what else is there they'll have vendors a hangout area and a great way to connect with other ev drivers so november NUMBER_TOKENth and NUMBER_TOKENth sonoma raceway uh in the napa area of california i'll be there some of the out of spec team will be there my colleagues are coming we're going to have an absolute blast so if you're going to be at the holley high voltage experience make sure to stop by say hello we look forward to seeing you all there range this is everyone's biggest concern when it comes to an electric car and personally after living with evs for the last number of years it becomes something that you worry about less and less and less as you spend time with the cars when you have home charging available or workplace charging all of these cars have more than enough range to get you where you need to go i wouldn't even think twice about driving any of these cars across the country and to be honest i pretty much have most of them at least driven them pretty much across the country each and you know range is just a a one metric that we're going to talk about because the next section is going to be charging and to me this is where both of these need to come together to form sort of one big section if you will so we're going to start with the lowest range car here and that's the pulstar NUMBER_TOKEN and this is a NUMBER_TOKEN mile epa rated car now you have to quote epa because this is how they're independently tested by the government there's two different ways that cars are sort of tested by epa the first is the manufacturer submits all of the cars drag coast down testing battery pack capacity efficiency at x number of speed coefficient of drag time surface area you know a lot of calculations go into this and then the epa spits out a number and says thanks for the info this is how we rate your car certain cars the epa will actually call up the manufacturer and say hey we need this variant we believe it'll be the most popular for example and we want to test this car physically so i actually don't know offhand which one of these have been or have not been tested physically by the epa but it seems like sometimes the results shift a little bit during this process now we do our own range testing myself and my good friend tom malogne have created a NUMBER_TOKEN mile per hour highway range test that we've run each of these cars through except not the all-wheel drive configuration of idNUMBER_TOKEN i'm going to do that later i'll do it before it goes back to volkswagen though and this is what i really care about for range it's highway driving cruising down because the rest of the driving when i'm around town or you know doing random errands around well these have so much range i don't care i just plug it back in at home anyway let's go through the specs NUMBER_TOKEN miles here in the pulstar NUMBER_TOKEN and i believe it's listed that way for the NUMBER_TOKEN-inch wheels or the NUMBER_TOKENs on the non-performance i've run this car through the NUMBER_TOKEN mile per hour highway test you can see that video on our partner channel inside evs and it did really well on the highway actually like surprisingly efficient cruising right here in this car then we get
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN what else is there they'll have vendors a hangout area and a great way to connect with other ev drivers so november NUMBER_TOKENth and NUMBER_TOKENth sonoma raceway uh in the napa area of california i'll be there some of the out of spec team will be there my colleagues are coming we're going to have an absolute blast so if you're going to be at the holley high voltage experience make sure to stop by say hello we look forward to seeing you all there END_SPONSOR_TOKEN