I drove Mercedes eVito until the car died

Added: 2026-05-13

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[00:00:07]This is Medit EV2. It's the same battery as the EQB. And in this video, I'm going to test to see what happens if you go down to complete zero until the car stops. We'll measure the buffer below zero% and then also see how we can recover. So you know this is 100 kWh battery and then it's claimed to have 90 kWh net capacity but then in the test with EQV actually 4 years ago was it 5 years ago and the test I did recently now with the EV2 I can only get 54.6 6 kW hour consistent every time. But yeah, so that means it the car is hiding a massive buffer or something. Is it?

[00:00:53]Well, let's find out. You see, we're down to 9%.

[00:00:58]And we have 36 km of range. So, you're going to see now there's still no power limit. You see all the bars here are available. So, full power for now. But, okay. I'm going to drive now the route.

[00:01:09]Well, I navigated initially, but then it wanted to add charging stop. I don't want that to happen. Well, actually we can do that uh here. But uh see it will add charting stops. But I need to configure this uh to go here and then you go to this and then well okay uh here. Yeah, we we just say minimum uh um okay then then then it should not bug me about the things. Okay. Okay. Anyway, let's go.

[00:01:41]Okay, we are now around KFA and it's going to be dark by the time I run out of juice. So, you see it's already 2119.

[00:01:51]Still have 7% left. So, what I'm going to do is go to that uh VXP place and then just shoot the thumbnail shot first and then we go deep. Real deep.

[00:02:07]Well, this is probably going to be good enough.

[00:02:10]We just have to like this and then Okay. Uh let's take a couple of shots.

[00:02:21]Yeah, it's still kind of bright outside.

[00:02:24]Well, we're going to love the Nordic summers because now we're just trying to drive it low and the motorway, but um yeah, and eventually we go to the side, but at 5% we start seeing some power limit. One of the bars or whatever is gone over there.

[00:02:42]Okay. Still keeps going. At 4% we have 70% power left. So it seems like it has uh even and gradual power drop or uh power limit.

[00:02:55]All right. At 3% and 50% power left, we get the turtle mode. Red turtle is here.

[00:03:01]Yeah. Well, it's red there and then there's a yellow turtle on the other side there. though or torto noise to be correct. Yeah, I think we should uh get over to the side road soon. We're still on the outbound here.

[00:03:16]All right, we're now safe at the side roads. Uh this is it. We are at 0% zero kilometer. So now I'm going to reset uh this trip meter.

[00:03:29]Uh yes. Uh but it's not uh totally accurate also. I want to reset this which has decimal.

[00:03:37]Yes. And then we drive. We still have Wait. Okay. Um let's see. Uh start there. Uh no, we don't we don't have that much power. There we still have around I don't know what is this 45% power limit. Let me see. Oh, if I floor it kind of Well, it is kind of sluggish.

[00:04:01]Let me see. Okay. the the message here is a blocker. So, I cannot get rid of it. But, uh you can see that it is slow.

[00:04:10]It's like a TDI without the T.

[00:04:15]Oh, I got to stop immediately. Um I will follow the car's instructions and stop immediately. Uh even though I'm kind of on the wrong side of the road here, but okay. Well, I think this is usually Wait.

[00:04:31]Well, I can still drive. What? That was a weird Okay. Okay. Let's go. Let's still um I don't know how long this message is supposed to last until the car stops, but drive will be deactivated.

[00:04:49]Okay. It It's probably going to go into neutral, right? But then when uh I can still drive apparently, but it could mean that we are very close to the end now.

[00:05:02]But this is strange because I still have around 45% power limit. Isn't it supposed to drop all the way until like 10% until it dies?

[00:05:14]Okay, we just turn around and now we're down to four bars left.

[00:05:19]Okay, maybe we need to go until it's one bar left then, but it claims that we need to stop immediately, but uh well, it can still go. Okay, I'm supposed to stop over there soon. I mean, that's my ideal uh die point, but what if I forward it?

[00:05:40]I mean, there's still power here. H Okay, I'll just keep going then.

[00:05:47]Oh, that came really sudden. Uh, suddenly everything is red. Okay. Uh, guess we just have to stop here. Then there's a bus stop.

[00:05:58]That came really sudden. Uh, okay. In case the bus will pull out, I'll go slightly further out here. Okay. So, um, it seems like the stop immediately. Uh, it wasn't just uh right away. Uh, yeah, you see went into neutral here. So that was quite sudden from four bars until boom dead. So that isn't this good.

[00:06:19]Okay. If I put the car in park. All right. All right. Um let let me test something then. Okay.

