A little trip to Spain, for an “X” (#E27)
Unsurprising to everyone, my travel preparations were actually preparations for a road trip. And while there is no deeper meaning to the main target destination itself, it took me quite a while to get there (not using a straight line) and to get back afterwards (even more not using a straight line). And that’s not a good thing to announce to the world when the home address is just one click away 
Well, main objective was to visit the Tesla Supercharger at Xinzo de Limia, Spain, since that is (currently) the only supercharger in the world outside of China that starts with an “X”. Strange, you say, but let me explain the history:
My goal for 2025 was to visit all 25 different track types that the supercharger network offers in its Beach Buggy Racing game (fulfilled ten minutes after midnight on January 1st, at Böblingen supercharger).
My goal for 2026 is to visit 26 different superchargers. Slight constraint: They have to be from A to Z, not necessarily in order. Aaand since there’s exactly ONE “X” which also happened to be 2500km away from home, that’s the main obstacle to overcome. With that trip, I already got that out of the way, just like I did last year with several one-day trips to Hesse(n) and Baden-Württemberg in late December, before gaining a hint of which spot to visit (back then, locations were pretty much unmapped and they’re still not visible in any Tesla system other than when you’re actually there).
Right now, I’m lacking two more characters: Q and Y. I could have eliminated Q by visiting Quimper in France, which would have been a half-a-day detour to the north-west of Nantes, which I wasn’t feeling. Specifically because Y is only available in the south of Denmark (Ystad, preferred!) or Finland (Ylöjärvi, center to south of the country), and Quickborn supercharger near Hamburg is a 100km (or 10%) detour on the Denmark trip when visiting the building site of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel. Quickborn supercharger doesn’t exist yet, it’s been in planning stage for most of 2025, but I’m not keen on driving there any time soon anyway…
I also lacked “C” before the trip to Spain, but that was easy to fix – there’s Cagnes-sur-Mer and Castets in France, Caldes de Malavella, Camargo and Castellon in Spain, and also Castelnuovo del Garda in Italy on the way back.
Here’s my current list of visited superchargers, minus two that didn’t fit the grid. Careful: 8k x 8k resolution / 18MiB from a direct upload to WordPress, since that can only process 6K images and downsamples them to 2560 pixels, which is unreadably small.
Here’s the rough path of travel, day trips are color-coded and the hotel locations are marked with a thicker dot. Again, WordPress forces downsampling, so the full image is uploaded directly and has 4601×3601 resolution / 4MiB. Starting from the “Dreiländereck” (tripoint) near Basel, I went to France, Spain, Portugal, back to Spain, France, Monaco (phone roaming with world tariff – 0.99€/minute, 0.99€/Megabyte!), France, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein, Austria and back to Germany at Lindau/Bodensee.
Well, that was a 17 day 14 hour trip, it’s been 9141 kilometers from start to finish, and I visited 159 superchargers out of which I scored 159 first places in the local Beach Buggy Racing game (plus one where I just charged for ten minutes because I already was first – crazy, I know). Average over the entire trip therefore was 520km and 9,0 SuC per 24 hour period. And aside from four difficult or special locations (Begles, Xinzo de Limia, Dietmannsried and Ondra) that took me 1.5 to 2.0 hours each to complete, I averaged 10 minutes 12 seconds for all of the others, totalling 33:36 hours of video footage.
…this is also the secondary goal for 2026: I want to put up a video from each and every of these locations onto my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@BeachBuggyBurnouts – which won’t even fit given a “three per week” schedule. Plus, I got tons more footage from a trip to Ruhrgebiet and south of the Netherlands back in October…
Tesla also added a “charge pass” during the Christmas update, which is just a map, basic stats and badges for the charging during 2025. This happened in the last week before I started the trip, and the Android version of the app usually lags behind a week or two. In the end it worked out, and with all the other crazy stuff that I did during the year, the end result was this: 296 different superchargers visited. I have not seen a higher number (for non-commercial users) yet, but there’s a chance someone in ‘murica also had fun. With SC01 (lifetime free supercharging as a car option) I’m not eligible for the “most supercharger” challenge that will be rewarded with restricted free supercharging SC05, but once the winners are announced we’ll see what other people did to earn that prize.
And with that: Happy 2026!
