The Tesla Model Y is an electric SUV made by Tesla. It’s designed for everyday driving and uses electricity instead of gasoline. People talk about it a lot because it’s common and because charging is a big part of owning one.
The Tesla Model 3 is an electric car made by Tesla. Instead of using gasoline, it runs on a battery you charge at home or at public stations. It comes up often because many people drive one and talk about what charging is like.
“Camp mode” is a setting in some Tesla cars that lets you stay comfortable while the car is parked. It uses battery power, so you’ll see the estimated range go down.
Cooled seats are seats that actively cool you down, usually by blowing air through the seat. Here they’re using them along with the air conditioning to stay comfortable in the heat.
“Air con” is shorthand for the vehicle’s air conditioning system, which cools and dehumidifies the cabin. In EVs, running air conditioning can increase energy use, so it’s relevant when the host is tracking battery range and comfort settings.
BYD is a big company that makes electric cars and batteries. In this segment, they’re impressed by how huge BYD’s display was and how much attention it drew.
“D9” sounds like a model name from BYD. It’s being mentioned because the podcast is talking about vehicles that were shown or discussed. Without more details, it’s best understood as a specific BYD car model.
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ten to ninety seven percent charge
They’re quoting a charging test that starts near 10% battery and ends near 97%. It’s used to compare how fast different EVs charge, especially since charging usually slows down near full.
The Dodge Charger is a car that’s known for performance and a sporty look. It’s not an electric vehicle in most versions, so it typically uses gasoline. It may be mentioned because the podcast is talking about charging setups around where people live.
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one and a half megawatt charger
They’re talking about a super-fast charger that can deliver about 1,500 kilowatts of power. With charging that strong, an EV can gain a lot of battery energy very quickly.
They’re talking about an MG small EV that looks like a fun hatchback. They mention design cues and that it might become a real, production model—possibly with a new name.
Genesis is a higher-end brand from Hyundai. The “G V60” sounds like a specific model name within that lineup. The podcast mentions it because someone is trying to figure out what car they saw.
They bring up the Genesis GV60 as a comparison point for another EV. The idea is that the other car looks like it takes some design inspiration from the GV60.
The Volkswagen Golf is a small car, usually a hatchback, made for everyday driving. People use it as a reference point for size because it’s common and easy to compare. In the podcast, it’s likely being used to describe whether another car is bigger or smaller.
“Raval” here seems to refer to the Cooper Raval. The podcast mentions it because someone thought it looked really cool. It’s mainly being discussed for its appearance rather than charging or performance details.
The Renault Twingo is a small car made for city driving. It’s meant to be easy to park and maneuver in tight spaces. The podcast mentions it as one of the compact cars that stood out.
This means the electric car’s battery system runs on a higher voltage. Higher voltage can help the car accept faster charging—if the charger supports it.
This is the maximum charging speed the car claims it can take from a fast charger. Real charging usually won’t stay at the absolute maximum the whole time.
Ionity is a company that runs fast charging stations. They’re known for chargers that can deliver a lot of power quickly, which helps some electric cars charge faster.
Here, “range” means how many miles or kilometers the car can drive before the battery runs low. They’re saying the charge added a lot of that distance quickly.
ADAS is the car’s set of safety and driving-assist features, like keeping you in your lane or adjusting speed. The host is saying those helpers can feel jumpy and too aggressive at times.
They’re talking about the car’s speed-control feature. They say it can brake harder than expected, and after you change lanes it doesn’t get back up to speed immediately.
They mention XPeng, which is a company that makes electric cars. They’re saying they’ll likely film or talk about XPeng vehicles next week.
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Alex Lowe: I'm Alex, he's Jim, and this is the Charging Status EV podcast. How you doing, Jim? I'm alright. I'm I'm chilled. I've been working since ⁓ I took my son to school at like twenty past eight or something, but I've been in this car since seven o'clock this morning.
working from here because it's just too hot to do anything in my house. And everything just keeps shutting itself down in there because it's all too hot. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ So yeah, hence I'm working from my drive from my Tesla Model 3.
