Tesla Supercharger membership now £8.99p/m or £90 for year

[jeanloup]

We stopped at Southwaite twice last year on a drive down. The Gridserve CCS chargers work well, there's just not that many of them.

Westmorland's still under construction it seems (Electric Charging - Westmorland Family) though ZapMap tells me Southbound at Tebay now has 2 bays of 2 104kW chargers. Not enormous but that's something. Northbound has 3 2x150kW and 2 2x104kW.

 

[Tig170]

We use MFG (8 bays) at J27 (Wigan) and IONITY (12 bays) at J44 Carlisle North), never had to queue & are as fast as the car will handle - shame so expensive though.

 

[emmadragon]

We took a trip to Trentham Gardens a couple of weeks ago, just to test out the Tesla chargers (we hadn't tried them before).
It was quite funny, reversed into the last space of a line of mostly full chargers, and sat in the car for a couple of minutes while we worked out what to do. Sitting there, an enormous ICE volvo pulled into the space next to us, obviously thinking that because we were there, he could just park there too. As soon as we got out and put the charging cable in, he pulled back out and went to try to find a space elsewhere.
There was a really high turnover of charging cars while we were there, mostly Teslas, but a few others too. There were always at least a couple of charging spaces available.

 

[Rolfe]

We stopped at Southwaite twice last year on a drive down. The Gridserve CCS chargers work well, there's just not that many of them.

Westmorland's still under construction it seems (Electric Charging - Westmorland Family) though ZapMap tells me Southbound at Tebay now has 2 bays of 2 104kW chargers. Not enormous but that's something. Northbound has 3 2x150kW and 2 2x104kW.

I see you're right. Only four plugs southbound though? That's not much given the probable demand.

 

[siteguru]

We use MFG (8 bays) at J27 (Wigan) and IONITY (12 bays) at J44 Carlisle North), never had to queue & are as fast as the car will handle - shame so expensive though.

From where @Rolfe and myself reside then Carlisle North is probably a tad too soon if heading south down the M74/M6.

 

[Rolfe]

I found it very good on the way home last Christmas though.

I was heading for Halifax, and I reckoned as you said that Carlisle was too soon going south because if I charged there I still wouldn't make it all the way to Halifax (without charging to 100%) and would be stuck with stopping again. I went for Penrith and got charged at the Rheged Discovery Centre, although Tebay would actually be better now there are some chargers on the southbound side (only four CCS plugs though).

But going the other way, Carlisle at 113 miles from Halifax, was pretty much perfect. Starting at 100% I got there easily, and there were plenty plugs free. I think I'm going to arrange homeward-bound trips to stop there in future. Last time I came up from Sussex I stopped at Burton-in-Kendal which isn't actually gourmet central although the chargers are good, and I had to hang around till the car was about 93% to get all the way home from there.

 

[Tight Git]

For those heading up or down the M1 the Mour hotel at J27 is now on the app as open to all

 

[dclholly]

For those heading up or down the M1 the Mour hotel at J27 is now on the app as open to all

Brilliant - I'm visiting a company just round the corner from there tomorrow and will need a charge.

Brilliant - I'm visiting a company just round the corner from there tomorrow and will need a charge.

As an update - I charged at the Mour hotel without any problems, plenty of empty chargers

 

[T16ger]

Hi all. Recent leaser (March 2024) of a ZSEV TROPHY LR. 2023 OR 2024 made. I'm about to go on a long trip from Chester to Cornwall, and having looked around found the tesla open network. I have the app , and I'm registered. I just paid for 1 month on the subscription to get the cheaper tariffs. I went to my nearest station at Flint mountain close to where my mum lives to find that the car wouldn't connect. I subsequently found out on this forum that this is yet another issue for some models that needs a software update. I'm surprised such a new car would need an update. Can anyone confirm definitively that this is a software issue, rather than a hardware issue? Can I not get over the air updates for this kind of thing? If so, how?

 

[siteguru]

I suspect you might be better off asking questions about ZS EV updates in the ZS EV board.

 

[Crumlin]

New Tesla superchargers being installed at Gloucester Services (M5 N&S) I see. V4's, so they'll be open to all as they've got the contactless facility. Still to be commissioned though. Nice services too!

