Route · 14 days
The Full Lap: Around Britain on Superchargers Alone
Fourteen days, 2,170 miles, seventeen Superchargers and not one campsite hookup: the whole coast of Great Britain, with the two wild corners saved for their own trips.
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.
STEP ZERO · YOUR DRIVE THERE
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Day-by-day itinerary
DAY 1Exeter to the Witterings
Supercharger
Exeter Supercharger (M5 Services)
Exeter Services, Sandygate Roundabout, J30 M5, Exeter, EX2 7HF
32 stalls at Exeter services, the biggest bank in the West Country. The lap starts and ends on this exact tarmac.
Charge to 90%. Fourteen days from now you roll back in off the M5 with the loop closed.
SET OFF90%drive 88 miles
Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Hengistbury Head
The A35 through Dorset, then out along the Broadway to the headland. Walk over the top to the Mudeford Sandbank beach huts, Britain's dearest garden sheds. The Jurassic cliffs west of here are their own trip on this site.
ARRIVE56%drive 54 miles
Supercharger
Portsmouth Supercharger
Langstone Technology Park, Langstone Road, Havant, PO9 1SA
Eight stalls at Langstone Technology Park on the edge of Havant, five minutes off the A27.
Charge to 100%. There is not a single Supercharger on the Sussex shore between here and Dover, and tomorrow is a chargerless day.
ARRIVE35%LEAVE100%drive 17 miles
Campsite
Stubcroft Farm Campsite
Stubcroft Farm, Stubcroft Lane, East Wittering, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 8PJ
Sheep-farm paddocks ten minutes' walk from East Wittering beach. First night on Camp Mode with 90-odd percent in the pack, which is exactly the plan.
ARRIVE93%WAKE78%⚡ 27 min to Supercharger ↗£28–40/night est. · Portsmouth (Havant)
DAY 2The Sussex shore, unplugged
drive 38 miles
Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Brighton Palace Pier
Pay and display on Madeira Drive, chips on the boards, and hold them low: the herring gulls here are professionals. Shortest driving day of the lap, so linger.
ARRIVE64%drive 32 miles
Campsite
Normans Bay Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Coast Road, Normans Bay, Pevensey, East Sussex, BN24 6PR
Take the A259 out through Seaford and over the Seven Sisters tops past Birling Gap and Beachy Head, not the inland A27. Beachfront pitches on the 1066 shore, and not one electron bought all day.
ARRIVE52%WAKE37%⚡ 38 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25–35/night est. · Flimwell (A21)
DAY 3Dover's cliffs, then over the Thames
drive 56 miles
Supercharger
Dover Supercharger
2 St James Street, Dover, CT16 1QD
Eleven V4 stalls at St James retail park, right under the castle. Rolling in on 15% after yesterday's chargerless Sussex shore, exactly as the plan says.
Charge to 90%. A morning charge, just as planned, and the 15% arrival is the price of the Sussex Supercharger desert.
ARRIVE15%LEAVE90%drive 2 miles
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White Cliffs of Dover
The National Trust clifftop above the ferry port. Walk twenty minutes towards South Foreland and the crowds evaporate, leaving you, the chalk and the shipping lanes.
ARRIVE89%drive 116 miles
Campsite
Waldegraves Holiday Park
Waldegraves Lane, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex, CO5 8SE
Round the M25, over the Dartford Crossing and out to Mersea Island. The Strood causeway floods on big spring tides, so check the tables before you commit. Private beach on the Blackwater.
ARRIVE45%WAKE30%⚡ 23 min to Supercharger ↗£25–40/night est. · Colchester (Marks Tey)
DAY 4Suffolk and the slow Norfolk coast
drive 27 miles
Supercharger
Ipswich Supercharger
Anglia Retail Park, 16 Anglia Parkway South, Ipswich, IP1 5QR
Twelve stalls at Anglia Retail Park on the A14 side of town.
Charge to 90% while you find breakfast. East Anglia's roads are slow and the day is longer than it looks.
ARRIVE19%LEAVE90%drive 36 miles
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Southwold
Pier, lighthouse, beach huts and the Adnams brewery in one walkable mile. The car park by the pier fills by late morning in August.
ARRIVE76%drive 73 miles
Campsite
Deepdale Camping
Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 8DD
The A149 crawl round the top of Norfolk: Cromer crabs, Blakeney seals, Wells' quay. Eco farm camping at Burnham Deepdale under enormous skies.
