On our way from Krommenie to Maastricht.

We picked up Nico’s Jaguar i-Pace. Very swish. 0 to 100km/h in about 3.5s. Luxury interior trim. Neat console. It has fast DC charging but only does 3.6kW AC charging (compared to our Tesla’s 11kW). It’s about twice the cost of our base Tesla Model 3 at home. Jaguar had it for a few days to replace the battery. This is the first real example I’ve seen of someone actually needing to replace their EV battery, despite all the hype about it from naysayers. Fortunately, it was all covered under warranty.

Our first stop was in Breukelen at a service center. Well, we actually stopped at two of these, because of mixed up convoy instructions. Next to the Shell petrol station here is a FastNed charging bay, with solar panels on the roof. Most service centres seem to have these, which is terrific.

It kills me to stop for fuel like this. Stopping specifically for fuel (charging) is something I try to avoid. I prefer to just charge when I’m parked for some other reason. Today, I just wasn’t organised. I should have used the charging available where I was staying, instead of leaving it to the last minute.

Anyway, we made the most of it, grabbing some snacks from the frunk, and a coffee from the service center. Charged up from about 30% to 80% in twenty minutes.

The biggest issue was no public toilets. At a service center! What is going on? What is with the Dutch lack of public toilets? We will need to change our blog to “Tesla Dripping”!

The land is so flat. The highways are very wide in places.