Fair enough. Yeah, I was filming. It's very EV friendly, yeah. It's amazing though. I've been in I've been in camp mode for since seven o'clock this morning. It's ⁓ eight minutes past twelve and it's taken about twenty miles off the battery range.
That's right, isn't it? And outside at the moment it's thirty-four degrees. And in here I've got the air con set to sixteen and I've got the cooled seats on. Nice. So I don't think that's terrible. That's alright, isn't it?
I don't think that's a massive issue. And plus you can charge it cheaply at home, so Exactly, yeah. Yeah. So we went to Goodwood yesterday, didn't we? We did. This year I didn't I didn't turn into a grapefruit, which was good.
No, you'd actually put some small amount of sun cream on. Yeah. What what is your weird thing about sun cream? It's just it's it's the texture, I think. Like it it's sticky. Yeah. Well it depends what kind of sun cream you go for.
I suppose, yeah. I just don't really ⁓ like it. It's all slippery instead. ⁓ Okay. Yeah, I just don't really like sun cream that much, but we've got an aerosol one, you just like sort of spray it on your face.
So, paraphrase his aerosol ones. ⁓ Well I'm not pink today, so Well, I n I nearly passed out on ⁓ you know, I I left to go and meet friend of the show, ⁓ Jerome Andre. Yeah. ⁓ I was walking up to where Jerome was and ⁓ I got about as far as like well, firstly, I went to the toilet and I was seems to be urinating rose wine, which I think is a s sign that you may be a little like less than ideally hydrated.
And then I I got almost to the media place and I just I nearly keeled over. Like I just started getting a bit oo. So I went into the media place and I stood at about three centimeters from an AC unit that was on sixteen degrees for twenty five minutes.
⁓ and then I had about three pints of water. And then yeah, when Jerome turned up, we went and got a a beer and that seemed to sort me out but a med medicinal lager. Yeah. But yeah, it's it was tough, wasn't it?
It was unbelievable. I s I was sat with you and Chris and Josie as well, having s we're just we're just chatting and I could feel the sweat on my head just like dripping. It was horrible. Yeah. Yeah. You looked disgusting as well.
I didn't like to say anything, but I I was aware, yeah. I was aware I didn't look great. You look gorgeous. Great. ⁓ So you went up the hill and I didn't. Yeah. So ⁓ Hannah from Emota JQ took me up the hill in the Emota seven.
⁓ and everyone kept saying, ⁓ I'm sorry it's taken so long. I thought I've got air cooled seats, I've got air conditioning in the car. It's all good. The Emota seven, my favourite of the Emodas. Yeah, it's a very nice car really.
Yeah. I'd like to steal a fully electric one. Yeah, same. That'd be quite good, I think. Yeah. Yeah. We did we did have someone w walk past the window when we're queuing, just said, ⁓ that'll run out of charge in five minutes.
And it was like ⁓ yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's there's a there's a lot of that sort of talk going on at Goodwood though, isn't there? There is. Yeah. Just the just the nature of the beast. Yeah.
⁓ so I was supposed to be going up in an MGS nine plug in hybrid and it got cancelled. ⁓ basically Goodwood just informed MG that they could only take the Cyberstar up for some reason. So that that was the end of that.
But ⁓ yeah, no no big drama. ⁓ the MG stand for me was one of the more interesting stands there. ⁓ it was ⁓ it it was large. ⁓ but obviously they had those two concepts. That cyber stick concept looks unbelievable, very, very cool.
But the really cool one for me was that little MG Go. Yes. Yeah, look really cool, didn't it? Yeah. Th I mean that could be a very special car. And you can see where it's it's not one of those concepts that's really outlandish.
So you could see that being more or less the production vehicle when it comes out. Hm. It looks like a cross between a mini and well, I don't know what else actually. Just it looks like a mini slightly in terms of design.
