Day 6: Mo i Rana (Norway) → Narvik (Norway)
After breakfast we walk out to our snow covered car.
And spend a few minutes clearing it from all the body panels. The curvy nature of the Taycan offers a lot of opportunities for snow to accumulate.
Driving through Mo I Rana with snow pilled heavily on the sides of the streets.
With such low temperatures even after the sun is up – the road remain icy.
We reach the barrier to the Saltfjellet and are happy that it is open after spending many a day monitoring this very crossing over the past few weeks – as the road authorities alternatively closed or introduced column driving here.
And starting our climb up to the approximately 630 meter summit.
Until we reach the arctic circle.
Where it is a cold -10C outside – with our HV heater keeping our cabin a comfortable and cosy +22C with ease.
With such high snow levels and drifts here – we launch a drone from our car to explore closer.
Capturing footage and images of the closed centre.
Before starting to head back down the other side.
We stop off at various parking spots along the way – trying to use the drone again – but it has a thin layer of ice built up on it – and is not happy. Time to thaw it out.
We pull in at Storjord and take on a little energy at the Tesla superchargers here – as we don’t have enough to reach our next planned IONITY stop – mostly due to the additional energy heating our cabin takes in these conditions.
Thankfully the station is almost un-used and we nab "the perfect" place to plug the short cable into the "wrong" passenger side of our Irish spec Taycan.
With the increased number of IONITY stations this far north compared to last year – this is currently our only planned use of Tesla on this trip.
We grab some lunch while we wait for the short thirteen minute charge to complete.
Moving our car mid-meal when it reaches our target temperature. As EV’s built up little to no heat on its bodywork – if snow isn’t pushed out of the way by airflow – or manually cleared – it will stay put on the body and not melt.
After eating we continue north – leaving the arctic circle well behind us.
Today see plenty of Elk on the roads – but it is still too bright for them to trigger our night-vision camera warning system.
Stopping off for a quick top-up at a new IONITY station at Ulvsvåg.
We arrive at the E6 ferry terminal.
Where the public road traffic cameras pick us up queuing behind the only other car here.
After about twenty minutes we board – with only a total of four cars on this crossing. As these ferries are considered part of the E6 road – payment is handled the same way as the rest of the tolls – by registering our license plate with the authorities.
The calm crossing takes 25 minutes.
After disembarking the ferry – It is about an hour and a half to Narvik – where we plug in for a free 22 kW AC destination charge under our hotel.
The days charging stats
| Location | Start SOC % | End SOC % | kWh added | Cost | Duration | Ambient Temp | Battery Temp | Charger Type | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla Storjord | 54% | 81% | 34 | €15.72 | 13 mins | -6C | 40C | DC 150 kW | Tesla |
| IONITY Ulvsvaag | 39% | 71% | 27.61 | €4.73 | 7 mins | -2C | 36C | DC 350 kW | IONITY |
| Scandic Narvik | 19% | 100% | 67.8 | €0.00 | 3 hours 31 mins | -7C | 24C | AC 22 kW | Hotel |
Today we did 417 km over 8:03 hours, with an average speed of 50 km/h, consuming 27.3 kWh/100km.
