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Hi. Just watched your trip for the second time. Great viewing. We used to take our family to mainland Europe every summer but haven't been since the debacle of 2016 … We too have family in Australia - although they're moving to Hong Kong over the festive period. We've been to Oz a few times but always flew economy - once Singapore, once Emirates, one Lufthansa. Singapore is by far the best, but it'll be interesting to see the Quatar experience - and just how much better business class is compared to cattle class! Have a safe trip.

Great trip! Thanks to you and your camerawoman!😊 The trick to never arrive at a supercharger with less than 5% is to select a point on the map really close to the supercharger, so that the battery pre-heating isn't activated. Tesla should see that it's more important to actually arrive at a supercharger than to have the battery pre heated and waste all the energy because you weren’t able to arrive there. Have you tried the ABRP app (a better route planner) and charging at Ionity in these long trips? Often they're better placed than the Tesla superchargers, inside the motorways and with better services. Thanks again

Hi Tom, enjoyed the video, thank you. We are driving a 9 year old Model S, in which we also sleep, using a Tesla dreamcase mattress. We live in Hungary but regularly drive to the UK, and this year are continuing on to our apartment not far down the road from you, in El Campello, before going back to Hungary. Minimum distance is 8,000+km or 5,000+miles. We have a channel, Tessies Travels if you fancy checking it out.

Shoot in 4k. Cut the scenes with too much talking. Background music for some shots like driving. Mount the camera for shots like that.

Thanks Tom helpful info , going to do a south of France trip next year, and special mention to the wife for being a patient camerawoman. Maybe you could get a GoPro and stick it to the roof next trip. Save her arms 😂

Quite enjoyable to watch and some interesting information.

It doesnt worry me if you receive income as a part of your video endeavours .All power to you. PS the champagne isnt free you have paid in advance! :)

Tesla sure make the prospect of owning an EV not daunting at all.The Sat nav voice is exactly the same as my garmin sat nav

I’ve enjoyed each of your vlogs on the trip - very informative and not in any way ‘amateurish’ - well done. I’m only a few years younger than you - our next car will definitely be an EV and the model Y is very appealing - have you found Tesla supercharging less ‘faff’ than doing the trip in the MG4? We’re used to touring France in a motorhome but haven’t bothered with the emovis tag to date, but have to say it does seem to work very well, and would avoid my wife having to stretch out of the window to pay! We similarly use Tesco vouchers towards the tunnel crossing. Similar to the earlier comment, we use the Halifax Clarity credit card for almost all payments and use very little cash. I take it that by entering the next destination on the Tesla sat-Nav that the software would suggest charging stops en route - i.e. in theory it would be possible to simply enter Calais when leaving the villa in Spain? (I fully appreciate you’d need to take account of hotel and favourite cafe stops).

Well done to you both and thank you for posting the video. As a pensioner myself as of this year I’m about to make the move to an EV having had a few test drives and I enjoy the EV driving experience. A Model Y is probably my preferred choice but I’m also tempted by the Polestar 4, but it’s probably bigger than I need and the software is reputedly glitchy so as yet undecided. I found your videos very helpful, thank you. Enjoy ‘Business’ to Australia - that’s the way we’ve done it in the past and definitely a great experience!

Thumbs up, excellent effort. Regards.

Thanks, brilliant please do more

Fair play.

Thank you both for sharing all your travel tips, lots useful information given in a very accessible way. I’ve not long had my mid range BMW i3s. At the moment it’s for city driving really, not so much the long distance, European trips. Though later with a good bit of planning I’ll feel more confident to head further afield! I didn’t know about the French crit’air till watching your video & yes was indeed taken by a third party to pay 50€. When you mentioned the warning I then found the direct French govt site for less than £5…..thank you again! I’ve also joined up for Tesla charging so you never know I may see you both at one of their shared sites! Enjoy your trip to see your daughter & family….yes I’d enjoy seeing a record of the journey 😊

For anyone watching this and thinking about getting an EV, i can add our experiences to this. We drive round to the UK from central Norway every summer in a Tesla, the whole family with dog. So in short: - Long distance in an EV is not difficult - we do 3000km in 3 days when we travel. You stop a bit more often (every 2-2.5hrs), but only for enough time to take a pee, walk a dog and quickly shovel down a sandwich and some coffee (25mins). - Using a Tesla and the Tesla charging network the long distance parts of the journey are unbelievably easy. The navigation works amazingly, routes you to chargers, and i often charge past its recommendations cos we just can't pee and eat fast enough as a family. - Because Tesla have a lot of charging stations in locations without obvious services (food especially), i also sign up to Ionity for the trip now that they have monthly subs. They have better locations and can be cheaper than Tesla per kWh. Tesla's nav doesn't seem to like Ionity though, so you have to put a bit of planning work in to use them. - The only challenge i have with charging is at destinations. That genuinely can be troublesome, so i do spend some time planning that and looking for places to rent that are near chargers. That has got a lot easier in the 4 years i have had the car though, as the networks have expanded. I use "abetterrouteplanner" (ABRP) to plan this - For destination charging in France i very strongly recommend getting a Freshmile RFID tag. It seems that a lot of french AC chargers need the tag and don't work with the App.

