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big THANK YOU to Jaguar for sponsoring this video when people consider getting an electric car I think the big reservation is range and range anxiety when I first went electric I had that too you know it's very convenient for the gas station to fill up and they're everywhere you never really have to worry about sort of running out of fuel but with an electric car it's different you have to wait for charging time so there's a big kind of mental hurdle you have to get past and I think that starts with changing the perception of the car so there are a lot of V's on the marked in even more that are coming seemingly every day some you might have heard of some you might not this behind me is the Jaguar ipace you may have seen us cover in the past I never had a chance to actually have the car in my garage and uses my daily driver for the better part of two weeks so driving in V's it's kind of similar to driving an internal-combustion car each experience is different and this is a Jaguar so performance is paramount so it's got a 90 kill at our battery pack it's gonna give you about 234 miles of range which I found to be really accurate but it's gonna get you from 0 to 60 in four and a half seconds and what's crazy with EVs is that like zero to 30 time the instant torque there's really like no curve it's like a vertical line it is feels incredibly fast to drive that's when the favorite things about the I face the performance and the handling were absolutely incredible and you would expect if now a car that looks like that but also from a car in the Jaguar portfolio the I face behind me is a first edition it's a new car and first dish we kind of comes loaded with pretty much everything it's stickered around $85,000 almost every option box is checked so you can price it down if you order one but it says it everything on it and it's got a lot of kit for built into the car so there's a couple of cool things about the design it was and they did something like different with the car it's not a big like package overall but there's these nomads of space it's a call to cab forward design so obviously there's no engine in there so they kind of pushed the front of the car up a little bit sort of maximize a space that you have in the back and it kind of makes like a mean-looking car the tech inside is stuff that we've seen from Jaguar and Land Rover the past it's they're in control touch pro duo and it works it works well it's a widescreen orientation it's a beautiful interior of anyway until you slice it the seats are more sport seats so if you're if you like that sort of more sporty bolstered on the side feel you're gonna dig it here it's a good-looking car you expect that from Jaguar upped end of the day it doesn't matter how the cars being propelled that matters how it's going to drive how it's gonna feel everyday when you're behind the wheel it's a sporty feel inside of guys becoming expected I guess my car that looks like this it's a really tightly tuned suspension does have air suspension so it will automatically adapt to stuff I'll but you definitely feel like you are driving a sports car and you feel serving every bump as you go along with it but with that others a pickup on camera you get that like throw you back in your seat acceleration and you also end up with this on your face quite a bit I do really like what they've done with the display in front of the driver it's adaptable it can change have any on how big you want a map you have a map in front of you you can see obviously your range I've got it set instead of showing car information to show me either the media that I'm listening to you can control it just with the steering wheel it's been nice to have and if somebody who's never really driven on anything with a heads-up display I really like having a HUD when you drive a car and you in a floor it a normal internal combustion car you think about your your gas mileage and sort of how much gas you've burned up it's like charge my car every night I don't really think too much about how I'm driving unless I have to drive somewhere really far where I got to be a little more conscious of range I don't generally ever think about like how I'm doing range wise I very rarely even look at it driving electric has actually changed how I Drive all cars so most EVs and the IPAs included has something called regenerative braking it's actually it takes the what would be lost in like heat during the braking and it sort of puts it back into the battery pack what that means is when you take your foot off the accelerator pedal and see it the car brakes on its own it kind of starts to come to a stop so you get that electricity back into the battery pack and it also saves your brakes and saves your brake pads so I've gotten really used to driving a car with aggressive regen you can tweak it in most cars in the ipace you can make it sort of kind of coast like it wouldn't a normal internal combustion car but I really like the aggressive regen passengers might not but even right now coming up to a stoplight I'm coming up to pretty much a complete stop and I didn't touch the brake pedal at all and I have to accelerate a little bit to even make it to the light if you haven't lived electric there's sort of a perceived thought of range anxiety you know this has a 234 mile range what if I have to go farther what if I can't find a charging station there's a lot of like what-ifs and those are real concerns I think they're holding a lot of people back from thinking about an e V or buying a TV or maybe making people buy a plug-in hybrid or something else all together but if somebody who's driven electric vehicles now for almost six years the range anxiety tends to go away the more you use and the more you drive a car and the I face kind of perfect example of that I'm driving to Claremont California most days and that's a forty mile each way commute so about eighty miles and that's more than most people's average commuting think about the car not like you do a gas car you have to go and fill up at a gas station once a week or every other week almost to give it like a cellphone you plug it in at night wake up in the morning and you've got a full charge all you need at home is a 240 outlet that's like what most dryers are you plug it in and the car is full in the morning and I've never really needed to drive more than 240 miles in fact 240 is about 40 miles more than I'm used to having on most EVs that I've had in the past and I've never had that range issue there are quick chargers that are coming online this is capable with DC quick charging will charge your car faster but those are more exceptions than the rule if you're driving to work you can leave the car there and come back and I wanted a test what's called phantom drain any V so if you leave your car overnight so you've got a hundred miles when you come back the next day are you gonna be down to 90 or 80 and that's a concern lot of people have with v's if you just leave it idle are you gonna lose a lot of range answer the Phantom loss here was not much at all it's maybe one or two miles overnight so you're getting that truth 230 ish miles you plug it in at night and you are really good for those times where you need more you can plan accordingly if you have doing a road trip you can plan to get to those charging stations if you use the index navigational brought you to those the range isn't as big a concern because I think people have it in their heads once you dive in and go electric becomes really easy so I have most cars set to start charging after peak hours at my house it's 11 cents a kilowatt I could send a charge this car from what would be empty to full for like under ten dollars and I've got solar panels on my roof so now I'm charging the car for free if I want to do it during the day when it's sunny the amount of money that you save with an Eevee is really significant the benefit of that outweighs any thought that I've had about range anxiety and obviously I'm in California so solar is an option for me it might not be where you are but there are a lot of ways to sort of get around and get past at ranging that you have to think more about how you use the car so if you're going to a hotel or a road trip you plan accordingly and like an internal-combustion car's front to improve your efficiency there are things you can do to get a higher miles per gallon there's equivalent electric car most TVs in the I phase included comes with an eco mode it's gonna reduce a lot of the heavy electric drains to increase your range it could change how you drive you can turn on regenerative braking there's a lot of things you can do to sort of improve that it just changes the way you drive and after driving again electric for so long I wouldn't even consider going back to a gas car this would be hard for me to consider it the cost savings the fun of the instant acceleration instant torque and the performance you get from an e V makes it really hard for me to consider going back to standard gas