Flippin' the Switch
Flippin' the Switch
S5 E9: EV Unplugged - The Real Deal on Electric Vehicles
Ever wondered if electric vehicles are really worth the hype? Join us as we explore the world of electric vehicle ownership in honor of Electric Vehicle Month. Guests Quincy Martin and Jody Horn bring you firsthand experiences on the pros and cons of driving an EV. Quincy, a Tesla Model S PD100 owner, shares his enthusiasm for the car’s sleek design, powerful performance, and impressive range. Meanwhile, Jody recounts his initial challenges with range anxiety during a work trip This episode promises to equip you with a well-rounded perspective on making the switch to electric. This episode is packed with insights to help you make an informed decision about the future of your driving experience.
Run Time: 28 minutes
Welcome listeners to Season 5, episode 9 of Flippin' the Switch. September is Electric Vehicle Month and we're so excited to bring you a jam-packed discussion about the pros and cons of driving an EV. Crystal Phillips interviews Jody Horn and Quincy Martin, who both have their own unique experiences driving different types of EVs. They join us to share their insights on the do's and don'ts of EV driving. And, of course, following the interview portion of the podcast, natalie Oldani will take you through the need to knows for this month's happenings at the co-op. This is an episode you don't want to miss, and with that let's start Flippin' the Switch. And with that, let's start Flippin' the Switch.
Speaker 2:In this edition of Flippin' the Switch, we are shining a light on electric vehicles. Some of us call them EVs, some of us have fantastic reviews for the EV and while others may not. So during the month of September we highlight EV Driving Week, and this month we are honored to have two of our employees of Jones-Onslow with us that have had some experiences with electric vehicles. So we welcome Quincy Martin, who owns an electric vehicle.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do.
Speaker 2:And we welcome Jody Horn, who has driven an electric vehicle. That is correct, all right. So we've got a series of questions and, just to let our listeners know, this is meant to be fun, educational, so there may be some banter, so we hope you enjoy it. Our first question is what was the first thing that attracted each of you to try or own an electric vehicle? All right, we'll start with you, quincy, because you own one, I do.
Speaker 3:I originally just liked the idea of having an electric car. I've always had gas cars, so I bought a Tesla. I like the model. I have a Tesla Model S PD100, which means that it's a long range and it's a performance vehicle, so it very, very fast.
Speaker 3:so this thing is, it's all torque so you were not buying it to save the planet for sure I won't say absolutely not, but uh, that that kind of was a part of it, maybe a little bit, but yeah, I like the style of it and I just I just wanted an electric car.
Speaker 2:So I mean, and you, got one, yeah, and I bought. I bought one, yeah. All right, jody. Now you were intrigued to try the electric vehicle. What made you decide to try one?
Speaker 4:Mine was more out of necessity. I had to take a trip to Raleigh for work and my wife's vehicle was in the shop, so she was driving my vehicle. So I was like, hey, we've got an EV at work, I'll just talk with the guys and see if I can take it, give it a shot, see what it's all about. And I did.
Speaker 2:Yes, you did, and you were driving around a small smartphone. It was a small smartphone. Yes, it was not a Tesla.
Speaker 4:I won't go into the name to keep from bashing the maker, but they are not known for making electric vehicles. We'll put it that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's fair to say. Now I know one of you had some range anxiety. That's a thing you know. You hear people that get electric vehicles and they're kind of nervous Like can I make it to Raleigh on one charge? Now I'm going to start this with Jody because I know Jody had an experience with range anxiety Can you? I know that's like an infamous thing, you know you think about like the meter. It's not as simple as going and just going to the gas pump. So can you tell us a little bit about your range anxiety and kind of what your experience with the charge was?
Speaker 4:Yeah. So I knew the distance between Jacksonville and Raleigh and when I got in the vehicle I was like, okay, well, this is telling me it's fully charged, it's got a range of X. I was like, well, that's plenty of range to get to get to Raleigh, and I'm sure there'll be charging stations. And what have you? Once I get there and this was more of a research issue I didn't look at where the different charging stations were between my two points. As I was going, you know, in route to Raleigh, I noticed that the distance to my destination and the range I had was starting to separate exponentially.
