When someone says you can’t drive everywhere with a Tesla

Did you drive all over Europe with your car? This is absolutely incredible and a roadtrip of a lifetime!!

There's really a ferry all the way from Skagen to Iceland? Pretty cool, didn't know! Or maybe there's a stop in some Norwegian harbor?

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52,4 avg is not low

I was also surprised: https://www.visiticeland.com/article/ferry-to-iceland

As long as the infrastructure is there, it’s easy to drive a Tesla everywhere, just add like 10% more time to a trip. The people who complain the most aren’t even tesla owners.

Given common speed limits or 30 and 50 within cities and towns, 80/100 on country roads and 100/120 on highways, a lifetime average like that is not low. To get much higher, you'd need a daily highway commute, ideally including Germany.

Are EVs allowed in the Chunnel?

Yup

Yap, my average is 43km/h

A better question would be: are ICE vehicles even allowed in the Chunnel given their penchant for catching on fire.

I saw lots of EV’s in Iceland. I think the electricity is super cheap, geo-thermal.

Which app did you use to track your locations like this? I’ve been using Teslamate but I think it’s time to change

Yes with a tesla model y ☺️

Is the second image generated? Or is it Iceland being Iceland?

https://preview.redd.it/hl3u4y1p49ae1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1a6cbd450988fb4c8d26c55ea5ebb29233c7791

TeslaFi

The directions are for the cyber truck, Elon said it will float

Haha iceland working its magic! 🪄

"everywhere" and "all over Europe" must mean something different in your native language. I needed to buy a gas car to travel remotely in the american west. I include the american west in "everywhere".

Really? I drive a Tesla in the American west and haven’t run into an issue.

You cant. I cannot drive in Africa, parts of the Middle East, Asia, and parts of Australia without a gas car. There just isn’t the charging infrastructure. Even India which is adopting EVs increasingly doesn’t have the charging infrastructure to eliminate gas cars entirely.

Probably not in Wyoming off the interstate. I can't even do my fall trips in southern wisconsin without sitting at a level 2 charger when I would rather be doing something else. People in North America who think that EVs can go everywhere don't actually travel everywhere.

Hopefully it maps out that part of the ocean

Yep! Pulls in at Seyðisfjörður on the east coast. Super cute little town, def recommend stopping by even if you’re not arriving by ferry. It’s a fairly short (and very scenic) detour from Rt 1, way more charming place to spend the night than Egilsstaðir.

It’s mostly hydro, actually. The geothermal stuff makes for flashy press releases, especially with all the geothermal district heat. But it’s only about 25% of the power grid capacity, IIRC. The grid is carbon free though, almost all of the country’s emissions are from transportation. Which they manage to get up to typical western per-capita CO2 levels despite a carbon-free power grid. So you can see why they have a push to electrify transportation. That, and electricity costs something like 16 US cents per kWh, while gas is the equivalent of like $8 a gallon.

Driving in India is probably not advised anyway.

Yes no Wisconsin for me. Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, CA, Oregon, Utah.

Doesn't make OP's headline any more true.

If you're a normal human being with normal needs for food breaks (and especially if you're not traveling alone) then there's basically no time loss.

And why is that?

We drive from FL to WI 2 times a year. (About 1500 miles). We used to do marathon driving. Car only stopped for gas and drive throughs, and 90% of those were the same stop. Basically whole work shifts behind the wheel. Now we stop and switch every 1.5 - 2 hours, stretch the legs, use the bathroom, and the car is done before we are most of the time anyway. Especially now that we have a dog so stops are "you pee I'll stay, then we'll switch". It's so much nicer. Now obviously we could drive a gas car this way too, but still. If someone has pets and/or a kid they probably wouldn't even notice the difference.

AFAIK, while there are rules, nobody obeys them.

Now try Eastern Europe. :)

Tbh even having 25% of capacity be geothermal is wild to me

Also consider that 25% means 754MW, or about 275 average wind turbines worth

Wait you paid 8k CHF on chargers??

