Recent content by Chuq

Do you mean an update on the previous "grey blobs"? I haven't seen any notice of an update/change/new version from the previous one. Assuming you received other 14.x versions in the last month or two - guessing you did as you mentioned seeing "grey blobs" already.

Yeah, I can see how it could be taken! I guess it's a sign of the times changing - 5 years ago, charging networks were run by people/companies who actually wanted to build a charging network. Today, there seems to be a new company name popping up every month ... safe to say there would be a...

Thats fantastic. I can see Katherine, Alice Springs, and all the western NSW 50 kW ones in the app. Odd they don't have the NRMA logo next to them? It'd be nice if Chargefox updated their site icons so that 150+ kW get the "ultra-fast" symbol! There's a huge difference between 50 to 150 kW...

Exact same here (except a M3). Not sure if we're going to notice anything different, all the features on notateslaapp.com seemed to list things that have come in the past few updates for us.

These seem conflicting. Idle fees are to maintain throughput at high turnover sites (DC chargers). People are going to be parking at 7 kW sites for long periods (e.g. overnight). If their charging finishes at 5am are they really expected to go out and move their car by 5:30am?! Not to...

A few other models have this already. I've never driven a car with this, so I'm not really sure what the experience is like. I can imagine that it would be disconcerting if you move your head a bit to the side and the view doesn't change. Unless there is some fancy eye-tracking technology...

Arguably it's less bonkers than to have a functional 2-stall sled sitting in a Tesla warehouse somewhere doing nothing while queues are forming at other nearby superchargers.

The new vision view uses cameras only. However the default is the old USS version, you are able to switch between them in settings, and can toggle back if you prefer the old one.

It was added by a Plugshare employee. Notably not via an automated process (that would be an account in the format "admin_cesar"). The same account added the "Scone, NSW (Coming Soon)" entry some months back. In both cases, the site was not listed anywhere official - not on Tesla's website...

Another option for this is something like a hot-water diverter. MyEnergi makes one called the Eddi that operates on a similar basis to the Zappi - tracks your solar export and can be set to operated based on excess solar generation. Haven't looked into it, but apparently can also go to things...

Thanks - good info! Using CCS2 in Chile makes sense, it aligns with what Tesla has done in every other market it has entered since 2017 (includes new areas of Europe, Middle East, South East Asia). I don't expect you'll see NACS in South America at all, then. The other EV manufacturer which...

I do get that.. I work for a company that operates under the same process! But the details are not generally easy to find for the general public! Generally with our tariffs they grandfather the old ones for some time - the worst they would do is not allow new connections to use the old tariffs.

I totally understand the reason for electricity companies introducing new tariffs like this, but people choose to buy solar or solar/battery systems, a ~10 year investment, based on the tariffs available at the time. There needs to be a longer "phase in" period. Someone installing now would be...

The other observation (which has been shared by many network operators) is that DC fast charging aligns almost perfectly aligns with solar generation output. Makes sense, as many people avoid making long trips at night if they can help it. Over the last week, the *average* percentage of...

Don't get too excited by a new thread! Just a holding location for some info that was posted in the midst of the shitstorm of the last couple of weeks. This was in the comment of a post on a FB group. After the email yesterday I tried to find it again, took me quite a while, so copying the...