Elon Bear across Europe (and beyond)

[S-19910]

And finally the last supercharger in The Netherlands: Tilburg.


Unfortunately the sec was closed, so I needed to climb the fence...


But as I was almost over, security guards catch me and I was in trouble...

Luckily for me, Dirk managed to save me frim the hands of the guard, so now we are speeding for escape.

 

[robertvg]

View attachment 254759 touche !

Haha, die Kim die weet hem wel te raken
Vandaar dat piepstemmetje later op de avond.

 

[CJA Hulskamp]

Some more documentation on Elon B. visiting the Amsterdam ‘Owner Social’ event.
Which turned out to be a non-event, after all. Indeed @JonMc did once again promise improved navigation system functionality like Elon M. and Jérôme G. did before him. And eventually there will be improved AP2 and AP2.5, like there will be Model 3 in Europe.
But rest assured, I know for a fact that @S-19910 has captured Elon B. in the arms of a lovely Dutch lady. No Shari, but close. So still a good day for him (i.e. E.B., the subject of this thread)
What to do with @AnalysiZ’ invitation to join him in his travel overseas to other Tesla venues, remains to be discussed. They look like a happy couple, though.

Indeed a Happy couple !!!

 

[S-19910]

While we were in Tilburg, Dirk decided to show me the Tesla factory in Tilburg.


But the gates were closed, no luck.
Hopefully one of you will take me here to visit the plant.

 

[S-19910]

Now I'm back at Dirk's place.

It was a fantastic day, we drove 760 km today.
Out of Belgium, we visited 10 supercharger in the Netherlands. At almost every supercharger, we played hide and seek - we hide the stickers, you seek them.

We also stopped at the European Tesla HQ in Amsterdam, and at the Tesla Tilburg factory.
I met a lot of nice people at the owners meeting in Amsterdam. Big thanks to @robertvg for the invite.

Too bad there was not enough time to visit the sweet spots in Holland, but I 'm sure I will get a chance to see them all.

Goodnight.

 

[ATC@LWSK]

This is going to go on a while?
You guys want to get on the supercharger usage wiki like Flat Stanley a few years ago?
Superchargers Visited
Flat Stanley got to 85 sites. PM me if there's an interest and we can work out the details.

Flat Stanley has to be my favorite thread on TMC ever! And this thread seems to have good potential to top that. Safe travels Elon Bear, and hope to see you in the UAE one day!!

J.

 

[Canuck]

Flat Stanley has to be my favorite thread on TMC ever! And this thread seems to have good potential to top that.

Yes, that was a good one. I would have preferred a Flat Elon than a Bear Elon...

But maybe next time...

 

[Half Dollar Bill]

Here's what I've got so far (12):
Ghent, BE
Aartselaar, BE
Eindhoven, NL
Zevenaar, NL
Apeldoorn, NL
Zwolle, NL
Drachten, NL
Hoorn, NL
Amsterdam, NL
Dordrecht, NL
Oosterhout, NL
Tilburg, NL

Did I get it right?

 

[Edi99]

Yesterday, in Amsterdam... met a bit lonely guest at Tesla Social....

 

[Xfrank]

The places I have visited so far.
Supercharging status is 12

Elon Bear through Europe

 

[S-19910]

Today is a more relaxing day, we recover a bit from the roadtrip yesterday.
In the afternoon, we went to the recycling point in Grobbendonk.
Dirk is environmentally aware and cares for our planet.

Plastics :

PMD

But the PET-bottles have a separate recycling point :

And similar or brik :

Of course: paper and carton

don't worry, he want throw me in the container.
But he recycles the carton used to recycle carton
So that goes back home to be reused !


Glass...

oeps, that's a mistake

That's not a one-way bottle ! That's a returnable bottle. (not so environmentally friendly, BTW)


And then : check-out :

reading the Tesla-batch, and we're out.

 

[S-19910]

Then we went to his country house.


I think he was kidding me. Or was he ?

 

[S-19910]

As we were strolling down the village, I noticed this sign :

Wooow - Herman Van Springel ! That was one of my favorite cyclists.
As Rik Van Looy. Did you know Rik is still the only cyclist to win all six classic races ?
(Milaan-San Remo, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Parijs-Roubaix, Luik-Bastenaken-Luik, Parijs-Tours en Ronde van Lombardije)

What ? Both are from Grobbendonk ?
So Dirk must be a great cyclist as well ???

 

[Pollux]

This is awesome... I infer from other posts that invitations have already been extended but I still want to say that Elon Bear is invited to Washington, DC! We will be happy to host him here for a time and then assist him in his travels. Perhaps he could return to Europe with us next summer (or we could pick him up there - northern Italy). In Washington, DC he will visit Superchargers, monuments, the Zoo, EV clubs and meet ups, friends and family.

Then, of course, he might well move around the country. I wonder how many States he would like to visit!

Best,
Alan

 

[Xfrank]

This is awesome... I infer from other posts that invitations have already been extended but I still want to say that Elon Bear is invited to Washington, DC! We will be happy to host him here for a time and then assist him in his travels. Perhaps he could return to Europe with us next summer (or we could pick him up there - northern Italy). In Washington, DC he will visit Superchargers, monuments, the Zoo, EV clubs and meet ups, friends and family.

Then, of course, he might well move around the country. I wonder how many States he would like to visit!

Best,
Alan

Hi Alan,
Thank you for your beautiful proposal, but we are not even officially launched in Europe. We have already proposals for E.B. to travel to Italy and Spain.
We would like to keep him in Europe for a few months, who knows, mabey later he will cross the big ocean

 

[S-19910]

On the road again.

 

[Pollux]

Hi Alan,
Thank you for your beautiful proposal, but we are not even officially launched in Europe. We have already proposals for E.B. to travel to Italy and Spain.
We would like to keep him in Europe for a few months, who knows, mabey later he will cross the big ocean

Oh, yes, of course he must first tour Europe! Perhaps his touring would bring him back towards northern Italy next August and we could escort him to the beginning of his US tour. Or not.

I'm sure Elon Bear has a ton of opportunities in front of him, so I'm only offering another opportunity.

Best regards,
Alan

 

[S-19910]

Tonight, ElonBear wasn't feeling well. He was shivering. Cold sweat. Nauseous.

I recognised the symptoms: cold turkey. After the 10 supercharger-road trip yesterday, he definitely needed a suc shot today.

So I rushed to suc Lummen.


Juice was flowing great.


So ElonBear is happy again - and so are we.

 

[Half Dollar Bill]

Elon Bear is now part of the TMC Wiki Supercharger Usage Tracker!

 

[S-19910]

We still had to hide the notorious forum stickers in Urmond.

So, we continued our trip to Suc Urmond.