Who’s bringing the horse - no - EV to France?

Domaine des ormes is a great spot. They now have 10 chargers on site (when I went last year they had none). The local lidl is 10 mins away and there's a 150kW as well as multiple AC chargers there. I used chargepoint and that was accepted at lidl. I also have plugsurfing RFID. It's a good backup to have because it always works but it's usually very expensive.

I drove from the ferry at cherbourg and charged at mont st michel supercharger on the way down. It's a supercharger in the corner of a hotel carpark, was very busy when i was there and there were no amenities without traipsing into the hotel.

With the Tesla app, the Ionity app and chargepoint, as well as whatever QR code is needed for the onsite AC, you'll be perfectly fine. It's a great spot, enjoy the holiday! We're going back at the end of next month!

I had Shell Recharge a few months ago and had literally 0% success getting to work on the Ionity chargers here

I decided not to chance it over in France, although I suspect it's more reliable over there

I might try that Tesla charging station if the chargers are all full at the Novotel this time around

What car have you got? If it includes breakdown cover it might cover Europe as well

I was looking at AA and I found that VW ID cars have European roadside assistance

Sorry I should have been clearer, these are at Novotel. There is another Tesla site open to all in Rennes, with 20 stalls

Now that is impressive. It's not competing with the motorway stops in terms of accessibility, but they aren't in crazy-out-of-the-way places either. And yes, a good few of the units that I looked at are 2x 320kW chargers with 2x 160kW units alongside.

These additional chargers are now working. Different provider (zewatt) to the other chargers so meant having to set up on another app which is a bit of a dose. The rate was higher as well - 30c/kWh. Great to have the option to charge on-site though

I stopped here on the way to Pin Parasol this year. I dropped the family at the McDonalds and then drove over to Tesla chargers and headed back over to the McDonalds when finished. I used the bathrooms in the Novotel and there was a bar/restaurant there but I didn't use it. The McDonalds has one of those outdoor play areas and there is also a bigger playground outside the shopping center nearer the chargers.

Spent around an hour wondering around the shopping center then just to reset the kids before heading off again. There was a carousel and a couple of other activities in the shopping center too. Good stop overall and would recommend.

Also I was in a 58kWh Ioniq 5 and left Cherbourg at 94% so sure you could keep going further. ABRP told me I wouldn't make it and it seems to be particularly conservative in warmer weather. It is almost exactly halfway though.

That Alma location came up for mention around 4 pages back in the France holiday thread - basically it can get very busy, especially on a Summer Weekend, etc. It is a good spot in fairness, except that it's too distracting in ways - and a "quick stop" here in 2018 turned into an hour and a half due to the attraction of the shiny-new-things in the shop windows. So unless you can outfit your family with donkey blinkers, I'd be going for somewhere quieter.

I initially found a place outside Derval (46km from Rennes) with 320kW chargers, except on further review - it's a truck stop and there's absolutely nothing attractive about the place.

Bain-de-Bretagne seems like a possibility as it's not an SPOF, has 8 stalls (2x 150kW, rest are 100kW) and it's near to the centre-ville. Plus, all of the street-names are named after their war-heros, so what's not to like? 😀

Other than that, there do appear to be gaps in the French infrastructure along the West coast, but part of that is a mapping issue as the French don't engage on some of the open mapping sites such a Plugshare or OpenChargeMap.

Try having a look on Chargemap too:

https://chargemap.com/map

I left Cherbourg with 93% charge and a roof box on top and a three bike rack on the tow hook of our id4 and got to the Alma charging station in Rennes with 24% charge. Topped up to 90% and headed off again.

Then got to the Aire de service de la Vendée with about 40% charge, topped up to 90% and got to Bonne Anse Plage with 40%.

No issues charging at any of the stops and plenty of free ones using the Chargemap card.

The hotel is right at the entrance to a nice public park with a playground, it's about a 5 minute walk from the chargers to the playground. Haven't eaten in the hotel but there are other options in the shopping centre apart from McDonald's