[00:06:25]Can we do this?

[00:06:28]Stop the car.

[00:06:31]Okay. 4.3 km.

[00:06:34]And uh uh let me try to estimate. Uh 4.3 km. And oh yeah, it doesn't show you until you start it. We have to kind of there 17 watt hour kometer. Okay. I tried to calculate buffer.

[00:06:51]Okay. Only 7 kilowatt hour buffer. But let me try if I start the car and I restart it. Can I then go into drive?

[00:07:00]Oh, you can.

[00:07:02]But then how far? Oh, this is kind of risky movement. Um because it I could maybe move just a couple of meters and then it dies again.

[00:07:13]Um uh okay. Okay. Um not sure if I should try this. Uh but it seems that you can reposition the car, but uh it's a bit uh scary now. So I'm going to stop here and bail out. Okay. Actually, I want to try to move uh because it is semi busy on this road. But if I drive further up here, it should not be that busy. But uh do I have enough power? Do I dare to go? So you can reposition at least once.

[00:07:50]But now I just want to go real slow and just at least clear this hill. But again, this stretch, we should have way less traffic than the previous stretch.

[00:08:04]Okay, but then how far can you actually go then before it stops again?

[00:08:14]We'll see. Just keep driving.

[00:08:19]So maybe the buffer is actually I mean like the hard buffer is more than 7.

[00:08:26]Oh, there we go. Okay. Okay, that's it.

[00:08:28]Um, all right. All right. Okay, that's it. Um, just a little reposition. Uh, I need to see.

[00:08:36]I'm going to place myself. There's a little pocket here where I always stop.

[00:08:42]Let me see. Uh, here. Yeah. And how they always end up here? I don't know, man. I have no idea.

[00:08:52]But here, there's slightly more space here.

[00:08:56]So I can just tuck myself like this.

[00:09:00]Okay. You see now I have no power. Okay. So then let's try again.

[00:09:06]Then if we stop the car look for the contactctors open and then try again.

[00:09:23]Wait.

[00:09:25]Stop.

[00:09:28]Wait. Push the brake. Start again. Okay.

[00:09:31]So, it is in ready state. It claims. Oh, you can reposition again. Okay. Well, I'm not sure how many times you want to try this, but uh I think this is good enough. Now, we are at least on the spot we want to be. Okay. The taxi parking light is on. And you see now it's pitch dark. Not pitch, but quite dark. So, that's why we want to make that thumbnail earlier.

[00:09:54]Tada. I present to you the production.

[00:09:58]We have two times EcoFlow. This is first gen Delta Pro. Yeah, there's Delta 3 now with LFP. So, this is actually getting kind of old.

[00:10:07]And then we have in here. Okay. Okay.

[00:10:09]Let's get cracking. Okay. So, here's the setup. You have two lights there.

[00:10:15]The EcoFlow, the master battery, and the slay battery up and running.

[00:10:23]Slay battery is feeding the master with 900 watts and it's outputting 1.7 kilowatt only. What the heck, man? Um, we have the charging cable here from A Harbor. Wait, it's wrong way. The other way here. And you can see here that um you see it's set to 1 amp to 10 amp and but it's pulling only seven amps. What the heck, man? This is This is probably the slowest I've seen ever. Holy macaroon. This is going to take a while.

[00:10:54]man. Let me get inside the car and see what's going on now.

[00:11:00]Okay. Um, we probably don't need the hazard lights.

[00:11:07]I think I need to fire up some stuff here to see. Well, actually, now we have the headlights here on. Uh, not sure if I want that. Okay, but it's kind of silly. I need to just fire up the car just to see some uh battery status.

[00:11:23]Yeah, it's pulling only 1.7 kilowatt.

[00:11:26]Damn, this is slow. End of charging Thursday. Is that Thursday? Next week.

[00:11:36]We've been charging for a while. We have 1% now. That should be enough to get us to the charger. See here charger is only 2.5 km away roughly here the cam power why is it so slow let go okay you can find what what the what the is this yeah is it 2.5 km away okay let's go for it the master battery is down to 17% the slave battery still at 71%.

[00:12:14]And then if you look here on the charging pl cable thing, let me see. It's been charging for 46 minutes putting through uh 1.25 kilowatt hour. So after losses should be at least 1 kilowatt hour going into the battery. Okay, let's pack and leave then.

[00:12:39]Fire it up.

[00:12:44]power limit. Okay, seems to be good. We have the red turtle, but that's fine.

