For Around 49 Euros From Berlin To Dijon

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For Around 49 Euros From Berlin To Dijon
For Around 49 Euros From Berlin To Dijon

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That was close. At the beginning of the second day of our journey from Berlin to Ribadeo in the Skoda Octavia G-TEC, we reached a CNG station in Dijon almost at the same time as we switched from natural gas to petrol.

Day one of our trip from Berlin to the Spanish town of Ribadeo is behind us. Of the 2,400 kilometers that the route planner calculated for the route, we covered 844 kilometers. Our journey took us from the start in Berlin via Erfurt, Frankfurt, Mainz via Saarbrücken to Nancy in France with its glamorous Place Stanislas, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.

Average consumption of 4.2 kilograms of natural gas

The way there was easy with the Skoda Octavia G-TEC. We traveled the entire route with natural gas only. No wonder, because Germany has a well-developed network with over 950 natural gas filling stations. We weren't able to undercut the average consumption of 3.5 kilograms, but with 4.2 kilograms we were ultimately quite decent, considering that the trunk of the station wagon was not only fully packed, but we also traveled this route with a total of three people have covered.

On the way to Avenue de la Liberation in Nancy - the address of our guesthouse - we made a total of three fuel stops after leaving Berlin with full tanks (14.20 euros). In Drei Gleichen near Erfurt, we refueled the two natural gas tanks of our bivalent Skoda Octavia G-TEC with 13.71 kilos of CNG at a kilo price of 1.089 euros (total price 14.93 euros). This was followed by refueling stops in Alzey (11.59 kg / 1.139 euros / 13.20 euros) and another in St. Ingbert. Our tank was still full here, but we took the chance to fill it up again (6.44 kg / 0.999 cents / 6.43 euros). After all, there is no public natural gas filling station in Nancy.

Remaining range of 230 kilometers

Skoda Octavia G-TEC
Skoda Octavia G-TEC

When we arrived in Nancy, the two natural gas tanks were still about three quarters full. The on-board computer showed a remaining range of 230 kilometers in natural gas mode, just enough to reach the GNvert station in the Chemine des Lentilleries in Dijon, 220 kilometers away. That was the theory - as we found out on Tuesday.

Because a road closure in Dijon led to a diversion and thus to an extension of the previously calculated distance of eight kilometers. Almost on the second day of our trip, that meant that we had to switch to petrol - which we want to avoid as far as possible, even in a country as rare as France with natural gas filling stations.

Natural gas saves vacation money

But almost as soon as the GNVERT station was reached, the drive switched to gasoline - at km 1061 and an average consumption of 4.2 kilograms. Then pay just 48.76 euros for the previous distance. That is a sum that is well below what you would have paid if you had been in a pure gasoline engine with an average consumption of seven liters. Then you would have had to pay easily more than 108 euros for this route at an average price of 1.46 euros per liter of Super E10. In this way, natural gas has already spared the holiday budget.

However, it is unlikely that we will complete the route to Ribadeo entirely with natural gas. Because we have not based our route on the underdeveloped network of natural gas filling stations in France, but on the attractiveness of the route. Although: If a natural gas station is a bit out of the way, we drive to it, even if that means a little detour.

Waiting for the garbage collection

Skoda Octavia G-TEC
Skoda Octavia G-TEC

After all, driving on natural gas does not mean doing without. Especially not if, like us, you are driving a bivalent vehicle that gives us a range of 670 kilometers in gasoline mode. So that enables a vacation trip without restrictions. With a bivalent car like the Octavia, it is not the infrastructure that decides the route, but the personal preferences of the travelers. Only in this way and with a mature technology as in the Skoda Octavia can this efficient and therefore environmentally friendly type of drive ultimately become more widespread.

The refueling stop today in Dijon at the GNVERT station in a side street was a special experience. Because instead of other cars, the vehicles of the local garbage disposal were refueled there during our stop. In France, natural gas has been enjoying growing popularity for some time, at least for garbage trucks. (AG / FM)

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