Geneva Motor Show - Zurich to Geneva on Friday, 9th of March 2012

[Kevin Sharpe]

1124 miles from home :biggrin:

Spending a couple of days in the French town of Besancon staying (and charging) at the Hotel Le Sauvage

Besancon has ~20 public parking spaces with 16A charging in one city centre car park today. By the end of the year it will have charging in all 10 city centre car parks :smile:

 

[jcstp]

Tesla Motors

 

[dpeilow]

Love those photos. Thanks for the link.


This is a picture that contains me uploading another picture to TMC

TeslaMotors_Roadtrip2012_045 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

1464 miles from home

340 mile day with wonderful early afternoon coffee while the car charged on solar PV at gerber energie systeme

Staying (and charging on HPC) at the Victor’s Residenz-Hotel Saarbrücken

 

[jcstp]

1464 miles from home

Show off! You just make me more and more jealous! :tongue::wink:

Happy you have so much fun, and show us that traveling around europe in an electric car is no Utopia!:wink:

 

[dpeilow]

So utopian, Kevin seems to want to keep places like this to himself... can't blame him

 

[hcsharp]

Sweet.

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

1689 miles from home

Staying (and charging) at the Château du Lac Genval

 

[GSP]

...I am certain that some time soon the tables will turn... it won't be the EVs marginalized in the "padded tent" but the ICE's marginalized in the "smoking zone". One day soon....

ROFLOL! What an image. It made my day. And that day *will* come.

GSP

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

on our way home

We drove 144 miles from Genval to the Eurotunnel and crossed the English Channel

We then drove 15 miles to the Tesla HPC 'fast' Charging Station at the Ashford International Hotel for a charge while we ate our lunch

Just ~170 miles left to drive now...

 

[dpeilow]

Are you going to go hardcore and skip the £15 charge for Heathrow HPC?

 

[widodh]

I went to the motor show today and I saw the Model S (again). Wow!

Yes, I know it's a beta and this one has been used a lot, the interior hasn't been finished yet, but it's great! As a reservation holder I could get in and play with the touch screen, talk a bit with the tesla rep and just sit in the car.

It's a really nice car to be in, great! I can't wait.

During the talk I mentioned 3-phase charging and then they recognized me: "So you are the guy who's been writing letters!"

It was also really awkward, we sat there with 3 of my friends in the Model S and outside it was really crowded. No one was allowed access into the car.. Felt kind of weird.

However, I'm still blown away by the Model S!

 

[jcstp]

I went to the motor show today and I saw the Model S (again). Wow!

Yes, I know it's a beta and this one has been used a lot, the interior hasn't been finished yet, but it's great! As a reservation holder I could get in and play with the touch screen, talk a bit with the tesla rep and just sit in the car.

It's a really nice car to be in, great! I can't wait.

During the talk I mentioned 3-phase charging and then they recognized me: "So you are the guy who's been writing letters!"

It was also really awkward, we sat there with 3 of my friends in the Model S and outside it was really crowded. No one was allowed access into the car.. Felt kind of weird.

However, I'm still blown away by the Model S!

You are famous at TESLA apparently :biggrin:

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

Are you going to go hardcore and skip the £15 charge for Heathrow HPC?

yes, we went straight home... left Ashford with 215 miles range

and arrived home 171 miles later with 29 miles range left

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

In total we travelled 1973 miles from Bath to Geneva and back (1018 outbound and 955 return). The whole trip was extremely simple and easy thanks to the HPC's and I would encourage everyone to use this valuable resource :biggrin:

Here's the final trip screen for the return journey (the outbound trip was automatically reset at 1000 miles unfortunately)

 

[dpeilow]

And just in case you wanted to do it a little quicker than Kevin's 2 week trip, here's what a sensible but fast route might look like...

 

[dpeilow]

Charlie from ZCW was kind enough to send me a high res version of the convoy invading the Palexpo, so I thought you guys might want to see it.

 

[dpeilow]

Tesla S European premiere 360deg Panorama Geneva Motor Salon 2012 Switzerland


Tesla uploaded another big batch of photos to their Flickr Flickr: Roadster Invasion's Photostream

 

[Dragon]

Not only Tesla, there are my pics as well. I like this one:

 

[dpeilow]

Ah, I thought some were taken from a green car