And we're on the road for leg 1.

99% on the dashboard, 95.2% in LeafSpy, 52.5kWh of which the final ~4.5kWh is reserved and 0.6kWh is unusable bottom-buffer.

Easily enough to get to our first charger around St Albans at the bottom of the M1.

#LEAF
#EV
#RoadTrip

38.3kWh used on the first leg, 13.7 usable still remaining in the battery but South Mimms services on the M25 is a convenient charging stop and the chargers can put out 200amps to CHAdeMO which is fairly rare still in the UK.

The #LEAF drank in at 71kw straight away and is still over 50kW past 60% 😁

248km (154 miles) 6.47km/kWh (bang on 4 miles/kWh). A fair bit better than expected but the average was dragged up by several sections of roadworks.

24kWh for the second leg tonight, 127km (79miles) and an average of 5.29km/kWh (3.29 miles/kWh).

We went faster at 70mph for this leg as there was way less traffic and we knew we had more than enough to make the leg without batting an eyelid.

Charging now, a mere 46kW (125amp) peak from this supposedly 63kW charger, but maybe Osprey/Tritium are gaming the rating and it's only capable of 125amps but because CHAdeMO 2 is rated for 500v they're cm lagging 63kw when no vehicle will ever get that.

EuroTunnel this morning, on the train with 43.9kWh usable, plenty to get us past Ghent for our next planned charging stop.

Surprisingly there's LTE signal in the tunnel!

First European charging stop, just past Ghent, straight to 71kW again 😁

Battery only at 29°c so it cooled down a fair amount overnight from 42°c at the end of the last charge.

Arrived with 14.7kWh usable remaining and happy to have shorter legs when we're less sure about the charger reliability over here.

Google Maps had a daft bug routing to this services though and wanted us to get off at the previous junction and drive all around the houses to get in. Computers are dumb.

Second EU charge, FastNed this time in the Netherlands just before Venlo.

We could probably have carried on to the next FastNed location, but there's so little LTE signal in this part of the Netherlands that we couldn't get Google Maps to search.

Arrived with 20kWh usable, and only used about 22kWh this leg, although it included several long sections of 50km/h and slower traffic around Antwerp and only averaged 100km/h through the Netherlands. Average 7.5km/kWh (4.7 miles/kWh).

Final leg now, 153km all the way to Hamm, including a bit of unrestricted autobahn on the A2, so if there's not much traffic then our efficiency may be a bit lower 👀

Leaving with a fairly full battery with 48.5kWh usable, way more than needed and the battery is getting a bit toasty now at 49°c at the warmest spot. 🥵

Busy fun weekend.

Recap on Thursdays last leg, we arrived with about 14.7kWh usable still, despite some, er, fun fun fun on the autobahn.

That's 34.4kWh to do 153km, a mere 4.4km/kWh (2.77miles/kWh) but it was fast. Sat with the traffic at 120-30km/h for most of it but we did take it up seemingly as fast as it would go to 165km/h, it might have been able to go a little more but that was more than enough excitement for one day.

Packing for our return journey now, much the same, slightly different charging stops as settings off with 100% from a very convenient AC charger in the hotel car park, and won't be going all-out on the autobahn today.

53.5kWh gross showing on LeafSpy, that's about 52.9kWh usable, and about 52.5kWh before 0% on the dashboard.

Arrived with 18.4kWh usable, 34.5kWh used for 193km, 5.6km/kWh (3.49miles/kWh), helped in part by a traffic delay, but also hindered by one final blast up to 165km/h at the end of route 40 to the German-Dutch border. Couldn't resist.

Really impressed with the economy overall. It's nice and warm today which helps but compared to UK motorway journeys I've made at similar speeds it's been much better (and flatter).