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I'd suggest checking with Greville at I Love Port Douglas ™ - he can't fix it, but he might be (edit: is) keen to buy a three-phase tail for his Gen 1 UMC.

Courtesy goes a long way. And no, Exeter supercharger isn't open to all. Campbelltown & Tuggeranong are. Yass will be. But Exeter is a small 6 stall site on a very highly trafficked highway. I can't see it being opened up until after significant site expansion, or maybe the completion of other...

The time you save on driving across the bridge is time you waste stuffing around with their app. But if you have RFID, great, go for it! (Except at peak daytime hours on holiday long weekends - it's cruel making the drivers of also-ran EV brands wait when we probably have a free stall at the...

Some would get swapped out promptly with other hardware from more reputable vendors. Kempower. Ingeteam. Whoever can get supply and parts into the country promptly. The working parts from the removed units would get scavenged to keep the remaining Tritium units running until they can all be...

Perhaps if they made greater quantities of reliable products, they'd get more orders, giving them greater cash flow. Would this bailout result in that outcome, or would it just reward and encourage corporate laziness, knowing they could just stick their cap out again in a year or two for more...

It isn't the only one. Fortunately customers at the shopping centre can validate their parking. Palace Cinemas for example will bring the parking cost down to $10 for cinema patrons. I would hope the other stores there have similar arrangements for their customers?

Is ageism and sexism acceptable on this board? And I presume there's a hint of racism in there too.

Damnit, since you lot got that auto alley TV ad jingle stuck in my head, I'm going to share it around! https://historyandheritage.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/parramatta-road-and-auto-alley

I find it slightly funny that NRMA has installed more stalls at Erlunda than they did at Mittagong, Yass, Scone, Tamworth, Bathurst, Dubbo, or just about anywhere in NSW!

Evie's phone support service is usually eager to start a charging session on your account if you call them and tell them who & where you are. That way they get you off the phone.

If federal Labor dares propose saving legislation, it'd need support from the greens or the coalition. I'm not sure the federal coalition is in the mood right now. Aside from being falsely impugned over a certain other issue of sour grapes, I don't see why they'd give a hoot about protecting...

Shopping centres are good, provided you have 24 hour car park access, and ideally convenient food and toilets until well into the night. But why Bundaberg? It's nowhere near the Bruce Highway. Hopefully it won't preclude investment in somewhere like Childers or Gin Gin, sometime soon.

Local council But remember the locals there are in a decidedly bad state just now. Interlopers can't help but run more and more power lines through their communities. And they're butt ugly ones too. I smile a bit every time I hear a local accommodation provider has identified their guests were...

I imagine the time spent using the New England Highway will be greater than the possible waiting time at superchargers on the Pacific Highway. And you can always drive at slightly different hours, or break your trip with a motel stay (i.e. one with charging - or at the very least, one where you...

The ACT is wholly surrounded by NSW. It is therefore in NSW ;-) Seriously though, this long weekend was not good. And it's a split long weekend, with Victoria getting the Friday off and ACT/NSW/QLD/SA getting the Monday off. That means Victorians travelling to SA or NSW will depart and return...

At a guess (total speculation): the owner has no interest in running a charging service and only installed the charger to get permission to subdivide. Council might have made installing the charger a prerequisite, forgetting to specify that it actually needs to be switched on.

Nice! There's an old-school take-away right behind that servo! Old meets new!

Anyone who designs an app this bad should be exiled to an island with no technology. Sheesh!

The android app complained I didn't have a payment method, but there was no button in the relevant screen to add a card. Ugh.

Dear God! OK, a public holiday weekend. That changes things slightly. Trust range estimates in Tesla nav but not on the battery meter! Northbound add just enough charge at Wodonga to reach Gundagai (191km) on 15% according to Tesla Nav, but stop at Tarcutta (138km) anyway. If you can charge at...

I saw several supercharger outages on the MCU yesterday. They're comms outages. If Exeter fails on the way to Sydney, use Evie Sutton Forest (4 stalls) if desperate, or AmpCharge Pheasants Nest (6 stalls, or 12 if you know how to find the underpass). I plugged in at Kirrawee while it was...

Far west QLD? It'd be great to own a home in Betoota. I love reading their local paper online!

Why would you do that? Even before the heat pump was a thing, the air con maintains several other systems that may still need to run when the car isn't being driven. Battery pack cooling for example.

If my bum can fit between the chargers, anyone's can! Oh, wait.. Seriously, we have side reversing cameras on screen, good mirrors, and summon if someone parks too close when you're gone. We're fine.

A mate of mine in Port Douglas drives Uber in an old pre-Raven Model S. There's a Tesla tech in Townsville who schedules visits to Cairns, generally when a few folks need stuff done. He's even batched a few jobs together in Port Douglas once, whereas my mate volunteers to meet in Cairns. Back...

