No sightseeing today just a steady autobahn drive from Aalborg in Denmark to Bremen in Germany. Apart fro serious roadworks near Aarhus and causing a major hold up around Hamburg it was a pretty easy run, but windy in places. The only place that I would like to have stopped for a photo op was at the Kiel Canal which allows shipping to go from the Baltic to the Atlantic. I assumed there would be a junction near the crossing and checked at my stop before Kiel. Wrong! I could not see a junction on either side of the canal so asked the navigation system to take me to see it. The response was not good as it would add 40 minutes to my journey. So I just saw it from the bridge with ship actually passing underneath. The pictures today kind of illustrate a road trip in an electric vehicle. I do not generally let the navigation system decide where I should charge as I generally have a route planned. Today I just let the system do its work. The software selects charging stations that will provide the fastest journey based on minimising charging time. The current software also allows me to set an arrival charge level at my destination. As I like to be charged for the next day the car added an extra charging station just 8 km from the hotel to ensure I would be ready for the morning. The total journey was 572 km which took 8 hours and 19 minutes of which 56 minutes was spent charging. Without the top up for the morning the charging time was 35 minutes. The first charge was long enough for me to walk to the adjacent McDonalds for a coffee and the toilet and back with a few minutes to spare. The second was a “sit in the car and have a snack” as the adjacent shopping centre seemed abandoned. There were also a couple of comfort stops at rest areas. I also took advantage of a quiet stretch of Autobahn to let the Tesla fly. It just effortlessly accelerated to 160 kph (100 mph) and would have kept going. It felt completely stable and eerily quiet. Noise level used to be a good indicator if I was going too fast but not in my Model 3. Here are a few pictures which illustrate the variety of locations where you find Tesla Superchargers plus a few from the road. I mentioned roadworks and around Aarhus they stretched for about 25 miles with an 80kph speed limit which was easy to keep up to. It was like they are building a completely new road. The headline image is from Aalborg, so that is Christmas sorted out. :-) The other pictures are captioned apart from the final one where the words of John McEnroe “You cannot be serious!” come to mind. Having to fold the mirrors to park the car in the hotel car park is a little different. From entering the car park my car tells me it took 5 minutes to manoeuvre the car into this spot. It required a 57 point turn as behind the camera, close by, are other spots the same but occupied by other vehicles.

Tesla Supercharger at Vejle in Denmark

Entering Germany, seamless.

German rest stop 1

Crossing the Keil Canal. “I see no ships!"

Tesla Supercharger at Neumunster in Germany and apparently abandonned shopping centre, which it is not, just no cars in the huge car park

German rest stop 2

Coming out of the traffic jam in roadworks in Hamburg. The navigation system routed me around the first 2 km of the jam.

Telsa Supercharger in Bremen in the car park of a restaurant.