You may remember previous EV road trips by the journalists of WysokieNapiecie.pl that I've reported for CleanTechnica (travelling to Punta Marroqui — the southernmost point of continental Europe — in a Volkswagen ID.4 in 2021,
in 2020, taking Alpine pass driving an Audi e-tron in 2019, and reaching Nordkapp driving a Nissan LEAF in 2018). Here I come again, but this time things are all different and I don’t only mean the car. This time we’re testing our EV in the most difficult scenario — winter in Scandinavia. Apart from the never-ending complaint about EV range that I hear from all my skeptical friends, the other most often repeated concern is that EVs don’t work in winter.
Anyway, Poland is getting there and it was particularly important on this first day. Heavy front wind, low temperatures , and motorway speeds of 140–160 km/h meant the beast from BMW, weighing about 2500 kg, consumed a staggering 33.5 kWh/100 km. The team could do about 300 km under these conditions, but being experienced EV drivers, they chose to stop every 200–250 km to not drain the battery flat.
Needless to say, Poland was just a warmup. Germany has left us way behind. The scale of the development of their charging network is simply impressive. Four years ago, driving an EV through Eastern Germany was actually harder than driving through Poland — sparsely located chargers, mostly 22–50kW, no roaming, many operators, absolute EV nightmare. However, while Poland wasted time focusing on legislation and planning, Germany acted.
Another detour, then, and our guys were heading for Denmark and its majestic bridges. After one short charging session of 20 minutes in Germany, the team arrived at the first charging hub in Denmark, only to see all stations were occupied — four cars were charging and two were queuing to charge. What a bummer! A long wait of … 3 minutes to start charging. Lucky at last. On top of that, they could test what we have all wished for at charging stations — card payment.
Interesting as it was, the real story unfolded when our team learnt he was an autonomous vehicle test driver for Nio, a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles (he was driving a
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