Europe

8488 readers

1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

poVoq@slrpnk.net

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025 (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our EV6 should be one of such newer models. We just did our first holiday trip with it from Belgium to Brittany. Some key points to note;

it’s 20 minutes up to 80% on fast chargers. The remaining 20% is an additional 20 minutes
sometimes there will be no free charger and other cars are NOT fast charging
while the range was quoted being 480km it’s closed to 320 with a vehicle full for a 2weeks trip with and additional car roof luggage
you also need charge at destination. Our last leg was on smaller roads with less chargers

In addition with 2 kids it makes sense anyway to pause for 30mins every 300km or so. For us ot was a pleasant experience all in all.

[–] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We have a Tesla Model 3 since 4 years, did 90K km.

Exactly same experience here, we travelled across France several times and never had issues regarding charging or battery anxiety.

As we also have kids, we stop every ~2h30 and charge during that time.

[–] firala@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Don't even need kids - I tend to get very sleepy after 2-3 hours of driving anyway, so getting to take a little walk for 15-30 minutes is way healthier than loading up on energy drinks / coffee in a five minute stop.