ARRIVE48%WAKE33%⚡ 33 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25–35/night est. · King's Lynn (Hardwick)
DAY 5Across the Wash, over the Humber
drive 22 miles
Supercharger
King's Lynn Supercharger
Dragonfly Hotel, Beveridge Way, Hardwick Narrows, King's Lynn, PE30 4NB
Eight stalls behind the Dragonfly Hotel at Hardwick. Register your number plate at the hotel desk or the car park will bill you £100.
Charge to 90%. Between here and Hull there is nothing but fenland, wolds and 100 miles of sky.
ARRIVE25%LEAVE90%drive 103 miles
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Humber Bridge
Park in the country park under the north tower. A mile and a half of single span, the world's longest for 17 years, and the toll for a car is £1.50.
ARRIVE50%drive 5 miles
Supercharger
Hull Supercharger
St Andrew's Quay Retail Park, Clive Sullivan Way, Hull, HU3 4SA
Twelve stalls at St Andrew's Quay retail park, three minutes off the bridge. Note the gates: this one shuts 11:30pm to 6:30am.
Charge to 90% for the run up the Yorkshire coast. Robin Hood's Bay is a Supercharger desert and tonight burns 15%.
ARRIVE48%LEAVE90%drive 63 miles
Campsite
Hooks House Farm
Hooks House Farm, Whitby Road, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO22 4PE
A sloping farm field with the whole of Robin Hood's Bay laid out below your bonnet. Walk down to the slipway for the evening; the climb back up earns the chippy.
ARRIVE66%WAKE51%⚡ 74 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£28–36/night est. · York (Fulford)
DAY 6Whitby to the castle coast
drive 5 miles
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Whitby Abbey
Up the 199 steps before the coach parties land. Dracula's silhouette, then kippers from Fortune's on the way back down.
ARRIVE49%drive 66 miles
Supercharger
Washington Supercharger
Moto Washington Services (Northbound), A1(M), Washington, DH3 2SJ
Moto services on the A1(M) north of the Angel. No romance, ten fast stalls, in and out.
Charge to 90%. Northumberland's coast has one small Supercharger at Adderstone and I would rather arrive with margin.
ARRIVE23%LEAVE90%drive 60 miles
Photo: Mark Percy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Bamburgh Castle
The best castle-on-a-beach in Britain. Park on the dunes side at Wynding car park and walk the sand below the ramparts.
ARRIVE67%drive 20 miles
Campsite
Ord House Country Park
Ord House Country Park, East Ord, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 2NS
Parkland on the Tweed at East Ord, a level walk into Berwick along the river to the Elizabethan walls. Last night in England for a week.
ARRIVE59%WAKE44%⚡ 22 min to Supercharger ↗£30–45/night est. · Adderstone
DAY 7Over the Forth to Dunnottar
drive 16 miles
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St Abbs Head
National Trust for Scotland reserve where the Southern Upland Way falls into the sea. Guillemots by the tens of thousands in early summer, and the village below played New Asgard.
ARRIVE38%drive 58 miles
Supercharger
Edinburgh Newbridge Supercharger
Tesla Centre Edinburgh, 23 Cliftonhall Road, Newbridge, EH28 8PW
Sixteen stalls at the Tesla Centre by the M9 junction, the lap's one brush with a city bypass.
Charge to 90%. The next plug the lap uses is Aberdeen, 125 miles and a night away, so leave nothing on the table.
ARRIVE16%LEAVE90%drive 112 miles
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Dunnottar Castle
Over the Queensferry Crossing with the 1890 rail bridge alongside, then the coastal A91 and A92 through St Andrews and the East Neuk. Dunnottar sits on its own sea stack; the 200 steps down and up are the toll.
ARRIVE47%drive 3 miles
Campsite
Stonehaven Queen Elizabeth Park Campsite
Queen Elizabeth Park, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, AB39 2RD
Beside the boating lake, two minutes from Stonehaven's beach. Fish and chips on the harbour, and the open-air pool is heated seawater if you are brave.
ARRIVE46%WAKE31%⚡ 16 min to Supercharger ↗£25–40/night est. · Aberdeen
DAY 8Granite city to the Moray Firth
drive 12 miles
Supercharger
Aberdeen Supercharger
Tesla Centre Aberdeen, Wellington Circle, Aberdeen, AB12 3JG
Eight stalls at the Tesla Centre on Wellington Circle, south of the granite.
Charge to 90%. A short day, but the Moray coast is thin on rapids and tonight's beach deserves a full evening.
