3000km in an electric Land Rover Defender

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In this episode we interview Tom from Vintage Volts, our partners in Sweden, to talk about his recent mammoth trip from our workshop here in Mid Wales to his workshop up in Sweden. That's a distance of over 3000km travelled in 4 days. Along the way they stopped to meet with a number of customers and suppliers so it's fair to say that the route wasn't exactly a straight route home.
They also took the opportunity to test as many charge stations as possible, mainly CCS, along the way, including Ionity, Eviny, Circle K, Pod point, Tesla and even a Porsche charge station.
We think the Land Rover Defender 130 is the perfect electric vehicle for the sub-zero temperatures and deep snow of Sweden in winter. Comfortable on the road and awesome off road.
If you want to follow more of Vintage Volts builds make sure you go to their website below:
vintagevolts.se/
Thanks also to Britpart and BF Goodrich for their support during the build.

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@jeremyfk

Did a trip from Ireland to Germany about 18 months ago. Honestly one of the most pleasant experiences ever. The Tesla just ate up the kilometres. Did just shy of 3000km . No annoying gear changes, no engine rattles, no smelly petrol pumps. Never had to wait on a charger and this was mid summer peak tourist time. Anyone who says EVs are no good and can't do long journeys either have hidden agendas or simply don't know what they're talking about.

@peterjol

It doesn't matter what vehicle you convert to electric ..you end up with a much better vehicle...I would love a converted classic.

@newbieanders6483

🎉🎉 My handwriting made it on you tube ✍🏻😂🥴🫣 (the note i Maribo😉) that car is sooo cool IRL!!! 🤩🤩👏🏻🙌🏻🫶🏻

@BeetleBeetleY

Did a trip in the summer from Ottawa to Niagara Falls, around Niagara region and back to Ottawa - about 1200 km. Cost about $100 to charge the Model 3 for that trip. Was also fully loaded: 5 adults and luggage. I want to do so much more!

@magnussvendsen4404

Drove to Tuscany two days after taking delivery of our TMY Performance. That was about 5000km! Tønsberg, Norway - Tuscany, Italy and back! First main electric car for us!

@fixedgrin

In my 2018 Tesla Model 3 I did two long journeys around the united states. The first was ~16.5k Miles over 3 months and the second was ~12k Miles over 9 weeks. Worst case, there is always an RV park you can find to charge at and camp.

@elstner

Living in Austria my wife and me are driving electric cars since 10 years. With the first one (little VW e-Up! 18kWh, which we still own/110.000 km) we made trips around 1.000 km in Austria. With the next one (VW e-Golf 36 kWh, which I gave to my brother) we made holiday trips to the Netherlands/3.000 km. Now we are driving a Tesla Model 3 LR AWD since early 2019 and with the Supercharger network there is no limit. In the last years we regularly made trips to Sweden (where our daughter lives) and Norway (where our son lives) and some holiday journey combined with the family visits. So we were doing around 8.000 km each trip.

@user-yg7rk6cz2f

Our longest trip was two weeks with four children: We are doing holidays in our electric camper and prefer taking mountain pass not fast highways. This summer my wife and me went from Switzerland via Albula Pass up to the Stelvio Pass which is 2757meters (9045ft) above sea level and then down to Meran in Italy. There we've been to the most beautiful amazing mediteran garden Trauttmannstorf. Usually we drive parts of the GRAND TOUR OF SWITZERLAND which is the touristic Route 66 of Switzerland. If possible we stay on farms or at wine-growers to have authentic experiences, if not we do wildcamping or stay on a campsite. We've made several trips more than 1000km without troubles. We love staying in our eVanster (including induction cooking) to go enjoying the nature! This summer we did a two week holiday tour with our 4 children in the Grisons, Valais and other swiss cantons.

@adeelnawaz3339

I've done up to 2400km in my Kona EV, but the most amazing journey was from Prague to Berlin. I left Prague with 90% battery, and reached home after a 350km drive, with 40% battery left. How on earth is that possible? I took the expressway, so my top speed was limited to 100km/h. Had I taken the motorway, I'd have to charge at least twice. That's how much difference the air resistance makes.

@sergigorchs7329

I did a thousand miles by bike., also in sweden, but it was iin summer 😂

@logitech4873

Did a journey through Europe this summer. 13,500 kilometers from northern Norway down to Spain and Italy, crossing through 10 other countries on the way.

@jimcabezola3051

"Voltage Vindication!" There's your title for your next TV show with Petrol Ped! This Defender and its owner will be the first of your many story subjects! Such an awesome video! Aloha!

@giulianomarco

Välkommen till sverige! 😁👍

@LarsDahlin

Lovely. I live abour 200 km north of Lillhärdal. Have had a couple of EV's since 2015. Works like a charm up here.

@paultodd9301

Awesome vehicle & an interesting video.

@evornotev7794

Drove to Stockholm and back from south of England this summer. Well over 4,000km altogether. Tesla Y performed flawlessly and had a huge capacity with 2 e-bikes on the tow hitch bike rack, a large dog and all our luggage for a long trip. Tesla superchargers were flawless and used various other providers as well. Chose hotels with charge points for our overnight stops which helps massively. One b&b had a 3kwh charge point which is slow but still helped significantly as we were there for 12 hours or so. Tesla Y was effortless the whole way and bike rack didn't reduce the efficiency as much as we were expecting.

@handsofdoubt31

Love this! I've done Hampshire to the far end of Belgium and back...full trip was over 800 miles. It cost £115 in total and all chargers worked first time every time. The only time I had to wait to plug in was the very last leg in the UK at Cobham services Ionity on the M25. Only had to wait about 10 minutes. They've just have added another 12 chargers there recently so waiting probably won't be an issue anymore. I follow the mantra: Charge where you stop, don't stop to charge. That way as you say you're never waiting to charge. It's so much more convenient that refuelling petrol/diesel which actually adds more time to your journey. Near then end of my trip at a service station near Ghent I noticed these very bored looking people standing next to their cars having to hold onto a hose. They didn't look happy. I was in the warm having coffee and Danish. When I was done my car had got up to 96% which was way more than I needed. I'll not be going to back to ICE.

@MrAdopado

The reduced range hit than expected compared to a Tesla is partly because the extended Tesla range is achieved by high efficiency aero and other optimisations that work best in the moderate conditions where we mostly drive. The Defender never that super-efficiency in the first place so there's less to lose when the going gets tougher. It's similar in principle to an ICE car where the weather hit is certainly there but usually somewhat less than in a highly optimised EV.