2023-08-12 08:00:00
Published12. August 2023, 10:00
Testimonials in Luxembourg: Portugal, France, Denmark… they went on vacation in an electric car
LUXEMBOURG/EUROPE – For many still, the electric car would be a constraint for long journeys. Several readers of The essential entrust us with their summer experience and, beyond the budget, reassure on autonomy and comfort.
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Nicolas Chauty
Going on vacation in an electric car is not yet unanimous. A few days ago, The essential launched an appeal to find out if many of you made this choice this summer, and we can say that some a priori still have a hard tooth. “I have just arrived, I left in 2022”, “To break down after four hours, no thanks!”, “Arlon-Ostend, five days to go and six days to return”… that’s it for the lot of ironic comments on the subject. So we tried, all the same, to meet holidaymakers directly concerned, and the reality is quite different.
Éric, a French border worker in Luxembourg, has been using a Tesla model Y for the past few months to commute to work, and for the first time he has decided to leave with his family for his vacation spot on the island of Oléron. . “About 2,000 kilometres” and, to listen to him, child’s play. “The Tesla planner is reliable, you enter the information and it automatically calculates the stops and the time needed”.
“Break of about forty minutes the time to eat”
From Longwy, the family made a first stop in Troyes, with a first small refill during the regulatory break. “Time to eat, the car was ready,” slips Éric. His vehicle has a real autonomy of 400 km at 130 km / h on the highway, “but there, with the weight of the passengers, the suitcases and the bicycles, we were between 290 and 320 km of autonomy”. Second break around Orleans, with overnight stay, the opportunity to secure the shot by reconnecting the car. The next day, final break in Poitiers, forty minutes, again “a recharge time to take the dog out and eat”.
On the island of Oléron, the family used their car very little, which could therefore simply be recharged on a conventional electrical outlet in the rental house. This round trip will have cost “160 euros of electricity”, against more than 200 euros when driving on unleaded 98 according to the estimates of the mappy.com site. But the argument is not necessarily financial on a long journey, the summer experience of Éric and his family demonstrates “that the electric was not a constraint”.
“We have to stop regularly anyway”
And finally, this example is not an isolated case. Franky, another reader of The essential, says he traveled 2,085 km between Luxembourg and Portugal, with his electric car, “in 25 hours with a lot of rain” in places. “In previous years, in a combustion engine car, it took us 20 hours without bad weather.” Thomas, he joined Copenhagen (Denmark) from Metz, with only three stops of 20 minutes to recharge. “There were always about ten free places for shippers, with systematically shops and amenities”. All for 120 euros round trip.
“Travelling as a family with a toddler, we have to stop regularly anyway, so we chose to combine these regular breaks with the recharge times… so in the end it doesn’t change our journeys too much”, slips from his Sylvain side*, who chose him this summer to go to Spain from the Grand Duchy. An electric vehicle “much more comfortable than our thermal car”.
Franky, reader of L’essentiel, says he traveled 2,085 km between Luxembourg and Portugal, with his electric car.
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