I'm a new subscriber but I really enjoy your content, thanks a lot for these - anyone saying EVs are for "around town only" really need to watch videos like this!
once again one of those lovely videos where I feel I have to run out to my Tesla and just road trip... Have done a lot of drivning this summer day trips around 200 - 270 miles. It is exactly as you describe... Totally effortless and enjoyable. But you make Scotland so interesting with your spectacular videos. Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic video. I always love the road trip videos. The part where you explained the single track roads and how to drive them was very interesting.
Holidayed in Strontian and Kilchoan most years for past ten years, so have been to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse a few times, but never in a Tesla. Just bought an 'S' so we'll see how it goes next year. Great content. Thank you.
Brilliant video, I was driving up there in June. Didn't get to Ardnamurchan but did get to Mallaig along part of your route. Spent time walking the North Face trail at Torlundy near Fort William. A great walk if you're into walking. I live in south Dorset so travelling 600 miles is my only way of seeing these places. PS, don't own an EV, but still watch your channel.
@@justgetatesla . Weird , 40 years driving, including towing a caravan around the highlands, Ireland, Wales, Somerset, Devon. Only seen it whilst teaching my children hill starts in a tiny car.
Great video and lush to see the road from Fort William out towards Arisaig…one of my favourite roads to drive. Remarkable how easy it is for a Tesla with the infrastructure…just need to wait either for a lottery win or another year of my ICE to order one
White Tesla's I was on the way home from Scotland and charging somewhere south of Durham went in for a pee and came out and tried to unplug someone else white Tesla I only realised it wasn't my car when I noticed it had century mode on 😮. I would have had another colour but I'm a bit of a cheap skate
Great video Ian, really like your road trips. Scotland is a beautiful place. We took our EV up there in May. Absolutely no issue recharging if you plan ahead and will definitely be returning to explore more! Thank you for sharing.
Another fantastic travel vid! Again I am not going to show it to my wife. She wants to visit Scotland and I still want to visit the North Cape in Norway. But somewhere in the future we’ll visit Scotland. With a blue MY. Thanks to your vids!
Memories of a trip on my motorbike a few years ago. North south east and west of Britain which included Ardnamrchan of course. Do Scottish Tourism sponsor you. They should!
As always, so good to see you driving through Scotland. We spent last week up in the Cairngorms, travelling from southern England in the model Y. Was incredibly easy and the stops just broke the journey and made it more pleasant. Interestingly (if that is the right word) on day two both the Charge Scotland and BP Pulse chargers in Aviemore were showing as not operational and even though the Tesla Supercharger is open to all EV’s there it wasn’t much of a wait to get on one of the 4 superchargers.
@@justgetatesla ouch, I live in Singapore and did it in May2023 on a rented Model 3 which was awesome the peace of an EV and the mountains were so quiet.
G'Day Ian. I have also done the East to West in Australia. It took a bit longer though (over 4000km !) Thanks for the nice vid, I love the scenery drives. Regards, Greg.
Picked up my exdemo model Y from Aberdeen last week and did a little tour while I was up there. The single track roads were a bit of a surprise but it was, I must get up there again the scenery was fantastic
I remember in 1966 going for 3 weeks summer holiday just along the road from the lighthouse - 4 kids and parents in an Austin A40 towing a dinghy on a trailer ………… good job there was hardly any tourism up there in those days and certainly no motorhomes to do battle against ! The house down the road from the cottage caught fire while we were there - fire engine had to come from Fort William!
Another great video, thank you Ian. I wonder how FSD will do on some of those narrow roads when it eventually comes to your part of the globe. After 52 years of owning and driving many ice vehicles, I am still enthralled every time I get into my 2024 model 3. I’ve just clocked up 10,000 km and I’m still amazed at how EV’s just makes sense in every respect.
Nice video. Gives me some more ideas. I had planned to take off in my MG4 tomorrow morning, head for Inverness, then over towards Fort William and spend a couple of days just moseying around the area (probably sleeping in the car) before coming home. But the window of nice weather has pretty much disappeared from the weather maps and there's no point in going if it's going to be miserable. Looks like there might be a much better window next weekend. It takes me about three hours to get to Inverness, with a fair wind. After that, who knows. As you say, there are a lot of CPS chargers around so there's no need to feel restricted. There are a couple of dead-end glens I'd like to explore that aren't on the usual tourist trail (looks like not even on the Google Streetview trail) and I've never seen the footprint at Dunadd. Have EV, will travel. I plan to make best use of the Tesla chargers at Perth, Aviemore, Inverness and Fort William, so I hope the things are working. I always feel a bit like a cat in a dog suit on these chargers, but at least my car has its charging port in the same place as a Tesla, so I don't get hated on for blocking two bays!
