Gadgetory

last time saw the start of a thousand mile electric road trip we navigated the Tesla Model S south from London then under the sea aboard the Eurotunnel shuttle we've left the car charging in a rainy hotel car park in Calais in preparation for our epic day's drive down to the town of a ranch meanwhile Luke and I have gone in search of food so we've lucked out slightly yeah out of the cold and into continental buffet it's not just the electrical supercars though on this trip is it though and if we're using electricity for all kinds of things for example I mean here you'll see eggs being cooked through the application of eating and ranking appliances kills about an hour but every minute we wait means more range for the next stage at last it's time to key in our next charge point 200 miles away the car isn't keen though and wants to take us there via another charge points in Lille we don't want to get stranded so we trust the car the car it's it's very easy to drive it's very smooth very similar to other electric experiences we've both had I think would that befits an answer that's fair yeah it's eerily silent very smooth accelerations with ghosts away very very satisfying way and you could feel the power we can feel it but with the car requesting a detour we aren't using it for fear of burning through our range cautiously we make our way down the motorway to Lille stop here for about 20 minutes give it a quick boost then get on our way you should have enough power to get to the next stop anyway but actually it kind of can but as we cruise down to our next charger we haven't fully realized the toll that stopping an extra charges is taking on our schedule for now it's a bite to eat a power nap and the companionship of our animal friends later - there was - device but it wasn't because that's the one when we should have gone from Calais to the charger and it didn't it took us to a different one on routes so whether it lets us go directly from here - dude we'll see it doesn't the car wants us to make another halfway stop even though the range indicator does suggest we could make it all the way as the detour takes us further and further from anything resembling a motorway we start to get a bad feeling the detour is slow the roads are slower we're not convinced if it's worth the trade-off in time it's a little bit tough really because we don't know how smart the computer is like if what is if is taking everything into account I just missed a turning I thought that was that's a dirt road we are now cruising through very rural France on these tiny little roads how this happened why is this happened where are we what's going on we don't really know where we are I'm hungry it's going to get dark soon we should really have remembered that on an electric trip detours don't just add driving time they add charging time too and if the charge your detouring too is a little out of the way your travel time can quickly balloon out of control having topped up the cars charge of a next stop we make a tough call our initial plan was to get into orange in southern France for 6:00 p.m. that it turns out was wildly unrealistic because it's now half past six and we would still have four and a half hours just of driving time to get to orange from here excluding two hours of charge about two hours of charge as well now we are going to stay in a hotel south of Lian which is about two hours less time at 10:30 p.m. after nearly 20 hours on the road and 600 miles traveled we arrive at our impromptu stop for the night an Ibis hotel with a charging station we've made terrible time but hey we're not stranded and we saw some chickens tomorrow Barcelona if it says we've got a hundred kilometers spare then we can make them cause making a new noise