u/mtbjed

As the title says, I've just come back from a family road tip through France and I thought I'd share what we did and how the car got on. two adults and two kids for two weeks.

Total miles Driven 1850

Electricity cost £253 (used Tesla mainly with the subscription)

Total charges: 17

We travelled from the NW of England and caught the Euro tunnel into France. from there we travelled to a few places before landing in Bordeaux region for a week. Used some local chargers there with chargmap. from here we drove back up towards Nantes and stayed a few nights, again using the Hotel charger to get us to 100% for the next leg.

Then onto the Coast to get us close to Calais before we finally headed home on Saturday.

We'd done a similar trip before but in an XC40 EV. To be honest it handled it really well and I would do it again if I needed to. Hopefully we'll get a car with better range to reduce the amount of charges, it can be a bit annoying sometimes but on the whole I think we travelled about 2hrs between charges.

great car, and it's done far more than we'd bought it for after this.

Looking for some sort of sanity check/reality check on progress in my new business.

I recently left a long career of 16yrs and launched my own business selling into the same client base but a slightly different product offer. Still very much connected but not exactly what I’d sold before.

Pre going on my own I spoke to several current clients and they were all very supportive and loved the idea I was suggesting.

Now 6wks in and only one of the 5 key clients I spoke to has engaged with me, some have moved the cancelled meetings. Some said they’d arrange one but then gone cold. 1 has come good and I’m work of with them on something.

I guess my question is, anyone who has set up on their own and sold into the same client base. How long did it take to see existing client give you a chance.

I’m sure some of these clients will want to see me prove myself and in reality it’s easy to say yes but actually seeing it through is much harder as there head is on the bloke if I cock up.

This isn’t Saas or anything tech related. More the design and fitout industry.

Thanks