Trip to Scotland this summer
Discussion
Hi guys,
The OH and I would love to do a round tour in the north of Scotland. We're probably going to take the TMS 100D there as it works out cheaper than flying and renting.
Now I've seen that chargers there are... limited. Most of them either operated by "Chargeplace Scotland" or "Charge your car", so if you have any info. One of both will probably do for us, since we're traveling with our kids we don't want to do >800km/day anyway.
We're probably going to travel the coastline north of Inverness, if there's any experience of people who've travelled their and used the public chargers, it's always welcome.
Oh and if there's any must-sees, always appreciated. I'm a bit worried the (very young) children will get bored, but we'll bring some electronics for that
The OH and I would love to do a round tour in the north of Scotland. We're probably going to take the TMS 100D there as it works out cheaper than flying and renting.
Now I've seen that chargers there are... limited. Most of them either operated by "Chargeplace Scotland" or "Charge your car", so if you have any info. One of both will probably do for us, since we're traveling with our kids we don't want to do >800km/day anyway.
We're probably going to travel the coastline north of Inverness, if there's any experience of people who've travelled their and used the public chargers, it's always welcome.
Oh and if there's any must-sees, always appreciated. I'm a bit worried the (very young) children will get bored, but we'll bring some electronics for that
North of inverness is the least interesting bit of the highlands imo. Head west!
Superchargers in Perth and Aviemore will be useful.
Chargeplace check live maps for service status on their website. Some chargers have been out of order for ages. But otherwise they have a pretty good spread of 50k rapids but you will struggle as you head north, so take a granny lead.
Oh and some chargers in remote areas only connect via the chargeplace touch card. (you can buy for 20 quid) because the sim inside doesn't have mobile signal. So you can't rely on the app to connect.
The touted supercharger in fort william will be a game changer.
Superchargers in Perth and Aviemore will be useful.
Chargeplace check live maps for service status on their website. Some chargers have been out of order for ages. But otherwise they have a pretty good spread of 50k rapids but you will struggle as you head north, so take a granny lead.
Oh and some chargers in remote areas only connect via the chargeplace touch card. (you can buy for 20 quid) because the sim inside doesn't have mobile signal. So you can't rely on the app to connect.
The touted supercharger in fort william will be a game changer.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 6th March 12:02
We have booked our accommodation already for the summer near FortWillam, have access to destination charging via 3 pin plug so will hopefully not need to use any chargers.
SC will cover route up and down. Fort Willam Supercharger is apparently been granted planning permission, but who knows if it'll be built by the summer
Will be taking the extended family (all 6 seats will be occupied)+road bike with the X. Route coming back hasn't been formalised, may stop at Isle of Mull - which would mean needing to use local public charging as accommodation with destination charging seems scarce around there.
SC will cover route up and down. Fort Willam Supercharger is apparently been granted planning permission, but who knows if it'll be built by the summer
Will be taking the extended family (all 6 seats will be occupied)+road bike with the X. Route coming back hasn't been formalised, may stop at Isle of Mull - which would mean needing to use local public charging as accommodation with destination charging seems scarce around there.
Edited by gangzoom on Friday 6th March 12:25
Sambucket said:
North of inverness is the least interesting bit of the highlands imo. Head west!
will do, we were planning on doing the coast of the entire "rabbit ear".Sambucket said:
Chargeplace check live maps for service status on their website. Some chargers have been out of order for ages. But otherwise they have a pretty good spread of 50k rapids but you will struggle as you head north, so take a granny lead.
Another question for that, how would you guys do it? Since I have an EU plug, Do you trust a cheap "travel adaptor" to cope with 3.4KW for 10h?Or would you try to source the replacement plug for the granny lead?
Sambucket said:
Oh and some chargers in remote areas only connect via the chargeplace touch card. (you can buy for 20 quid) because the sim inside doesn't have mobile signal. So you can't rely on the app to connect.
that's gold. I would prefer a card anyway, good to know they do that. I'll query them for something like that.Sambucket said:
The touted supercharger in fort william will be a game changer.
Will keep an eye on that one, still nothing much in the north.
.Worth a read : http://nievo.org/the-tesla-model-3-and-the-scottis...
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