs the heater But the engine has stopped I can sure Let me just check here It's minus 12 degrees Celsius outside
But the heater is still blasting in so Let me try to explain quickly what this Means so it has a fossil engine in the Front it has one electric motor in the Front axle and then another electric Motor in the rear now the fossil engine Kicked in because I guess the the Temperature and the cool and everything Was too low so it needs to yeah actually Also it needs to generate Heat this car Does not have a heat pump it does does Not have PTC heater so they only heat Into the cabin must come from The very Inefficient fuel burning system so here You see e-power badge and then E4 yeah This is kind of fun it's a e 4 wait how Do you read this it's E4 Roars E4s But this means the overdraw system with The electric drivetrain involved so Matt This is so weird to see me driving a Freaking gas guzzler but uh yeah we we Need to break some egg to make omelettes That is my point let's get inside I'll Let me through Voila Yeah nice do you like this wait Wait the exhaust is coming into the car She Uh okay have you seen the back oh no no I get exhausted inside the car what the Heck man oh So in this display you see that the
Engine is running right now and it's Charging the battery And here is the battery it's tiny 2.1 Kilowatt hour only and uh it's a 1.8 Kilowatt hour usable capacity so it Works just like a little buffer to give This car some EV I like driving Experience with instant torque and stuff Like that And uh yeah what else is it yeah I also Use car scanner so car is going to show You that right now we are at 1500 RPM This is what I see when we are idling We'll run at 1 500 RPM if I Trot a Little bit here you see that the RPM Goes up And then here are some other numbers This one's supposedly engine fuel rate So that's kind of high 1.5 liters per hour I've seen when uh Diesel cars either they they consume Only 0.6 liters per hour but I guess if We will be in some kind of wait it Stopped charging the battery now if We're being kind of camping situation The engine will turn on and off Periodically so then the average will Not be 1.5 obviously here we have Temperature in the coolant temperature And so it's considered that the engine Is nice and warm now so we should have Optimal temperature for getting the Lowest consumption and then here is the Cutlet or this one will go up once we
Start driving so this is the outside Temperature minus two it's not 12 Degrees it's minus 12 degrees what the Heck man okay I see now the engine is Shut off and then you can see here Suddenly everything went zero so now It's just sucking heat from uh the System to heat up the cabin until the Temperature drops enough so that it Needs to fire up everything again so um Actually I think this is a good Opportunity to test the the electrical Range because There's a button here when you press This one EV mode you see in EV mode you Will then have a pure EV you will it Will try to drive on electric and it's Running it on the tiny uh let me just Run yeah it runs it on this tiny battery So we should test how far can rush to Drive on EV mode but then I think in Order to not mess up with the HVAC System we need to turn off HVAC and then Just freeze a little bit because I think The test won't be too long so let's do a Little range test shall we Uh reset and then okay let's go Ninja mode on Okay look here let's switch over this One ngflow Hey Oh careful Don't accelerate too hard Because otherwise
The engine will start And then we might not be able to run EV Mode again Okay so actually runs on orbit Drive hmm Okay Oh oh 70 battery Oh It's dropping wait how much 300 meters The Okay okay Get over there go over there Oh it's it's an 80 song Here we have a Slow poking our cars behind me but I Don't want to uh hammer too hard because If you just like I have maybe 10 Throttle now if I use more then suddenly Uh the engine might kick in and then Suddenly I'm not allowed to go into EV Modes it's kind of weird so we have done 1.8 kilometers Damn massive range on this tiny battery It's like a it's like an eco4 battery Where we have even some downhill oh Barely legal we are cheating a little Bit but okay whatever whatever it still Counts you know this is probably for Let's say uh uh kindergarten runs just The drive and the the fuse kilometers Before you drop off your kids then you Turn on the ninja mode and then yeah that's it 2.5 kilometers [Laughter] [Music]
