Trip Report!
After a few delays I finally managed to complete my trip from Leeds to Rotterdam and back via the Eurotunnel in my 2022 M3 LR. My wife and two teenage children made the journey and stayed in Rotterdam NL and in Ghent Belgium. Rotterdam and Ghent are beautiful!
The route including charging in Leicester, Maidstone, Folkestone, Calais. Lockeren, Breda. Some of these were open to other vehicles. I never had to wait to charge although I did arrive with only one charger available at Maidstone, but that one is Teslas only.
My overall impression is that a journey like this is no trouble at all in a Tesla. I worked my way along mostly stopping to charge at about 30%. Never had any range anxiety.
I manage to drive from Ghent in the Netherlands to Leeds today. 9 hours travel time with my wife as copilot. It was really no trouble.
in total I traveled 1,012 miles, used 249 kWh of energy and averaged 246 Wh/m This was with the aero 18 inch wheels and Tesla roof bars. I could be bothered to take them off and like how they look! I spent £117 on Supercharging for the journey.
In comparison this journey would have cost me £240 in the diesel Nissan Qashqai I used to have with today’s diesel price of £190 a litre.
The EuroTunnel was pretty fun experience and cost me £270 return. It takes 35 minutes to make the crossing but about 130 mins total going through passport checks, loading and unloading. I loved the concept of driving a car onto a train to go under the sea!
Driving on the wrong side in Europe was no big deal.
Sorry for the long post. I hope this is useful for someone.
After a few delays I finally managed to complete my trip from Leeds to Rotterdam and back via the Eurotunnel in my 2022 M3 LR. My wife and two teenage children made the journey and stayed in Rotterdam NL and in Ghent Belgium. Rotterdam and Ghent are beautiful!
The route including charging in Leicester, Maidstone, Folkestone, Calais. Lockeren, Breda. Some of these were open to other vehicles. I never had to wait to charge although I did arrive with only one charger available at Maidstone, but that one is Teslas only.
My overall impression is that a journey like this is no trouble at all in a Tesla. I worked my way along mostly stopping to charge at about 30%. Never had any range anxiety.
I manage to drive from Ghent in the Netherlands to Leeds today. 9 hours travel time with my wife as copilot. It was really no trouble.
in total I traveled 1,012 miles, used 249 kWh of energy and averaged 246 Wh/m This was with the aero 18 inch wheels and Tesla roof bars. I could be bothered to take them off and like how they look! I spent £117 on Supercharging for the journey.
In comparison this journey would have cost me £240 in the diesel Nissan Qashqai I used to have with today’s diesel price of £190 a litre.
The EuroTunnel was pretty fun experience and cost me £270 return. It takes 35 minutes to make the crossing but about 130 mins total going through passport checks, loading and unloading. I loved the concept of driving a car onto a train to go under the sea!
Driving on the wrong side in Europe was no big deal.
Sorry for the long post. I hope this is useful for someone.
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