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Two weeks ago I went on a road trip of about a week with my ZOE. It was kind of a last minute decision as a free time slot came available and stress l
[See the full post at: Travelling Internationally With the ZOE – Part 1]Great report @surya, thanks for sharing your experiences so far. Reading this in rural France whilst visiting family, I’ve been wondering how easy or otherwise it might be to bring Zoe with me one day.
Thanks timbo
I haven’t looked into France yet, but with the different connector, that could prove problematic. But my wife wants me to look in to it for next year, so I might have an update then 🙂Nice report and being an new ZOE driver, quite a challenge. Belgium is improving but very changing experiences. You could check the AC fast chargers map of MartijnEV for your next trip ( ). We drove from the Netherlands to Denmark ( ) with our family. The ZOE itself is not that convinced of her capability’s as she indeed quite often states a destiny can’t be reached. We know better now!
Since the links don’t show up in my post:
Operational fastchargers: http://www.ac-lader.nl
Denmark trip: http://zoe-en.tumblr.comGJ – Welcome! I see you’ve used a FastNed station – what did you think? Are they on to a winner, or are they destined to go bankrupt?
Well Trevor, they did a really good emmission of shares, so for the moment the money is OK. But for the long time it’s depending on the development of electric driving. Are these shareholders people who actually want to support electric driving, or just moneymakers in search of a quick profit. The latter will, to my opinion, quickly discover that this was the wrong bet. For the moment I expect that Fatned has a long way to go and will only be profitable when there is a uge amount of electric cars on the road. Last year in the Netherlands there was a lot of electrical cars sold, but most of them where PHEV like the Mitsubishi Oulander and the Volvo hybrid (v40 or v60). They are mostly business drivers but with there little battery not the one’s who will charge at Fastned; they charge their little battery at home or at work, and driving on highway’s they wil use their ICE. The other large group of EV is Tesla. They might be good customers, while they don’t care about money but care for convieniance. On the other hand, their range is large and they have their own superchargers around Europe. What remains on EV is mainly driving of the highway’s. TheNewMotion is now rolling out their new fastchargers, alike the Fastned chargers, but located in the city’s. Finally; it’s expensive. That’s in fact a wrong description; it’s a lot of money. Taken into account the facility’s, it’s not expensive, however one can wonder who’s willing to pay these amounts for fast charging, when there’s a cheaper (but slower) option? For the moment the use is still for free at Fastned!
Not that positive for Fastned, but their facility’s are good quality, as well as the organisation behind these facility’s. It all depends on enough customers and that will only be the case with as steady an large growth of the EV market now. That growth depends on the strategy of the Government of country’s and the EU. These have to devellop a clear and steady policy with support for this technology.
Now where heading for an other topic. There’s a lot to be said about governance policy, but I think your question is answered 🙂 The future will tell and Fastned deserves support and credit.Thanks for that, GJ. For those who don’t know FastNed, their website is here.
I’m planning on driving to Holland myself next year and seeing this account was great. How easy is it to get from Belgium to Holland in Zoe?
I think I may choose the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry. I belief Ecotricity will be putting up Rapid chargers along this route as part of the rapidchargenetwork(dot)com project. It should be finished by the time I travel or at least make it easier. I will be coming from Farnborough and get a bit lost with chargers and networks after I leave the M25. Having just the Ecotricity card would make things easier.
Any advice welcomed.
For charging in Belgium and the Netherlands I use a card from The New Motion. They let you use a number of other networks as well and so far it has worked fine. In fact I just used it to go to Germany last week.
You can check out their map here: https://my.thenewmotion.com/
The card is free, the costs depend on the charger.
Keep in mind that the map is not 100% accurate. I went to a 22kW charger, turned out to be a 43kW one. So that was positive.So I’d say it’s very easy, just get the app to find chargers or write down some beforehand.
Germany was an other thing, but I’ll make a post about that shortly.
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