TESLA MODEL 3
An EV road trip to the Highlands sounds dicey. Was it?
EV driving entails regular short stops;
Jeff will never jump into a diesel again
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EVs are pretty much universally accepted as an ideal solution to the challenges of urban driving, but there remains a stigma around their suitability for long road trips. However, when we saw the cost of a sleeper train while investigating a 20th-weddinganniversary long weekend to visit friends in Fort William, wife Emma and I decided to entrust our Tesla.
The usual M25 tedium was dispatched fairly quickly, followed by a fairly swift run up the M40/M42 and then the joy of the clear, fast M6 Toll, where we were comfortably the slowest car, keeping just shy of 70mph to conserve energy.