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Three cars

Three drivers

Three different types of infrastructure

today we're gonna find out whether the ice

battery swapping or supercharger will get us fastest

from Shanghai to Qingdao

today i'll be driving the BMW

X5 40Li xDrive

It's got 365 horsepower

should have

according to the range just enough to get to Qingdao

in one go but let's see

Jay what have you got

so i've got the NIO ES7

100kWh battery pack

620KM of range

and it'll be battery swapping all the way to Qingdao today

and for Nick

Here we have Model y 74kWh battery pack

about 600 kilometers but

hopefully we can get a Qingdao with two Supercharging

Sessions so

That's nice

Let's go all right May the best car win good

Nick: Good luck to you Jay: Good luck

Change to Qingdao

May Fourth Square

We'll find the Superchargers along the way and suggests the route

Hey guys so this is a race but safety first okay!

So

Now we have a change of route

Tesla rerouted us from the previous road

it seems like there's a rush hour during weekends

i think

it's gonna be a close one

guys

i'm stuck in traffic! I need to wait 15 more minutes in traffic

before it clears up how about you guy?

and the BMW X5 is behind us somewhere at the back

so we're ahead of them and the Tesla is somewhere else

in the western side of Shanghai

so i'm gonna pay for the the toll station now

导航开始

okay

注意驾驶安全

领航辅助已退出

so i'm going to switch on the NOP+

which is the Beta version at the moment

so i can keep lanes the

and it can switch lanes automatically

it's just like uh

the NOA in a Tesla

and Mark doesn't have this in his car

so i'm just gonna relax and let the car do its thing

By the way look now we have one line and FSD here

so the car will fully drive by itself and

move us towards the way

based on the navigation

so the car can fully end exit and enter the

ramps and change the lanes do everything by itself

only thing we need to do is to set up the

Distance between cars and that's it

now it will drive fully by itself

And we have level two autonomous driving on the BMW

and you activate that by pressing a button on the switch here

so i've currently got it turned off i press the button

there on the left

side of the steering wheel that puts into assisted driving

and that comes with adaptive cruise control lane keeping assist

so we got a little diagram in front of us with green

lines on either side to show us what lane

were sticking in and it also sets

it at the speed that you currently drive

you can adjust the speed up and down

with the toggle on the side here

and also two buttons to adjust the distance to the car in front

Hey check it out so the NIO is winning

and the Tesla is actually in the traffic jam at the moment

and it's gonna be a close race

so we are having a slow traffic now here

we are going very very slow and here

the advantage of

electric vehicle kicks on because the slower you go

the lower your consumption

so you can actually drive much farther

because you drive slower in the slow traffic

gasoline car has this advantage towards the electric car

5 or 10 km

is interesting really so far

and for you Nick

Good luck with the traffic jam

Okay okay so we've

actually managed to catch up with Jay so if you look over here

Look

So we've been driving for nearly four hours now

so it's time to take a rest and

We've changed our battery swap to a

Closest one which is in Yancheng

and it's gonna take us 25 minutes from here

and yeah

so we'll see at the battery station

so we arrived at the battery swap station

NIO battery swap station in Yancheng

and this is the battery swap 2.0

This is my first time battery swap outside of Shanghai

so let's see how it goes so at the battery swap station

i'm going to start it now start power swap

请你手动停进换地盘吧

接下来可以点击开始

start parking

换电驳车开始喽

请注意周围

so it's all autotimatic

is parking by itself

so we arrived at Yancheng

and then we're at the NIO's power swap station now

and it's parking by itself it's pretty amazing actually

and

yeah so this is the NIO

Power swap 2.0

okay so we stopped at Yancheng

and just over here to come around this corner let's see

we have a NIO station over here

and Jay is about to swap his battery inside the NIO station

We're gonna get a drink

Go to the loo and get ready for the next stage of the journey

but so far neck and neck

so let's finish parking

start the power swap now

preparing this may take some time please wait

