In laying out how they would start their journey, the writers explained their well thought out plan for charging to 100%, getting on the Eurotunnel to France, and then charging again ~200 miles away in the Netherlands. Add in six 30-minute charging stops and a couple of 20-minute border crossings and that adds up to a total time of 23hr 10min. The rationale was thus: “Speaking of theoreticals, Google Maps calculated it would be possible to visit 13 countries in 19 hours and 30 minutes. The team’s target was visiting 13 countries in 24 hours. Long story short: a 20 or 25 minute charge from 10% to 80% (I was in fact going from 11% to 80%) is really not much time. I’m hungry and need to use the bathroom and the Supercharger is right behind a Whole Foods where I planned to solve both issues, but I decided to wait to charge first (while working on this article) because I was concerned I would have to rush while eating in order to get back to the car in time. In fact, I am writing this while at a Tesla Supercharger where my estimated charging time was 25 minutes. That’s barely enough time to go to the bathroom and grab a snack and a coffee. To get back in the car and onto the road ASAP, a Taycan can go from 10% to 80% state of charge in just ~20 minutes.
The authors note that while their road-trip Porsche Taycan can charge at up to 270 kW, a more typical (and affordable) ID.4 has a max charging rate of 130 kW.
Combine these with Ionity and several other networks, get a PlugSurfing account, and you can get nearly anywhere in Europe. There are also growing networks of other ultrafast charging stations - like Fastned in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, and the UK and Greenway in Poland and Slovakia. Because they’re intelligently placed on the most commonly traversed throughfares, we found it surprisingly easy to schedule in six charge stops along our route, none of which required a major detour.” Over the past few years a joint venture called Ionity - formed by the BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Hyundai Motor Group and Volkswagen Group - has been rolling out 350kW charging stations across the Continent. “Just a few years ago this kind of adventure would have only been an option for Tesla owners thanks to the company’s widespread Supercharger network, but thankfully, that is no longer the case. “The theory being that, if we could drive almost the entire breadth of mainland Europe in less than a day, you should hopefully have the confidence to undertake your annual family trip in an EV. (Though, it might have been more relatable if they didn’t use a wildly expensive Porsche Taycan, but what can you do?) To wrap up their intro, they write: (Of course it will, but remember that they are writing for a more general audience than we here at CleanTechnica serve.) I thought it was a nice open-minded intro to the topic and to the idea of switching to an electric car. They then posed the question of whether this would still be possible as we switch to electric cars. Setting the stage a bit, they wrote about the long-loved British pastime of driving around mainland Europe, or driving down to France or Spain. The Taycan has an 800-volt system that allows it to charge ultrafast - more ultrafast than other ultrafast-charging cars. Unsurprisingly, they used the Porsche Taycan. Beating that by a wide margin, the What Car? crew entered 14 countries in under 24 hours. However, their search pulled up Audi’s 10-country road trip in an e-tron back in 2019, which was part of an Ionity promotional tour, as the standing unofficial record. Technically, we don’t really know if someone else has beat them at some point - probably a less publicized adventurer has. Actually, the people at What Car? wanted to do more than figure out their limit - they wanted to set a new world record. How many countries could you visit in 24 hours? How many could you visit in an electric car? That’s what the company “ What Car?” wanted to find out.
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