tigerbalm
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- First Name
- Damien
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2020
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- Location
- Ireland
- Vehicles
- Taycan Turbo S, Fiat 500 EV
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Introduction
My co-driver and I have been thinking about this trip for a long time. After a few false starts – pandemic restrictions have now reduced enough to make the road trip viable, legal and safe.
Our planning has been completed and we're finally underway.
Our high-level route will be:
Ireland -> France -> Belgium -> Germany -> Norway -> Finland -> Sweden -> Norway -> Germany -> Belgium -> France -> Ireland.
We hope you'll join us on this 18 day journey as we road-trip across beautiful Northern Europe and learn about how we and our Taycan 4S (build: PMFBLBS1) performs in colder winter conditions.
All the photos we take will be available at full resolution on a Flickr photo album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/194883528@N06/albums/72177720296472072 and we'll post some more candid/on-the-way shots to Instagram at the hashtag #TaycanToTheArctic.
All day report posts:
Day 1: Dublin (Ireland) -> Cherbourg (France)
Day 2: Cherbourg (France) -> Köln (Germany)
Day 3: Köln (Germany) -> Kiel (Germany)
Day 4: Kiel (Germany) -> Oslo (Norway)
Day 5: Oslo (Norway) -> Otta (Norway)
Day 6: Otta (Norway) -> Trondheim (Norway)
Day 7: Trondheim (Norway) -> Mo i Rana (Norway)
Day 8: Mo i Rana (Norway) -> Bodø (Norway)
Day 9: Bodø (Norway) -> Narvik (Norway)
Day 10: Narvik (Norway) -> Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway)
Day 11: Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway) [Non driving day]
Day 12: Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway) -> Svanstein (Sweden)
Day 13: Svanstein (Sweden) -> Umeå (Sweden)
Day 14: Umeå (Sweden) -> Gävle (Sweden)
Day 15: Gävle (Sweden) -> Oslo (Norway)
Day 16: Oslo (Norway) -> Kiel (Germany) [Non driving day]
Day 17: Kiel (Germany) -> Poulainville (France)
Day 18: Poulainville (France) -> Cherbourg (France)
Video clips:
Driving across the Arctic Circle
Leaving Bodø towards rejoining the E6
Driving in arctic Northern Norway heading for Narvik
Additional info:
Charging Log
How do we do our charger planning?
What is in our frunk?
Robot Room Service
Assistant Systems in Snow/Icy road conditions
Just how far north are we really?
Charging Infrastructure in Norway
First glimpse of northern lights
Second nights northern lights
Damaged Wiper Blade
Evergreen trip reports
Our lap
Frequent but random communications issue
Hotels
My co-driver and I have been thinking about this trip for a long time. After a few false starts – pandemic restrictions have now reduced enough to make the road trip viable, legal and safe.
Our planning has been completed and we're finally underway.
Our high-level route will be:
Ireland -> France -> Belgium -> Germany -> Norway -> Finland -> Sweden -> Norway -> Germany -> Belgium -> France -> Ireland.
We hope you'll join us on this 18 day journey as we road-trip across beautiful Northern Europe and learn about how we and our Taycan 4S (build: PMFBLBS1) performs in colder winter conditions.
All the photos we take will be available at full resolution on a Flickr photo album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/194883528@N06/albums/72177720296472072 and we'll post some more candid/on-the-way shots to Instagram at the hashtag #TaycanToTheArctic.
All day report posts:
Day 1: Dublin (Ireland) -> Cherbourg (France)
Day 2: Cherbourg (France) -> Köln (Germany)
Day 3: Köln (Germany) -> Kiel (Germany)
Day 4: Kiel (Germany) -> Oslo (Norway)
Day 5: Oslo (Norway) -> Otta (Norway)
Day 6: Otta (Norway) -> Trondheim (Norway)
Day 7: Trondheim (Norway) -> Mo i Rana (Norway)
Day 8: Mo i Rana (Norway) -> Bodø (Norway)
Day 9: Bodø (Norway) -> Narvik (Norway)
Day 10: Narvik (Norway) -> Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway)
Day 11: Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway) [Non driving day]
Day 12: Aurora Borealis Observatory (Norway) -> Svanstein (Sweden)
Day 13: Svanstein (Sweden) -> Umeå (Sweden)
Day 14: Umeå (Sweden) -> Gävle (Sweden)
Day 15: Gävle (Sweden) -> Oslo (Norway)
Day 16: Oslo (Norway) -> Kiel (Germany) [Non driving day]
Day 17: Kiel (Germany) -> Poulainville (France)
Day 18: Poulainville (France) -> Cherbourg (France)
Video clips:
Driving across the Arctic Circle
Leaving Bodø towards rejoining the E6
Driving in arctic Northern Norway heading for Narvik
Additional info:
Charging Log
How do we do our charger planning?
What is in our frunk?
Robot Room Service
Assistant Systems in Snow/Icy road conditions
Just how far north are we really?
Charging Infrastructure in Norway
First glimpse of northern lights
Second nights northern lights
Damaged Wiper Blade
Evergreen trip reports
Our lap
Frequent but random communications issue
Hotels
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