Speaker 5:I knew.
Speaker 4:I wasn't going to make it all the way to Raleigh before I had to stop and charge. So about halfway through the trip I realized very quickly that I was going to have to find somewhere to charge. And then I started to panic because on 40, believe it or not there's not a lot of places that you can just pull over and charge. I think once I passed Warsaw that was the last charging station until I could get to, probably, fuquay Arena.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 4:Okay, and so I really started to panic. It turned a two-hour trip into a three-hour trip.
Speaker 2:And I think your experience is a lot of the people that have not ever been in an EV. That's the fear that they have. Is that range anxiety? Now I think you might have something to the contrary of that, quincy what's the range for your Tesla, and do you ever get anxiety about charging it while you're on trips?
Speaker 3:I don't, so I'm going to need probably a paycheck from Tesla on this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Elon.
Speaker 3:Musk, exactly. So. I think the biggest misconception for folks that don't own an EV and specifically a Tesla because it has the largest charging network is that you don't need to plan for your trip. It's no different than if you drive a gas vehicle. So if you drive a gas vehicle and you know your car only goes maybe 250 miles to a full tank, then you plan to stop at the gas station. Well, it's the same thing.
Speaker 3:The good thing with Tesla and all the technology is that it tells you. So when I punch in, hey, I'm going to go to this location, it'll tell me the distance and it'll pop up and say, hey, here are the charging stations that you probably need to stop at and here are the distances. So it'll say within 100 miles or 50 miles. Now my particular vehicle. It charges and I get 300 miles per charge. But the caveat to that is no different than a gas vehicle. If I'm running the AC, if I'm speeding, if I'm on a gravel road or anything like that, then of course that's going to draw down the battery. So I have never been concerned about it. I have my vehicle probably maybe two and a half years now, but I understood what I was buying when I bought it Right. So I knew to check and okay, hey, when I go this place, or you know if I'm going up to Raleigh, cause I've been there a few times, actually that's where I bought the vehicle from.
Speaker 2:I never had anxiety about it because I just planned for it.
Speaker 4:Now I will say Jody, you didn't have that feature inside of your car. There is no. When you punch in where you're going, it's like, all right, there you go. Yeah, this is your distance. Had I known that in the beginning, I would have done more research as to where I needed to go, how I needed to get there, and kind of mapped my way through, and then it wouldn't have been nearly as big of an issue. But because I didn't know Right.
Speaker 4:It was mainly ignorance on my part for not understanding the ins and outs of an electric vehicle. Yeah, that was my thing. I didn't have that type of navigation.
Speaker 2:Well, with that, we'll talk about actually charging the vehicle, because one of you has a Tesla and you'll see those supercharger banks all throughout the network, especially in North Carolina. I think. They've got a lot of stations, like at Smithfields they've partnered with and various other service stations and you name it. And then you'll see some other chargers that might be like a fast charger or level two, that are for non-Teslas. Now, I think with the Tesla charger you can use any of these, but you have to have an adapter for your car. Let's talk about, like, what that experience is for charging and how long it actually took. I'm going to start with you, quincy, like how long does it take for you to charge your car?
Speaker 3:All right. So the car did come with the adapter so you can pretty much use any type of charger. The supercharge is what most folks see at the whatever various locations, like at Smithfields supercharge. So if I pull up on I don't know, maybe 10 percent battery, which I never go that low, but if it's 10 percent it may take 30 minutes for a supercharge. But I think when I bought the, when I bought the vehicle, like I said, I did my research so I already had in mind that I was going to have a charger installed in my garage.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And so maybe I had the vehicle maybe less than a month and then I had the charger installed and I just plug it up in the evening and it charges overnight. So it's really there's no headache for me making sure that because the vehicle's always charged Right. But yeah, I think with the Tesla charging network, you know, when it comes to traveling and things of that nature, like I said, the vehicle will tell you is, you know, it's a smart vehicle, so to speak, sometimes.
Speaker 2:But it's a smart vehicle.