Being of a similar age, I cannot praise you both enough for the effort you have put in and the entertainment you have provided. We were in Spain at the same time in our EV6 this year and will be there again next September although we take the ferry most of the way. As we have a Tesla on order, the information you have provided is most helpful. Enjoy Australia

Thanks for a very informative video. I had never heard about the crit'air stickers, so I 'l have to look into that next time I travel to France. We EU-citizens have an advantage that we don't have to bother about different electrical sockets! I look forward to seeing other videos in the not to distant future!

The Green Up socket is made by a French Company, Le Grand. It is called a 'reinforced socket' specifically for EV charging up to 3.6kw or 16 amps. It's what I use at home when I need to, though mine is undercover.

Would absolutely love to see your trip to Australia. Nearest to Business class I have travelled is Premium Economy. Which I loved.

Thanks for the update Tom, some really useful information. Great that you took the time to document your journey all the best with your trip to Australia 👍

How do you find the ride and refinement of your Y? Lots of reviewers say its noisy and harsh riding.

Well done Tom and Clare for showing that age is no impediment to both conquering a long journey in an EV and producing content for RUclips that others find enjoyable and interesting! Thanks for the tips and tricks, we'll definitely be buying one of those 4 way adapters. Do try some non-Tesla chargers out next time though, there are some really good options in France and they're not that much more expensive than Tesla and give you more flexibility in route planning, we like Electra and Fastned. As you know we did a similar series of videos with a similar motivation to document our trip back from the south of France, we hope you don't mind us highlighting that here so that those who found your videos useful can click our our profile to see similar content.

Super videos. The LEZ for Rouen doesn't cover the normal routes which bypass the centre of Rouen where the LEZ is, but for the cost better safe than sorry.

I’ve also enjoyed following your trip to Spain. In 2022 I rented an EV in Norway for a month and drove from Bergen to North Cape and back to Bergen over the month. Norway has some strange rules about bank / credit cards and my own bank’s debit card was not accepted in many places despite the bank claiming it could! As I worked overseas a lot prior to retirement I had previously opened a Monzo Bank account and the Monzo Debit card was accepted everywhere I travelled to and there is no commission charged on purchases abroad - it is a debit card but using my online banking over the internet I just tethered my iPad to my iPhone on O2 (no roaming charges anywhere in Europe) and transferred money from my current account into my Monzo account when necessary. PS I blocked both Geoff and MacMaster from being recommended viewing as I was fed up with Mac’s whinging about how he couldn’t make electric motoring work for him but he appeared to be going out of his way to make it not work. He was not entertaining at all. I don’t own a Tesla I had a Mini Cooper S E at that time but this year changed it to a new Mini Countryman and have made several road trips from Scotland to Cornwall and Kent that were no more stressful than doing the trips in my diesel car.

Good series of videos, anyone who can try and prove the two wrong are doing a good job. Mac has said in one of his latest video’s that it is his aim to stop the whole transition to EV’s. So so sad to have that attitude. Best decision I made changing to an EV. Keep up the good work.

You're an inspiration and have no need to apologise for the output, I enjoyed watching it very much. When abroad the Halifax Clarity credit card is ideal for all spending as you can pay in local currency (e.g. Euro), no transaction fee and the commercial exchange rate is applied so there's no need for cash other than a small amount (circa £20/day) of ad-hoc cash which you can pick up here in the UK before you leave. It's safer than carrying large amounts of cash / relying on cash machines abroad and no hassle trying to transfer from one account to another while you're abroad. If you're looking for ideas for future content, perhaps one on what you learnt while doing the editing of your videos, a sort of how to video, it's a daunting subject and probably the one that puts most people off making the attempt themselves. Enjoy down-under, you're going to love business class, Qatar is fabulous, allow plenty of time at the airport to enjoy their business class lounge as well.

its so nice to see a genuine couple offering really good advise, you showed us all that EV can do a long journey stress free by simple planning, this is what you get when a genuine person shares their experience, anybody who listened to that idiot the Nc Master is a bigger fool than he is.i look forward to watching your next journey, safe travels and thank you.

Fabulous series of videos. I’ve watched each of them and been thoroughly engrossed. You have a natural flair for straight forward talking whilst being extremely informative. Thanku ❤ Ps there is no sign of amateurish production. I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t do more. Again thanku ❤️

Well done Tom and Clare. Great summary in this video. I am interested in your future trip to Australia. I went from Australia to the UK and back in business class in 2018 for the first time at the age of 60 which I also thought was a trip of a lifetime. You have managed the tech very well for your number of birthdays. I found your other videos informative and very sensible. Thanks for your efforts. The haters are really quite odd. Not yet grown up perhaps.

Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks 👍

*What a Buffoon at your age (77) should have bought a Mercedes B200CDi up to 93 MPG and I have Screenshots to prove it !*

Excellent series of videos that are informative and very helpful. Your style of presenting is also good and you should be extremely proud of yourselves for embracing technology. Would love to see your videos documenting the trip to Australia, so please do publish. Well done again and here’s to your trip next year 👍

Thank you for this video and of course the travel reports. Have good trip to Oz. 👍😀

Well done 👍

You are amazing mate! I wish more people were as courageous as you! And it's actually not that difficult to do... Looking forward to next year's videos! 😁

great mini series, some useful tips. Looking forward to the champagne glugging😀

An interesting series of videos, thank you. The thing that I struggle with is having to plan a long road trip such as this one, simply from one charging stop to the next. The last time we drove to the south of France (in an ICE car), we picked our route mostly avoiding the Peage toll roads, instead taking smaller more rural roads and visiting a number of small towns, villages and tourist sights en route. If we saw a nice looking bar/restaurant offering a plat du jour in a picturesque spot, we'd stop. If we saw signs to a Roman ruin or a castle/chateau, we'd may turn off and visit. Nothing was particularly pre-planned apart from the overnight hotel stop. The need to plan a journey around charging stops with such military precision takes away any kind of spontaneity for me, which is half the fun of making such a trip. It's about the journey, not just about getting to the next destintion for me. I am pleased the journey was a success for you but I won't be switching to an EV any time soon.

Bravo Tom & Clare (or Claire) for making a superb effort to produce your interesting and informative videos on your Spanish expedition. It was particularly useful to us as we are planning a trip to the costa del sol in mid December. We have done this trip before in an EV and, just like you, we didn't have any issues whatsover either with the car or charging infrastructure, indeed the whole experience of our first european road trip in an EV was very relaxing and enjoyable. Our last trip to the costa del sol was immediately post-covid, so paperwork and hotel stays were the most restrictive due to continued social distancing and mask measures that were still in place. Our route was Abbeville> Rouen> Le Mans, Poitier> Ruffec> Angouleme> Bordeux> Bayonne> Burgos> Madrid> La Carolina> Jaen> Granada> Loja> Malaga and then along the coast to Marbella. We planned this route because we incorporated visiting friends in Ruffec into our journey. We did encounter some snow blizzards around Burgos, so we were considering planning an alternative route to reduce this possibility. Your video vlog has conveniently come along at an opportune time. Your route looks to be an interesting alternative for us as it appears that the chance of any snow encounters may be reduced as we are always heading south with less high ground en-route ( I think?). I would be interested in your thoughts? I will begin planning our (your) route in the next couple of weeks. Can I ask where you obtained your toll tag and how it is managed, as on our last trip we just used PAYG at each toll booth, the tag certainly looked super convenient. Did you encounter any Spanish tolls? Coincidentally we are also planning an Australian trip next year to visit friends who live in Perth, so we would be really interested in learning your experiences of your Australian adventure and any insights and tips and tricks that may be beneficial. Your wifes video skills are just fine, no need to over-complicate....not padded-out with nonsense like many youtubers who are slaves to youtube algorithms to earn a crust. We send you both our very best wishes for christmas and the new year, and an enjoyable time visiting Australia.

Is an absolute pleasure to watch your vlogs and your trip to Spain and back, really enjoyed it. Looking forward to your trip to Australia also.

Again a great vlog👍. We are looking forward to see the flight to Australia. Enjoy your flight✈️ at the end of this year👍.

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Thank you for sharing your Trip Tom.. I found it very informative and a great watch. I'll be looking for the Australian trip if you decide to do it. 👍👍👍👍

Your in a tesla and hes in a taycan. 2 totally different cars with 2 totally different charging infrastructures. You been successful in a tesla does not mean one would in another non tesla EV. So it really proved nothing nevertheless interesting

Quality of the videos was perfect fine. Keep fighting the FUD!

Great video enjoyed the breakdown of costs very useful looking foward to your business class trip to Australia

Thanks for the videos Tom, I did a similar trip in a diesel Berlingo all the way to Malta this year which was a similar adventure but without the electrons! I have a Tesla as well now so will be happy to do European trips in it having seen how good the infrastructure is over there. Enjoy the business class flights, make good use of the lounges, they take all the stress out of waiting and have good free (or included in the ticket price rather) food.

Just looked at Revolut. They are converting at 1.16. Barclaycard is 1.18, so I'll be sticking where I am.

You should look at getting a Revolut card which I have used very successfully, using multi currencies, taking out cash at ATMs in any country

8:54 this is not good for Father Brown

Tom. Whose your favourite personality. Macmaster or Geoff?