Recent content by Vostok

I’ve been in Taree this weekend and here’s the latest photos taken this afternoon. All linemarking appears complete, 90° angle parking, ‘TESLA’ marking in each parking space, but this SC will not be Tesla-only, every space has the sign and QR code for charging your non-Tesla. The final bay is...

That sounds entirely reasonable to me. Car dependency can’t be managed via wishful thinking, and the CBD is endowed with train lines, tram lines, hundreds of bus routes, ferries, cycleways… and soon metro lines as well. So if car dependency can’t even be managed in the City of Sydney, then...

Hello @elddum! ACT is not listed because this data comes from ausrealtimefueltype.global-roam.com (the source data for OpenNEM) and it does not break out any data for the ACT or NT or any other microgrids not connected to the NEM or SWIS. Any ACT data is subsumed into NSW. The ACT also has...

Trying to achieve a better balance between cars and other forms of transport, including car share, bicycles and public transport is not being “anti-car”. EVX has 11 pole chargers in the Sydney metro area, and 9 of those are within the Sydney City Council LGA: Millers Point - Kent St Dawes...

A company that flagrantly disregards an NCAT ruling is just asking for a Court enforceable order to be issued and them paying your costs. Yep, a Court finding against them would appear on their Builders Licence and be a permanent stain on their operations (for people who bother to check...

The stats for May. The national result is actually worse than the result from May last year (33.7%), which is not something that happens very often. There was a big blocking High air pressure system sitting below or over southeast Australia for much of the month, as well as extended periods of...

I thought BP had lost interest in Australia because we were no longer deemed a “priority market”? Or did BP lodge this grant application before they decided that… 🤔 https://gizmodo.com.au/2024/04/bp-pulse-ev-expansion/

I did exactly this experiment early on, and got similar results for unlock, but found Bluetooth connection died within about 10m, certainly if there were any obstructions (walls etc). YMMV. The Tesla App might say your phone is Bluetooth connected to the car, but that does not necessarily mean...

I can get why solar inverters needs to be able to be controlled by DNSPs, in order to prevent export when then grid can’t take it. But electricity pricing signals should be enough to stop people grid charging their EVs at very high rates at peak times. This “people come home and plug in at...

Congrats on 5000 posts Chuq 😄

Thank god for that… sorry to say but the NRMA app was truly awful for EV charging. And they developed that part of the App after AMS had purchased Chargefox. I mean, WTH?

I just made my first intervention… Amber was starting to grid-charge my battery on the basis that grid electricity was “cheap”. But 18c/kWh isn’t that cheap. Also, it’s going to be sunny all day in Sydney today. My house battery will get full by itself soon enough at 0c/kWh - so grid charging...

Or there are some caveats in the existing articles of association which prevent a sale before then. I wonder who an “appropriate party” could be… clearly not an auto manufacturer, they would be fundamentally conflicted (and also not core business). A company that already runs large trade shows?

Just got an email from Dan Caesar, the CEO of Fully Charged Show Ltd. (i.e. Everything Electric) covering their future plans, with a bit of an editorial on how terrible things are in the UK "The last 18 months have been especially hard and this is almost entirely due to conditions here in the...

No. As @Futuretech points out, I would expect idle fees to apply only during time restricted parking periods, which in most of inner Sydney is either 8am-8pm or 8am-10pm. Certainly that’s what EVX does. Exploren is currently the only other polecharger network in Sydney (using the...