Speaker 3:It tells you, hey, if you're going this distance, then you need to make sure that you are, you know, charging here here, here.
Speaker 2:So what are you doing during those 30 minutes while you're waiting for it to charge?
Speaker 3:Well, you know it is a smart vehicle, so I watch Hulu, I watch Netflix.
Speaker 1:I play video games.
Speaker 3:I do whatever I want to do. I mean, it's pretty cool and you think about it. If you're stopping, you know, for maybe 10 minutes for a gas vehicle, okay, well, you're stopping 30 minutes if you have a Tesla at a supercharger, but you plan for that.
Speaker 2:Right Now, Jody, what was your charge time like with your vehicle? That you drove.
Speaker 4:So I was unaware of the different types and kinds and companies that run the chargers and the different levels of you know, whether it's a fast charger or level two or whatever. Whatever type of charger it was and the ones I was running into were the slow chargers, they were just a Like a level two.
Speaker 4:Level two, just a. You know, no quick charge, no supercharger. And the first time I stopped I was outside of Fuquay Arena on my way to Raleigh and it said it was going to, and this was about 5, 5.30 in the afternoon. It told me it was going to be fully charged at around midnight to 1 am. So did you start considering some new hobbies?
Speaker 2:I started considering jail time. Oh, okay, I was considering prison time.
Speaker 4:You know what is going to happen to me if I set this car on fire right now.
Speaker 2:That's a long time to be waiting.
Speaker 4:And I was like, am I going to take a nap? You know what's going to happen? Because I was meeting some colleagues at a restaurant.
Speaker 2:And you're getting hungry at this point, and I was like my nabs are gone.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 4:It was outside of an office complex, so I get it. You know, you got an electric vehicle at 8 o'clock in the morning. You plug in, you come out, you're done, right, you go home. But I was having a hard time navigating what kind of charger I needed and I was sitting there while I was charging, researching on my phone, trying to figure out what can I do, and it really caused a lot of anxiety and grief and I pray that there was not a microphone hidden somewhere in that car it wasn't a good.
Speaker 4:It wasn't a good experience. Now I did find later, uh, after I was able to sit down and actually map out my, I felt like Magellan sailing around a Cape of good hope when I was planning my route back from Raleigh to Jacksonville, you know, trying to find a supercharger, Cause there was. I found one close to where I was staying in the hotel, but on the way back I had to find up one halfway.
Speaker 4:Halfway which I found one in Smithfield at the outlet malls, and so that one I think it took 30-45 minutes for it okay, so about the same time as Quincy's about the same time, same time as Quincy's and um, so I mean I've you know, I found I got up walking around the outlets and you know whatever while I was charging, but that for me I'm used to pulling in anywhere I need to popping the gas pump in filling up.
Speaker 2:Being in control of that situation.
Speaker 4:I know you know understanding your vehicle, knowing what your range is regardless of what the gauge tells you, because, yeah, your gauge is telling you 178 miles or whatever, but you know that it's really only about 100 miles before you need to stop. Understanding that by being used to driving the vehicle is part of it and, like I said, this was my first time ever driving an electric vehicle. I'd only been in one, maybe two or three times I've been at Roden and Quincy's.
Speaker 4:We've had a vendor that owned one for a while, I wanted people to understand the anxiety that you can have if you don't educate yourself on the vehicle, on what you're buying, know what you're buying, knowing what you're getting into, which is what Quincy did. He did that. He did his research. Yeah, didn't find out that this is what he was going to do. Now, if I had driven a Tesla, versus the vehicle that I drove, probably a completely different experience because of the technology that was there.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I'd say you did have a new hobby that was built because you learned to navigate maps even better. And you knew where the chargers were, so I mean that was a small accomplishment. So, learn new skills even while you're doing that.
Speaker 4:I think I learned some new words while I was doing it as well. Probably I don't know if I invented some new words.
Speaker 2:This question is probably more directed to Quincy because, as we have learned, jody is not an ownership. An owner of an EV Probably won't be anytime soon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 4:I don't see it, I don't know.
