Can’t find a thread - Tesla road trip
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So I’ve searched and searched…
There was a thread on here (I think!) that someone did on a road trip in a Tesla… pretty sure it was US based… was really detailed about the route planning and charging stops…. I read it at the time for interest… but now I’ve just ordered a Model Y LR and am going to be doing a 5500 mile 21 day trip around the Baltic… so I want to read it again.
Anyone recall? Or I am on the wrong website….
Memory not certain..
Dan
There was a thread on here (I think!) that someone did on a road trip in a Tesla… pretty sure it was US based… was really detailed about the route planning and charging stops…. I read it at the time for interest… but now I’ve just ordered a Model Y LR and am going to be doing a 5500 mile 21 day trip around the Baltic… so I want to read it again.
Anyone recall? Or I am on the wrong website….
Memory not certain..
Dan
Mentions of road trips on this thread, one guy in particular has taken his Model X into Europe without issues; https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Have a look at ABRP:
https://abetterrouteplanner.com
You can plan your trip fairly easily on that - it will show you all the chargers in the Baltic region.
https://abetterrouteplanner.com
You can plan your trip fairly easily on that - it will show you all the chargers in the Baltic region.
It's generally super easy doing Euro trips in a Tesla, I've done loads and never had a problem (that wasn't self inflicted). I put a destination in the cars nav, see which route it's taking me and then look at all the chargers along the route and decide if what the car is saying makes sense, sometimes I stretch to the next charger, sometimes I stop at a closer one. Once the car has worked out the end to end route I then just navigate charger to charger, I find it less complicated and it's really easy to see arrival percentages.
Setting your car to percentage remaining rather than miles always makes a lot more sense to me.
Basically, it's pretty much a doddle in a Tesla. I found getting a free physical ShellRecharge card very very handy too, it's worked everywhere I tried it on the continent. Especially handy for destination charging.
Setting your car to percentage remaining rather than miles always makes a lot more sense to me.
Basically, it's pretty much a doddle in a Tesla. I found getting a free physical ShellRecharge card very very handy too, it's worked everywhere I tried it on the continent. Especially handy for destination charging.
I took my Tesla model Y to Chamonix in France this March on a ski trip with my son. Aside the fact the massive storage easily took all our gear, France is so far ahead with charging points. Every service station had multiple available Tesla superchargers and various other companies. I think I paid around 40 cents per KW. No waiting.
The car navigated to the next on-route charger stopping for around 15 minutes and topping up, every couple of hours. Nothing different than we would have done stopping for a break, and the journey took exactly the same time (12 hours each way) as it has done every other year I’ve driven it in my previous diesel Mercedes.
The difference was that the return 1200 mile journey cost £92. That’s just using superchargers and in cold weather.
Love my Tesla, you would have to pay me now to go back to ICE. This is one of the stops on the journey
The car navigated to the next on-route charger stopping for around 15 minutes and topping up, every couple of hours. Nothing different than we would have done stopping for a break, and the journey took exactly the same time (12 hours each way) as it has done every other year I’ve driven it in my previous diesel Mercedes.
The difference was that the return 1200 mile journey cost £92. That’s just using superchargers and in cold weather.
Love my Tesla, you would have to pay me now to go back to ICE. This is one of the stops on the journey
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