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Charging near Brighton
- Thread starter m3gt2
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MrBadger
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How marginal might you be on charge. What route?
Brighton car parks are to be avoided as usual suspects are very expensive. I've got my eyes on the one in Madeira drive or the Asda at the Marina when we are in the area. But then we are looking to top up not start a long journey. Alternatively Pond Road carpark in Shoreham and a walk over to the Hummingbird Cafe at Shoreham airport for a curry.
No experience of any of these yet but we do frequent those areas frequently as they are not bad places to spend a few hours. No idea of speeds, costs or availability although do know that the Marina Asda one is slow and sometimes ICE'd. A nice ride though on the Volk's railway between the Marina and Brighton.
Shame Brighton supercharger is not there yet.
Brighton car parks are to be avoided as usual suspects are very expensive. I've got my eyes on the one in Madeira drive or the Asda at the Marina when we are in the area. But then we are looking to top up not start a long journey. Alternatively Pond Road carpark in Shoreham and a walk over to the Hummingbird Cafe at Shoreham airport for a curry.
No experience of any of these yet but we do frequent those areas frequently as they are not bad places to spend a few hours. No idea of speeds, costs or availability although do know that the Marina Asda one is slow and sometimes ICE'd. A nice ride though on the Volk's railway between the Marina and Brighton.
Shame Brighton supercharger is not there yet.
I completed the journey into the centre of Brighton by using the Park & Ride bus and charging at the on-street public charger which is 2 minutes walk from the Park & Ride terminus. Charger was slow (7kW??) but added some useful range whilst I was in my meetings.
The above seems a strange choice to me. It implies the drop between Newport Pagnell and Brighton is 37%. So, with that in mind surely charging to closer to 100% at the NP super charger is the best bet as that will leave you with 53% to get back to NP again from Brighton and top up for the remainder of the journey.
I would not want to have to detour off the M25 to Heathrow unless I absolutely needed to.
I would not want to have to detour off the M25 to Heathrow unless I absolutely needed to.
MrBadger
Badger out
I would say that the 287Wh/mile is optimistic this time of year. Allowing for lower temp, a little headwind and rain, its closer to 340Wh/mile, which is 2 stops either way and at least half hours charging on clients time.
However, that will take a long time (~15 mins extra) and still only leaves you with 6% when you get back to NP (where there's currently no SC northbound unless you use the service road, so even less at the Northampton one).
If you are willing to push things that bit closer, personally I'd skip the Newport Pagnell stop (that's only taking on board 9%) and live with arriving at Heathrow on 10%, knowing that driving slower and/or various non-Tesla options en-route provide the safety factor. Probably ABRP would make that recommendation too if you adjusted the settings to be less conservative.
MrBadger
Badger out
Let us know how you get on with those. We have an appt near there so no charge facilities (a bit like being at home...) and think we can survive on some local 7kW ones and Havant supercharger, but rapids in Worthing would be a good emergency stop.
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Why 37? The chart above calls for leaving NP at 92% and arriving Brighton 45%, so 47% difference. Extra 8% at the first stop gets you to Brighton at 53% (100-47) but then only 6% back at NP (53-47).
All assuming that it's symmetric - which it probably is more or less for this route.
Will do, I think it's a better option for me than making clients stop for a charge!
