Route · 5 days
NC500: The Boss Level
Five days, 500 miles, and exactly one Supercharger, sitting at the start line. This is the route the doctrine was written for.
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 the boss level, that's not a bug. That's the boss level.
Day-by-day itinerary
DAY 1Inverness to Applecross, over the Bealach
Supercharger
Inverness Supercharger
Rose Street Multi Storey Car Park, Rose Street, Inverness, IV1 1NQ
Rose Street car park, the start line and the finish line.
Charge to 100%. This is the only Supercharger until you're back here.
SET OFF100%
Photo: James Emmans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Bealach na Bà
Britain's greatest road. Regen claws range back the whole way down.
ARRIVE72%Campsite
Applecross Campsite
Applecross Campsite, Applecross, Strathcarron, Ross-shire, IV54 8ND
Deer at dusk, and the Applecross Inn a short walk away.
ARRIVE70%WAKE55%⚡ 106 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25/night est. · Inverness (Rose St)
DAY 2Torridon coast to Ullapool
Campsite
Broomfield Holiday Park
Broomfield Holiday Park, West Lane, Ullapool, IV26 2UT
The long way round Torridon and the Gairloch coast, then pitch on the Loch Broom shore.
Play the Wildcard: charge to 100% on the Ullapool rapid while you eat. The maths needs every point of it.
ARRIVE11%LEAVE100%WAKE85%⚡ 77 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25/night est. · Inverness (Rose St)
DAY 3Assynt to the top-left corner
Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Campsite
Sango Sands Oasis
Sango Sands Oasis, Sango Bay, Durness, Sutherland, IV27 4PZ
Clifftop pitches above the beach at Durness, pub on site.
ARRIVE49%WAKE34%⚡ 164 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25/night est. · Inverness (Rose St)
DAY 4The north coast to Dunnet
Wildcard rapid
Thurso rapid (EZO)
Thurso Swimming Pool car park, Millbank Road, Thurso, KW14 8RB
Smoo Cave and the Tongue road on the way. The leisure-centre car park rapid, ex-ChargePlace Scotland, now EZO. Swim while it charges if you're feeling thorough.
The confession: charge to 90%. It's the last plug before Inverness, 119 miles and a night away.
ARRIVE7%LEAVE90%Campsite
Dunnet Bay Campsite
Dunnet Bay Club Campsite, Dunnet, Thurso, Highlands, KW14 8XD
Pitch behind the dunes, battery fat for the run home.
ARRIVE87%⚡ 151 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£30/night est. · Inverness (Rose St)
Photo: Davidcarroll · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
John o' Groats
Evening photo at the signpost, ten minutes from the campsite.
ARRIVE82%WAKE67%
DAY 5The east coast run home
Photo: Adam Court · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Supercharger
Inverness Supercharger
Rose Street Multi Storey Car Park, Rose Street, Inverness, IV1 1NQ
Back where you started. Loop closed.
That's the boss level beaten. Charge before the long drive home.
ARRIVE22%LEAVE90%
Drive it on the Three Rules: arrive at camp with 30%+, charge to 90% before any dead zone, and charge midday, never evenings.