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Luxury private Highland touring · Fully electric
One group per day — a bespoke, luxury Highland experience in a premium Tesla. Tours start from Inverness, Fort William, Fort Augustus and anywhere in between.
Why us
We drive one party a day, on routes chosen for emptiness rather than landmarks. The vehicle is electric and effectively silent at rolling speed, which changes what a day out here sounds like: water, wind, a distant stag, and nothing else. No coach parks, no queues, no engine between you and the glen.
Every itinerary gives durations rather than clock times, because a day that promises nine o’clock at Urquhart is making a promise the weather can break. Stops get longer, get shorter, or get dropped. Dan tells you on the morning what the day actually wants to be, and you decide from there.
There is no booking engine and nothing to pay to ask. You get a written itinerary first, priced for the car and the day rather than per person, and only once you have read it and said yes does a deposit secure the date. Free cancellation up to forty-eight hours before that, and the deposit comes back in full.
The tours
The finest glen in Scotland, taken slowly — Dog Falls, the water at Affric before the wind gets up, and Plodda Falls on the way home.
From Inverness or Fort Augustus · All year, best in October
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The train everyone photographs, from the places the photographs are taken. A day that moves: one sighting at Glenfinnan promised, and two or three if you are quick back to the car.
From Fort William or Fort Augustus · June to late October
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Urquhart Castle in the first hour it opens, lunch and a walk at Dundreggan, and back up the single-track east shore that the coaches cannot use.
From Inverness or Fort Augustus · All year
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West until the road runs out, taken at its own pace — Glenfinnan before the car park fills, Arisaig, the white sands, and langoustines on the harbour at Mallaig. All year, and nothing to catch.
From Fort William or Fort Augustus · All year
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The single-track side of Loch Ness, which coaches cannot use and most hire cars will not. Foyers, the moor road, and Dores beach at the end of it.
From Fort Augustus or Inverness · All year
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The long way to Skye and a different road home — Glen Shiel, Eilean Donan, the Fairy Pools under the Black Cuillin, Talisker at Carbost, and back through Lochcarron and Achnasheen rather than the way you came.
From Inverness, Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best April to September
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The Bealach na Bà from sea level to the top in six miles of hairpins, a walk at the summit, and down the far side to the inn at Applecross for lunch on the shore. Back over the pass, or the long way round the coast.
From Inverness, Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best May to October
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Built around a ship’s day in port and run for anyone else who wants it — Corrieshalloch Gorge, the pink sand at Gruinard, Gairloch, and the old pinewood at Beinn Eighe, home over Glen Docherty. Twelve hours, and the clock is the point.
From Invergordon, Inverness or Fort Augustus · Best April to October
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Down the A82 into Glen Coe for the Three Sisters and the Kingshouse, then off it entirely — twelve miles of single track down Glen Etive to the sea, past the corner every Bond film crew has stood on. A waterfall first, if you fancy the climb.
From Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best April to October
Book this tourAll of them are collected from your door, and none of them is a fixed itinerary. If none is quite what you want, we will build one that is. See them all, or ask for something that is not on the list.
Where we start
Dundreggan is up Glenmoriston, off the Great Glen. Fort Augustus is fifteen minutes away, Drumnadrochit thirty, Inverness fifty and Fort William an hour — and we collect from the door of wherever you are staying.
That is the whole reason we can be at a castle at nine in the morning. An operator setting off from a city depot cannot, and no amount of planning fixes it.
Driving times from Dundreggan, not straight-line distances. The drive out to collect you is ours — it is not billed and it does not come off your day.
The Tesla
A Model Y in grey, with a white interior and a glass roof over the whole cabin. It is charged overnight at base and range-planned around your route, so no part of your day is spent waiting at a plug. Cold-weather comfort without a running engine at every viewpoint.
Model Y · Dundreggan base 
“I take one booking a day so I never have to hurry anyone off a hill.”
Dan James has spent fifteen years visiting and exploring the Highlands, and now has his own family croft at Dundreggan, up Glenmoriston. He knows which glen is empty on a Tuesday, and he will tell you when the weather means we should go somewhere else instead.
Dan James · Founder · Driver-Guide Fifteen years in the Highlands · His own croft at Dundreggan
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Every day is quoted individually — party size, pick-up point and how far you want to go. Expect a reply from Dan within a working day, and a written itinerary before you pay anything.
Thank you. Dan will reply within a working day.
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