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This article is part of an archived collection from Nikolay Shishkov's blog about first-generation electric vehicles, battery maintenance, modifications, and repairs. Nikolay was an EV pioneer who passed away in 2025. His technical knowledge and generous sharing of information continues to help the EV community.
Test drive of Tesla Model 3 in Malmö, Sweden
By Nikolay Shishkov • January 27, 2019
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So here it is... the Tesla Model 3 is in Sweden...
... but with registration tags from the Netherlands..
Here in Malmö, Sweden.
The car was the Dual Motor Long Range Performance version.
The car is a beast.
It is stable on the road, stiff, fast, powerful. It is beautiful!
Some notes:
The adaptive cruise control did not work - I got an explanation that they need to drive the car for some time in order to get that working... I am very skeptical to that explanation. We could see that the system was detecting the cars around us similarly to how it looks on the Model S, but the double tap down activated only a cruise control.
The car had the European inlet - CCS-EU. It is looks like a type 2 inlet but with the addition of two bigger contacts for DC current. See photo:
According to the Tesla guy the car can charge with fast DC charging both on CCS and Superchargers.
The alignment of doors/panels was very, very good. Much bettern than the Model S or the X.
