Hi all! I live in Finland and I have a Tesla model Y 2023. On this channel I will tell you about the experience of using Tesla in Finland and in my travels around Europe. I will tell you about how to charge a car at public charger stations and the problems that I will encounter.
If the country is not yet prepared for electric cars, then you will be glad if there is at least some kind of charger along the way. In Bosnia and Herzegovina I did not find chargers faster than 50 kW and there are very few of them yet.
I charged on a Type 2 charging cable and my Tesla takes a maximum of 11 Kw/h. On this charger it took me about 2 hours to charge to 100% and that's with battery calibration. I had time for slow charging, but it would be possible to charge with fast charging and it would be less than an hour, I think. I charged 20 kW and paid 6 euros.
Yes, I looked at BYD. I am a city bus driver in the capital region of Finland and in our company there are different versions of city buses from BYD and I have ridden all of them many times and I have some negative experience using BYD buses. Perhaps this negative experience using buses also somehow influenced my decision to buy not BYD, but Tesla. We have BYD for sale in Finland and I compared different versions of Tesla (in my case, I was looking at Tesla M3 and Tesla MY) and BYD cars. I decided to buy Tesla because for 5 years before buying I studied in depth information about all the cars that Tesla produces (positive and negative sides), Tesla regularly releases software updates and the cars really become technologically better each time, Tesla introduces innovations into its cars and I think that in the future other manufacturers will follow Tesla (some time ago Tesla abandoned parking sensors and radar and transferred all security systems to cameras). As far as I know, Tesla is the only one developing its supercharger infrastructure all over the world and every month there are more and more chargers and when traveling in a Tesla in Europe I don’t need to look for charging stations of third-party companies. For me, this was a significant reason to buy a Tesla. I also looked at BYD cars, there is such a minus that the charging speed of the car is slower than Tesla. BYD has a longer warranty period and a slightly lower price, but these are not such important aspects for me. Maybe BYD has some other advantages, but I made my choice in favor of Tesla and I do not regret it. Of course, everyone has their own priorities and needs. In Europe, it seems like you can now charge cars from other manufacturers at Tesla chargers, but only if you do it without a paid Tesla subscription; the price per kilowatt hour will be higher than for Tesla owners if you subscribe (there, it seems, you can even subscribe for just a month, then the price per kilowatt will be the same as for a Tesla owner), but the monthly subscription fee in Finland costs 12 or 13 euros per month, but for long trips you can subscribe to save money, I think so).
In Finland, charging prices are lower than in Croatia, but fuel prices are higher, and therefore electric cars are gaining popularity quite quickly in Finland.
Just made almost the same trip to southern Hungary. Drove through Warsaw, Krakow, then Kosic, Budapest and to Geredslak. We are planning to go back through Lublin (your route).
Now when I look at our route, I realize that we could have made fewer stops to charge the car. I was interested in seeing Tesla charging stations to know what they looked like and where they were located. Although since we were driving and making frequent stops, it wasn't as tiring.
You guys are great! Nice trip. I made this video because I wanted other Tesla owners to watch this video and not be afraid to go on trips even with Teslas with a standard battery.
I have a channel in Finnish and there I show our journey in more detail. If you are interested, come and watch. There are 3 parts of this journey and there are other videos that are not on this channel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NIgABBsrrwE.htmlsi=uUd2FoMJ9a_Vao8U
Hello! Yes, we used only Tesla Superchargers to get to Klek in Croatia. Croatia has its own charging stations that you can use far from Tesla superchargers. I recommend these charging stations in Croatia, if you come here I recommend installing the Elen app for charging your car. The price for charging is cheaper than Tesla (the speed is slower than Tesla), but they are available in many towns and you can charge your car without any problems. Today I posted a new video where I show how I charged my car today at one of these charging stations.
Hi, Yes, thank you very much for the advice! I recently read an article about one person, he has a TESLA model 3 standard range plus 2022 and he drove 290,000 km and he wrote that he charges the car almost every day to 100% and his battery is original and the battery degraded by only 8% (he checked the battery degradation level through the Tesla developers menu). This is a good result!
I don't have that experience. I know a person who bought a second-hand Tesla for himself with low mileage and a factory warranty and was satisfied. I bought a new Tesla from Tesla warehouse with a good discount.
I don't have a charger at home so I can't compare. During the entire period of operation I used only Type 2 and CCS chargers. Soon I will make a video about how I drove 2640 km from Finland to Croatia in a Tesla and charged only on Tesla superchargers.
I didn't say anything about it at all. I just showed what needs to be done in a Tesla if it has been in a warm garage for some time and so that there are no problems due to ice forming from the water when the car is driven out into the cold.
I love my Tesla model S here in phoenix but like your extreme cold mine hates the hot summers.. it runs all the time trying to keep the battery from cooking… don’t think I would have a Tesla in Finland.. just to extreme for any vehicle really…
I have an LFP battery and it loves warmth, but in cold weather you need to warm it up well to charge it. They say that in hot weather the LFP battery performs better than other Tesla batteries. Summer will come, if I succeed, I will go to the south of Europe and there we will check how the battery will feel in a hot climate. We have people who drove a Tesla Model Y to Lapland in northern Finland and it was -40 Celsius there and the car performed well in such cold weather.
Yesterday I saw a Tesla Model Y Long Range in Helsinki with a license plate from the USA, Virginia. It’s rare, but someone from the USA even comes to us in Finland in a Tesla 😁