Mm. But it looks it looks its own thing as well, I think. Yeah. ⁓ did I did go by the stand a couple of times to try and have a word with friend of the show, ⁓ David Allenson. But ⁓ unfortunately it was just a complete I'm gonna use it, bun fight.
Yep. ⁓ ev every time I went to the stand and ⁓ I I did get to have a chat with Lauren and John for a couple of minutes, but but that was it really. ⁓ but yeah, loads of interest there. The the real standout stand, if you like, though, w was BYD, wasn't it?
Which It looked like someone had built a new apartment building inside of Goodwood. Yeah. I've I've spent three hours this morning writing an article about yesterday that I'm sure nobody will read because it's on my website.
⁓ and I think I said in that in fact, let me quote from it. So I was quite I was quite pleased with this. Hold on. Where are we? Apologies for the ⁓ the poor quality of our video today, ⁓ l listeners slash viewers.
⁓ I'm in a I'm in a hotel room and Jim's Jim's in his car, so Yeah. Do that. It is what it is. ⁓ here we go. One of the biggest talking points was undoubtedly the enormous BYD stand. Calling it a stand is a bit unfair, really.
I dare say it was large enough to warrant its own postal code. This either demonstrates their confidence in aggression or could be a simple display of good old fashioned willy waving. Whatever the case, it certainly made an impact.
That's good to be fair. There you go. Yeah. It was it was worth the wait, wasn't it? Yes, they had Yang Wang, they had the BYD brand Denzer as well. So it was pretty Denzer Z, the Denzer Z Racing. Yeah.
It's bonkers. I think Nort Nort sixty two's one point nine. Jesus. Two hundred and seventeen mile an hour, fifteen hundred PS of power, and I think it's the ten to ninety seven percent charge in nine minutes.
Wow. If you're obviously plugged into a one and a half megawatt charger, which ⁓ obviously we've got three in my street, but I don't know about yours. No very good. Just just going back to the MG Go though, the the like the rear quarter on that, with those flared arches, I'm sure they'll tighten it all up with the production one.
But if they kept those flared arches, ⁓ suit you, sir. Yeah. That looks very good. Yeah. I'd ⁓ that'll probably end up being called the MG two, possibly. I'd have thought. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Not sure though.
Or MG Go is a good name actually, it's like the up. It is. Exclamation exclamation mark. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think anyone would be ⁓ mad at that. No, I think MG Go is good. Yeah, but that could be a really sort of proper little hot hatch, couldn't it?
It could be, yeah. No, it's good it's good to see them Doing some more interesting stuff. ⁓ I mean, hatchbacks in the UK we we ⁓ have historically loved hatchbacks, but obviously it's more S C Vs now.
But I do think there's more of an appetite still for hatchbacks if it if they were available. MG's like really evolved as a brand though, isn't it? I mean, when you think when when it first came back over here, it was just about value for money.
It was just about cheap cars, really. Yeah. And now it's they're developing it into a I mean you've you've got that I ⁓ five at the moment, I've just had it. ⁓ they are developing into sort of a a something for everyone brand.
Mm. And I I think it's really good to see the the the value's still there. But ⁓ yeah, I think it's all quite nice and positive from MG. What what took your eye on the day, particularly? ⁓ I'll be honest.
I I did spend enough a a good amount of time looking around everything. But the s the heat sort of I'm sorry to keep winching about the heat, but it sort of distracts you a little bit, doesn't it? The sort of Yeah.
⁓ it was quite nice to see the ⁓ Honda Super N in person 'cause I haven't seen that yet. ⁓ yeah, that's cool. and what else was that? ⁓ the ⁓ Ionic three. ⁓ I love the Ionic three. Yeah. ⁓ Jody said something interesting.
She said she said it was a baby Genesis G V sixty, which I definitely saw. Like it ⁓ that's a shout, actually. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. Gosh, she usually talks so much rubbish. That's Yeah, she does.
