Not sure which way you go but I would be tempted to take the country route from Alford to Banchory then over the Cairn to join A90 near Stracathro. Excellent chargers in Banchory (2 in main car park, 2 at the sports centre) but all 4 are only 22kWh.
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Not sure which way you go but I would be tempted to take the country route from Alford to Banchory then over the Cairn to join A90 near Stracathro. Excellent chargers in Banchory (2 in main car park, 2 at the sports centre) but all 4 are only 22kWh.
Sometimes do that, dependent on fog and snow of course. That's the route that Tesla recommends and uses 10% less range than via the AWPR however the wife is not a good traveller and Cairn O'Mount then the twisty bits between Lumphanan and Alford don't agree with her.
Used to have family in Banchory but sadly don't have a reason to stop there anymore. Lovely town and enjoyed spending time at Banchory Lodge.
How do you access the SC now as they are right in the way of the old entrance/car park.This is Leeds yesterday I think - doesn't seem far off
https://twitter.com/philroberts/status/1284805050792120320
edit: I think I see they’ve modified the road the bottom of the street.
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So that’s 8 V3 stalls at Park Royal and 8 V3 at Leeds. That accounts for the 16 stalls that were tracked as a UK shipment back in November. Don’t think there’ll be anymore for a while unless an extra shipment has slipped through.
stonecoldrmw
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I'm curious on the Leeds one as I'm due to be commuting to Leeds for a while in the near future. That will be a back up (should hopefully be able to charge at work)
stonecoldrmw
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FEERSUMENDJIN
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Agree. The route over the cairn is awesome. NAU Feersum Enjinn (m3P) loves charging up that hill !
A bit childish I know but I just love either stopping at the top or resetting the trip meter at the top to see how far I can get into negative useage territory on the Kw/mile o meter by the time I get to the bottom!!
I get plenty of opportunity as I live on the north side of the Cairn and it is my quickest route south.
cezdoc
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Tesla have a planning application for a sign and flags at a new Service Centre in Cardiff, and an eagle-eyed owner has spotted that the site plan includes an indicative location for eight Supercharger bays. Superchargers are not part of the planning application but since they've been installed/are planned for several other UK Service Centres it looks hopeful that another Welsh Supercharger site is in the pipeline.
A/20/00042/MNR | INSTALLATION OF FACE LIT TESLA LETTERS FIXED TO BUILDING FACADE, NEW MONUMENT SIGN AND NEW FLAGS | FORMER STRATSTONE, AVENUE INDUSTRIAL PARK, CROESCADARN CLOSE, PONTPRENNAU, CARDIFF, CF23 8HE
Location is CF23 8HE, Supercharger bays at approx. 51.531400, -3.140100.
A/20/00042/MNR | INSTALLATION OF FACE LIT TESLA LETTERS FIXED TO BUILDING FACADE, NEW MONUMENT SIGN AND NEW FLAGS | FORMER STRATSTONE, AVENUE INDUSTRIAL PARK, CROESCADARN CLOSE, PONTPRENNAU, CARDIFF, CF23 8HE
Location is CF23 8HE, Supercharger bays at approx. 51.531400, -3.140100.
cezdoc
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To be fair it's not far from their "Coming Soon" Cardiff Service Centre pin. IIRC in ~2018 there was a grey Supercharger pin just up the road at Cardiff Gate services as well although it disappeared later in the same year. It's unusual to see a grey pin at a specific service area location so I assume Tesla and Welcome Break were intending to put something in at Cardiff Gate but the plans fell through.
LongRanger
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There are the 50kw chargers at Cardiff Gate right outside Starbucks, hardly ever in use. Maybe that’s what stopped the Tesla thing.
Ant M3
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Without me reading through all the pages, anyone know if more Superchargers are due around the midlands ? We only seem to have hopwood locally
Rider668
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Hilton park Southbound nearly finished. Pictures etc on the Ndili Superchargers for Tesla app on the apple store, so you don’t have to keep checking this thread
AKA supercharge.info, where you see the map of planned locations, progress etc on any device
Chuq
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Interesting one here... it's on the plan, but then marked as not being part of the application. Should we add it? Thoughts?
cezdoc
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Better than a rumour but not proof a final decision has been taken to install Superchargers... If the "permit" pins on Supercharge.info refer to locations where planning has been granted then it's not quite there yet (although many Supercharger developments don't require planning permission in the UK). No harm in waiting, given the location I'm sure any new groundworks will be spotted quite quickly.
It's almost certainly dead - they lost their appeal against refusal of planning permission, so there's not much they can do.
This was a slightly odd case: they initially believed planning permission was not required, as there was an existing planning permission to extend the carpark, and adding superchargers to existing parking spaces is normally "permitted development" and so does not need a planning application.
However, in this case the main building was listed and so the permitted development rights didn't apply and on application the permission was refused on account of detracting from the setting of the listed building. Tesla appealed against the refusal and lost.
19/0023/REF | Retrospective: Creation of new parking area with the provision of 16 electric car charging spaces with associated works | Hunton Park Essex Lane Abbots Langley WD4 8PN
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