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Beautiful pics.

Norway is on our list. But from the south of Spain it's a 3300 km drive just to get to Oslo.

 

Thanks
Yep, it is a long way, even from South of England. I was actually considering flying in and renting an EV there but I do like driving long distances, the convenience of being in my own car and a bit of a challenge. I'm sure my wife appreciated almost limitless luggage as well . Not to mention I used free Supercharging miles so I spent some 12 quid in total for energy for that trip (approx. £3 for charging at home before the trip and I think 125 NOK for one destination charging in Norway).

 

Stunning. Looks like you had a couple of hairpin bends.

 

Quite a few indeed.
First one was Lysevegen that descents to Lysefjord. Unfortunately the weather at that time wasn't nice (heavy rain and wind) so the below photo is off the internet. Although it improved when we got to the bottom where the Lysebotn village is:

Next one was Gamle Strynefjellsvegen (Old Strynefjell Road) a bit of off-road for a Tesla but stunning views, almost no traffic (and no phone signal most of the time too if you happen to break down ). The most winding section starts around 38 mins in the video below:

Next one was Ørnevegen (The Eagle Road) overlooking Geirangerfjord. But that one was packed with tourists cars and buses so was far from the pleasant drive. Although again stunning views from Ørnesvingen viewpoint platform

I think the most famous one is still Trollstigen (the one on the photo in my first post) and we were really lucky as this road re-opened only on 17 July for I bet couple months before it is closed again until next year.

 

Some of this photos are stunning.

Just out of curiosity what was your average distance (in miles/km) between chargers?

 

Wow, 5000 miles. All the photos are fantastic. The weather was also on your side.

My wife doesn't like the idea of road trips. So we flew to Bergen Norway and rented an EV last week of August. The weather was great for that week and we also saw some awesome views. In the end according to the rental Volvo EX40 trip computer we "only" drove 1200 km over 24 hours. Bergen to Greiranger and most of the towns/photo spots in-between.

Didn't go north than Greiranger, that route looks absolutely stunning. I must take my car next time.

How did Tesla AP deal with the twisty roads? The Volvo system was either hopeless or twitchy. Of course I'm talking about roads with centre lane marking. The narrow ones without centre marking must be manually driven.

 

What wonderful photographs. Some of those roads look like they'd be fun in my MG4, but that mileage is about what I do in a year!

Incidentally, from your route map looks like you live quite near me on the Hampshire/West Sussex border, I'll keep an eye open..

 

Absolutely stunning.
We did similar to this about 10 years ago ( non-EV) Although we got the ferry from Denmark to Bergen and came back via Oslo-Malmo-Copenhagen to use the bridge/tunnel.

Even then there was plenty of EVs on the road.

Tempted me to go again .

 

Thanks all

Just out of curiosity what was your average distance (in miles/km) between chargers?

It varied, Padrino and it depends as well whether it was German autobahn (where I wasn't the slowest one ) or Norwegian E4 with 80 kph speed limit (so something like our 50 mph motorway speed limit during roadworks). I adopted '50/50' charging policy as well i.e. was aiming to arrive at a hotel with around 50% SOC (so was leaving hotels with 50%ish minus some Sentry usage) hence was charging accordingly on the way. Obviously sometimes I used Tesla destination charging too. Basically I was fully relying on Tesla satnav and Superchargers and that worked like a charm. Below are some of the Tesla telemetrics from TeslaFi to give you an idea:

Danish and German motorways:

The lowest consumption during the trip (the car was predicting we do 397 miles with 5% left so more range than WLTP )

Sweden:

The weather was also on your side.

Well, the first almost 3 days in Norway the weather was awful. We even thought the whole trip will be a disaster because of this. What would be the point to show you something like this :

How did Tesla AP deal with the twisty roads? The Volvo system was either hopeless or twitchy. Of course I'm talking about roads with centre lane marking. The narrow ones without centre marking must be manually driven.