 

[hmibennett]

New Tesla superchargers being installed at Gloucester Services (M5 N&S) I see. V4's, so they'll be open to all as they've got the contactless facility. Still to be commissioned though. Nice services too!

Good news as we sometimes drive to North Devon. Agree that Gloucester services is among the very best.

 

[VickyH]

such a pity that m1 stretch in the midlands is a wasteland

if that was covered would be on the subscription in a heartbeat

Still hoping gridserve might get its act together with some sort of subscription deal now they are building out more hubs

 

[Tig170]

Accoring to https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/thr...charger-site-news.91118/page-373#post-8235170 , the latest is (I dont think all will be open to all though)

In the bag (just needs switch-on?):

• Elveden / Thetford [Expansion]
• Gretna Services [Expansion]
• Exeter SC
• Fraddon (Retail Park)
• Sheffield Meadowhall (Retail Park)
• Birch Services East/West
• Preston South (Holiday Inn)
• Manchester Old Trafford (Retail Park)

Construction close to finished (all equipment in place):

• Gloucester Services North/South
• London Gateway Services

Construction well underway (some equipment in place):

• South Mimms Services [Expansion]
• Woodall Services [Expansion]
• Rugby (Retail Park)
• Stevenage (Gridserve)

Early stages construction (awaiting equipment delivery):

• Abington Services [Expansion]
• Warrington Services [Expansion]
• Milton Keynes SC
• Glasgow SC
• Manchester Central SC
• Bar Hill SC

Unconfirmed as SuC site?:

 

[CarbonEV]

I just wish there was SOMETHING at Tebay. Loads of superchargers, and bugger-all for anything else.

I thought they opened up like 20 new chargers?

 

[Rolfe]

I gather there are some now. Don't know how long they've been there for.

 

[KH11]

Accoring to https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/thr...charger-site-news.91118/page-373#post-8235170 , the latest is (I dont think all will be open to all though)

In the bag (just needs switch-on?):

• Elveden / Thetford [Expansion]
• Gretna Services [Expansion]
• Exeter SC
• Fraddon (Retail Park)
• Sheffield Meadowhall (Retail Park)
• Birch Services East/West
• Preston South (Holiday Inn)
• Manchester Old Trafford (Retail Park)

Construction close to finished (all equipment in place):

• Gloucester Services North/South
• London Gateway Services

Construction well underway (some equipment in place):

• South Mimms Services [Expansion]
• Woodall Services [Expansion]
• Rugby (Retail Park)
• Stevenage (Gridserve)

Early stages construction (awaiting equipment delivery):

• Abington Services [Expansion]
• Warrington Services [Expansion]
• Milton Keynes SC
• Glasgow SC
• Manchester Central SC
• Bar Hill SC

Unconfirmed as SuC site?:

According to the Tesla app there is now one open to all at Leeds and I can confirm that is the case as I used it yesterday as we were heading to Crown Point retail park which isn’t far away from these. I used the app and everything worked perfectly and as we were before 10am it worked out at 43p per KW. I haven’t subscribed to the membership as I would only be using chargers now and again if going on a long trip.

This was my first time using Telsla and was curious how I would go on as next weekend we are heading over to Chester and possibly having a drive to Llandudno and I have noticed that there are some Tesla chargers at Flint and was thinking of doing a top up at there.

 

[Tig170]

According to the Tesla app there is now one open to all at Leeds and I can confirm that is the case as I used it yesterday as we were heading to Crown Point retail park which isn’t far away from these. I used the app and everything worked perfectly and as we were before 10am it worked out at 43p per KW. I haven’t subscribed to the membership as I would only be using chargers now and again if going on a long trip.

There are a few that have joined the app in recent days including:

Fraddon (Retail Park) - cornwall
Gloucester Services North
Gloucester Services South

... not sure if they are fully open quite yet though. The latest is below, which even compared to 6 months ago (where there were about 20), looks like the number is above 40. I certainly made it down the east coast from Aviemore to the Midlands using only Tesla (a bit too tight getting into harogate from Berwick in Feb., but just made it)