From Holland to Portugal

Hi Dirkou,

I've just had a look at PlugShare - EV Charging Station Map - Find a place to charge your car! and it certainly looks possible - the only difficult bit will be between Narbonne (the last of the SCs in France) and wherever you need to get to in Portugal. This assumes you can use ChaDeMo chargers. Is there a ChaDeMo adapter available for EU spec MS' yet? I know the US versions have one - $1k or so... Otherwise charging on the 3 phase AC is going to be fairly slow, even if you have dual chargers on board.

There are other EV charging facilities web site out there eg openchargemap and you will notice that they all differ from each other depending on who has been updating what. So you will have to look at as may as you can find. Also speak to the main players like Nissan dealers etc. You will almost certainly find rapid chargers by ringing round that do not feature on any of the above 2 maps. If you do find some, please add them to the map - my preferred one is Plugshare as it is easier to use - especially when on the move.

I'm sure other forum users will have their own preferred, local charging map web sites.

I don't think hotels have quite woken up to the EV thing yet so you would have to ring them and ask - I guess ones that do have charging facilities would also have taken the trouble to put themselves on the map... but which one? Again, perhaps local EVers will be able to help here.

A few links...

Electric Vehicle Charging Station

hoteles donde se puede cargar su coche electrico / vehiculo electrico / VE - España

BBC - Radio 4 - Electric Ride - Electric Ride Map

I'm sure with some googling of your own you will find plenty more.

Please let us know how your trip progresses as I'm hoping to buy an S next year and plan a Grand European EV Tour in 2016/17 in it (after I retire!)

Regards, Martin Winlow.

Please consult the Dutch forum in the European subforum. Don't be afraid to ask your question in English. There are multiple active posters there with experience of driving a car to the south of Europe.

If it helps, I wrote some tips, might be of use now here
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