Right. Assuming a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range +, leaving with 100% charge.

First stop at Hilton Park superchargers. 18%-60% 13 minutes

Next stop at Charnock Richard superchargers. 10%-79% 25 minutes.

Next stop at Gretna Green superchargers. 10%-43% 8 mins

Next stop at Abington superchargers. 10%-88% 32 mins.

Arrive in Oban with 10% left.

That is very detailed DieselBoy, is that from a Tesla app?. Also, I'm assuming you can charge in Oban?!.

But the key question here is what EV you have, or plan to have?.

Edited by badbusdriver on 29/03/2021 at 16:47

Next stop at Abington superchargers. 10%-88% 32 mins.

Major hold up half way to Oban, had to walk the last few miles! So that's what modern motoring is about, orienteering between charging points, seems like a lot of fun in theory.

Recently on another website there was a similar discussion to this. The poster claimed that the 800 mile round trip he had made to Scotland was only 45 minutes longer in the EV than a petrol car.

To me its seemed to be way out and I used a Kia Niro as an example to calculate the approx. journey time for our twice a year 430 mile drive to the lodge.

The Niro has an official range of 280 miles. That is always going to be probably 20% high so 224 miles and since its mostly motorway its probably going to be 200 at best. That means we would need 2 stops to charge on route. Kia quote 1 hr 15 minutes for an 80% charge (so probably really 160 miles for the on route charges) thus add 2 hours 30 to the journey. we have 3 15 minute comfort breaks at present total 45 minutes thus 1 hour 45 longer, very different the 45 minutes quoted by the poster.

Then there is the issue of actually finding a charger, when I looked on the web at one of the likely services they only had one type 2 charger and that had been out of order for a week, looked at the next services, there were 2 charging points but status unknown, gave up.

It was worse when I checked on availability at the lodge. 8 points (that's not sites, its actual plugs) within a 20 mile radius and little info on any. We would be spending 1/2 the holiday looking for a place to charge at this rate.

Looked like it does not work for us, but I already knew this, its why we bought the PHEV.

Just had a look at Tesla prices, around 45k. apps 4 times more Than the pension.

I do think Barney isnt really serious about taking an EV on his 1000+ mile holiday.

Here's a sensible alternative plan.

Hire a large estate/SUV/MPV for the duration of the holiday.

Refill with fuel as required (probably twice in total for the entire holiday), less than 90 seconds refuelling each time. (If we are comparing like with like, its the time taken to pour a maximum of 60 litres of fuel once the nozzle is inserted, approx 50litre per minute for UK pumps). Thousands of refuelling places to chose from, no queues likely, pumps highly likely to be working. No Apps/membership/special accounts or cards required.

Return the car.