Okay okay oh look at this oh yeah oh Yeah oh yeah Hammer Time Okay now we're doing the 90 kilometers Per hour test we will uh yeah maybe We'll just go to strong Legion back Again to get a long enough Loop So yeah I have to cruise at 95 Kilometers per hour in the speed though No wonder why they need some people are Driving so slow wait if you have a Norwegian driving a Nissan does that Mean he's a niece Okay but let's see now so if you switch Here you can see that the engine is Running right now it's charging up the Battery and also driving the wheels But we're coming to A downhill Will it cut the engine let me say now Okay now suddenly it's regening Okay so but the engine is still running And it's regening down there you can Also see here repetition it's a slight Region uh see here but I guess maybe uh The system wants to charge the battery So the engine is still running for some Reason Interesting Oh I was going to check the weight Of the car but they have some control For buses and trucks now so yeah we'll Skip it it'll be way too cluttered over There Oh yeah now it cuts the engine when we Go downhill you see it's zero over here
Let's check miosa okay A little bit of Wind I'm not sure which direction Okay pretty cool I think I will just Turn around here yeah So you see now when we are just cruising The engine we're running at the 2K RPM It seems to be the the standard when It's arriving so 1500 RPM is just for Idling or stationary And then Yeah but if I try to accelerate a little Bit You see then it goes up But the interesting part is that it Seems like this car doesn't need to have A gearbox I guess the engine is directly connected To the generator and then it will just Vary the the RPM based on load not based On speed uh yeah and gear gearing but I Find it a little bit high that we have 2 000 RPM I think a gasoline car if it's running On sixth gear it should be resting at Around 1500 RPM But I guess this is a three cylinder 1.5 Liter engine so maybe Nissan Engineers figure out that the 2000 RPM is the most optimal way of Doing it so I guess we'll see once we Get back to the starting point what the Consumption will be All right 90 test in minus 10 degrees Celsius
Wow 7.5 liters per 100 kilometer it's Supposed to be 6.4 according to uh well The manufacturer I guess you can only Achieve that in City Maybe Okay let's see how thirsty the car Becomes at 120 kilometers per hour then All right we're doing the 128 now and uh You see that the RPM oh okay it was Higher but now we go downhill oh yeah Will it cut off let me see oh let me see Okay Accelerate a bit Huh you see yeah so even when going Faster seems like the lowest RPM Is 2 000. I wonder if that's the most efficient For this engine that's why it chooses 2000 rather than 1500 or even lower But okay once it flattens out it should Then go up Come on wait for it wait for it yeah Okay so you see when we're cruising 120 Kilometers per hour we're talking about 2 700. Here we have well I guess based on the Speed and the the liters per hour you Could calculate How much fuel we'll be burning per 100 Kilometers right okay now go slide Uphill Oh and then The rfm goes up even more Wow I've seen uh yeah when I when I Floor it I've seen 4000 RPM as the
Highest one so that's actually quite Narrow band means that it goes from 1500 When it's stationary to 4 000 only Whereas most other engines they were red Line at the six or seven thousand RPM 120 test wow 10.4 liters per 100 kilometer what the Heck man Why is this car so thirsty Okay Now let's check the weight Well I was gonna check the weight over Here but not today Sun not today Okay let's just go home While we're back at doll now it's uh 7 16 in the evening and you see we have Zero degrees Celsius outside and we fill Up the tank meanwhile so that is a Slight disadvantage but I can only show That we have heated up the engine and Everything it was uh uh was it yeah it Was actually a 49 kilometer drive from Oslo to here so yes now I want to know When we have zero degrees versus -10 Degrees will we have significantly lower Consumption now or should it be Consistent well let's find out Almost no wind wow cool and yeah the Days are getting longer it's 7 30 right Now and we still have daylight Wow look here Earlier this morning it was 7.9 this is A significant difference eight percent Better consumption
