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Tesla Model S Roadtrip From Oslo to London Costs only €5

Alright, we'll say it again but we're just stating the obvious: Tesla Model S took the automotive world by storm, offering a cheaper alternative in time to traditional internal combustion engine cars. So here's one for skeptics: the all-electric sedan went from Oslo to London with only €5.
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Photo: Screenshot from YouTube
The €5 paid at a German hotel for recharging the Model S is the equivalent of $5.5 while the distance from Oslo, Norway to London, England is 1,300 miles (2,092 km). In case you're rubbing your eyes, don't, because this is not fiction. Also, there's a video that stands as proof for the roadtrip.

To put things into perspective, considering the average cost of electricity in Europe, the trip would have cost £90, the equivalent of $139 and 125 euro, since they used 505 kWh of energy along the way but had Tesla Superchargers where they could recharge the battery for free. Moreover, an ICE equivalent of the Tesla Model S from BMW, Mercedes-Benz or Audi, averaging 25 mpg (11 l/100 km) and travelling on the same route, would have left its owner without £248, the equivalent of $384 and 344 euro at current exchange rates.

However, that average fuel consumption looks a bit stretched, as a more realistic estimate would have been around 40 mpg (7l/100 km).

The trip took place in February 2015 and was completed in "two and a bit days", according to Robert Llewellyn and Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, the two minds behind the experiment on behalf of Fully Charged.

They used a Tesla Model S P85 and after the roadtrip was over and done with, the team came up with a conclusion:

"With Tesla in Europe and America, the carefully manufactured lie of 'range anxiety' simply doesn't apply. An ever expanding supercharger network, huge battery capacity and high speed recharging results in all the nonsense of electric cars 'simply don't have the range' is kicked into the long grass."

That being said, please have a look at the video below and tell us what you think about the future of electric cars in the comments section below. Are such vehicles the future?

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