I’ll be staying in Albertville France and travelling daily to Val D’isere.
Is this trip okay in a Dacia Spring?
Any risk of getting stranded?
Does anyone have experience with charging point in this area?
I’d say No.
It has an average real-world range of 160-ish kilometers, closer to 110 in cold weather and highway speeds (or other extra draining modes of driving)“fast” charging runs 29kW average (40 min for 10-80%, eg. for 77 to 110km of range), and AC charging peaks at 6.6kW (4.5 hours 0-100%), regardless of one or three phase outlet.
You’re looking at charging the car fully before leaving for Val D’isere and charging it fully before going back, and you’ll probably be cutting it close even then.
I’d say I would only use it for city driving, but it’s 1-star Euro NCAP safety rating would probably keep me from even doing that.
It can be done but it won’t be pleasant
I was in Bosnia and I was feeling like a pioneer in my Model Y as there’s basically no EVs there. I get to Mostar and… There was a spring all the way from Romania charging there, couldn’t believe it lol.
If you’re brave enough you can make it in anything.
From my discussions with friends with springs the winter range is about 150-170km real world
Our guys from Romania they are really tough and endure a lot in order to achieve shocking hypermiling results. Some of them are driving to Germany or even to Northern countries.
Albertville to Val d’Isère is a good climb though. From experience, I don’t think you recover on descent as much as you spend climbing.
Be warned that the Dacia Spring charging speed reduces to 7kW in temperatures below 5 degrees C. I would also say the realistic range in these conditions is around 100-160km from my brief experience with the car.
What is your current experience of commuting in the alps?
I would like to buy for my wife a Spring now, she only needs it in our little town in Hungary (she’s like using the car for 10-20km/week) but it’s enough. I researched a lot about the Spring and I think it’s a great cheap car but I will not let she drive it outside the town, seems like a rabbit-hit would do a fatal crash for it. I think it is dangerous to go to Alps with it. its my own opinion and didn’t think about the range etc