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last time on our 1,000 mile electric roadtrip we ran into trouble as the Model S took us on some time-consuming detours they saw it as a mess our hotel by about a hundred and fifty miles we're behind schedule so the pressure will be on for our final days driving it's Barcelona or bust looks like a nicely charged car to me the back on the road it's looking like a nice morning in what I want to say in the South of France but if I'm honest with myself is I'm still basically the middle yeah we've not got as far as we hoped so instead of trying to listen to the car sat-nav which explains how far we're going to get on a single charge we found that to be just a bit too conservative and kept telling us that we're not gonna make it to our next charge instead what we're going to do is go with our Girton sort of thing if it says we've got a hundred kilometres spare then we can make it question of the morning is this natural cloud forming or is it some sort of giant power plant oh I was right oh it's a power punch it's a as the Sun rises are not quite southern France the miles disappear beneath our electrically powered wheels with an open road and a better sense of what the Model S needs yesterday's concerns feel a hundred miles away aqua has only one album on Spotify aquarium very recently I was looking at it and they had both of their hit albums and both of their hits albums aqua did not have two hits albums some of those songs and some of the happy boys and girls don't call class in my oh my singing every day barbie girl unforgettable good morning sunshine legendary dr. Jones classic of the genre heated Paco another charge another few hundred kilometers closer to our goal with the Spanish border looming we're getting more comfortable with the dynamics of electric charging but we're still learning new things about the car itself cars making a new noise which is always what you want from a car it's a short and why is that unusual because every charge of so far as being in the back garden of a bad hotel smarties four packs harrybo four pack pick-and-mix four packs shepherd shops for and I got I got the Space Ranger on the Segway frankly because it's four closest I could find to a technology journalist with our next charge point well within range we're able to spend some time getting to grips with the Model S's more exotic hardware what's particularly cool about this guys that is actually packed with tech on the inside in particular some of the well let's call it Auto Drive features if I just double pull this little lamp stalk towards me firstly it's matching my speed to what I've told it to but also it's using sensors on the outside of a car to look at the lines on the road it was steer for you to make sure you stay in those lines but also if you just if you just tap the indicator then when it it's safe the car can actually move across the next Lane for you we're now only stopping at charge points that are close to the motorway and ignoring charges when we confidently have enough spare range to just power through the hours roll past in a haze of Road charges and killing time in hotel car parks we even find time to take a coastal detour before crossing the border into Spain and making a final smooth run into Barcelona Airport hey Italy but it actually seems like we're going to make it for mobile all the Congress you know that means it means that we're done means are actually done as a thousand miles all on electrics how many fossils have we set fire to zero no I mean none in the car but often those ammonites I don't repair well Luke we made it any final thoughts well I was struck by how different and electric drivers all the variables that we had to deal with things like range speed charge time charge location terrain charging an empty battery versus one that's half-full it's all that mental trigonometry that's always going on it felt actually a little bit more sometimes like sailing than driving you know having to accomodate for things like wind and tide that sort of stuff always thinking yeah definitely but at the end of the day though we did make it like we've shown that electric cars aren't just great for these short city drives we did a thousand miles in that Tesla and really that makes me extremely excited about the future of electric driving indeed well thanks for watching guys au revoir we agreed au revoir