Re really good. Yeah. ⁓ you've got your earphones in, that's good. Yeah. ⁓ sorry, Jos Josie's in the room, so mm. ⁓ Yeah it has got like some nods to G V sixty for sure. Yeah. And it's it's not as I thought it'd be a much bigger car when you look at the pictures, but it actually is a bit A bit smaller than I thought, which is actually quite a nice thing because it like it got too many big cars really.
So I think I think that's gonna do really well. I couldn't decide if it was sort of I know it's s a a bit of a crossover, but I couldn't decide if it was kind of golf sized or a tiny bit smaller. Hmm.
When I was reading online last night, that it said it was a Pumagen E sort of size car. Which is Right, okay. It's difficult to sort of gauge 'cause it's by itself. How what the size is, but no. there's a there's a lot of stuff I didn't look at just because of.
Did did you ⁓ see the Cooper Raval? ⁓ I did actually. That's a really cool looking thing. Yeah, no, I did. My favourite wheels of the day were the Cooper Raval wheels. Yeah, they look pretty good.
⁓ it w it had a little poke inside it. It looks quite a nice interior layout and nice small little car. It's obviously a preview of what The ID two's gonna be in terms of size, so no, I think they've done a really good job of that.
And the ⁓ the Cooper stand had ⁓ the loudest music, I think, of any stand at Goodwills. W well, I would agree with you, but I was on the Renault stand and arguably the Renault stand was lo it was like they were trying to get people to leave the stand 'cause it was so unbelievably loud.
But Really only when you were sort of towards the back of the stand. Obviously where the speakers were, but it was it was unbelievable. Yeah. ⁓ and ⁓ I was walking around with with Brian and ⁓ Brian said like is it some sort of test?
No. if if you can hold up to the music. But ⁓ quite a few of ⁓ had like music that felt like it was too loud. Yeah. I know I'm nearly fifty, but I don't think I'm saying that as an old man. I think I'm just saying that because I've got ears.
Yeah. Yeah. I can't remember if my watch went off with a loud alert, because they do, I don't think Apple Watch it tells you if you're in an area that's too loud. ⁓ I can't remember if it said that, but yeah, it was some of those stands were a bit a bit too loud.
But yeah. Yeah. Hmm. ⁓ what else did we see? The ⁓ ba ba ba ba ba the BMW ⁓ concept. I didn't actually go and see that. I didn't didn't have time to go and look at it. No way. But no. Bit of a shame.
That I mean, well, what a thing. What a thing. And I was chatting with one of the product guys for BMW and he's suggesting the again, that's one of those concepts that's not going to be all that far off the production car.
but they've gone really wide with the arches on that. So I'm sure that will all get tucked in a little bit. It'd be nice if they kept sort of the same proportions but just shrunk the car slightly. ⁓ because I think actually having those exaggerated arches makes it look really quite special.
Yeah, that's that's that's that's fair. So And their first electric ⁓ car needs to be special, doesn't it? Hm. So is that gonna be the new ⁓ three, do think? Is that the size car we're thinking of?
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So it'd be the the MI three or the I three ⁓ I suppose. I3M. Yeah. Hmm. I think there's I think this year there was more maybe some more debuts than there was last year. Hmm. There seemed to be a lot lot more stuff to look at.
⁓ and just walking around the first glance paddock. So for those who don't know, it's like an arrangement of tents or like gazebo things, where a load of the cars that go on the hill sort of chill out.
And there's so many things like the Renault Turbo 3E, Twingo. It was cool it was really cool to see all those cars in person, which was really good. Yeah, very cool. ⁓ I I think the important thing is well, is like we obviously we go and we focus on just the new cars and like the road cars really.
Yeah. But so much of Festival of Speed and I mean we we could have easily spent a very full day just going round that stuff. Although I don't feel like there are as many manufacturer stands there as normal.
⁓ but the other side of it, like the the motorsport stuff and some of that classic stuff that's there and the hypercars and all that kind I mean, it is huge that event. And I don't know if you notice when you're walking around, but the amount of different languages and accents you hear as you're walking around.
