Six months after our winter trip to Norway we're heading back to explore the southern part of the country in more detail. This will be our first time in Norway without snow or transversing the arctic circle. Our aim for this trip is much more relaxing, exploring, walking/hiking and enjoying long journeys in our electric vehicle.

A late evening start to this trip as we leave our apartment at 19:00 for Dublin Port via the 4km long Dublin Port Tunnel under the city. Leaving our Fiat 500 guarding our parking spaces under our apartment.

Solid changes recently to the mapping function within MyPorsche – allowing for very clear control of the charging plan.

The first three days of this trip is all about getting to Norway as efficiently and enjoyably as possible. This time, we're going via a new route – joining a P&O ferry at Hull to Rotterdam Europort. It will be interesting to compare it to our winter route via Harwich. Hull is much closer to Dublin than Harwich, so we're trading a shorter drive for a longer time on the ferry,

We awake in the morning about an hour before we reach Rotterdam. The north sea has been calm like a lake for the entire crossing.

Today is the first – of many – sightseeing days – sticking to the scenic Road 44 on a route called Jæren. We've taken it previously on our winter trip to Tromsø and really enjoyed it. We've plotted in our route into Apple Maps and this will be one of our first times using it via CarPlay due to the issues that Porsche Connect Services are having.

We plan our route using Apple Maps on our phone before checking out of our hotel and walking down to our car – planning on using it via CarPlay today again.

Today is a much more meandering pace as we get into the holiday sightseeing mood, parking up frequently to enjoy the sights.

Overall, we've been very impressed with Apple Maps via CarPlay. It is as accurate with battery estimates as the PCM is. The visualisations are probably better than the PCM navigation and it even speaks directions to us in an Irish accent.

The control station for seven hydro dams in the region. Our hotel – the former mess hall for staff – is the building higher up on the left.

A good portion of today is a repeat of yesterday – because we drove it to get food and wait out the road closure. Nevertheless – this section of Road 13 is a really enjoyable drive and as the weather is still dry – we make the most of it.

Found a 3-phase 400V outlet near the Tesla chargers (which are free) so plugged in our travel charger. This is why we carry it!

It also handles the quirky Norwegian earth system with a dedicated mode.

The travel EVSE sitting on the grass – and in the overnight rain – delivered 80 kWh of energy at 22 kW without an issue.

We can highly recommend the Juice Booster 2 for road-trip travel in Europe. Granted, with the charging infrastructure improving all the time – it really is more of an "emergency" or unusual situation charger. But a great insurance to have and we still feel it is worth carrying with us everywhere.

There are a lot of sockets – sometimes in surprising places – that it can allow you to plug into.

The plan is for a days driving around the Lustrafjorden and to generally follow the Sognefjellet National Scenic Route.

A relatively simple day today – but with what should be an enjoyable mountain climb.

On these roads and as a visitor to Norway we do not speed – so all of this video is at the max 80 km/h limits of this road.

However, even within this relatively low upper speed, the Taycan Turbo S acceleration is great fun – especially coming out of corners.

GoPro video tends to make things look slower than they are. In this video at around the 2:30 minute mark you can see us make a safe overtake of a VW ID.3 that was travelling at around 40 km/h.

Our Taycan reaches 80 km/h in a blink of an eye and that 2x speed difference really extends a distance between our vehicles very quickly.

We think it gives a good sense of the everyday acceleration available in this vehicle.