European Road trip (Feb 2022)

[RichardTheKing]

I tried adding a secondary card on my Tesla account, but it only accepts one and did not save the previous card details. Tesla charge in the local currency of the charger, so use a card that has no foreign exchange fees.

This will be great if one day we can have more than one card. I have a French bank account and when I paid in France with my French card instead of the British one I save some money. I suppose I will have to set-up the French card in the ferry to France, and when I am back to UK same action with my British card. Better than nothing .

 

[Mr H]

They cost around 2 euro in any French supermarché like Auchan, Carrefour, Leclerc, super U or other. Forgot what can say the law, they can be useful if you have drunk a little bit and you are not sure if you can take the road. This can save your life and Life of other. I have few in my car, never use them, but we never know...

pointless as i don't drink

 

[khyros]

Another question, I am living in UK and I spend 4 to 6 month in France. When I will receive my MY next Saturday, I will setup the payment for the supercharger with my British direct debit card. I would like when I am in France Tesla to use my French direct debit card. Is that possible for the Tesla systems to use the UK one when I am in UK and the French one when I am in France?

For things like this I like to use Curve.. you add your cards and always use the same Curve card. You can then shift payments from one card to another at your convenience.

 

[Nick Earke]

Another question, I am living in UK and I spend 4 to 6 month in France. When I will receive my MY next Saturday, I will setup the payment for the supercharger with my British direct debit card. I would like when I am in France Tesla to use my French direct debit card. Is that possible for the Tesla systems to use the UK one when I am in UK and the French one when I am in France?

Using a French debit card, or Post Office Travel Card with Euros, would eliminate all those transaction charges. How to we get Tesla to enable different cards for different countries?

 

[Mr H]

I use Currensea and change it in my Tesla account when i go to the EU, they take payment in local currency and i get no bank charges.

 

[Adopado]

Using a French debit card, or Post Office Travel Card with Euros, would eliminate all those transaction charges. How to we get Tesla to enable different cards for different countries?

I presume you just change the registered card on your account if you are going to a particular country.

 

[RichardTheKing]

I presume you just change the registered card on your account if you are going to a particular country.

I think so, I will let you know when I will travel to France in April

 

[drewpost]

That's a good point - no they did not - or if they did, it was not sufficient. I read the other posts on this and the owner's manual, which states:



Based on that I did not put any stickers on.

I noticed that there was a significant bias of the lights to the left side, and I kept getting flashed by oncoming drivers - it wasn't a problem on dual carriageways, but happened a few times on single carriageway local roads.

This was my experience last year with the projection headlights too, despite what the manual said. A real pain in the ass.

 

[mick4545]

I use a Centrip pre-paid card loaded with pounds and euros. It gets debited in the correct currency whether in UK or Europe. I top it up with euros when the exchange rate is god.