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After driving my Taycan for over 6 months, it was time to take it on a longer trip and see how it is to travel with an EV. How will it work out with charging along the way?
The plan is to travel to Sanya, the tropical Florida of China.
The 11 hours are purely theoretical, since we arrived at the ferry terminal at 9:28, but the ferry only departed 11:00 and took almost 2 hours to cross and unload including additional checks due to COVID.
Since we left late afternoon we planned on having an overnight stop at Zhanjiang, which is a bit over half the distance.
After charging the car to 100% and loading it up we left home.
First highway stop.
They are much nicer now compare to 10 years ago.
Still had plenty of charge at this first stop, but since the APP said there are chargers, I wanted to check them out. 180kW is very good in China.
Off we go on brand new highways, the infrastructure is amazing!
Next stop we were ready to charge, but of course one charger was broken, the other busy. Never mind the next station isn't that far away.
In this southern province it seems that every highway rest place has fast chargers. This charging station was empty. Charging with only 400V so only getting around 100kW. Charging for about 40 min and off we went to our stop for the night.
After checking in at the hotel, we found out that there was no "destination charger". So I headed out to charge the car nearby the hotel in at the stadium car park.
This time I got 800V and the charging was faster - almost 120kW. Charging completed, back to the hotel and a few hours of sleep.
Really nice to see, how far EVs have come already. Charging is almost everywhere, even a DC fast charger never seems to be more then a few km away. The chargers are not specified to the highest level, so it takes more time.
The plan is to travel to Sanya, the tropical Florida of China.
The 11 hours are purely theoretical, since we arrived at the ferry terminal at 9:28, but the ferry only departed 11:00 and took almost 2 hours to cross and unload including additional checks due to COVID.
Since we left late afternoon we planned on having an overnight stop at Zhanjiang, which is a bit over half the distance.
After charging the car to 100% and loading it up we left home.
First highway stop.
They are much nicer now compare to 10 years ago.
Still had plenty of charge at this first stop, but since the APP said there are chargers, I wanted to check them out. 180kW is very good in China.
Off we go on brand new highways, the infrastructure is amazing!
Next stop we were ready to charge, but of course one charger was broken, the other busy. Never mind the next station isn't that far away.
In this southern province it seems that every highway rest place has fast chargers. This charging station was empty. Charging with only 400V so only getting around 100kW. Charging for about 40 min and off we went to our stop for the night.
After checking in at the hotel, we found out that there was no "destination charger". So I headed out to charge the car nearby the hotel in at the stadium car park.
This time I got 800V and the charging was faster - almost 120kW. Charging completed, back to the hotel and a few hours of sleep.
Really nice to see, how far EVs have come already. Charging is almost everywhere, even a DC fast charger never seems to be more then a few km away. The chargers are not specified to the highest level, so it takes more time.