I was staying in Aviemore a couple of weeks ago. Driving my wife's S-Max and not my Model Y unfortunately. We visited Fort William for the train ride to Mallaig. I noticed all 6 Tesla superchargers were blocked by 3 non Tesla's charging. They were blocking all 6 stalls because their charge ports were in the wrong place for the short cables. None of the non Tesla chargers were in use!
As an ex Zoe driver, the ZE-50 models from mid 2020 offered CCS as an option on the base model, and as standard on the GT-Line model. Not,at all sure what the purchase split was, but the advice at the time was to get the GT-Line or pay the extra for the CCS upgrade on the base models, and I believe most were sold with CCS, though it maxes out at 50KWh.
We had a ZE50 too, on PCP. The interesting thing was that specifying the car with the CCS added around £750 to the price, but only around £75 to the deposit and zero the the monthly repayments. So as most cars are sold on PCP, I would imagine it was quite a popular add-on, although it needed the customer and or garage to be switched on to EVs and why the CCS (albeit capped at 50Kwh charge rate) was a good thing to have. I recall our sales guy making a big deal that the standard port would take 22Kwh charge which was "all you'll ever need"....not that many non CCS (AC?) that give that charge rate though!
Enjoyable road trip, my favourite kind of car video. I'm surprised at your relatively unremarkable efficiency of c. 4 miles/kWh. I would expect something approaching 5 as it was relatively warm and you never exceeded 60 mph.
Birmingham - Chepstow - Northhampton - Chepstow - Heathrow - Chepstow - Forest of Dean - Chepstow... all without stops. still going. 2003 MB E W211 320 CDI 6 in line
What do you mean "all without stops". You did stop. To eat. To use the toilet. To sleep. To see people. Whatever. You did stop. And when you stop you could be charging. Honestly, you FUDers do come out with some crap. Does my EV threaten your manliness somehow? Is that why you have to go on the defensive? Bless.
@@justgetatesla I'd be happy to show you -> just ran the local parkrun (also without stop). And I will drive back to Netherlands with only stop on Ferry. And yes that is relaxing working in the lounge.
@@justgetatesla And I actually like the Model S, but I drive like this all the time. I know it is extreme, but I never had a Tesla stay in front of me on any of these big drives. Obviously I use german motorbahn fluidity. As soon as FSD = sleeping, I will buy. So for now next one is probably 730d for this purpose. 911 991 waiting diligently for me at home.
On classified roads (anything other than little side roads and backroads) they are supposed to paint a line at the edge of the road surface to mark where it is. When the surface is old or heavily worn this often is missing. There is something magical about roads at night with all of the cats eyes properly in place. These are little rubber housings with mirrors which reflect the headlights back at you - like a cat’s eyes! Coloured to show the different parts of the road (e.g. white for lane markings, red at the edge)
Finally caught you out. On single track roads you don't drive at the speed that let's you stop in the distance you can see to be clear. You need to be able to stop in half that distance. The other half will be used by the driver coming the other way who sees you at the same time.
@@justgetatesla Ah, that's what you meant, but not what you said. It's when driving on a two lane road, we were taught to "drive at a speed that would let you stop, in your lane, under control and without any drama, in the distance you could see to be clear". That assumes there wouldn't be anyone approaching in your lane and is different from the single track road you were talking about.
Great video. How often do you charge over the recommended 80%? Is it safe to charge say 1 out of every 4 charges or does the ratio of 95% / 100% charges need to be more? Perhaps 1 (95% / 100%) charge every 10 (80%) charges. Trying to work out LFP vs NCM battery choice.
I go to 80% most of the time which on my NCM pack is the recommended daily limit. For selected roadtrips I go to 90 or 95% but it always gets consumed quickly. It isn’t just the car. My iPhone has an 80% limit most days and my MacBook 90%. I want these batteries to last!
