London to Tignes (Val Claret or Le Lac)

[NerfedNerd]

Any adventurous souls done a trip upto Tignes? 2100-2300m altitude so not sure how well batteries will preserve parked for a week... And the closest super charger I can see is a tidy distance away. I believe there is a destination charger somewhere in Tignes, but I am not sure how easy to use it will be.
Any tips/suggestions more than welcome!
Cheers

 

[Etna]

When you park your car for a week, make sure to turn off sentinel mode and check your car status remotely no more than once of twice per week.

Here in frigid Quebec when I leave my car at the airport at -20C, the battery does not lose more than 5% per week. If Sentinel mode remains turned on, that might be as high as 10% per day.

So it's likely you won't even need to worry about destination chargers if you can't find one easily.

Any local advice I could provide would be slightly outdated though, I've been skiing at Tignes many times but my most recent trip there was over 40 years ago.

 

[NerfedNerd]

I'll still take this on! Many thanks for the 2 cents!

 

[NerfedNerd]

For future reference to others, this was v. doable.

Left central London with 100% 6:15am for 08:50Eurotunnel from Folkstone. Turns out there was a supercharger there whilst we waited and grabbed breakfast so even though unprompted, decided to add more juice there and then. 20-25mins worth.
From Calais(10:20am Local time arrival), 5 supercharger stops along the way, went straight to Lyon and got there for little later than 10pm. Was on 58% at this point.
Spend the night in Lyon, got up and went to Tignes with 1 more supercharge along the way, Got to Tignes with 40%.
Car stayed in a garage but not necessarily 'warm' or anything. Certainly not freezing cold either imo. 1 week later when it was time to return was down to 36%.

So didn't bother with public charging points there but I think you needed a specific 'membership card' to be mailed out in the post first to use those so would have been v.impractical /impossible for us.

Coming back into civilization from Tignes as you are going downhill the car did a fair bit of battery regen and we got to a supercharging point in 1 hour so was happy to recharge there with no range anxiety. And up north we went back up from another route and it was all good.

 

[Watts_Up]

How was the driving, while seating on the "opposite" side?

- Did you installed a dashcam on the left side, and a display in front of you,
so you could have a view of the opposite coming traffic
when trying to pass a van or a truck blocking the view in front of you?

- Did you had to make any adjustment for the hight beams, or may be
the car performed any change automatically based on GPS?

I plan to go to England in the Fall and then to Europe.
I wonder if you can cross the channel with a rental car
or if you have to return your car, walk and use the Eurostar,
and get another car on the other side of the tunnel?