[00:12:49]Now I just need to maneuver into the right direction cuz normally I run out of juice in the right direction, but this time I actually had to go kind of in the wrong way.

[00:13:05]Well, the car feels kind of sluggish, but I mean, as long as we have one kilometer of range and one% plus the buffer below zero, then should be able to make it, right?

[00:13:20]Okay, this is always kind of exciting.

[00:13:23]Been charging for 45 minutes.

[00:13:26]Should be enough, I hope.

[00:13:30]Okay.

[00:13:31]So, I'm not sure how uh the car determines things about uh how much power we have left and so on. Uh but uh last time we had four bars left of the power limit when it died. So, as long as it's five, I guess it's fine. But, um I mean it's not good that it suddenly dies with four bars left. You just need to know that okay, four bar left, that is uh the end. Yeah. Don't expect One or two bars left before it dies. All right, just going to build up some momentum here. Go down the hill, build up speed.

[00:14:09]I mean, in general, if you demand more power and um voltage drops, then that could usually trigger the shutdown.

[00:14:22]But as long as you don't demand too much power, you can see on the meter here that I tend to slow down in the uphill and don't demand too much power.

[00:14:31]So then the car could survive longer before it shuts down. But if you try to floor it, then it could shut down faster.

[00:14:42]Come on. Come on. Come on. But it feels kind of sluggish.

[00:14:45]Even up the hills now, it feels a bit sluggish.

[00:14:50]Come on. Come on.

[00:14:51]Oh, just want to take it easy.

[00:14:55]This is why we take this route because it's Oh, power drive. Reduce power. Oh, what the heck is that?

[00:15:03]Come on. Are we going to dude? We're not going to make it. Come on.

[00:15:08]I mean, it's not that final warning or whatever yet, right? So, we can still go for it. Okay. Come on. Come on. It's just a red turtle. Okay, but that's that's fine, right? That's fine, right?

[00:15:17]We have the last uphill.

[00:15:20]Uh, I mean, I made sure that I charge long enough so we can go for it. Don't want to just die in the middle of the curve or something. That could be kind of scary.

[00:15:35]Come on. The last hill. But it's a hill and a bend, which is a bit scary. If we stop at the bend here.

[00:15:47]Oh, come on. How is it going here? Okay, I just want to take it real easy now.

[00:15:51]Come on.

[00:15:54]Oh, climb it. Climb it. Come on.

[00:16:00]Still going. Still going.

[00:16:05]Almost there. Still more uphill. This is the scary part. It's still more uphill, man. The uphills won't stop. Come on.

[00:16:15]0% zero kilometer now.

[00:16:19]Oh, seems like we cleared it.

[00:16:23]All right. Well, it ain't over until it's over, right? Until we are at the camp power.

[00:16:32]Okay. Yeah. From here, it should be safeish because it's a it's a downhill.

[00:16:41]Unless it dies right at the gas station there. Who knows, right? But there is no uh final warning yet. Just a red turtle, but that's fine. You kind of need to know what all the signals mean. But yeah, here it is. Sanctuary.

[00:16:56]Oh, all right.

[00:16:59]Let me get one of the cam power. Oh, yeah. Wait, let me see. Charge port in the left side with the right side. Right side with the wrong side. I can take this charger. Oh, yeah.

[00:17:09]Oh, we made it. Oh, yeah. We're joining now. Let me check something here. Can I preheat or will it claim that the state of charge to Okay, it's going to currently available charge high. Okay. I mean, why not? We are at the high power charger right now. We should be able to pre Okay, let me do this then. Start the car. I just want some heat in here. All right. There. Blow. one automatish.

[00:17:40]Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's good. Let's check outside.

[00:17:44]Boom. Maximum speed immediately. 300 amp. That's the limit.

[00:17:49]And then 343 volts.

[00:17:53]Okay. All good. So, the car does most things right. We see power limit in the display. That's good. I can also feel it. And it's gradually dropping. That's good. And then eventually there'd be some turt mold. Okay, that's fine. Uh but then the final warning came a bit early. It's just like okay when you have four bars left that is the end. Not one bar left like I was expecting it. Uh but then you also had that final warning which is long enough so you can maneuver you know get in a safe place but then even if you disobey that you can still restart a couple of times and still remaneuver but then you better get charging. So I mean it does most things right but it's not perfect but one of the better I tried. So now I know what is going to happen with the EQC or the EQV or the EV2. At least those have the same battery and they actually behave similar to other medas when I think about this. So that's going to be for now. Hope you guys enjoy this video. As always, thank you for watching and talk to you later.