Furthest East to West in Scotland: under 4 hours. Furthest East to West in the Continental USA: 55 Hours/ 3,315 Miles (West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, Maine to Cape Flattery Trail Head, Neah Bay Washington) according to Google Maps. And Europeans wonder why most Americans rarely travel outside the USA. And sense this is a Tesla channel I did a route for a 2023 Model Y Long Range on A Better Route Planner. According to ABRP it would take 23 charges and add 7 Hours and 55 Minutes to the drive time. If a Gas Car got 400 miles to a tank it would take approximately 8 stops for Gas along the way, so let's say 80 Minutes of stopping to get Gas. Just for kicks I changed the vehicle to a Rivian RST Dual Motor Max Pack and it says it will take 19 Charging Stops for 10 Hours and 3 Minutes. So less stops but longer charging for the Rivian. Probably the best vehicle for taking that kind of crazy road trip would be a Hybrid Mini-Van. Mini-Vans are great for long road trips, they get better gas mileage than a SUV, are safer than a SUV, and have as much cargo space as most SUV's. Anyway, none of this means anything. I just find the difference in size of the countries interesting and how much you would have to stop and charge in an EV interesting.
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I'm a new subscriber but I really enjoy your content, thanks a lot for these - anyone saying EVs are for "around town only" really need to watch videos like this!
once again one of those lovely videos where I feel I have to run out to my Tesla and just road trip... Have done a lot of drivning this summer day trips around 200 - 270 miles. It is exactly as you describe... Totally effortless and enjoyable. But you make Scotland so interesting with your spectacular videos. Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic video. I always love the road trip videos. The part where you explained the single track roads and how to drive them was very interesting.
Nice video
Its a beautiful way to discover scotland
Holidayed in Strontian and Kilchoan most years for past ten years, so have been to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse a few times, but never in a Tesla. Just bought an 'S' so we'll see how it goes next year. Great content.
Thank you.
Brilliant video, I was driving up there in June. Didn't get to Ardnamurchan but did get to Mallaig along part of your route. Spent time walking the North Face trail at Torlundy near Fort William. A great walk if you're into walking. I live in south Dorset so travelling 600 miles is my only way of seeing these places. PS, don't own an EV, but still watch your channel.
For my money Ian, an EV is made for those roads. No hot clutch, no auto box trying to make its mind up which cog it wants. Just easy, smooth driving.
Why would the clutch get hot?
UK = HILUX africa style.
I last drove Ardnamurchan in 2011, in a manual BMW 520d F10. Believe me, its easy for the clutch to get warm, even in a modern car like that
@@justgetatesla . Weird , 40 years driving, including towing a caravan around the highlands, Ireland, Wales, Somerset, Devon. Only seen it whilst teaching my children hill starts in a tiny car.
Great video and lush to see the road from Fort William out towards Arisaig…one of my favourite roads to drive.
Remarkable how easy it is for a Tesla with the infrastructure…just need to wait either for a lottery win or another year of my ICE to order one
Thank you so very much for your content!! Really enjoy watching all your adventures and other content!! 👍🏼❤️👍🏼❤️
Great video and amazing to see the scenery and how some of the roadsare between a rock and a hard place!
Another stonking vid Ian, thanks - the new boots looking sharp 👌
Nice road trip Ian went there in the Motorhome a few years back .
White Tesla's I was on the way home from Scotland and charging somewhere south of Durham went in for a pee and came out and tried to unplug someone else white Tesla I only realised it wasn't my car when I noticed it had century mode on 😮. I would have had another colour but I'm a bit of a cheap skate
Did that in St Michael’s Mount car park 😂
With the luxury car tax coming in I suspect there’ll be even more white M3 Standards around just to avoid it
@@chriswatson9700 luxury car tax is bonkers it's not a luxury car it's just a very good one what we won't is for Y to be under the 40k limit to.
Zoe’s are CCS after 2020. The 52kw battery variant. Kona Chargeport is on front bumper.
The newer version on the zeo do have a 50kw ccs connection.
Great video Ian, really like your road trips. Scotland is a beautiful place. We took our EV up there in May. Absolutely no issue recharging if you plan ahead and will definitely be returning to explore more! Thank you for sharing.
Another fantastic travel vid! Again I am not going to show it to my wife. She wants to visit Scotland and I still want to visit the North Cape in Norway. But somewhere in the future we’ll visit Scotland. With a blue MY. Thanks to your vids!
Always enjoy your road trip videos, great views of Scotland.
No time to go up the lighthouse? I love the views from the top (weather permitting, of course!).
Memories of a trip on my motorbike a few years ago. North south east and west of Britain which included Ardnamrchan of course. Do Scottish Tourism sponsor you. They should!