Speaker 2:We're going to see Now the cost of ownership. That's kind of one of those things a lot of people are questioning because you know the big picture is long term. You consider that you may be saving money because you're not having to go to the gas pumps, because you're going to be charging. So how do you feel like the cost of ownership with the EV versus a traditional car?
Speaker 3:Well, I think, outside of the initial cost of my particular vehicle, it's pretty low maintenance, low cost. Let's see probably the four things that you may have to do to the vehicle and this may take years tires, brakes now, the windshield wiper fluid and the windshield wiper blades, Because nothing's in the vehicle, it's combustible.
Speaker 6:No oil changes no oil changes yeah.
Speaker 3:No, checking the carburetor. No, none of that stuff. You know you just get in and go, yeah, every now and then, for whatever reason, the vehicle will go to sleep. Go Every now and then, for whatever reason the vehicle will go to sleep. So if I have it on a charge overnight and I'm getting ready to come up and go to work and unplug it, it'll turn on, but none of the screens will come on.
Speaker 2:So you have like a temperamental teenager that wanted to wake up, I guess.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's been a while, since I had a teenager. But yeah, it's pretty close. But the thing about it is it's just like a computer. So you know there's a certain procedure that you have to do. This normally occurs if I'm parking on Friday in the garage and I don't drive it until Monday morning.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, then it'll go to sleep, so it kind of has to reboot its systems.
Speaker 4:Well, you push the little two buttons on the steering wheel and hit the brake. Is that the?
Speaker 3:control, delete in the basically, okay, basically, so yeah. Now, when it first happened to me, I think um, I may have had the vehicle maybe a month I was like oh crap I read everything moment, but I didn't I didn't read about the vehicle going to sleep. That's the part that I missed. So, obviously, after it happened, I went to research. Oh yeah, that's normal. It happened a couple of times when I left it parked. Uh, if I took a flight out and I had it parked at the uh at the airport.
Speaker 3:It happened. But that first time it happened it kind of freaked me out a little bit I knew it was on charge and I knew it said 100, but outside of that there's really no, no maintenance calls. That's the great thing. Now I own gas vehicles so so I still got to go get oil changes and everything with those, but with the Tesla, it just sits there and I'm ready to go when.
Speaker 2:I'm ready to go. How much do you think it costs to charge your Tesla?
Speaker 3:Most folks that told me about it didn't own Teslas, or if they owned a Tesla, they didn't have a charger at their house, right Because they were afraid that oh my electric bill is going to be through the roof, I think when I got my first bill I maybe saw maybe a $10, $15 difference and that's about average. Now I'm with Duke. I don't know why I don't have us there.
Speaker 2:I know it's Duke. I was going to say you could have gotten a rebate.
Speaker 3:Exactly so they do send me a little. If I ask for it, they'll send a little. I I guess a little summary of when I charge my ev and what it actually costs, and it's it's less than 20 bucks a month to charge.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you can identify, like where that charge exactly exactly right, yeah, so um, yeah, no issues from there now I know you bought your car because you wanted, like I actually. I remember and I can quote this whenever I talk to you about your car when you first bought it, you you're like yeah, I got a new whip.
Speaker 5:Now for our listeners that don't know what a whip is.
Speaker 2:that's like your new speedy ride. Now let's talk about a Tesla or any EV. It's not loud, you don't have like the roar of the engine. Now I know Jody likes to put the hammer down and wants to hear like I could imagine you like driving a big diesel and it's like revving. I think I actually saw you driving a big truck leaving work yesterday.
Speaker 4:I have a big truck. It's not a diesel, but it is a big truck.
Speaker 2:Now was the EV a little too quiet for you.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm usually. I'm usually got the radio going, so it's not usually silence, but I could definitely tell it was weird when I first got in it. There was no exhaust noise, there was no engine noise. You could hear the tires you know going across the asphalt. So yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2:Now is it too quiet for you, or have you?
Speaker 4:gotten used to it? Absolutely not, so it's interesting.
Speaker 3:Being in this environment. A bunch of young Marines are driving all these chargers and all these vehicles. Oh yeah, and all these vehicles, oh yeah and you know some of them don't understand that a Tesla, and an EV for that matter, but a Tesla in particular, it's all torque. Now, the only thing is that there are a lot of ducks where I live at geese oh yeah, they have, you know.