⁓ yeah. So so many Americans come over for it now. Yeah. ⁓ It's a huge event and it is really quite a unique one. Yeah, it is very unique. I mean, when you walk into the event, you walk through the F one area and the the amount of retro F one cars they bought bought out out of storage and just to show off and that sort of thing.
Like people love that sort of stuff. So it's it's a a unique opportunity to see loads and loads of sides of the car world really. ⁓ it's very busy though, isn't it? I'm sure that something like I can't remember the number, but I think over the weekend they have about three hundred thousand people there or something.
Wow. ⁓ so the the traffic can be interesting. Mm-hmm. I I left actually like reasonably early because of of the heat and I just didn't feel great. So I probably left about half four. And it wasn't too bad getting out of Chichester.
It probably took about half an hour to get out of Chichester. ⁓ but on the way in the last I think last three miles took me an hour. ⁓ and I I left my house here at like before six. Mm. ⁓ so my advice to anyone going to Goodwood is arrive ⁓ leave way earlier than you think is necessary.
⁓ and if you leave between about half five and seven you're probably gonna sit in the car park for two hours trying to get out. So yeah, maybe arrive super early, leave a bit earlier, or just resign yourself to the fact that you're gonna be sat in traffic and don't get too upset.
Yeah, there's not much you can do is there. Yeah. But on the like those super hot days, there was a little bit of aggro going on in the car park yesterday. Was there? ⁓ and it wasn't even that bad getting out of the car park.
But I think people have just you you're so tired from walking around in in that heat especially and you know, tempers get a bit flared, don't they? But ⁓ yeah. It always seems to be either incredibly hot or incredibly wet.
I've never had like a a slightly overcast day at Goodwich, I don't think. That would be quite nice, wouldn't it? This is a bit extreme. Yeah. Yeah. It it actually wouldn't be a bad idea to maybe bring it forward to June or something, but Yeah, I think so.
It's probably too late for that now. Yeah, they're probably planning next years already. ⁓ I I bet they're planning two years ahead. ⁓ Those massive events, they're usually so far ahead of it. ⁓ so where are you today?
Where is your hotel today? ⁓ I'm at the Moxie in the NEC. ⁓ yeah. So Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So hence the sort of slightly darker background. I've got quite a bit of studio lighting going on though.
⁓ Yeah. For that. Yeah. Wow. Moody. Yeah. Moody. ⁓ actually, ⁓ I charged the MGI ⁓ five incredibly quickly yesterday. I said it was so bad. That was unbelievable, wasn't it? It was. So ⁓ that car is an eight hundred volt car.
The one I got is a hundred kilowatt hours at the battery size. On paper it can charge at nearly four hundred kilowatt, which you kind of take with a pinch of salt sometimes, because you'd think, ⁓ I'll I'll never see that high.
I plugged it into ⁓ an Ionity charger and straight away it hit like three sixty, three seventy. We walked quite quickly into the services, got a Greg's, came back and the car had added two hundred miles of range.
In eight minutes. That's unbelievable, isn't it? I I st I I staggered. I've not seen I in person I've not seen a car charge that quick. Hmm. I d I don't think I've seen one even the INA six when I did that long trip.
I don't think we got that sort of number from it. And you sent me the screenshot over, didn't you? And I I've just it's like, What? How? Yeah, I know. ⁓ It that is unbelievable. Like, seriously, no one needs more than that ever.
That was too quick. There's actually no queue inside the services. If there was a queue, I'd have added way more charge than I wanted to. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, yeah. And we were talking ⁓ about it, 'cause RNT is not cheap.
It was eighty five P but sometimes you wanna pay for convenience versus Yeah. If that makes sense. It's worth the price of that at that rate, 'cause it's like I'll stop for eight minutes, I'm I'm gone.
Whereas if it's slow and it's still that price, it's a bit like ⁓ it's I had a quick charge the other day on a grid surf, but it was a slow one. like I think a fifty kilowatt. ⁓ And it was still eighty nine P.
