has their amazing supercharger network and when you plan a trip it says you should stop here and here and here and here along the way and that way you'll make it so this is trying to do the same thing but there is a big big problem with how that system works now if you watched jason finckey's video on his channel engineering explained he reviewed the idNUMBER_TOKEN back in march and he discovered a problem uh the navigation was picking charges for his him along a long route and the chargers were far below what electrify america can provide in terms of speed they have NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt chargers in a lot of places and this car will accept up to NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatts which allows it to charge from five to eighty percent in about uh NUMBER_TOKEN minutes but the navigation screen was finding charges for him that were seven kilowatt thirty kilowatt etc etc why was it doing that doesn't make any sense this is volkswagen volkswagen's a partner with electrify america why wouldn't they find the best chargers for you to use that would allow you to charge the quickest on your trip well he was hoping that they would update this system and that would all get fixed so last night i got down and got into the car and i plotted a route to portland oregon to see what it did and boy howdy is it still a problem so i just plotted a route to portland oregon and the nav here the native nav system no apple carplay that finds charges along the way for you has done something really strange so i have NUMBER_TOKEN miles of range left in the car right now so the first charger it finds here isn't bakersfield it's NUMBER_TOKEN miles away but as you're going to see when i cut to the iphone footage when i used the electrify america app it found a charger that was closer to the highway i have to take this charging station is quite a ways off the highway okay but let's just say it's about the distance because the closer one it was NUMBER_TOKEN miles that's pushing things a little bit all right next one here green lots elk grove NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt charger it's to take NUMBER_TOKEN minutes to charge the car but you'll see when we go back to the electrify america app footage on my phone there is another charging station in elk grove full of NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt chargers and it's right off the highway it's right off the main highway that i need to take the whole way up to oregon which is highway NUMBER_TOKEN and it would only take half an hour or so to charge up so NUMBER_TOKEN minutes or find the NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt charger so why is it showing me the NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt chargers instead of showing me the higher output chargers in weed california there are almost there are basically no chargers um i have the electrify america app set to find NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatt or above and it couldn't even find this one but what's interesting is that the distance between the elk grove charger and the weed charger is nearly the limit of this car in terms of range what i could do according to the app is stop at a city a little further south hit a NUMBER_TOKEN charger go
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