First we need to convince some ferry company to start a low-cost 24h or 36h ferry cruise to Iceland with tax-free shopping. Then I think the Tesla's will start comingHey... psst... could you convince other Norwegian Tesla owners to tell Tesla that they enjoy taking their cars on a ferry to Iceland, so that we can finally get some superchargers here?hehehe
Just as in South Korea, eh? Can you find out how many cars use the ferry, and from where? With that data, even better if there is make/model data, we could infer Tesla tourism potential. A similar approach seemed to work for the Victoria Island (Nanaimo) Supercharger in Canada. A quick calculation shows there are more teslas within easy access to Iceland ferries than there are for Victoria, as incongruous as that might seem. The issue is, of course, defining 'easy' since all of NA is available for long-distance access to Victoria, BC, but the Iceland catchment area can be all of Europe, and the Supercharger presence does generate Tesla traffic by itself.Hey... psst... could you convince other Norwegian Tesla owners to tell Tesla that they enjoy taking their cars on a ferry to Iceland, so that we can finally get some superchargers here?
The gap between Norway and everyone else may actually increase. Information about several new supercharger stations has popped up over the past few days in these locations:
That has always been quite likely, if not certain. Not having to route some/most/all of the initial European deliveries through Tilburg will save time and money. It's quite likely Tilburg will be a bottle neck.
FWIW, it seems that Supercharger density has increased greatly in areas with heavy Model 3 reservations. Several urban areas previously absent have just had new announcements. Most of those have quite a few S and X, but still have had no local charging. Among those in NA alone are Seattle, WA Miami, FL. Toronto, ON and Chicago, IL and new York, NY. Every one has high Tesla density. There are dozens more. Of course Elon did say they were beginning a major urban area buildup. My personal guess is that the Hong Kong experience has been influential. Throughout Europe most of the emphasis has been on expanding tourist coverage (glance at the Gray placekeepers on the Tesla Supercharger map.) and also increasing capacity in existing locations.
I wonder if Tilburg will expand to facilitate this. I'm guessing it will. Then there will be a new European GF or so that probably will be announced still this year. All those Superchargers and increased density surely aren't going in today with the idea of waiting a couple of years for increased density.
First we need to convince some ferry company to start a low-cost 24h or 36h ferry cruise to Iceland with tax-free shopping. Then I think the Tesla's will start coming
Yes, we Norwegians love tax-free - as you can see very clearly in this same thread
But you do get a stop in the Faroes on the way. A more direct route from say Bergen would be nicer, though! According to this (p.23), you guys buy the second most tax-free goods here (after Russians). Not sure how that works, though! Even after that whole secret-machine-gun-purchase scandal a few years ago, most people here seemed to treat it like, "Come on, Norway, you should have known better than to give a gun to a kid like Iceland, he's just going to put his eye out with it..." The funny part was our government repeatedly insisting that "No no, we don't actually have to pay for them, Norway gives us stuff all the time but they never expect us to actually pay..." while your government kept insisting "Um, we do actually expect to get paid..." And you kept our language and traditions better then we did here...Nothing new about Rygge? That one also came out of the blue, and surprisingly was even confirmed by Tesla in the media that they did plan to build a new really big station there. And then full silence as far as I know?
You are after all - or at least the original settlements - mostly emigrated Norwegians from just a small millennium or so ago
... and to complicate it a bit more, his eldest son, Eirik Blodøks (Eric Bloodaxe) ended up as a king in Northumbria in England after he was kicked out of Norway by his younger brother that was raised in the English court...
The point is that we had more to do with the British islands at that time then most understand. Most think the viking age was all about fighting and plundering, but it was more about migrations then anything else. Migrations to England, Irland, Man, Fareo Isles, Shetland Isles, Iceland, Greenland and for a little bit all the way to Canada from Norway.And the legend talks about a lot of (female) slaves taken from the British Isles. I do not know where they ended up, but based on this link I may have some sort of idea where it could be
*Vancouver Island. Victoria Island is a much bigger island above the arctic circle. However, the most populous city on Vancouver Island is Victoria, which is also the capital of British Columbia. I was born on that island and this error irritates me.
I once worked on an international standards committee, and we scheduled a meeting in Victoria BC, on Vancouver Island as you note. But a bunch of the attendees started complaining about how hard it was to get flights to Victoria Island... it was me (Australian!) who had to set them straight...
You can have little idea how much my "typo" irritates me, more so my sister. Being flamed by my family because I do not know the name of the island on which my mother was born is deeply embarrassing. I put "typo" in quotation marks because it is so frightening to know I actually did make that mistake.
And now the script is reported fixed and everything is starting to look more normal
Everyone in Norway seems to get "late 2018". I think the same is the case for all of Europe, except the UK.
