A little trip to Sweden, for a “Y” (#E29)
A small™ follow-up to the 9000km roadtrip to Spain in #E27: As we all know, I’m an idiot, so I did another one! This time, to Sweden, via Denmark in both ways (a little bit like France last time), with the primary destination of… Ystad. And with that, I’m only missing the Q in the supercharger A-Z game, which might be a hint for the next trip. I originally planned eliminating this on a single trip, but the perfect candidate, Quickborn (near Hamburg), is still under construction, so that didn’t work out.
Since I’m still fiddling with plotting the actual travel route, here’s just the real data overview without the color-coding of the daily trips:
And this is the end result in terms of Beach Buggy Racing screens:
(again, careful, this is 8192 x 8192 = 67MP resolution so that it’s still readable!)
Unlike last time, I had a couple stops along the way to do non-Tesla related things, but I also skipped visiting the helicopter museum in Bückeburg again for being late, this time I would have had around an hour for the visit, last time I was close by it would have been more like 15 minutes. One day I’ll visit them with enough time on my hands, one day…
Anyway – total trip time was 13 days and 11:59 hours from starting the car to putting it back into Park, and total mileage was 6269km plus three ferry trips. These were, in order, from Puttgarden on the German island of Fehmarn to Rødbyhavn in Denmark, Helsingør in Denmark to Helsingborg in Sweden (battery electric ferry, and also pretty expensive for the short trip), and later on Gothenburg in Sweden to Frederikshavn in Denmark – a total of about 110km, mostly depending on the exact route of the latter, which can be ±5km. So let’s generously round that up to 6400km including some walks in Ystad/Sweden (why the fuck are they selling Norwegian-branded souvenirs in the south of Sweden?!), Wunstorf/Germany (company dependence – closes at the end of the year), World of Volvo in Gothenburg (too expensive for the relatively small exhibition, and the driving school isn’t even included) and Täby/Sweden (company HQ). Täby worked out super well despite my contact person leaving the company between my announcement of visiting and the actual visit, and the only thing that didn’t work was charging the car for literal pennies (1 SEK/kWh ~ 0.09€/kWh). They changed their charging app to something geolocked after I had installed and set up the old app including a mail to the front desk – but setting up charging at work locally is also a multi-hour adventure, so I can’t really blame them for that. Charging stops at Tesla superchargers were obviously plentiful, so that missed charging opportunity didn’t really mater – the single longest distance between chargers this time being only in the order of 120km, from Norrköping to Strängnäs. 6269km divided by 141 total stops (omitting the three SuC under construction in Denmark) even averages to 44km, that’s how densely the network has become in central and northern Europe. Oh, and bonus points for not breaking anything on the car during the trip, while also passing the 250000km mark during the first day.
All in all, I’d do it again in a heartbeat – but post-processing all the video material collected during my stops will take me months, and the 48h release cycle of videos will even push this adventure over into early 2028. But that will of course not stop me from collecting the Q, I’m very much looking forward to that. For all we know, I will likely be the first idiot in the world to have charged (and played) on locations from A to Z, plus Ö (Öhringen and Örebro), as well as the super weird ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
Why is that possible? Well, the Americas do not have an “X” supercharger yet (not sure if Elon is aware of that, what an oversight!), and in Asia there is no “V”. Europe is in the unique position of having both, and the number of people visiting Xinzo de Limia is…limited, to say the least:
I think the most popular one that I’ve seen so far was actually on my current trip, in Kliplev, Denmark. Sure, that’s no 1:1 indicator of how many people charge there, but Xinzo is a somewhat small to average sized one (12 stalls), while Kliplev has 48 stalls. Køge (Denmark, 160 players) is pretty old (~late 2014) and has 24 stalls after multiple expansions, Fátima in Portugal has 32 stalls (166 players), and the most popular one in Germany, Hilden, has 143 players and 40 stalls plus some 40 to 60 more from 3rd parties. So given Xinzo de Limia is required to complete the alphabet in Europe, I do have limited competition at this point…and I’m 96% there! 