I did not expect this much difference Okay we have to try it in the 120 to see If there's also a same difference there All right a 9.9 liters per 100 kilometer That is five percent lower than this Morning hmm Okay but now I want to check the weight Of the car Okay let's see front axle Oh 11 20. all right the whole car 2000 oh okay okay okay Yeah tank is around 80 full Right way now but cleavage and uh you Know first I was thinking about doing Some City driving tests but I have a Better idea let's hype a mile over here So I'm going to drive a little Loop here I think it's around eight kilometer and The battery is okay whatever full-ish I'm now pumping up the heat because we Will drive without heater and we'll Drive slow and I want to see how how low Consumption can be possible to get okay It's zero degrees it's not ideal but I Guess Advantage we have a highest Battery so I guess we should also try to Run in the EV mode as long as we can to Kind of compensate for the winter Conditions we have right now Okay I just drive on the motorway I was Thinking about taking the side roads but They are kind of hilly this one is nice And flat but yeah we just have the Hazard lights on so uh people from
Behind they can see that we are driving Dogs slow yeah so um yeah right now the Consumption is zero because we're Running on pure electric but eventually The engine needs to kick in Let's see then just for fun yeah Well the battery is so low that the Engine is about to kick in now we're Going towards an uphill Yeah usually at 25 it says okay that's Enough actually this is weird I got the Message that we have too low instead of Charge but uh the engine now we started You can see it here yeah so now it Started okay oh it was a little uh Change in yeah a little punk bump But now we are running on the wrecks a Freaking huge wrecks okay and then the Consumption goes up Okay that's it three liters per hundred Kilometers in possibly one of the most Efficient ways okay It is now 4 30 in the morning and the Whole macaroni there's a snowstorm Outside yeah so this is the third Scenario I wanted to test How thirsty is the Foster car is when we Have to drive in these kind of driving Conditions well we shall see let's rush Over to uh doll and hope we can get a Good run there oh uh my only Concern is traffic Not weather because we have good tires Nuke and hot capletta R5 tires
Yeah so um yeah maybe at least if I can Do 90 tests that'd be great yeah We're finally here at doll it's proper Winter here what the heck man what the Heck is going on we're almost in April And it's still winter but okay so to Make the test as Fair as possible I've Cleaned the car it was first it was Covered snow so now it's pretty clean so That it doesn't have any aerodynamic Disadvantage by being full of snow eyes Or anything like that you see we're now In ninja mode Yeah let's go Right we're on the move so I'm trying to Do 120 tests first because we have the Lowest traffic now it's almost five in The morning so uh yeah fortunately the Snow plow has been here not too long ago That's good because it means that it Will be uh it will take a while until it Comes on the next cycle and then also That means yeah we don't get stuck Behind it and also means that the road Is fairly okay yes they're fairly okay The steering assist okay Pro pilot does Not work it cannot detect a line all Right that's fair that's fair Okay let's see oh wow it's not well Actually it's minus four degrees Celsius So Um not too cold but also not too uh hot Fortunately it's around zero it gets the Most dangerous so um yeah fairly good
Driving condition over here Unfortunately Ah we get stuck behind the snow Plow Doing 35 kilometers per hour uh This kind of messes up the test here and You know I I saw them on the way uh North so I even waited about five Minutes hoping that they will pass by The time I get back here but Um I'm thinking about doing a little trick Here I'm gonna pull over at this Emergency stop or somewhere Or Nah I think we might have to redo the Test I think maybe good enough you can just Pull over here and wait I guess five Minutes wait will they clear this I hope They clear this right they should Because it's like an emergency stop uh Place Uh yeah let's go in there Wow 11.7 liters per 100 kilometers Okay let's try the 90 then Okay still proper winter over here the Other side well at least near uh Minnesota they cleared out most of it And salted the heck out of it but at Least over here we have some winter some Winter surface Snow yeah some compacted snow so I guess That increases rolling resistance right