As always, so good to see you driving through Scotland. We spent last week up in the Cairngorms, travelling from southern England in the model Y. Was incredibly easy and the stops just broke the journey and made it more pleasant. Interestingly (if that is the right word) on day two both the Charge Scotland and BP Pulse chargers in Aviemore were showing as not operational and even though the Tesla Supercharger is open to all EV’s there it wasn’t much of a wait to get on one of the 4 superchargers.
I have always enjoyed driving on those country roads, the drivers on these roads are so polite and I never had a problem even doing the NC500.
Local media full of stories of NC500 and Skye driving horror this summer. Sadly...
@@justgetatesla ouch, I live in Singapore and did it in May2023 on a rented Model 3 which was awesome the peace of an EV and the mountains were so quiet.
Great vido ase always get see some lovely bids uk not likely to see thanks
G'Day Ian. I have also done the East to West in Australia. It took a bit longer though (over 4000km !)
Thanks for the nice vid, I love the scenery drives. Regards, Greg.
Picked up my exdemo model Y from Aberdeen last week and did a little tour while I was up there. The single track roads were a bit of a surprise but it was, I must get up there again the scenery was fantastic
I remember in 1966 going for 3 weeks summer holiday just along the road from the lighthouse - 4 kids and parents in an Austin A40 towing a dinghy on a trailer ………… good job there was hardly any tourism up there in those days and certainly no motorhomes to do battle against ! The house down the road from the cottage caught fire while we were there - fire engine had to come from Fort William!
From Fort Bill? May as well not bother...
Another great video, thank you Ian. I wonder how FSD will do on some of those narrow roads when it eventually comes to your part of the globe.
After 52 years of owning and driving many ice vehicles, I am still enthralled every time I get into my 2024 model 3. I’ve just clocked up 10,000 km and I’m still amazed at how EV’s just makes sense in every respect.
As of someone from the Montréal area (Canada), I truly need to visit Scotland one day
Nice video. Gives me some more ideas. I had planned to take off in my MG4 tomorrow morning, head for Inverness, then over towards Fort William and spend a couple of days just moseying around the area (probably sleeping in the car) before coming home. But the window of nice weather has pretty much disappeared from the weather maps and there's no point in going if it's going to be miserable. Looks like there might be a much better window next weekend.
It takes me about three hours to get to Inverness, with a fair wind. After that, who knows. As you say, there are a lot of CPS chargers around so there's no need to feel restricted. There are a couple of dead-end glens I'd like to explore that aren't on the usual tourist trail (looks like not even on the Google Streetview trail) and I've never seen the footprint at Dunadd. Have EV, will travel.
I plan to make best use of the Tesla chargers at Perth, Aviemore, Inverness and Fort William, so I hope the things are working. I always feel a bit like a cat in a dog suit on these chargers, but at least my car has its charging port in the same place as a Tesla, so I don't get hated on for blocking two bays!
All are welcome! If the charging hole is on the left side which is the right side...
I was staying in Aviemore a couple of weeks ago. Driving my wife's S-Max and not my Model Y unfortunately. We visited Fort William for the train ride to Mallaig. I noticed all 6 Tesla superchargers were blocked by 3 non Tesla's charging. They were blocking all 6 stalls because their charge ports were in the wrong place for the short cables. None of the non Tesla chargers were in use!
Not stopping at Ellon for a picture was a missed opportunity 😋
V3 in FW helps😁They really need a charging site in Ullapool.
As an ex Zoe driver, the ZE-50 models from mid 2020 offered CCS as an option on the base model, and as standard on the GT-Line model. Not,at all sure what the purchase split was, but the advice at the time was to get the GT-Line or pay the extra for the CCS upgrade on the base models, and I believe most were sold with CCS, though it maxes out at 50KWh.
We had a ZE50 too, on PCP. The interesting thing was that specifying the car with the CCS added around £750 to the price, but only around £75 to the deposit and zero the the monthly repayments. So as most cars are sold on PCP, I would imagine it was quite a popular add-on, although it needed the customer and or garage to be switched on to EVs and why the CCS (albeit capped at 50Kwh charge rate) was a good thing to have. I recall our sales guy making a big deal that the standard port would take 22Kwh charge which was "all you'll ever need"....not that many non CCS (AC?) that give that charge rate though!
In 26 months and 20000 + miles, only queued once at Abington, which is now being upgraded. At least Gretna and Larkhall have plenty of chargers now.
Gretna? A quadrupling of capacity. And then they open the retail park ones a few miles away. Transformational!
