That is one of the options however I have no clue how to investigate it beyond asking my delivery specialist to look into this once we get to that point in time. The reason I asked in this thread is that there are people who have actually done the trip like the OP here did the trip to Madrid so I wanted to know how he insured the car.
Hi Mario,
I will summarise what you and I talked about outside this forum for the benefit of anyone else with the same concerns...
With regard to insurance and temporary plates, essentially my delivery specialist (Michael) told me that the temporary plate (german in my case) came with insurance (don't ask me the policy details though :smile: ).
For road trips like these you need to go well prepared with cables and adapters. There are a series of these that we discussed for these trips from Tilburg to home:
1. In addition to the UMC that comes with the car request a RED CEE (16A 3 phase 5 pin) and BLUE CEE (32A single phase 3 pin) adapter from Tesla (the Blue one will be available soon, otherwise make a BLUE 32A single phase 3 pin Plug to RED 16A 3 phase 5 pin Socket adapter... it's not as good as the official Tesla solution as it will only charge 16A single phase but it's better than nothing - if you don't know how, ask me, its easy enough)
2. Request a spare UMC just in case (I didn't do this but I agree that if you are going as far as Estonia it makes sense.... I am on my third UMC for the Roadster by the way!)
3. Buy or make a RED CEE 32A 3 phase 5 pin plug to RED CEE 16A 3 phase 5 pin socket adapter (also easy - just ask me if you don't know how)
4. Buy a Mennekes cable as you may run into some Mennekes outlets (if you are lucky). You will also need this cable for point 5....
5. Buy a portable wallbox - this will allow you to plug into the RED CEE 32A 3 phase 5 pin outlet and charge at up to 18kW (or 22kW if Tesla update the firmware soon). You will need the Mennekes cable from point 4. too.
To give you an idea of charge sockets, power and recharge rates here are some numbers:
Connection
| Max Current
| Power
| Recharge rate in Rated (Ideal) kms |
UMC regular schuko socket
| 13A
| 3kW
| 13kms per hour
|
UMC RED + BLUE 32A to RED 16A adapter
| 16A | 3.7kW | 16kms per hour |
UMC BLUE
| 32A | 7kW | 40kms per hour |
UMC RED
| 16A 3-phase | 11kW | 60kms per hour |
UMC RED + RED 32A to RED 16A adapter
| 16A 3-phase | 11kW | 60kms per hour |
Mennekes + portable wallbox (with 26A limit)
| 26A 3-phase | 18kW | 100kms per hour
|
Mennekes + portable wallbox
| 32A 3-phase | 22kW | 125kms per hour |
Supercharger (no cable needed)
| 250A or more | 100kW or more | full charge in an hour |
Clearly, going via superchargers is the best, but otherwise if you need to recharge fast the wallbox option is great.
There are a few other types of sockets around such as BLUE CEE 16A 3 pin sockets. You could carry a spare plug for this if you want. It doesn't hurt to carry tools and other plugs in case but it depends how comfortable you are with rewiring things I suppose.
Hope this helps
Mark