Can you Road Trip in an EV without planning in Europe?
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- We decided to do a European road trip this summer with the kids and without any planning! All we knew was we had a 1 way Eurotunnel ticket and the first night booked near Dijon in France. That was it.
I have made references to lots of the data found in A Better Route Planner, an App specifically designed to help you plan a trip like this. We used it during the trip where we might need to arrive with more charge than the car suggested, but not before we left.
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The route took us through France, Monaco, Italy, Austria and Switzerland from the U.K.
What would it cost? Were would we end up? Would we make it or get stranded?
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Thanks for the time to make this video, really enjoyed it. We just returned from our 2100 mile road trip around Europe from the Midlands, Bruges, Wurzburg, Fussen, Lindau, Lauterbrunnen, Reims, Le Touquet and home. My wife and daughter in our M3LR. Loved every minute of it. Just starting to plan our next one.
Hi Oz great trip, obviously went well, enjoyed watching the scenery. Excellent commentary, well done
Just found you from your link on Tesla Facebook group. It was great watching your European trip thank you for sharing
Looks like you had a fab trip . Freecharging for life wow! I did similar trip 31 years ago in my 1972 triumph 2000
Great trip!
Absolutely amazing and this is something I’d want to do soon.
Thank you. We are doing another one this year from UK to Switzerland, to lake Garda, to Venice, to cologne (for GamesCom 2023) and then home to the uk again. Should be a little shorter though.
Although I have starlink to take with us this year which will be fun!
@@sustainableorange that’s amazing and I’m looking forward to watching that trip. I’m planning on taking my mother to Venice next February for the carnival.
It’s beautiful at carnival, lights all over the city. That will be awesome. Enjoy!
It's easy, i've done it several times inc Poland, Spain, Germany, France, Czech....
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Thank you-you shared fantastic !see u around~dude,
So glad I came across your travel video this is what I’m trying to plan , perhaps I should not plan , after I watch may ask a few questions if that’s ok
I just did another trip to Venice this summer, and we also went home via cologne. Another fantastic road trip, all you need is A Better Route Planner app and the Tesla in car navigation and it makes everything super easy.
Use ABRP to set the level of charge you want at your destination then navigate in the car to the last supercharger stop ABRP recommends and that’s it. Super simple and reliable.
I would highly recommend the Telepass from Ulys too, makes toll roads a breeze and you can pay for car parking in Italy or France with it too. Such a huge quality of life improvement than trying to take toll tickets from the wrong side of the car if you are in a RHD vehicle.
Came here from the Facebook group. Thank you - superbly well explained and edited. Envious of your free supercharging, but can probably work out how much it would have cost in my M3SR+.
Thanks Tony! Yeah, based on my wife’s Model 3 it would have cost about £425-450 or €500 in electrical charging, or about half what a typical equivalent ICE vehicle would have cost.
@@sustainableorange loved the video. I have travelled over to Italy several times with ICE vehicles and am suprised that the journey you suggest would cost twice as much as your wifes tesla. My car is an Optima SW which averages around 750 mile a tank full. I estimate that this journey would be at todays prices around £500 it costs about £120 to fill it up. I am contemplating going electric but the thought of charging so many time and the risk of chargers not being reliable has put me off. In your video you mentioned the queues to access 'other charging networks. Can I ask was this a regular thing or a one off episode?
Steve
Sadly all my experiences with non-tesla chargers have been awful. Broken chargers, queues and randomly abandoned charges mid charge. It’s worth paying the Tesla premium just for the charging reliability. I’ve never had to queue or had a failed charge on a supercharger. Also if you get an older model S it still had free charging for life which can save you up to £1000 a month as I did!
@@hongkongfuey50 I think with the elevated electricity prices about £400-450 for my wife’s model 3 and the speed limit. I wasn’t trying to be fuel efficient specifically. My estimates for her car are based on KWH used, but her car is 20%+ more efficient than mine, so maybe more like £350 factoring that in.
At motorway speeds you lose a lot of energy in drag. If I was paying for charging I would probably stick to 120kph in a 130 and 90kph in a 100. It would make a significant difference over 3000 miles.
If you are asking about charger queues for non-tesla brands that was a common thing, but only in the summer holidays, I don’t see that in Europe outside of peak times. But tesla is worth the premium for the charging experience.
I do like to go to Europe as often as I can.
@@sustainableorange would love an electric car but hear so many reports of people being stuck in queues waiting for a charger to become available. Have you used other cars or only Tesla ?
Why do people keep on looking at their phone screen when they should be looking at the lens when recording ?
You made it to Lyon :D
How did you decide where to stay after the first night?
We just used apps like hotels.com, booking.com & airbnb and we got a good idea of where we wanted to stay in the day and often booked things same day or the day before. Just kind of winged it. It was quite the adventure!
What is usefull. Is to tell how much you spend on waiting for charging. So when your eating en charging at the same time. Then you are not waiting for charging. of doing site seeing and charging. you are not waiting. But if you had not anything planned to do and just wait for your car to charge. then you are waiting. This way we can figure out how much longer the travel was between a petrol car and electric car.
Not by EV, by Tesla EV, very different to all other EV users who cant use Tesla Chargers.
Maybe, but this is changing quickly as Tesla are opening up their network in Europe & the rest of the world.
@@sustainableorange they won’t in the UK due to the daft rules about new chargers must use contactless
That’s what the v4 superchargers are for. They are rolling out now to almost all new locations and being retro fitted in some older locations too.
I saw the new v4 chargers at goodwood festival of speed this year with the contactless payments and screen in the side. I believe there are 2 open v4 sites in the Uk now, with many more v3’s open to the public non-Tesla vehicles.
@@sustainableorange that will be amazing thanks for the info I haven’t seen them yet, although the app works well, just more sites would be great. You have a new subscriber
Awesome thank you sir!
Would you have some interest if I did a video on this topic?