Route · 4 days
The South East on Superchargers Alone
White cliffs, a shingle desert and the Seven Sisters, with so many Superchargers the battery never drops below 40%.
Updated 3 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.
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Day-by-day itinerary
DAY 1Maidstone to the White Cliffs
Supercharger9:00 AM
Maidstone Supercharger
Eclipse Park, Bearsted Road, Maidstone, ME14 3EN
Eclipse Park, just off M20 junction 7. One of the oldest Superchargers in the country.
Charge to 90%. Six stalls at 130 kW, so give it 40 minutes and have breakfast at the retail park.
SET OFF90%drive 42 miles
Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight10:45 AM
White Cliffs of Dover
The National Trust car park at Langdon Cliffs, right above the Eastern Docks. Walk east along the top and watch the ferries slide out below you. The car park fills by ten in summer.
ARRIVE74%drive 4 miles
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight1:30 PM
St Margaret's Bay
Drive down Bay Hill to the shingle. Noel Coward's old house sits at the far end and The Coastguard pub does lunch a few steps from the sea. France is 21 miles that way.
ARRIVE72%drive 3 miles
Campsite3:30 PM
Hawthorn Farm
Hawthorn Farm, Station Road, Martin Mill, Dover, Kent, CT15 5LA
28 quiet acres behind Martin Mill station, ten minutes from the Dover Supercharger. First night on Camp Mode with 70% in the pack, which is 40 more than Idea 01 asks for.
ARRIVE71%WAKE56%⚡ 10 min to Supercharger ↗£24–30/night est. · Dover (St James)
DAY 2Romney Marsh and the fifth continent
drive 10 miles
Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight9:45 AM
Battle of Britain Memorial
The lone airman on the clifftop at Capel-le-Ferne, staring out over the Channel he defended. Free to walk in; The Wing cafe opens at ten.
ARRIVE52%drive 4 miles
Supercharger11:00 AM
Folkestone Supercharger
Cheriton Parc, Cheriton High Street, Folkestone, CT18 8AN
Twelve stalls behind the Holiday Inn Express at Cheriton Parc. Ignore the satnav pull towards the Eurotunnel site up the road: that one is for France-bound traffic only.
Charge to 90%. This is the last Supercharger before Romney Marsh, and there is nothing now until Flimwell tomorrow lunchtime.
ARRIVE51%LEAVE90%drive 23 miles
Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight1:00 PM
Dungeness
Take the A259 coast road through Hythe and Dymchurch, then out onto the shingle they call Britain's only desert. Old lighthouse, Derek Jarman's garden, a miniature railway and The Pilot for fish and chips.
ARRIVE81%drive 11 miles
Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight3:00 PM
Camber Sands
The only dune system in East Sussex and miles of proper sand at low tide. Park at the Western car park and cross the boardwalk.
ARRIVE77%drive 4 miles
Photo: BazViv · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight4:30 PM
Rye
Cobbled Mermaid Street, the Ypres Tower and the best preserved medieval citadel in the South East. Park by the Strand and walk up.
ARRIVE75%drive 3 miles
Campsite5:30 PM
Hare and Hounds Campsite
Hare and Hounds, Rye Road, Rye Foreign, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7ST
A three acre meadow behind the Hare and Hounds pub at Rye Foreign, two miles out of Rye. Dinner is thirty steps from the pitch, and Camp Mode gets 73%.
ARRIVE74%WAKE59%⚡ 24 min to Supercharger ↗£29–35/night est. · Flimwell (A21)
DAY 31066 country
drive 14 miles
Photo: David Anstiss · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight9:30 AM
Hastings Old Town
The tall black net shops at Rock-a-Nore, Britain's biggest beach-launched fishing fleet on the Stade, and a funicular up East Hill for the view back over the roofs.
ARRIVE54%drive 7 miles
Photo: Hassocks5489 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight11:15 AM
Battle Abbey
The abbey William built on the spot where Harold fell in 1066. Stand on the battlefield terrace, then coffee on the High Street opposite the gatehouse.
ARRIVE51%drive 11 miles
Supercharger12:45 PM
Flimwell Supercharger
Flimwell Park, Hawkhurst Road, Flimwell, TN5 7FJ
Six stalls tucked into the timber cabins of Flimwell Park on the A21, with a bakery cafe on site. The sneaky High Weald charger that makes this whole coast work.
Charge to 90%. It is a small site, so do it midday like this, not at 6 PM with the London traffic coming home.
ARRIVE47%LEAVE90%drive 22 miles
Photo: Michael Coppins · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight2:45 PM
Pevensey Castle
Where William's fleet actually landed, three weeks before Hastings. Roman walls around a Norman keep, and the outer bailey is free to wander.
ARRIVE82%drive 4 miles
Campsite3:45 PM
Normans Bay Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Coast Road, Normans Bay, Pevensey, East Sussex, BN24 6PR
200 flat pitches across a quiet lane from the shingle where the Normans beached. You arrive with 79%, which is the whole point of the Flimwell stop.
ARRIVE80%WAKE65%⚡ 38 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25–35/night est. · Flimwell (A21)
DAY 4The Seven Sisters and the Beacon
drive 9 miles
Photo: Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight9:15 AM
Beachy Head
The highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, with the lighthouse 530 feet below looking like a bath toy. Park by the pub and keep a healthy distance from the edge.
ARRIVE62%drive 3 miles
Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight10:30 AM
Birling Gap
National Trust car park, cafe, and the metal staircase down to the wave-cut platform under the Seven Sisters. Low tide is rock pool time.
ARRIVE60%drive 4 miles
Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight11:30 AM
Cuckmere Haven
Park at Seven Sisters Country Park at Exceat and walk the valley to the coastguard cottages view, the most photographed half mile in Sussex. Allow two hours and take a picnic.
ARRIVE59%drive 21 miles
Photo: Andy Li · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight2:00 PM
Ditchling Beacon
Over the Downs on the steepest road climb the South East owns, to the third highest point on the whole ridge. Regen claws a chunk of it back on the drop into Ditchling village.
ARRIVE51%drive 19 miles
Supercharger3:00 PM
Pease Pottage Supercharger
Pease Pottage Services, Brighton Road, Crawley, RH11 9YA
Sixteen stalls at the M23 services, arriving on 43% having never once been near the red. The gentlest finish of any route on this site.
Charge to 80%. That covers any home in the South East, and the M23 does the rest.
ARRIVE43%LEAVE80%
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.
- 3 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.