A 1000 mile wild trip across Italy in Polstar 3

“it’s not completely A 2025 Mille Miglia employee told my American question from American equations, such as Super Bowl. You will see the crowd. “

I received an invitation to do what is mainly Super Paul cars in Italy (along with the Italian Grand Prix) – but with a development. No, I will not be behind the steering wheel of some cars before 1957 as I mentioned the rules and traditions. Instead, I will experiment with something modern in a non -modern way for EV only from the iconic Mille: a 2025 polystar 3And only seven official interior, including five university test cars.

If this looks like cheese, then I tend to agree. We will be in air -conditioned convenience, energy control, with a gentle junior to boot. Meanwhile, the rest of the courageous souls on the assembly will struggle against a radiant Italian summer, ready for its historical machines to the finish line from the Brescia race to the famous Rome.

But what I saw was an opportunity to put the ideals on the fire of EV Street. Two questions had to be answered: Can you take a road on the road to EV for a long, 12 hours a day, a five -day march without worrying about shipping? More importantly, will it be fun?

For those who are not aware, Mille Miglia is a historical gathering that has used to work the endurance until 1957, when death and safety forced to temporarily close. It was born again as a organization gathering in 1977, which is a race around the clock, but also against a pre -specified time. The assembly will consist of a long checkpoint from one point to an undisputed point, then the different stages of competition, where access to medium and time was very important.

For example, 600 meters in 24 seconds must be completed. That is, faster or slower than 24 seconds will lead to penalty points – and the organizers measure one hundred seconds. The biggest challenge in Mille is not these competitive stages, as modern computers roam in most of the average rapid action. It simply reaches the end in an old car. This will not be a problem with polystar 3.

However, I, Michael van Ronkel, was determined to overcome the competitive stages to see if EV deserves to stumble on the road. It will be a test of the infrastructure for charging Italy, the POLESTAR 3 group and its efficiency, and whether the fun of the open road is dwindling due to the need to ship.
Mille will start in the northern Italian city of Brescia, heading to the bottom of Tuscany to Rome, then sliding along the eastern coast of Italy to Brickia – a road of 1000 miles, covered over a period of five days.

Every day he had his own road book with checkpoints and specific instructions. Each road book warned of 14 hours of driving, with average lengths of the stage 320 km, starting at 5:00 am and ends at 7:00 pm-a far away from the Stirling MOSS 1955 record of 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds for the entire race.

Through polystar 3, along with his colleagues at Polstar 2 and 4, we left Brescia by 87 percent, facing 240 km. We have been charged the night before to 100 percent, and we lost a good amount of charging from the charger to our hotel – a subject that will continue throughout the march.

However, with reference to more than 340 km of the range, the scope is never determined. In fact, smooth sailing was largely. There was an accompaniment to the police for most situations, which practically circumvented all traffic laws, and the crowds were really enormous. Besides the green gathering, the classic gathering was the main attraction, as was the operation of the Ferrari owner, which was open to the new and modern Ferraris.

This was the disappointment of the crowds that we were not a group of V-12S that binds the fire. We received a good amount of refusal from the locals. At our first checkpoint, a man shouted at the crowd “No Voice, Lack of Feeling”, in our open window. The thumb down was the most common gesture directed at Polstar, immediately after general indifference. Rock music stars, we were not.

The first disaster came after we completed our non -calm kilometers. Our battery has been exhausted to 38 percent, which is a great offer for Polycyttar. However, despite all the efforts made in organizing EV gatherings dedicated to the larger puzzle of Mille, no one seems to be thinking about the most important part to drive EV: shipping.

Perhaps in the spirit of the assembly to be self -sufficient, however, the first station in Bologna has a few high -speed EV charging devices. The nearest stations were only two kiosks in one, and four in another. This was followed by chaos, so we traveled 20 minutes outside Bologna to the Banigali suburb, where the 14-Stall shipping station sat outside the Dukati factory. Avoid crisis, but only temporary.

At our first checkpoint, a man shouted at the crowd “No Voice, Lack of Feeling”, in our open window. The thumb down was the most common gesture directed at Polstar, immediately after general indifference. Rock music stars, we were not.

Despite all our days of driving days through Italy, enjoying Tuscany, Rome, and many of the delights that Italy had to provide, shipping was continuous pain. Each night was a challenge on the already long day, and he left a small room for rest. By the third day, I and Van Runkle were in a fog of no sleep from Jet Lag, where they struggled with shipping after a 380 -kilometer phase from Bologna to Rome.

We stopped the mediator in Siena for two hours, as everyone was thrived around the only EV charger available in a 50 -km radius. We got to Rome late and we had to charge the car two kilometers from the hotel. The third day presented similar horrors, a scale of 346 km from Rome to the cervix.

Although Polestar 3 was a partner on a wild trip than with a lot of comfort, space and performance, he was thwarted by the infrastructure for charging Italy. Our fogs were numbered through their ages once in age-Ferrari SP3 overwhelmed a narrow back road, and the Greater Vetas and feudal cities in Tuscany witnessed, and a rural neighborhood bombardment with pre-war cars that ignored the law largely-we decided a shipment every night.

Finally, at the third night in the cervix, we faced a broken charger that turned us again. Rub the salt firmly in the wound, Polestar 3 suffered from a city malfunction that broke out, and with it, the shipping system. Then we had to reset the affected EV in the charger, and we waste another five minutes, before accepting a charge.

It was with relief that the fourth and fifth days were greatly reduced from the attack, and half of the stage lengths. Finally, we got comfortable, peaceful, career, and some thinking about.

Polestar 3 was sometimes beautiful, sometimes very annoying to others. Despite all its calmness and comfort, with excellent and supportive seats, technology was frustrated. Make a single central screen that most functions make it difficult for simple tasks, which is something that we noticed with a very similar system in Volvo EX30. Although there was no doubt that it could be the dance, while dealing with good and shocking.

However, the lack of romance led by EV was not more clear than it was in the world’s most romantic race. Literally, he goes to Rome. I remember less than the leadership of Polestar 3 more than I do about the places I visited and the things I have seen – almost romantic in its own way.

But without a vibrating internal combustion engine, I have never developed near. Despite all the design of the CRATE & Barrel-ESQUE, its statistics, and the places that took it, the association did not come normally. The arrival of the finish line in Brescia was more than the irrefutable moments of returning to the homeland. I moved away from the car and did not remember its role on our journey, and this is the full limit of the road that prepares a car; The car is also personal.

However, the lesson can not be more clear: do not go on the EV road if you are in a hurry.

The answer to the above questions: Was this gathering possible in Polstar 3? Yes, it was. We got to the end, even with the infrastructure of shipping. The anxiety range during the day was almost not present. The actual issue was that Mille was designed for gas cars, not EVS. The shortest days have proven easy and enjoyable, while the long days were made for a longer period of hours of shipping in anticipation of tomorrow’s stage.

But was Mille fun in EV? Well, I thought about this deeply while I was staring at the crew of two people treating Bentley 1930 with a mountainous repulsion, and I got out of the hellish thing to operate its various controls. If it is enjoyable in this pain for 12 hours a day instead of the air -conditioned air in Polestar, then you are a masochist.

I think I prefer to be Massochi.