Alright, we're back!
After 14 days on the road, 6010 km (3734 miles) driven, 7 countries visited, 1153 kWh / 192 Wh/km consumed. Cost for charging on this trip: 25 EUR
It was an awesome trip, with some pioneer feeling and also some adventure (when we missed the exit on the M11 in Russia and had to drive 100 km without a single exit and thus without any chance for a charging possibility). I would have loved to cruise Russia for days longer and find more charging possibilites and add them to Plugshare etc. but my wife found that rather annoying/boring... too bad
The route was Germany - Poland - Lithuania - Belarus - Russia - Finland - Sweden - Denmark - Germany
There's an animation of the driven track on the blog (the recorded GPS track played in Google Earth):
Tesla goes East
Instead of taking the ferry from Helsinki directly to Germany we took it to Sweden and drove home via Denmark.
Highlight of the trip in terms of charging: Made an online reservation for a hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, late in the evening, just an hour before we arrived and wrote in the comment field: "We're coming by electric car, charging possibility would be nice but not mandatory (even 220V would be fine), thanks." Next morning our phone in the hotel room rings and the guy says: "Hello there, you can now charge your car, we're done." We went downstairs to the yard where the car was parked and found this electrician installing a CEE reg plug 400V 32A (= 22 kW) just for us! Wow! Wow! Again wow!
Well, they said they used the opportunity so they could offer a new service to future guests with electric car so it was a win-win situation but still, the speed of the install and everything impressed me... details & pics can be found in the blog
We streamed video live from the car most of the time (only video, no audio) and since probably no one is going to watch all recorded streams now (
univ123 | Bambuser) I made a list of 3 "highlights":
1. Sundown in Finland:
Tesla goes East | univ123 | Bambuser
2. Arrival at Supercharger Moscow:
Tesla goes East | univ123 | Bambuser (starting at -2:18:15).
3. The longest stream without interruption, 9 hours, Stockholm Sweden to Copenhagen Denmark:
Tesla goes East | univ123 | Bambuser
Best mobile networks: Sweden and Poland. Worst mobile networks: Eastern Germany (E-Plus/o2).
That's it, thanks to everyone who followed us -virtually- on the blog, live GPS or live stream
Cheers!
Markus