Whats your most rapid charges in one journey?
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So currently in St.Anton (Austria) with my tangerine MG4.
My plan is driving the 600 miles back to Calais on Monday in one day. I did the journey down in 2 days.
Having worked out my charging stops, it will be 6 charging stops, mostly 10% to 60-70%.(a few might need 80%) Plus it would be good to charge when i get to Calais while the battery is still hot! so 7 charges!
Now the MG4 is not the most efficient thing at motorway speed, it only managed 2.5 miles/KW on the way down! But it does charge reasonably quickly, 10-60% takes 10-15 mins for 30KW.
Oh and Tesla superchargers are really cheap out here, with Tesla subscription its around 25-30P a KW!!
So wondering what the most rapid charges you guys have managed?
My plan is driving the 600 miles back to Calais on Monday in one day. I did the journey down in 2 days.
Having worked out my charging stops, it will be 6 charging stops, mostly 10% to 60-70%.(a few might need 80%) Plus it would be good to charge when i get to Calais while the battery is still hot! so 7 charges!
Now the MG4 is not the most efficient thing at motorway speed, it only managed 2.5 miles/KW on the way down! But it does charge reasonably quickly, 10-60% takes 10-15 mins for 30KW.
Oh and Tesla superchargers are really cheap out here, with Tesla subscription its around 25-30P a KW!!
So wondering what the most rapid charges you guys have managed?
Edited by V8 Stang on Friday 6th February 18:08
Approx 10 x (20mins+) stops in a little more than 24 hours
Me and my 14 year old son drove from Uk to Chamonix for a week’s skiing. 12 hour non stop there. Did 2 hours skiing, he broke his collarbone. Short trip to hospital and a 12 hour drive back the next morning.
Sounds like a disaster but a great road trip and we still laugh about it now. Charging in France is a doddle and so much cheaper than UK.
Me and my 14 year old son drove from Uk to Chamonix for a week’s skiing. 12 hour non stop there. Did 2 hours skiing, he broke his collarbone. Short trip to hospital and a 12 hour drive back the next morning.
Sounds like a disaster but a great road trip and we still laugh about it now. Charging in France is a doddle and so much cheaper than UK.
PetrolHeadInRecovery said:
I guess seven? From Kolding to Geneva in one go, some roadworks so a bit longer route (1350km, IIRC - this was in 2024).
Idle curiosity got the better of me: Looked up the numbers, and it seems we charged 275.17kWh, and used a fair bit over 300 (started with 100%, arrived likely at less than 50%).
Not optimised, not planned for efficiency: seems we had a couple of charges because we wanted to stop anyway. A 23.22 and 21.96 kWh must have been at around 50-60% SoC. We could have done the trip with six charges quite easily, possibly keeping the total charging time under 1,5 hours.
Done south end of Washington state to Santa Barbara and back at least half a dozen times in the last two years. It's about 1k miles one way. I leave before 6am and do 600 on the first day and stop just north of the Bay Area, then start around 9am to let the commute ease off and arrive mid afternoon. It's freeway almost all the way. Fully charged I do about 220 miles on the first leg and then stop every 150 or so. Indicated range is comfortably in excess of this but Supercharging/navigation software is conservative and when I am on my own it's easier to let it pick where I stop and tell me when to leave. It's easy.
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2018 Model S P100D from just east of Manchester to the western Algarve in Portugal, roughly 1750 miles via eurotunnel, non stop, 4 up plus dog, in late 2020, exclusively using Superchargers.
Took 40 hours but that included 4-5 hours sleep at a charger in Spain.
We did the same on the way back and had to leave nearly a week early because Portugal and Spain announced they were closing regional borders - utter balls as we saw zero signs of any closures on the way back up through Europe.
We also did Santander to Algarve in July ‘21 - the noise a Tesla cooling system makes after 42 degree ambient temps and multiple rapid change stops is quite impressive
2018 Model S P100D from just east of Manchester to the western Algarve in Portugal, roughly 1750 miles via eurotunnel, non stop, 4 up plus dog, in late 2020, exclusively using Superchargers.
Took 40 hours but that included 4-5 hours sleep at a charger in Spain.
We did the same on the way back and had to leave nearly a week early because Portugal and Spain announced they were closing regional borders - utter balls as we saw zero signs of any closures on the way back up through Europe.
We also did Santander to Algarve in July ‘21 - the noise a Tesla cooling system makes after 42 degree ambient temps and multiple rapid change stops is quite impressive
We haven't done it, but we've been vaguely considering driving to see the in-laws in Bulgaria at some point, which would be in our 64kWh MG4.
ABRP recommends 25 charging stops, totalling 5 hours of charging (and 25 hours of driving). You could obviously do it with far fewer stops, not sure why ABRP is so keen on ~10 minute stops.
ABRP recommends 25 charging stops, totalling 5 hours of charging (and 25 hours of driving). You could obviously do it with far fewer stops, not sure why ABRP is so keen on ~10 minute stops.
kambites said:
We haven't done it, but we've been vaguely considering driving to see the in-laws in Bulgaria at some point, which would be in our 64kWh MG4.
ABRP recommends 25 charging stops, totalling 5 hours of charging (and 25 hours of driving). You could obviously do it with far fewer stops, not sure why ABRP is so keen on ~10 minute stops.
You can adjust ABRP preferences, the latest version offers "Optimal" (fastest arrival - I think this might result in the 10-minute stops), "Fewer" and "Fewest".ABRP recommends 25 charging stops, totalling 5 hours of charging (and 25 hours of driving). You could obviously do it with far fewer stops, not sure why ABRP is so keen on ~10 minute stops.
Worth checking how much the difference in the arrival time would be. In our car (Ioniq 5), the difference over a medium distance (1350km/850 miles, one of our standard trips) was five stops instead of six, with an extra 19 minutes of travel time. Not something you'd notice in practice, with all the variabiliy due to weather, traffic etc.
Good to see im not the only nutter doing long journeys in a EV with multiple charge stops!
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
V8 Stang said:
Good to see im not the only nutter doing long journeys in a EV with multiple charge stops!
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
IONITY should be pretty much the same price (membership and per kWh), and now gives you access to Fastned, Electra and Atlante chargers at the same price (see https://chargeleague.com/).However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
First-hand experience only from IONITY and pre-chargeleague Fastned, expect to try out the other two soon.
PetrolHeadInRecovery said:
V8 Stang said:
Good to see im not the only nutter doing long journeys in a EV with multiple charge stops!
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
IONITY should be pretty much the same price (membership and per kWh), and now gives you access to Fastned, Electra and Atlante chargers at the same price (see https://chargeleague.com/).However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
First-hand experience only from IONITY and pre-chargeleague Fastned, expect to try out the other two soon.
It seems to be much better now than when I did it in 2020 - I couldn’t use any Portuguese non Tesla chargers as at that point I seem to remember you needed a special physical card which you could only apply for if you had a Portuguese phone number.
V8 Stang said:
Good to see im not the only nutter doing long journeys in a EV with multiple charge stops!
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
However annoyingly, ive just discovered you can only charge a non Tesla at a Tesla supercharger 5 times in a 24 hour period at membership prices! So the 6th charge will be at non membership prices.
That's good to know.
We've done Croatia for years, it's about 1500km so quite a few stops. Always done the return journey in one go.
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