ARRIVE26%LEAVE90%drive 68 miles
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Bow Fiddle Rock
Portknockie's quartzite arch, like a fiddle's bow drawn out of the Moray Firth. Five minutes' walk from the village car park, and best in low evening light.
ARRIVE64%drive 27 miles
Campsite
Silver Sands Holiday Park
Silver Sands Holiday Park, Covesea, West Beach, Lossiemouth, Moray, IV31 6SP
Dunes and a west-facing beach at Covesea. Watch for the Moray Firth dolphins off the lighthouse; the sunset here goes on until eleven in June.
ARRIVE53%WAKE38%⚡ 62 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£20–35/night est. · Inverness (Rose St)
DAY 9Loch Ness and the Great Glen cut
drive 42 miles
Supercharger
Inverness Supercharger
Rose Street Multi Storey Car Park, Rose Street, Inverness, IV1 1NQ
The Rose Street multi-storey, the NC500's own charger. The lap turns left here: everything north of Inverness is the NC500, its own trip on this site, so the top corner keeps its secrets and we cut down the Great Glen.
Charge to 100%. Between here and Glasgow the A82 has exactly one Supercharger, at Fort William, and I want the option of driving straight past it.
ARRIVE22%LEAVE100%drive 17 miles
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Urquhart Castle
The ruin on the point with two thirds of Loch Ness beyond it. Book the car park online in summer or you will be turned away by ten thirty.
ARRIVE93%drive 65 miles
Campsite
Invercoe Caravan & Camping Park
Invercoe, Glencoe, Ballachulish, Highland, PH49 4HP
Down the loch through Fort Augustus, past the Commando Memorial and under Ben Nevis. You pass the Fort William Supercharger showing 70-odd percent: the first charger of the lap you get to ignore. Pitch on the Loch Leven shore at Glencoe village.
ARRIVE68%WAKE53%⚡ 27 min to Supercharger ↗£30–40/night est. · Fort William
DAY 10Glen Coe to the Ayrshire cliffs
drive 4 miles
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The Three Sisters, Glen Coe
Four miles up the glen to the viewpoint lay-bys under the Three Sisters. Go at eight in the morning and you share it with the deer and one piper.
ARRIVE52%drive 90 miles
Supercharger
Glasgow Supercharger
Tesla Centre Glasgow, 20 Kennedy Street, Glasgow, G4 0EB
Rannoch Moor, Loch Lomond's west bank and the Erskine Bridge, then twelve stalls at the Kennedy Street Tesla Centre. Arriving on 17% after 90 miles of the best road in Scotland, right on plan.
Charge to 100%. South Ayrshire and Galloway are a genuine Supercharger desert: the next plug the lap uses is Gretna, 147 miles and a night away.
ARRIVE17%LEAVE100%drive 49 miles
Campsite
Culzean Castle Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Culzean Castle Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Culzean, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 8JX
Down the M77 and the A77 past Ayr. Clifftop pitches in Culzean's country park with the Firth of Clyde and Ailsa Craig filling the view; the castle is a walk through the woods.
ARRIVE81%WAKE66%⚡ 69 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£28–40/night est. · Glasgow (Kennedy St)
DAY 11Galloway's empty quarter
drive 76 miles
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Caerlaverock Castle
The A77 and A75 across Galloway, a hundred miles with no Supercharger and no need of one if you left Glasgow full. Caerlaverock is a moated red triangle on the Solway marshes, unique in Britain.
ARRIVE37%drive 22 miles
Supercharger
Gretna Green Supercharger
Welcome Break Gretna Green Services, A74(M) J21-22, Gretna Green, DG16 5HQ
Fourteen stalls at the Welcome Break by the anvil-wedding tourists. Arriving on 28% after the Galloway crossing, this is the last Scottish electricity of the lap.
Charge to 100%. West Cumbria has no Superchargers at all: the next plug the lap touches is Preston, 157 miles and a night away.
ARRIVE28%LEAVE100%drive 66 miles
Campsite
Ravenglass Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Ravenglass Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Ravenglass, Cumbria, CA18 1SR
Back into England and down the A595 with the Solway then the Irish Sea on your right. Ravenglass is the Lake District's only coastal village; the estuary sunset is two minutes from your pitch.
ARRIVE75%WAKE60%⚡ 73 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£30–40/night est. · Rheged (Penrith)
DAY 12Cumbrian coast into Wales
drive 2 miles
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Muncaster Castle
A mile up the road before the long empty morning: haunted castle, hawk and owl centre, and the view down Eskdale that Ruskin called the gateway to Paradise.