I was trying to use AP as much as possible unfortunately the lack of the centre line marking caused Tesla few phantom brakings when coaches or lorries were approaching from the opposite direction.
The second issue I came across was the performance of TACC and AP when it comes to speed limits. Unfortunately, there must be something wrong with Norway's Tesla navigation database, because, for example, the 50 kph limit in Tesla would jump to '50' much earlier than the sign indicating it (so it wasn't to me caused by sign recognition). There were also moments of discontinuity at the 80 and 70 kph limits, meaning I'd be driving on TACC or AP at say '80', and suddenly the 50 kph limit would jump in for second or two and the car would brake. I entered Norway on 2025.2 maps, and about halfway through, I received an update to 2025.14, but it didn't help. But driving back via Sweden, Denmark etc it was all fine (hence my thinking satnav database).

Incidentally, from your route map looks like you live quite near me on the Hampshire/West Sussex border, I'll keep an eye open..

PO15 postcode, so right between Southampton and Portsmouth

 

PO15 postcode, so right between Southampton and Portsmouth

Be careful this Sunday! ;-)

 

Fantastic, sounds like Tesla AP had no problem on roads with centre lane marking. It would have been much more relaxing than the Volvo I rented. One of my feedback to Hertz was: bring back Tesla rentals.

Also, another question occurred to me, how did you pay for the tolls and ferry crossing?
With Hertz for my rental, it was all automatic and deducted from my deposit with a formal invoice 1 day after returning the car. I was impressed at their efficiency.

In addition to your mentioned brands, I also saw some quite a few XPeng:

1000 meters above sea level, on my way to Geiranger

 

Also, another question occurred to me, how did you pay for the tolls and ferry crossing?
With Hertz for my rental, it was all automatic and deducted from my deposit with a formal invoice 1 day after returning the car. I was impressed at their efficiency.

I got the toll tag from one of the Norwegian providers (Flyt AS) but you can find others too here:

Contact a toll service provider

www.autopass.no

Flyt website actually explains how it all works there. Once you have a toll tag you can use it for ferry crossings too with some 10% discount. If you sign an additional agreement with AutoPassFerje it will give you AFAIR 50% discount. The only drawback of this is you have to pay 2100 NOK (so some £155) deposit that is being used to pay for the crossings. I had 13 ferry crossings in Norway and still have some 1350 NOK left on my account (a reason to return I guess ). See all details here:

Forside - AutoPASS-ferje

If you do not use any of the no-fee options above, an invoice including a NOK 35 fee is sent by post to the vehicle’s owner. AutoPASS ferry cards will no longer be in use from 01.01.25 From January 1st 2025, AutoPASS ferry cards will no longer be in use on any ferry connections in...

autopassferje.no

And I would highly recommend that as some ferry crossing are just extensions of existing roads so you drive along some scenic road and suddenly the road ends up on a ferry pier to take you on the other side of the fjord.

 

Thanks, looks epic. Went to Copenhagen/Bornholm this summer by MG5 through Sweden too for a bit and I enjoyed it, so would definitely consider this trip next summer perhaps! Will bookmark this page.

 

I don't know if it's changed recently, but EVs were much better priced in Norway compared to ICE. The price of things like a VW Golf diesel was unjustifiable.

Then around Oslo the amount of EV charging points and EV only car parks(that were the nearest to destinations) was a really impressive setup. It would be silly buying anything other than an EV in Oslo.

Then the irony is Norway being so advanced with their EV and environmental stuff whilst they ship so much oil to everyone else to pay for it. 😃

 

I don't know if it's changed recently, but EVs were much better priced in Norway compared to ICE.

Sure they are. No 25% VAT on BEVs below 500k NOK and probably some other differences.

 

Do you mean, watch out for every MG4 in the area
If so then let me know the colour at least...

 

Well.. I am going to the Southampton v. Portsmouth bout match by car given all the engineering works! Grey..;-)

 

Lovely photos @nabrU . We did some of those roads in 2023 in a rental EV. We’ll definitely be back.

 

Thanks.
Read you thread @DuRam before going there so you contributed to those photos

 

Amazing photos, and the trip looks legendary!