The district heating is the cooler (warmer?) part, IMO: most buildings in Iceland do not have a furnace or electric heater. Instead, the geothermal runoff water (it’s still pretty hot when it leaves the steam turbine) is sent through insulated pipes to homes and businesses. Most people there heat their homes with a radiator plumbed into a volcano! When the eruption earlier this year damaged some pipes from one of the geothermal plants, it was actually a big issue because several nearby towns relied on it for heat. The local power grid wasn’t able to take up the slack with everyone firing up space heaters.

Actually, I believe they mostly run on ovine power.

Now do The American West, lol.

I did as well but I don’t think I’d be comfortable driving any tesla on a serious F-Road. Maybe cybertruck and even that I’m not sure.

Love this place but got snowed in there for a couple days when I visited. The mountain pass there in February is incredibly dangerous.

Thats an outdated statement. People who still say this today are out of touch and stuck in the past.

True. I always tell people I can charge, grab food and go to the restroom all at the same time. While with a gas car it’s, 5 minutes to gas up, maybe 2-3 minutes to Go to the restroom and then to grab food maybe another 5-7 minutes. Combine all that time, it’s the same as charging the vehicle to the next destination charger. It’s all in perspective.

ZH 🤘

Great pics OP! I have been to all these places with A TESLA (and some you have not), but my Tesla was usually at home in the garage and I took rentals.

Not true exactly. I think you are right about it being over blown but road trips I can drive a road trip on 1 tank or stop 1 time. Tesla is like every 2 hours or so. I can drive 5 to 6 hrs on gas. So if it's a longer trip it adds more like 20% time. Gas takes 5 min Tesla charge takes 30 or more depending on how busy a super charger is.

You charging from 20-80 percent in 8 minutes?

I had this discussion also - while it may be less convenient far away from fast chargers, there is an outlet everywhere. Especially in less developed countries, every hotel will share their plug with you as long as you dont expect to freeload…

This! Plus, I find that when I arrive at my destination, I'm WAY more relaxed than I used to be driving ICE. I can drive further for longer without becoming as tired. That was an unexpected perk that I found out on my first road trip from FL to DC in the Tesla back in 2018. Totally changed the way I drive long trips and I love it.

On V3 or V4 chargers the newer card are not far from that. But most supercharging is in the 20-65% area.

The american west is hardly a part of Europe.

Why wouldn't they be?

Welcome to European energy prices.

Agreed. We loved it. Stayed in a converted hospital for the night and walked in the hills. Drove in and out as part of our drive around the ring road.

I’m in France, don’t own a Tesla (yet) but supercharger prices are nowhere near that here. It’s arround 0,3 to 0,5€ /kwh

That's insane! You ever had any scares at 0% battery?

Also the reason why there are 3 aluminium smelters there, together worth 75% of the energy consumption of Iceland.

Idk this picture made me question

We rented a Diesel Landcruiser, It was a great fit for the trip. Parking was a pain in the city and I did not want to worry about charging in an unknown area for our trip.

That's fair enough. They very much are allowed. In terms of fire risk they are about 2-3% as likely to burn as an ICE vehicle, and most of those fires are from either being set on fire or catastrophic crashes at extremely high speeds. Spontaneous combustion is extremely unlikely so an EV in the Chunnel would pose less of a risk than an ICE. With that said, it wouldn't be unreasonable to take into consideration how bad a lithium-ion fire is and how it cannot be supressed as the fire produces its own oxygen.

Try driving around Poland. Way to few SCs.

I did some quick math now and you're right, that does sound very high. It's roughly €1.1/KWh on average which is extremely high. I've seen €0.6-0.8 around Europe, but never passed €1. here in Norway it was ~0.1/KWh until a couple of years ago when the energy prices of mainland Europe started to rub off on us, and now it is on average €0.3-0.4 but has peaked at over 0.8€.

When i was im greece i didn‘t see a lot (or any) electric chargers. However that might‘ve changed now.

About the same here as well. A diesel Hilux. Unstoppable machine.

No Tesla chargers in Spain?

https://preview.redd.it/tdz87o5txeae1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a49e446006a2514a51b15b2cac881878b4efc120 Sahara Sand Dunes Morocco. Took me just a few days from Amsterdam.

TeslaFi is a great 3rd party app. Thanks for sharing.

