A big journey in a small car: Canterbury to Italy. Here's the full video — all the highs and lows of the driving, the charging, trying to use A Better Route Planner, and (perhaps worst of all) hotel food.
Here are the costs if you're interested:
- Car: Onto very kindly gave me the car and charging for free. If you got a car from them it'd be £1,407 in total. More info here: https://youtu.be/89P-X5_e_XY
- Eurotunnel: €434.58 / £373 (I bought last minute so it was high)
- Mont Blanc tunnel: €51.50 / £44.20
- Tolls: €157.40 / £135.10
- Hotels (excluding food!): €193.57 / £166.14
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Chapters:
00:00 - Getting ready
02:24 - I need the battery percentage!
04:26 - Le Shuttle
07:38 - 12v warning!
08:55 - Welcome to France
09:39 - Baralle. The first charge? Or maybe not.
10:41 - Charger 1: PowerDot, Saint Quentin
13:27 - Charger 2: Allego, Carrefour, Reims Tinqueux
17:13 - Hotel 1: Hotel Akena, Troyes, France
18:45 - Day 2
20:04 - Tweaking ABRP settings, and loving Tronity
24:42 - Charger 3: IONITY Langres Perrogney
27:21 - Charger 3: IONITY Jura
30:45 - Driving me round the bend
32:44 - Is a Tesla easier?
35:35 - Charger 4: IONITY Bonneville
36:24 - Why I like IONITY… but wish they used Kempower chargers
39:16 - Siri-assly
40:40 - Mont Blanc… any time now…
42:38 - Hotel 2: 3T Boutique Hotel, Ivrea, Italy
43:36 - Walking around Ivrea
47:40 - Charger 4: Free to X, Genova
51:30 - Charger 5: IONITY, Versilia Ovest
52:08 - How to order at an Italian bar
52:49 - Broken charger!
56:10 - Charger 6: Avveva, Grosseto
57:09 - Charger 7: Free to X, Civitavecchia
58:31 - I'm here! Time for a cocktail