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Lovely part of Italy! I’ll be riding the Stelvio and Mortirolo in a couple of weekends ?Day 10: Stelvio Pass [Driving Day]
Today we have a long full day of driving over the amazing mountain passes and valleys in The Dolomites.
After a decent breakfast we check out this 3D relief mapping table at our hotel.
Was very neat being able to get a sense our planned route in this way.
We walk out to a fully charged car – this is one of those days where getting a reliable destination charge makes everything easier.
We start the day by heading back down south to Bolzano – where the steep walls of the valley are close to the road – making for a dramatic driving experience.
Which is very well represented by the 3D Satellite view in our Passenger Display.
You'll notice the -42% battery level being shown on the display – this was one of those days where we wanted to fully control the charging and switched off Porsche Charging Planner option. At the time this photo was taken – we hadn't manually added our planned charging stop – but would do later on in the day.
The reason for turning off the option is that this was one of those rare day's where we wouldn't have an IONITY station option and didn't want the car picking some random charger.
As we reached Bolzano – traffic was building up – but thankfully the PCM navigation routed us around it very effectively – and actually pointed us in the direction of our first climb of the day – Mendelpass passo Mendola.
And we're almost immediately into the coveted twisty stuff.
We knew we were starting off with a good one – because the route was packed with motorbikes and cyclists – and they know which ones to choose!
Reaching the town of Ruffré-Mendola at the top of the pass – where we consider stopping for food – but its a little too early in our day for that just yet.
We continue down the other side of the pass – passing through quaint cobblestone'd towns.
And endless kilometers of apple orchards.
With their ordered rows of trees reaching right up to our road.
Many of the towns we pass do not have a lot going on this warm Sunday.
Heading for passo Tonale.
And climbing up.
To some great views from the road.
We climb up the 1883 meters to the top of Passo di Tonale – where we pull into a pizza restaurant for some lunch.
This place is popular with bikers – where we park next to a group all the way from Norway.
A messed up ordering in Italian resulted in the strangest pizza we've ever seen – one with french fries on top – what-the-heck – ah well, we need to roll with it!
At this stage we were at 57% battery and were close to our planned charging stop of the day which was only a few kilometers away.
We follow the ski cable cars down the pass.
And pull into the 100 kW DC charger – that happens to have a rare Taycan charging on it. Thankfully they are just finishing and we plug in for a ten minute top up.
We started the charger – as planned – with our EnelX RFID card – which we had pre-ordered due to @McgR's helpful report earlier in the month. We had just started when a Tesla Model 3 started to queue – so this is a busy little charging station at Pointe di Legno.
We continue our day navigating mountain passes – with the next big one being Passo Del Mortirolo.
Where the cows have bells.
And the roads are narrow.
And very enjoyable.
This cyclist overtook us at 80km an hour – must feel great after such a tough climb on the way up!
Eventually reaching the big one – the highlight of our day – Passo Stelvio.
It's close to 17:00 in the evening and the road is quiet except for the bikers – there is no motorhome/RV in front of us – lets go for it!
The car climbs beautifully – with the rear-wheel steering and PDCC working hard on the steep turns.
We easily keep up with motorbikes and in some instances overtake them.
Climbing up and up.
Until we reach the plateau near the top.
Nearly there – feeling relaxed.
Made it!
2744 meters – the highest we've been with our Taycan.
With 42% in our battery – the PCM is estimating we'll arrive back at our hotel with 21% – and our hotel is close to 180 km away!
That is remarkable.
It really helped us appreciate – with the regenerative capabilities of the Taycan – being at altitude is a form of stored energy.
It's time to head back down and harvest it on the steep inclines.
Passing by the Forst brewery on the way back to our hotel – the tasty beer we've been enjoying in this region.
Finally arriving back to our hotel just in time for dinner – and a reliable destination charge. The chargers here must be load-balanced – as there are less cars charging today and we immediately got the full 22 kW – rather than the 7 kW yesterday.
And did the PCM do a good guess at the top of the Stelvio at what our arrival state of charge would be? Of course it did – as always!
Time for a drink – what a day!
The days charging stats:
Location Start SOC % End SOC % kWh added Cost Duration Ambient Temp Battery Temp Charger Type Network Pointe di Legno 60% 82% 19.91 €14.93 0h 12m 21.0 32 DC 100kW Enel X Bressanone 20% 100% 67.50 €0 3h 30m 17.5 33 AC 22 kW Hotel
Today we did 393 km over 8:16 hours, with an average speed of 49 km/h, consuming 21.4 kWh/100km.
| Location | Start SOC % | End SOC % | kWh added | Cost | Duration | Ambient Temp | Battery Temp | Charger Type | Network |
| IONITY Innerbraz | 52% | 82% | 27.55 | €9.09 | 0h 13m | 26.0 | 42 | DC 100kW | IONITY |
| Andermatt | 33% | 100% | 56.10 | €0 | 3h 15m | 21.5 | 33 | AC 22 kW | Hotel |
) and i prefer pale ale and ipa over lager.
It's an EV thing really.
