Recent content by cafz

None of the distributors have competition (except for "go completely off-grid") - they're the ones that own the "poles & wires" that take power from the long-distance transmission infrastructure and distribute it to the consumers. For this reason though, they don't get to set their own prices...

I think the ATO would take a very dim of it indeed, if it were to come to light.

We're still talking about driving, right?

Yes - if you have a novated lease, because the NL has to be for the full value of the car including order fee, so amount paid by the leasing company covers the order fee and you end up with your original $400 back.

I remember those days.

You're looking at it as "do some charging while I'm here for shopping", but there's a good chance that Ampol and Stockland are thinking of it as "grab a few things from the shops while I'm here for charging". Since they're in country towns there's a good chance they'll be in places that people...

Pretty sure the Apple Music app is written by Apple (and the Spotify one by Spotify and so on).

The "Charging Stats" option in the Tesla app will tell you how much charging in kWh you've done at the location you marked as "Home".

Nah. They failed because they tried to execute a massive growth strategy using cheap finance, and then widespread global inflation resulted in sharply increased interest rates so that cheap finance suddenly got expensive. I'm old enough to remember the ABB and Delta fast chargers being just as...

Unless it's changed, the order agreement says you get a 7-day window to pick up, so you can certainly push back if they only give you one day.

Sure, but that might be because they're not liquid-cooled. As an example, Tesla V3 Supercharger cables are liquid-cooled.

I think it might actually be the other way around - the liquid-cooled cables can be lighter and easier to handle because they don't need to use as much copper. So probably BP just cheaped out.

The delivery centre people might well not have a suitable car available near a power point - you'd be better off dropping by the service centre at Beard and asking if they can do it (they will also know for sure if the issue is fixed yet or not).

There's also Evie Seven Hills (NSW) at the Ampol, and Evie Epping (Victoria) at the BP. Both also "quasi-service-centres" as well though.

Confirmed today that with a navigation route set and the navigation instructions audio turned up, it still doesn't announce the speed cameras. Hopefully they do add that in future.