Speaker 2:They don't care.
Speaker 3:I don't want to hit them but they have no idea that it's a vehicle until they actually are looking at it. They're like right there. So a lot of times I have to blow the horn for them, and you know the kids that are running around. I have to make sure that I'm super slow going through my neighborhood because they can't hear it coming. And if they're, you know, distracted doing other things, the next thing they do is look up and the car is there.
Speaker 5:So those are the only things that give me a little bit of concern.
Speaker 2:Mainly the kids, not the I cook the geese quick, but anyway that's illegal.
Speaker 1:Hunting geese no geese were harmed in this podcast.
Speaker 4:No geese were harmed in this podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now I guess this kind of rolls into like perception People think EVs might be slow. What is your perception of that?
Speaker 4:No, no, they're not slow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not at all I think just in general. Like I said, it's it's all torque, so you don't have to worry about it revving up or when you hit the pedal it's going Um. In my particular case, like I said, I bought a performance model Right. I haven't really had the opportunity to test. I think I was talking with Veronica she that I can go. So my model is actually a PD100 Ludicrous and I have a Ludicrous Plus Plus.
Speaker 2:Of course he does.
Speaker 3:Which means that it can go from zero to six in like 2.3. But I have never tested the Plus on it. I've started it but what it does is if you hit the Plus, it'll tell you say are you going to beg for your mama? And it's just like you said are you going to beg for your mama.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's hilarious, are you mama? And it's what she says.
Speaker 4:It's I'm gonna beg for your mama. Oh, you sure you want to do this. I love really. Hit that button again.
Speaker 3:What it does, is it? It charges the battery up to its full capacity, oh wow.
Speaker 2:And then it launches you have to go to like a test track. You have to go to I have, I haven't done it yet. I plan on doing it.
Speaker 3:But, um, I drive around in ludicrous mode, which gives me that little extra oomph to it.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I haven't did the ludicrous Plus but I plan on doing it sometime With your Ludicrous model. Do you have a perception? People come up and are like what kind of car is this?
Speaker 3:People ask all the time. Well, they ask what the numbers on the back stand for. So it's P100D and I just explain to them. It's a performance model. The 100 is the distance that I have a dual battery in it.
Speaker 2:I'd say people think your car is cool.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'd say people think your car is cool. Oh, yeah, a lot of people, yeah, a lot of people think it's cool A lot of people you know they'll ask about it and you know I'll talk to them about it A lot of misconceptions about owning a Tesla, mainly dealing with hey man, what about the charging? I'd be afraid to run out of. You know, if I'm going this particular distance. I'll say well, you plan for it, just like you plan.
Speaker 2:Do you have perceptions that people just come up to you and ask you about your car? Yes, especially with that.
Speaker 4:Jormse on the side, so I had to be careful because the name of the company was Platt all over the side.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's true, it's true.
Speaker 4:And there may or may not have been a few phone calls on my trip back from Raleigh, the people that I knew, that knew I had driven that vehicle. I always I led with yes, yes, I drove this electric vehicle, but here's what happened and then went into my story about my navigation and and all my, all my stuff going to and from raleigh. And so it wasn't just a yeah, I drove an electric vehicle and then that was the end of the story. No, there was always a follow-on story.
Speaker 4:And then they, they understood my, my full but, you know, and, like I said, it was my, my experience and I don't want to talk anybody out of getting one of them.
Speaker 2:Now you probably can't speak to the weather woes of having an EV because you only drove it once. Do you find, whenever you're driving your car, quincy, like the weather, like temperatures outside might affect, like your time, on your battery usage or not?
Speaker 3:that I noticed um a good thing about my vehicle that it kind of regulates itself.
Speaker 3:So when it really gets hot, um mainly because you have those screens in there right basically like uh, an ipad, a big ipad in there, um, so when temperatures get real high, the car will go ahead and adjust and it'll turn this on ac on to make sure that the stuff stays cool. So it hasn't really been that cold here, but even talking with my buddies that live in different locations that have them, they never really have any problems with them. My biggest concern and I'm knocking on wood that it hasn't happened yet is that I get stuck somewhere and there's a flood.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Because the main thing.
