by Maria Bratikova

You go tank up the 60L Mercedes Benz in minutes and it‘ll drive you up to 600 kms. Depending on the battery, a Tesla can charge from two to ten hours to 5 days to charge fully – and drive the max of 640 kms. 

Let‘s see. . . everybody drives electric cars fromZürich to Hamburg then back, say Tesla – that‘s mostly on the Autobahn – a stretch of 870 kms. It‘ll take 9 hours and 12 minutes to drive . . . While in Hamburg,your battery just pffffft-ed up. Allow yourself an easy 3-5 days to charge on the designated T superchargers along the way. . . there area total of 164 such superchargers in Germany.

In 2021, there‘s a record that says the total of Autobahn stretch in the whole of Germany is 13,192 kilometers.

Correlate these two infos and you see problem: One) the superchargers are NOT arranged in a straight line, and there are a hundred Autobahn combinations to reach Hamburg. Two) You cannot just plug your electric car on any bloody socket to charge it. Three) How big is the cargo hold?

So what to do when charging? Rent another electric car? Or sit on the hood and wait?

Oh, our electric charges went up 80% this current year!

Renewable energy?

Ha ha ha!