Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Day 9: Thessaloniki -> Sofia -> Belgrad

Thessaloniki is like Athens a really wonderful city. Although we had only a very short stop here again, we really enjoyed it a lot.

Since we had 700+km to go for today, we started quite early and we made very good progress till the Greece -> Bulgarian border. The crossing itself was really well organized and fast.

This time we had success with the DC charger close to the border to Greece, which is located within the private property ground of an Peugot dealer :D


Since we were able to quickcharge the car several times via ChaDeMo we moved quite quick through Bulgaria - meaning we were able to drive the allowed 140km/h on Bulgarian highways :D

Next stop was 60km later to charge a little bit again :)


In Sofia itself we decided to charge at eldrive again - 50kw stations - (the charge and drive chip from the Skandinavian countries is needed) to have no waiting times because of this local company which is charging all their electric cars at Lidl - the only free to use 50kw station in town. There are a lot other stations as well but only 22kw as far as we know. Please correct me if I'm wrong :)



After 1,5hours we were finally ready to start the last part of our journey for today - Belgrad :D




The crossing of the border took us nearly 3 hours :/ but we made it into Serbia without any furhter troubles :)

A funny thing to know: Tesla's Internet is not working in Serbia. We recognized this already on the way down and it was the same on the way back. We tried as well a reboot of the center console but without success. So only FM radio and the offline navigation.

In the end we made it with 0% / 0km to the Holiday Inn Belgrad - what a ride in the end ;) And directly when we entered the underground carpark a power failure within the whole area happened ;) One hour later everything was fine again and the car is charging with 11kw since :D


Best whishes from Belgrad - I really love this energizing city!!
Siegfried

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