Planning a 5000 km road trip — through Europe
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Next week, we’re off on another big road trip! We think it will be about 5000km, over six weeks. We’ve never traveled these roads before, or checked the EV chargers along the way.
It’s about the same distance as a return trip (from our home in Emerald Victoria) to Rockhampton or Uluru. It’s only slightly more than the double trip we did in May to Cessnock to pick up Mum for a visit to Emerald, and return.
As usual, we’re not sure of our exact route, and we haven’t advance booked any accommodation along the way.
To add some challenge, we’ll drive the entire trip on the right hand side of the road!
As you might have guessed by now, this trip will not be in Australia. This is our first EV road trip overseas and Tom’s first time in Europe.
We’re hiring a Tesla Model Y Long Range in The Netherlands, where we’re staying for a couple of weeks with Fran’s cousin (thanks Nico ☺️). Then we’re driving roughly south east through Europe, visiting Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Switzerland, to Italy, with the return trip possibly including Austria.
We’re hiring the car from UFODRIVE – an all EV rental company. It includes all charging costs along the way. When we’re done, we’ll just return the car to the parking bay, with 10% or more “fuel”, log it in the app as returned, and then walk away. Neat!
While we’re gone, Marvin the mower should be able to keep our lawns tidy. 🤖
Follow along for our adventures. Please let us know if you have any tips on driving through Europe 😊.
He’s not going to want to come home!!