And then therefore fuel consumption Okay here at Minnesota we have wet roads Or well I guess the road is covered with Salt schmutzfest so yeah this is also a Very typical winter road or winter Conditions So it's a mix I guess of wet roads plus The snowy roads earlier on this test Where another Convoy wow these are quite Frequent look Yeah so I was stuck behind it for not Too long so now I'm just idling uh yeah I mean we can even just Start the engine Yeah just to compensate for it okay I Had to wait maybe I don't know 10 Minutes before I go again yeah All right 8.8 liters per 100 kilometers That is still the worst of the three Scenarios we tested now All right we're back home now so what do We learn from this test well it turns Out that fossil cars they also get Reduced range in winter you know I Didn't uh didn't expect that because I Was thinking you know in my head fossil Cars they are so inefficient that they Have so much waste heat so it doesn't Matter if it's summer or winter you have So much extra heat you can just heat up The cabin well it turns out that that Heat portion is just tiny bit of what The car needs to consume for driving in Winter or summer or whatever weather so
Uh what we had this case here was that We had cold weather and in general cold Weather means more dense air and then Fossil cars in general they have quite Poor aerodynamics so when it's cold Outside okay you have plenty of waste Heat but you have higher drag and then Also during the winter conditions now we Have poor driving conditions and then More rolling resistance or more Resistance somewhere in the wheels Because of wet Road and then snowy so You know the difference between it's not Even summer resulting but the difference Between the best case and the worst case Is roughly 20 percent that is huge that Is way more than I expected I expected Maybe 10 difference I thought that Fossil cars that have quite consistent Uh consumption somewhere in winter but I Was so wrong but okay maybe it was the Fact that this is you know it's partly Electric is the the e-power system maybe A pure diesel would be more efficient Overall and have more consistent Consumption numbers well we should find Out I want to try to borrow a pure Diesel this time no plug-in hybrids crop Like that just a pure diesel maybe a Volvo XC90 maybe some Volkswagen Tiguan Or something but it should be overnight Because this is also all-wheel drive uh And then some kind of SUV crossover Popular car in Norway I'm gonna see a
Pure diesel will it also have these kind Of variations in consumption in Different Different driving conditions or Different weather yeah that would be Super interesting to find out but yeah It turns out that faucet cars they also Take this penalty and recently when I Tested Tesla really really well Engineered a car as long as you have Nice and warm battery from typically Supercharging or just preheating from The garage then you get also super Consistent results and the difference Between cold weather and then not so Cold weather around zero degrees it's Actually not that big in a Tesla but That was a Model S okay more or less It's more aerodynamic but it wouldn't be That much different if you try the model X but it has to be the latest and Greatest technology the alien technology With heat Scavenging and heat pump and Octave valve from Tesla when it comes to Other cars or the EVS I mean they might Have a bigger penalty during winter I've Seen that for example in the eqs which Didn't have a heat pump and that was Also the case in the old days with Tesla But you see traditionally EVS they take A quite big penalty I think worst case Was something like a 50 higher Consumption or half the range during Winter but nowadays well-engineered EVS
They might take only around 20 penalty In Winter and that is actually right on Par with this fossil car so you guys Remember when I did that full launch With the model S plot and I actually Miscalculated towards the end because When you look at the stats afterwards I Thought the cons the car consumer 2.5 Kilowatt of heating it turns out there Was only 250 watt 250 watt is really Really low and that is pretty much on Par with the faucet cars so there you See that well-engineered EVS can Actually match today's fossil cars in Terms of winter summer efficiency in Numbers or yeah so yeah that was quite Interesting and then I guess we just Have to see if it's going to be a Volvo Diesel or An Audi diesel or BMV diesel maybe maybe X5 or something but we should try to Find a car that is quite common and I Pointed towards Volvo because Volvo Seems to be quite common at least in This Scandinavia but also throughout Europe and maybe actually in the rest of The world so we will see then with the Pure diesel how is it going to be done Because now people are gonna no no no This is no no this these the result is Not true it's something wrong with the E-drive system or you were driving with E-pedal or something all these faucet Lovers they're gonna make up so many
Excuses just bring out the popcorn and Then start reading the comment section So that's going to be it for now I hope You guys enjoyed this video as always Thank you for watching and talk to you Later
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