the power swap is about to start now and the whole system

will power off

and we can take a look outside later

and we have to wait in the car for three to five minutes

for the battery to swap

so the battery swap

process has finished

that was pretty amazing right

it took three to five minutes to swap the whole

battery and now we have a fully charged battery

and we're ready to go

and the battery swap has finished

um so we have a fully charged battery

and we're ready to go on our journey

with a 93 percent battery

two and a half minutes i think it was that

was it two and a half minutes right

yeah it's really quick

amazing seeing at the first time

big battery goes out another one goes straight in

it's like it's so convenient i mean if you can do that

at the same time it takes to

fuel fuel a car

yeah

this has got a big fuel tank

exactly yeah

Some nice Chinese food here around

And a bathroom exactly

we have to do the mini challenge at the next stop

the next break

I had to reroute the route

but i changed the waypoint

with Nick he's like

he's charging yeah and he's probably finding

a place to have lunch yeah

is he on the motorway

or is he like charged someone nearby

so we arrive to Yancheng Supercharger it's V3

pretty fast should charge our car

very very fast

Now we have blue means its a handshake as long as it turns green

the charging will start

so it usually takes several seconds

and then you see now it's charging already

and we can go to the car to see the speed

so we arrive with twenty two percent

and you see now we are already having 121kw

and it's keep growing up 124kw

129kw so it will keep up

up to 250 kilowatt

okay

okay so our challenge today is we have 60 seconds to draw a

picture of our own car

of my BMW x5

Oh man so i took the wrong exit

to Shanghai and then we had to turn around at the next exit

and then we faced traffic now, as you can see

there's a lorry that went off the side of the road

so

we just got back on the motorway and Jay

Jay just sends a voice message

he's actually chosen the wrong road

so he's heading back to Shanghai

so he's yeah he shot himself in the foot there it really has

i mean at least it'll be moving because the traffic we've got

here is pretty thick

and we've got ten minutes of heavy traffic now but

that is a bad mistake Jay it's a bad mistake

Five minutes away from our next

battery swap is our second battery swap today

and it's the NIO's power swap 2.0

and

it should take about five minutes or so to get it done and then

we'll be on the road again

To Qingdao and hopefully we'll meet them on the way

i'm doing my mini challenge

so NIO battery swap has finished and that was quick man

like three minutes to get the battery fully charged and ready to go

we're going to go to the Qingdao

and we're going to catch up with them let's go

right we're on our way to tinda we're on the highway now

come back

hmm

What a comeback so

Nick is charging at Rizhao we just gone pass Rizhao now so

that means we're in second place

He at a charger which is really slow a third party charger

and uh

we're heading towards qingdao and we'll probably meet mark soon

啊青岛

so we arrived to Rizhao we decided not to stop

not to go to the

Supercharger because it's a bit far

it's twenty kilometers one way then come back

so we decided to take the

State Grid Charger today

Plug it, bulky and heavy

and then we have to scan and use the card

so here the system is a little bit different

we need to decide how much money we're going to use first

and then that will return us everything else so for example

we can go for 80 kuai

even we don't need 80 kuai and then we need to confirm in the APP

by the way the APP we are using is from 蔚来

but yeah we heard a click

so that means that the handshake started

and here we have a blue light

now they're communicating with each other

and as long as the green light pops up means it's charging

OK

this is our second stop

for charging after this

As long as we finish here we can drive uh directly to

Qingdao and don't stop anywhere anymore so hopefully

we'll spend here about

thirty forty minutes and then we can go to Qingdao so in

couple of hours we'll be there

excuse me i m lost where is the supermarket. (Delete)

so we finally arrived at Qingdao we're exiting the highway

so finally made it

after 10 hours driving

guys come on another statue where are you

Gonna get here on time boys come on i'm gonna be waiting for you!