Speaker 3:Obviously, with the battery being on the bottom Now, I can raise it up to a certain height, but it don't even go so high and I don't really. I've read different things, right, but that would be my biggest concern, just being in eastern North Carolina, that you know if I get stuck somewhere, because I wouldn't drive it from home, right?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 3:I'd just hop in the truck or one of the gas vehicles. But if I get stuck somewhere and there's a flood, you know how would I kind of move through that.
Speaker 2:How would you navigate that back?
Speaker 3:More than likely. I would probably just park somewhere on high ground and just wait and watch Hulu or Netflix or whatever, as long as you got your service. But, yeah, the weather hasn't really affected me anyway. Yeah, it's not really a concern.
Speaker 2:Okay, so for final thoughts, jody, if you had to talk Quincy into coming to the dark side of driving the car you drove, how would you do it?
Speaker 4:I couldn't convince Quincy of driving the vehicle that I drove.
Speaker 4:For me, it's not a vehicle for me as long as you're educated on what you're buying, as long as you're educated on how everything's set up and you don't just go out and buy it because it's gimmicky I think it would be if you're just driving around town grabbing groceries or commuting back and forth a little bit I don't think it's that bad of a deal. I personally don't see the benefit of them yet. Maybe a hybrid I can get down with a hybrid, I think, but I don't think a fully electric vehicle I just I like to be a little bit more in control and I really don't care for all the technology just built into the vehicles. I'm a simple kind of guy. I want to be able to get in, start my vehicle and go. I'm not bought, I'm not sold on them yet. I don't think the technology's there just yet, but it's getting there.
Speaker 2:I think now, quincy, you could probably sell ice cream to an Eskimo on the Tesla front, but for you, you've had a great experience. What are your final thoughts on the EV world, because I don't think we're going to get Jody on board anytime soon. Maybe in the future.
Speaker 3:I really think it's about preference. I mean, it's funny. Jody said that you know he's speaking about the technology, but both of us are tech heads.
Speaker 4:Which is funny. I keep technology where it needs to be, and it's away from my truck, away from my house.
Speaker 3:And for me, I guess we're the exact opposite on that, Because that's what really drew me to the Tesla, in particular because I had been in other EVs before me, to the Tesla, in particular because I had been in other EVs before. But some of them, you know, some like they're not made like a Tesla, where, with all the technology, everything, is kind of there and everything's put together.
Speaker 3:So, as I did my research on it and you know me being a tech guy I said man, this stuff is pretty cool, I want one, it's just it's preference. So, if you're into the technology, if you're into the EV, if you want to save the world, or if you just want to be ludicrous.
Speaker 5:Yeah, there you go. If you want to be ludicrous, then you can go ahead and get you an EV.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's a bad deal for somebody that's interested in it, but if it's not your cup of tea, it's not your cup of tea.
Speaker 2:Right, just like anything, it's a big purchase.
Speaker 2:So, you definitely need to do some research and, if anything we've learned today, there are two sides to everything. You know there are goods, bads and difference, and somewhere in the middle is where you might fall. Now, with Jones-Onslow, if you're a member, you can get an EV rebate for your charger that you may get installed at your home, like you have one at your home in your garage. If you have an electrician, come and put it in. You can submit a form on our website through Energy Wise section, so you can. There are some things that you know can be helpful. You know, for those that are looking to purchase, a couple things to note from this podcast. We were not sponsored by Tesla. I still want my check, that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no one was harmed on Jody's trip to Raleigh.
Speaker 4:That I know of.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's just a little he just turned a little beet red and a little angry, but that's okay. All the geese are fine in my neighborhood. That's right, all the geese are fine, and if you have questions or you know looking to buy an EV, don't hesitate to reach out to Jones Onslow. If we don't have the answer, we will find one for you from many of the experts that are within our electric networks, and that's all for the EV section today.
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Speaker 2:Thanks guys, happy driving.
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