Enjoyable road trip, my favourite kind of car video. I'm surprised at your relatively unremarkable efficiency of c. 4 miles/kWh. I would expect something approaching 5 as it was relatively warm and you never exceeded 60 mph.
You can't easily keep momentum. Stop start fast slow - not good for efficiency!
Birmingham - Chepstow - Northhampton - Chepstow - Heathrow - Chepstow - Forest of Dean - Chepstow... all without stops. still going. 2003 MB E W211 320 CDI 6 in line
Who cares.
What do you mean "all without stops". You did stop. To eat. To use the toilet. To sleep. To see people. Whatever. You did stop. And when you stop you could be charging.
Honestly, you FUDers do come out with some crap. Does my EV threaten your manliness somehow? Is that why you have to go on the defensive? Bless.
@@justgetatesla I'd be happy to show you -> just ran the local parkrun (also without stop). And I will drive back to Netherlands with only stop on Ferry. And yes that is relaxing working in the lounge.
@@justgetatesla And I actually like the Model S, but I drive like this all the time. I know it is extreme, but I never had a Tesla stay in front of me on any of these big drives. Obviously I use german motorbahn fluidity. As soon as FSD = sleeping, I will buy. So for now next one is probably 730d for this purpose. 911 991 waiting diligently for me at home.
@@greghudson9717 I do as each hour counts.
Nice video! Always wondered what the squiggly lines on the side of the roads are for ?? We don't have such a thing here in michigan where I live .
On classified roads (anything other than little side roads and backroads) they are supposed to paint a line at the edge of the road surface to mark where it is. When the surface is old or heavily worn this often is missing.
There is something magical about roads at night with all of the cats eyes properly in place. These are little rubber housings with mirrors which reflect the headlights back at you - like a cat’s eyes! Coloured to show the different parts of the road (e.g. white for lane markings, red at the edge)
@@justgetatesla I see, very interesting! Thanks for the video once again!
Finally caught you out. On single track roads you don't drive at the speed that let's you stop in the distance you can see to be clear. You need to be able to stop in half that distance. The other half will be used by the driver coming the other way who sees you at the same time.
Thats what I meant! And you see me managing to stop even when people are coming the other way. You just don't talk proper like what I do ;)
@@justgetatesla Ah, that's what you meant, but not what you said. It's when driving on a two lane road, we were taught to "drive at a speed that would let you stop, in your lane, under control and without any drama, in the distance you could see to be clear". That assumes there wouldn't be anyone approaching in your lane and is different from the single track road you were talking about.
Great video. How often do you charge over the recommended 80%? Is it safe to charge say 1 out of every 4 charges or does the ratio of 95% / 100% charges need to be more? Perhaps 1 (95% / 100%) charge every 10 (80%) charges. Trying to work out LFP vs NCM battery choice.
I go to 80% most of the time which on my NCM pack is the recommended daily limit. For selected roadtrips I go to 90 or 95% but it always gets consumed quickly.
It isn’t just the car. My iPhone has an 80% limit most days and my MacBook 90%. I want these batteries to last!
Furthest East to West in Scotland: under 4 hours. Furthest East to West in the Continental USA: 55 Hours/ 3,315 Miles (West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, Maine to Cape Flattery Trail Head, Neah Bay Washington) according to Google Maps.
And Europeans wonder why most Americans rarely travel outside the USA.
And sense this is a Tesla channel I did a route for a 2023 Model Y Long Range on A Better Route Planner. According to ABRP it would take 23 charges and add 7 Hours and 55 Minutes to the drive time. If a Gas Car got 400 miles to a tank it would take approximately 8 stops for Gas along the way, so let's say 80 Minutes of stopping to get Gas.
Just for kicks I changed the vehicle to a Rivian RST Dual Motor Max Pack and it says it will take 19 Charging Stops for 10 Hours and 3 Minutes. So less stops but longer charging for the Rivian.
Probably the best vehicle for taking that kind of crazy road trip would be a Hybrid Mini-Van. Mini-Vans are great for long road trips, they get better gas mileage than a SUV, are safer than a SUV, and have as much cargo space as most SUV's.
Anyway, none of this means anything. I just find the difference in size of the countries interesting and how much you would have to stop and charge in an EV interesting.
Thanks for calculating that!!!
One questions guys how do you open and close the driver and passenger windows
Re the Zoe, some are CCS, those with the bigger batteries. Quick question, how do you keep the map zoomed out?
Double tap on the map.
The state of british roads is just awful I have to say