I finally made it man, Mark!

you're here the first one

when did you arrive

You know what i was warm when i arrived now i'm cold

yeah we got here about

probably got 20, 25 minutes ago so actually

No sign of Nick yet so it looks like you're in second place

Yeah yeah we got a Tesla coming in third

How long have you been waiting

ah too long too long eating his spaghetti

but in general

pretty nice yeah really really nice

yeah did you take a picture of the bowl

should we head over to the statue, to the statue

so we finally made it to Qingdao

and behind us is the May Fourth Square

and Mark is the winner of this road trip

i mean to be honest

i think we all expected that the petrol, the ICE car would win

yeah

but actually a lot closer than we really thought it could be

i mean i've still got 186 kilometers

of range left on the car

after 720 kilometers here

so pretty good

actually in terms of the range from such a big engine

How about you mind

The

Battery swap was perfect

like it was my first time experiences it on the highway

in and out

pretty much five minutes

and then straight back onto the highway

crazy how you can add so much range in short time and electric cars yeah

exactly

how about you Nick in third place?

yeah i arrived the last one

but it was a good experience though you know

oh guys i enjoyed my time you know yeah

but i last though

All right guys let's go get some food

Tomorrow we can do some sightseeing yeah

Sightseeing sounds good, get some shots in the morningg

cool something

yeah all right

all right let's go guys

let's go

so

With the sun coming up now

guys good chance to look back on yesterday's experience

how was it for you

Mine was ugh the second leg

i had a massive mishap because i missed my turn

i headed off to Shanghai

i wonder where you got

it wouldn't have been so bad

it wasn't for the massive traffic jam after the junction right

how convenient is it having

swap stations on the highway compared to the Tesla network

where you don't always have charges at most of the stop right

So much convenient i don't have to leave the highway right

and then only took for the whole progress of the swap

for five minutes yeah

so i ended up just charging in the State Grid

Charger on the service area

which started from 10kw

and then like when the car reach and i had arrived it was like

9 percent it was much slower than i expect how about BMW

you didn't need to refuel at all

i didn't need to refuel so

that's a big positive from the ICE side you just fill up once

at home and i mean i started and 186 kilometers left yeah

i mean the big difference in terms of the car is that the

it's not as responsive

not even slightly as responsive as electric cars it's very much

the 20th century experience not the 21st century experience

i guess it's

200 years of history right but didn't really improve

yeah i mean things haven't changed too much here

and the big bug of Tesla i guess it's by Baidu maps

it's a really issue because on highway

i was talking about this it's like

120km per hour speed limit and then it just jumps to

80km/h

and then it starts to slow down in the middle of highway

What about comfort terms?

i mean how comfortable was alright for you

i was a seat feel like

Tesla seat are the most comfortable

i think for me like NIO is second

and i tried to sit in the BMW man it's

just too narrow for me i don't know i don't feel like

support enough support

Yeah my support was pretty decent

yeah I drove your car the day before we came here

and i thought the seats were great in the NIO

but

you know

like last night when we were charging and swapping right

but for me like

you went you swapped for three four minutes right yeah

but man you got like 93 percent battery fully charged and

ready to go

i got only like fifty or sixty kilometres of range you know

key takeaways

from the journey so for me just actually how close it's become

and how beneficial that

the swapping is in terms of the speed

put a whole brand new battery in there

that for me is the biggest takeaway

yeah it was a surprise you know i mean

it was a big surprise for me that like you NIO getting

so close and so much more convenient than than

than charging cars

because charging car definitely has this

disadvantage of driving away from highway

the battery swap is way ahead

it's way ahead!

For me like

Experiencing it for myself first hand experience

like

on a road trip

with the NIO and then the battery swapping

is definitely a game changer

no no i mean they've come so far and i think also

it's a sign of the Chinese car industry how far

the Chinese car industry has come

i think a lot of people outsider China

still don't understand it yeah

they still don't see what is right here right now

that's

drink our coffee and enjoy Qingdao

cheers fellas

cheers

Love your cup jay it's great

nice

okay so we're in Qingdao

i might as well use it while we're here

beautiful historic old city so we're gonna go

and check out some sights

and then race you guys back to Shanghai

yeah

see you back in Shanghai yeah

stick into the speed limit of course

yeah sure sure

okay so one final task we've got to do before we finish

is reveal the artwork

that we did for our 60 second drawing challenge

and you guys are gonna decide which one you like the most so

here's the big reveal three two one

Vote in the comments below whether you like the BMW

the NIO

or the Tesla