ARRIVE59%drive 89 miles
Supercharger
Preston Supercharger
Reedfield Place, Walton Summit Centre, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 8AA
Round Black Combe, past Barrow and over the Kent at Levens, then fifteen stalls at Walton Summit. The 25% arrival is the price of West Cumbria owning no Superchargers.
Charge to 90%. Wales is next, and the Welsh chargers are few and precious.
ARRIVE25%LEAVE90%drive 62 miles
Supercharger
Flint Mountain Supercharger
Flint Mountain Park Hotel, Northop Road, Flint Mountain, Flint, CH6 5QG
Eight stalls at the Flint Mountain Park Hotel, just over the border. This is the fill that has to carry you down the whole Cambrian coast.
Charge to 100%. The next Supercharger heading west is Aberystwyth, 150 coastal miles and a night away. This is the lap's Welsh long game.
ARRIVE66%LEAVE100%drive 26 miles
Campsite
Bron-Y-Wendon Holiday Park
Bron-Y-Wendon Holiday Park, Wern Road, Llanddulas, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, LL22 8HG
A seafront touring park at Llanddulas where every pitch looks at the Irish Sea and the Great Orme. Sleep at 90%; tomorrow spends nearly all of it.
ARRIVE90%WAKE75%⚡ 30 min to Supercharger ↗£26–38/night est. · Flint Mountain
DAY 13The Cambrian coast on one charge
drive 27 miles
Photo: Julian Herzog · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Highlight
Menai Suspension Bridge
The A55 past Conwy's castle and through the Penmaenbach headland to Telford's 1826 masterpiece over the Menai Strait. Anglesey and the Llŷn are their own trip on this site; today belongs to Cardigan Bay.
ARRIVE65%drive 36 miles
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Harlech Castle
Caernarfon's walls, Porthmadog's cob, then Harlech: Edward I's ring fortress on its crag with Snowdon behind and the dunes where the sea used to be in front.
ARRIVE51%drive 61 miles
Supercharger
Aberystwyth Supercharger
Aberystwyth Park Lodge Hotel, Ffordd Parc y Llyn, Aberystwyth, SY23 3TL
Barmouth, the Mawddach, Machynlleth, then six stalls behind the Park Lodge Hotel. Arriving on 27% with 61 hard coastal miles behind you, this little bank is the only Supercharger on a hundred miles of Cardigan Bay.
Charge to 90%. Respect this one: if it were ever full or down, the fallback is Carmarthen, 70 miles south.
ARRIVE27%LEAVE90%drive 38 miles
Campsite
Ty Gwyn Caravan and Camping Park
Ty Gwyn, Mwnt, Ferwig, Cardigan, Ceredigion, SA43 1QH
The A487 south through Aberaeron's painted harbour, then the lane out to Mwnt: a perfect green cove with a white chapel on the headland. Dolphins pass most evenings. The best pitch of the lap.
ARRIVE75%WAKE60%⚡ 69 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£15–25/night est. · Aberystwyth
DAY 14The long run home
drive 31 miles
Supercharger
Carmarthen Supercharger
St Catherine's Walk Car Park, St Catherine Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1GA
Twelve town-centre stalls at St Catherine's Walk. Pembrokeshire is thirty miles west and is its own trip on this site; the lap turns for home.
Charge to 90%. One more charge after this and the loop is closed.
ARRIVE48%LEAVE90%drive 108 miles
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Clevedon Pier
The M4 over the Prince of Wales Bridge, then eight minutes off the M5: Betjeman reckoned this the most beautiful pier in England, and paddle steamers still call. A last cup of tea over the brown Severn.
ARRIVE48%drive 8 miles
Supercharger
Gordano Supercharger
Welcome Break Gordano Services, M5 J19, Bristol, BS20 7XG
Eight stalls at the Welcome Break by junction 19. The last plug of the lap.
Charge to 90%. Enough to finish, and enough to get home from Exeter, wherever home is.
ARRIVE45%LEAVE90%drive 70 miles
Supercharger
Exeter Supercharger (M5 Services)
Exeter Services, Sandygate Roundabout, J30 M5, Exeter, EX2 7HF
The same 32 stalls you left on day one, 2,168 miles ago. Every one of those miles came from a Supercharger; the campsites never gave us a single electron.
Charge to 90% for the drive home. The lap is closed.
ARRIVE63%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.
- 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.