Sweet lightshow picture What red/white light were you holding when you did the long exposure?

The website doesn’t really explain, how long does this ferry journey take?

>Between June and August, the ferry ride takes two days. It leaves Hirtshals, Denmark, on Tuesday mornings and arrives in Seyðisfjörður on Thursday mornings.

I realize that there are drivers that do not respect their (or others') safety or aren't even aware of how much they are overestimating their own abilities...but we shouldn't use these as role models for comparing what is 'good' in terms of driving, shouldn't we?

As more and more charging stations keep popping up in the Scandinavian countries, the focus will shift from availability to reliability due to the extreme weather events that take place. In this regard there should be more focus on making sure that these charging stations are kept running at all cost.

No. They are everywhere in Europe. Go in the app and zoom in. This is Spain, Portugal and western France. https://preview.redd.it/t0qjopqrufae1.jpeg?width=1031&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f623ea97a9358afe794f870d1cef7a094ddc6ea3

The real question is, why would you want to?

Been there, done that, EZ PZ.

It’s more like 10-15 minutes. But it isn’t that much time difference. I just typed up a super quick anecdote about how you can do multiple things at once. Honestly even a 8-10 minute charge can get you 150-160 miles to the next charger, which I had my restroom break and grabbed a snack (if available) You’re not charging to 100% all the time, you’re charging to the next charger and if you’re uncomfortable, charge to 80%. Sometimes even 5-10 minute charge is enough to the next charger. Hard to explain unless you’ve done it and trust the charging.

Network is fine here. There is superchargers everywhere in eastern europe. Maybe northen poland is lacking of first party tesla superchargers but there is a lot of 3rd party ones anyway

ditto, super nice drive

Anywhere there is electricity you can drive lol There has been multiple people crossing both Middle East and Africa in an EV

I look forward to hearing about your trip as you drive from Algiers or Tunis to Kinshasa in an EV.

This would be a lot more impressive if it was in Northern Canada or even northwestern Alaska. Europe is relatively dense in comparison with charging infrastructure, so it's considerably less impressive. Maybe add Greenland to your Tesla tour?

Even has public chargers along the route. Now imagine all the hotels, parking places, RV-parks, restaurants, etc. https://i.imgur.com/HZNFfBF.png Someone drove a 1st gen Leaf through Africa many years ago

People saying that don't really want to switch, or indeed have others switch, for a variety of reasons. Wish they would stick to facts that lead to that however!

Now do Africa ...

as a swiss who loves roadtrips in his model y: I appreciate this post🤘🏼

As you see, you can’t drive to Poland xD

I think it mixed up the currencies, in tesla app it says over 30k 😂

Fair enough haha but most of the people here in Europe still believe they cant drive everywhere in an ev arround western EU

Do you have some photographs? 🤩🥳

Only once but managed it very well 💪🏻 Biggest scare was actually campermode on for a long period of time and cooling 40 celsius down to 22 😅 used a lot if power

Might come visit poland in spring ☺️

Wow so cool!!! 😎

I was using my phone flashlight and was wearing an orange jacket ☺️

Would love to!

Hell yeah ✨

Can you recommend something to checkout in poland? I would love to visit☺️

It depends what you’d like to see. Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Karkow cities are great places to visit. If you interested e.g. in WW2 you can go to Krakow and Warsaw.

Definitely that and nature if there is something special 👀

so far went all down to puglia and also up norway a year later. like a breeze😀🤘🏼

2024, I drove my car through The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Ibiza, Andorra, Monaco, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Morocco. Most of them are twice, actually. 2023, I also drove in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. 2025 I plan to drive from the most northern point of Europe to the most southern in one go, just to see how long it takes. Your trip looks awesome as well! We should connect ! Are you on X? https://x.com/kees_reijne?t=yCNmVpBa86ZiTk7paQm-FA&s=09

But it is very much a part of “everywhere”.

Awesome

Bless you.

They aren’t wrong though. Try driving somewhere other than Europe, East Asia, and North America.

69 days 😏

😏🤝🏻

Yeah, the elimination of noise/vibration is massive.

Now you can, but if you are welcome is another question.