Route · 4 days
Lakes on Superchargers Alone
Tebay in, Rheged out: four days of lakes and passes where the M6 Superchargers do all the heavy lifting.
Updated 2 Aug 2026 · Not driven yet
Your car, your numbers
Range is what your car honestly does on a full charge, not the brochure number (a used Model Y is ~260). The ~15% overnight draw comes from our own cold-morning testing; drop it if you run Camp Mode warm-weather lean. Every stop below recalculates as you type, and your numbers are remembered for other routes. Estimates assume steady A-road driving. If the maths goes red on a remote route, that's not a bug: it's the route showing you where to charge.
STEP ZERO · YOUR DRIVE THERE
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Day-by-day itinerary
DAY 1Tebay in, Windermere west shore
Supercharger
Tebay Services Supercharger
Tebay Services (Southbound), Westmorland Place, Orton, Penrith, CA10 3SB
8 stalls at the best motorway services in Britain.
Charge to 90% and raid the farm shop for the weekend's supplies.
SET OFF90%drive 31 miles
Campsite
Low Wray Campsite
Low Wray Campsite, Low Wray, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0JA
National Trust site on Windermere's quiet west shore, with lakeside pitches and pizza on site.
ARRIVE78%WAKE63%⚡ 40 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25–30/night est. · Rheged (Penrith)
DAY 2Grasmere to the best view in England
drive 7 miles
Photo: The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons drive 12 miles
Campsite
Castlerigg Hall
Castlerigg Hall Caravan & Camping Park, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 4TE
Terraced pitches above Derwentwater, the best campsite view in England. Walk down into Keswick.
ARRIVE56%WAKE41%⚡ 21 min to Supercharger ↗£30/night est. · Rheged (Penrith)
DAY 3Buttermere and the underground bar
drive 13 miles
Photo: Julian Herzog · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Buttermere
In early via Honister Pass. The lake circuit is four and a half easy miles.
ARRIVE36%drive 32 miles
Supercharger
Rheged Supercharger
Rheged Centre, Redhills Lane, Redhills, Penrith, CA11 0DQ
Café, cinema and a leg-stretch while it charges. You'll be back tomorrow for the run home.
Charge to 90%. This is the midday top-up that banks the rest of the loop.
ARRIVE23%LEAVE90%drive 6 miles
Campsite
The Quiet Site
The Quiet Site, Ullswater, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0LS
Above Ullswater, with an underground bar, ten minutes from the charger you just left.
ARRIVE88%WAKE73%⚡ 10 min to Supercharger ↗£30/night est. · Rheged (Penrith)
DAY 4Aira Force, Kirkstone, home
drive 5 miles
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons drive 10 miles
Photo: mattbuck · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Kirkstone Pass & The Struggle
The Struggle drops 1-in-4 into Ambleside. Regen does the braking.
ARRIVE67%drive 19 miles
Supercharger
Rheged Supercharger
Rheged Centre, Redhills Lane, Redhills, Penrith, CA11 0DQ
Penrith: 24 V4 stalls, ~46p/kWh, 10 minutes from Ullswater.
Charge for the drive home.
ARRIVE60%LEAVE90%
Frunk & FieldNotes
Not driven yet
We haven't driven this one yet. Nobody has slept on this route with our name on it. Notes, photos and hard-won guidance land here after the first trip.
ROUTE CHANGELOG
Driven it before? This is what has changed since.
- 2 Aug 2026
First published.
Drive it on the three ideas: arrive at camp with 30%+, charge to 90% before any dead zone, and charge midday, never evenings.