It isn't strictly a council responsibility. And we're long, long past the era where they can paint one or two parking spaces green, put a faulty AC EVSE behind it, and smile for a photo op. What matters is getting planning approvals contingent on installing EV charging. And I don't mean one or...

Is it overheating? Is the T on the Tesla logo on the UMC flashing red? Does the issue occur if you borrow someone else's UMC?

Water helps. Air is horrible at dissipating heat energy. Water dissipates it just fine. The chemical energy stored in the battery is being rapidly released as heat energy, and it will continue to do so until the battery interior reaches equilibrium with the surrounding environment. Dumping...

That usage pattern seems kinda familiar.

The cost to the community isn't measured by the kilometres driven, rather the location where the car is hogging space. Get rid of the EV tax and replace it with a punitive tax on parking spaces in certain areas and/or a progressively more expensive set of cordons around certain parts of our...

Umm, they did decide. They sold off all their chargers months ago. They're now just a backend provider. Their logos are on everything because people need to know which app to open to start a charging session.

A lot of health care isn't essential. It's about choice. How much sugar and other carbs you choose to consume and whether you are active. I am absolutely not a good example here but I acknowledge there's a principle. Those of us who eat badly and don't exercise are being subsidised by others...

No. They installed 350kW ABB chargers at Euroa and Barnawartha North circa 2019. And that was back when Chargefox owned some of their sites. They don't own any of them anymore.

Why can't the road user charge be based on income, same as the Medicare levy? Make it a progressive tax. Only worry about supplementary usage charges for heavy vehicles.

The big plastic bit that the seat adjustment paddles sit on, between your seat and the door. It's about the length of your thigh & maybe 2-3 inches tall.

Yes. The lower pad. Under the seat warmers. I only wanted the valance/side shield replaced. It got caught on my shoe once and I sheared it off at the front bolt. That fix was a $10 part. But the SC guys and I discussed the very worn lower cushioning too. I was contemplating a full seat...

Or we could accept that the industries that send goods on trucks aren't doing so for fun, but rather to keep society and the economy chugging along. Ultimately we all pay whether it's taxes for road repairs or higher trucking costs pushing higher transport costs onto consumers at the...

Passenger seats are fine. Mine is disappointing. But that's more to do with my ample derrière. Replacing the seat pad foam was $506 inc labour and GST. Most folks won't have that problem, particularly with better quality Shanghai seats and lighter weight drivers.

I don't see why they'd get rid of them. Just install better ones next to them.

I have wondered about stuff like suspension, springs etc. It'll absolutely come up for those of us who do rideshare and whose EV pre-dates the NSW announcement (thus is grandfathered out of the kilometre tax). Driving serious kilometres indefinitely means it'd surely be economic to repair or...

It's that stuff that powers the ships and trucks that deliver everything you buy. And the service vehicles used by the tradies that keep your lights on, your water running, your toilet flushing, your family housed etc. And the older vehicles used by the low wage essential workers who keep your...

I haven't seen any Ingeteam EV chargers in Australia prior to last night. I spotted this going in at the University of Wollongong's Sustainable Building Research Centre at the Innovation Campus in Fairy Meadow. Looks like they're a Spanish company with a presence in wind power, heavy...

Items in the manual (as linked above) Brake fluid health check - every 2 years - mobile service is an option A/C desiccant bag replacement - every 4-6 years - mobile service is an option Cabin air filter replacement - every 2 years - mobile service is an option Clean and lubricate brake...

1050071-07-K is a Gen2 3-phase with a 24ft cable

I really don't believe this is helpful. They're negotiating with local governments and other site hosts basically everywhere important. If they have buy in, power goes in, and then chargers go in. If not, so be it. Those voting things are just a magic trick. Look at the left hand while the right...

Speaking of DC charging (not necessarily supercharging): Regional NSW is already OK, and it'll be awesome next year. Regional QLD and Vic will remain a disgrace due to their stubborn reluctance to even add a 2nd charger at most sites. Though SEQ will be fine. Regional SA and WA main highways...

I really doubt it'll ever work nicely southbound. It's a long trek through the caravan parking area the wrong way before you even get close to either the old or new servo site. Southbound travel (unable to charge southbound due to queueing & wanting to access the northbound servo) - re-enter...

I encouraged them to reduce the price of the throttled charger back in June down to 45c/kWh. Seems it's stuck.

Depends which highway. Cooma to Yass? A few minutes diversion, assuming you use the parkway and the GDE to reach the Barton Highway. Cooma to Goulburn? Major diversion. Maybe 15 minutes all up. Not every supercharger is there for highway usage. Though this one will be useful for those in the...

Use the lower car park, the one under the shopping centre, not the multi-deck next to it. Go to its north-eastern corner, where the Tuggeranong bus interchange is. The superchargers are within spitting distance of that corner. Can't miss them.