And you're like, Are you taking the mic all here? It's too expensive out. Like, why? Yeah. And it was really bad as well. There were two of ⁓ there. One of ⁓ was completely broken. Yep. And the other one, you know, when you get to the point where the touch screen needs you to actually assault it in order to register a Yeah.
Yeah. So Yeah. I just think they should everything now, I think we're out of stage where it should be. You plug the car in, tap your payment card, and that's it. Like you almost shouldn't need to do anything, press anything.
⁓ No. But still like I don't know, you've you've got like these unnecessary screen presses. And then this screen's about as responsive as a flannel. Yeah. So yeah, not amazing. But no, I was very impressed with that.
I don't know if it was the temperature because we stopped at that exact services with the Lotus and Maya last year and it didn't charge that quickly. So that was in December. So whereas now it's nice and like it's warm.
Yeah, I'm sure the temperature helped. Mm-hmm. But that's just I was blown away. Crazy. It's very good. Yeah. ⁓ what what do you think of the IM five? I think that car is very good value for money. Mm.
But it's also you get a lot for your money as well. Have have we talked about this on the other podcast? I think we talked about it briefly. Mm. But I've spent a lot more time with it. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ I just think it I just think it's excellent.
There's a few issues with ADAS where it's a bit jittery and a bit panicky. Yeah. ⁓ and sorry, the cruise control as well. But apart from that, like everything surrounding the whole car is just it's just very good.
I didn't think the cruise control was too bad actually. It's a bit strange. It it w it slows down very aggressively. And then if you do merge, if you do pull out into a lane, it takes a little while to get stuff going.
And then if you go around a bend, it can sort of break because a car's in the lane next to you. It's a bit weird. But but yeah. But the It's a very well rounded car. I could tell. Yes, I think it's brilliant.
I was really impressed for that. Yeah. ⁓ by the way, we should just mention that our podcasts are probably not going to go out in ⁓ in order of dates to be recorded, are they? Like this one will probably come out before the one we did the other day.
Yeah. ⁓ simply because this is about Goodwood and Goodwood's just happened and therefore, you know, this one needs to go out first. We're recording one in Germany next week, aren't we? We are. Yes. Yeah.
Not sure where in Germany we're gonna record that. I think we should do it in Lederhosen. Later. ⁓ Possibly with a couple of large frothy jugs. And maybe some beers. ⁓ dear. Yeah, we'll be we're seeing ⁓ some X Peng stuff next week.
I'm not we're not really sure what cars. We don't know what we're seeing, do we? Not really. I've got a rough idea based on what they've launched, but I got no idea. ⁓ So I expect some videos on our respective channels of the cars that we see.
Yeah. So yeah, all good. Yeah. I think that's it really. ⁓ nice short episode. Short and sweet. Yeah, short and sweet. yeah, ⁓ if you like this podcast ⁓ for any reason, ⁓ please please subscribe on YouTube and on Apple Podcasts and all the various bit different platforms that there are.
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About this episode
At Goodwood, the hosts compare EV show moments and real-world comfort and range tradeoffs, from Tesla camp mode draining “about twenty miles” to cabin cooling with “the air con set to sixteen” and “the cooled seats on.” They then zoom in on fast charging, citing an “eight hundred volt car” that hit “three sixty, three seventy” on Ionity and added “two hundred miles of range. In eight minutes.” The discussion also covers ADAS quirks and what they’ll film next in Germany.
Welcome to Charging Status, the EV and automotive podcast hosted by Jim Starling from DefinitelyNotAGuru and Alex Lowe from The Interface Cars.
Each episode covers the latest electric vehicle news, EV ownership experiences, charging infrastructure, new car launches, industry developments, technology trends, road trips, and honest discussions about the future of motoring. Whether you're already driving an EV, considering making the switch, or simply interested in the rapidly changing automotive landscape, Charging Status delivers real-world opinions, expert insight, and engaging conversations from two passionate automotive content creators.
Join Jim and Alex as they discuss the biggest stories affecting EV drivers, explore the challenges and opportunities facing the industry, and share their experiences from behind the wheel of the latest electric and hybrid vehicles.
