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gadgetmind wrote: »Retirement present Tesla being collected on Wednesday. Happy days!
Congratulations!
Give us some tales from the road0 -
Yeah, and hope I don't get lost and deliver Tales from the River Bank!I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
gadgetmind wrote: »Retirement present Tesla being collected on Wednesday. Happy days!
You happy buzzer,
Long trips are so easy apparently.
Every year I spend part of the summer in the South of France (83)
In 2016 I saw 1 Tesla with Belgium plates +1000k trip
In 2017 I saw 5 Tesla with Belgium plates +1000k trip
2 Tesla with Parisian plates +900k trip
3 Tesla with Luxembourg plates +900k trip
2 Tesla with Dutch plates +1200k trip.
I leave this weekend for 8 weeks at the beach so will keep count for 2018There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.0 -
I don't dislike the concept but diesel is still the way to go for me.
We semi-regularly make trips from UK to Austria - its approximately 1,000 miles door to door which we typically do in one hit - 15 hours or driving or 17 hours including stops. Two tanks of fuel.
Is there sufficient infrastructure available to achieve a trip like that?Money won't buy you happiness....but I have never been in a situation where more money made things worse!0 -
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it
and we can't get no beer.
My bucket has a hole in it too :eek:. However, although it does leak, it turns out if you top it up regularly with 'rain water' from P2P's, 5% accounts etc, the level doesn't really drop much :T.
My other bucket is much larger (in a very relative, non-Marine Life scale :rotfl:). It's filling up nicely and I'm hoping it will get back to pre-drawdown levels :T. I need to be brave enough to actually drink some of it
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Day to day water comes from a few btl streams
. Occasionally one stream temporarily dries up, but always flows again 
. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort Mortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0 -
Marine_life wrote: »Is there sufficient infrastructure available to achieve a trip like that?
Even a trip like that, which is right on the edge of sanity, is right on the edge of feasibility.
It's 1hr15 for a full charge, but an hour will get you close as it slows a lot towards the end of the charge. In a 100D this will give you a 300 mile range, though booting it on the autobahns will reduce this a lot.
I think you could do it with another 30 minute stop at some point, perhaps the last supercharger before moving away from the network and/or the Eurotunnel supercharger before going under the channel.
Map here. https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/superchargerI am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
Going to Graz at far end of Austria
- London, UK
- Machelen, Belgium60 min charge
- Mogendorf, Germany40 min charge
- Geiselwind, Germany40 min charge
- Hengersberg, Germany55 min charge
- Graz, AustriaDuration: 19 h (916 mi)
I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
gadgetmind wrote: »Even a trip like that, which is right on the edge of sanity, is right on the edge of feasibility.
It's 1hr15 for a full charge, but an hour will get you close as it slows a lot towards the end of the charge. In a 100D this will give you a 300 mile range, though booting it on the autobahns will reduce this a lot.
I think you could do it with another 30 minute stop at some point, perhaps the last supercharger before moving away from the network and/or the Eurotunnel supercharger before going under the channel.
Map here. https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/supercharger
Blimey, only an hour or so on a charge. That sounds hopeless for doing long journeys.0 -
Not really. I'm doing 260 miles tomorrow, and it'll take 4.5 hours. A 30 minute break half way will suit my bladder and stomach just fine. I'm then doing another 230 mile round trip on Friday and don't expect to need to charge, but may do 20 mins at Grantham supercharger to make sure I'm good all the way to Nottingham and then Leeds.
Sure, not something that would work for everyone, but they sell a lot of these cars in America, Germany, etc. and distances there are often vast.I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
gadgetmind wrote: »Not really. I'm doing 260 miles tomorrow, and it'll take 4.5 hours. A 30 minute break half way will suit my bladder and stomach just fine. I'm then doing another 230 mile round trip on Friday and don't expect to need to charge, but may do 20 mins at Grantham supercharger to make sure I'm good all the way to Nottingham and then Leeds.
Sure, not something that would work for everyone, but they sell a lot of these cars in America, Germany, etc. and distances there are often vast.
Ah, I misread it as saying you only get just over an hour's driving on a charge when you meant the charge takes that time.0
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