Summary of day 2

Upon leaving the hotel we immediately forgot our rule to trust the sat nav and chose to join the motorway instead of travelling across country. BIG mistake. The motorway was gridlocked. After 30 mins to travel 2 miles the sat nav rerouted us to assumably put us on the route it originally wanted us to go on. We cut through some quaint villages and tight backroads, I may have enjoyed this a little too much judging by the way the range depleted.

Eventually we got to the tunnel, had a super long wait and got on the train. Nothing else to report really. Got to Arras, charged at the charger we had planned to while we did some French supermarket browsing and shopping (if you know, you know!) 4 of the 6 chargers were empty. By the time we had finished we had added 130 miles in around 40 minutes. The charger speed dropped off as we got the charge to nearly 100%. Optimum charger speeds are up to 80% full battery if you were wondering. We have a long drive tomorrow so the more charge the merrier and as the other chargers were empty we were not blocking it for other users. We start tomorrow with around 285 miles.

Uneventful this charging business.

Oh because I was the fastest man in France and the stop start nature of the drive in Kent the m/kwh was only 2.7. Also air con and ventilated seat on for most of the journey. Hotter in France than the UK!!Read more