Anyone taken an electric car down to Penzance for a week

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Springsnowdrops · 31/03/2025 11:11

Booked in over Easter
No chargers at property
Can only see 4 rapid chargers in whole area on zap map
The rest are 6 hour chargers ,but in supermarket car parks ,where if it's anything like home ,you can only stay for 2 hours ..
Starting to think this is going to be a disaster
Anyone successfully done a week in Penzance in an electric car

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thinktwice36 · 31/03/2025 12:02

Are you able to park close to a window and mains charge overnight at the property? I did this out of a front window for 3mths before getting a charger installed 😂 worked fine! X

PermanentTemporary · 31/03/2025 12:01

We did a week in Scotland with no issues 3 years ago and things have moved on since then. Admittedly the infrastructure in Scotland was way ahead of England then. I'd email the cottage owners - they should be thinking about installing a charger anyway. Could you trickle charge overnight?

PaintDecisions · 31/03/2025 11:57

https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/sustainable-transport/electric-vehicles-in-cornwall/

Electric Vehicle Charging - Cornwall Council

Information about charging electric vehicles in Cornwall

https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/sustainable-transport/electric-vehicles-in-cornwall

SlipperyLizard · 31/03/2025 11:56

Not been to St Ives but we took our EV to Arran last year where there aren’t a lot of chargers (and one set of 4 were out of order when we got to them!), but it was fine, you just need to factor charging into your plans.

Perhaps plan a route that involves a stop at a rapid charger as close to St Ives as you can get, so you arrive well charged?

Annoyeddd · 31/03/2025 11:50

Can you park next to the property?

crackofdoom · 31/03/2025 11:42

Cornwall Council has invested in a lot of chargers in public car parks over the last couple of years. No idea whether fast or slow as I'm still driving a dinosaur, but are they showing up on the apps?

Dyrne · 31/03/2025 11:34

We did a week in St Ives last year and were fine with a bit of forward planning.

How often are you planning on using the car? Every day? Can you plan some day trips somewhere you know has a charger and make use of that, even if it’s slow? (For example Lands End and the Eden project have chargers in their car parks).

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Springsnowdrops · 31/03/2025 11:27

Anyone

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