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Don't forget that with DC rapid charging (including supercharging), the car that decides how much power it can take, and the charger will supply whatever it can (up to that limit). When the car and the DCFC/Supercharger work out that they trust each other, the car opens circuit breakers from the...

Does anyone remember "Beyond Petroleum"?

It'll be fine. One of the beautiful features Starlink could potentially provide here is multicasting. The available bandwidth could send software updates and roadside wildlife GPS reports to all cars in a specific footprint. Just keep multicasting it until every car has a full copy. Or close...

Wardenclyffe Tower?

The with abuzz air energy?

I had a dry swipe this morning around 7.30am. I don't think it was condensation. I just hit the washers and it didn't happen again. But yeah, wipers in rain seem slightly better now. I drove to Sydney on Saturday, and there was awful rain from Canberra til the southern highlands. The settings...

Only if your audio is set to Bluetooth. If it's set to Spotify, you get nothing. Having said that, on my Samsung S22+ I can customise certain applications to always play alerts on the phone's speaker, regardless of what I'm playing in Tesla Audio. It's in Settings -> Sounds and Vibration ->...

Being able to supercharge makes their pies worth their, umm, premium price!

Try charging. If it lets you, buy a pie in store. If it doesn't, buy a pie drive-thru, and spend 3-5 minutes charging somewhere else. It's not like you have to add that much charge at Exeter to reach CBR. You've already passed the peak of the Southern Highlands at Berrima. It's mostly downhill...

You can make any trip take forever if you use a trip planner that says to spend 4 hours sitting at Menangle Park Platform 2.

Not Goulburn. Bathurst (228.7km) is slightly further from Central by rail than Goulburn (224.9km via the main line or 215km via East Hills). The Bathurst Bullet wins this race. Perhaps the only race it ever wins!

Japan relies on cold hard cash. It's a very safe country. You can drop a wallet with thousands of dollars equivalent and someone will pick it up and run to return it to you. Having a charging network that relies entirely on the banking system is dangerous in a country that allows people to be...

Actually, no. EV charging station operators get gouged mercilessly by the power companies. They're treated as industrial users (think of a small factory). They're charged as if they need huge amounts of power on standby 24x7, on the off chance that the grid might need to supply those huge...

I drive to Sydney most weeks (though less often this year, but still). I charge at Pheasants Nest northbound, and sometimes southbound too. I've tried every possible orders of the various steps many times. Any order can work, but rarely on the first go.

Step 4. You press Start Charging and it refuses to start, most of the time.

Fortunately these are pre-auths, not transactions, so I doubt that'll be an issue.

Clunky app & timeouts. Also the app doesn't seem designed to have an order of operation similar to all the others apps. I get OK results when I scan the QR code in-app, accept that it'll put a pre-auth on my card, wait a moment, and then grab the cable and plug it in. I'll sometimes get it...

Same as AmpCharge. Though Evie has fewer start failures. Getting AmpCharge at Pheasants Nest to work on the 1st or 2nd attempt is optimistic. Fantastic site once it works though. There was one time it put & reversed 5 x $30 pre-auths on my card, as it took that many goes to start charging. If...

Welcome to Australia! Due to our rather high proportion of renewables, and thanks to a 60 Minutes interview of Elon Musk a few years back, we rely heavily on Tesla batteries and autobidder software to run our power grid. Autobidder lets Tesla observe when the grid needs more power, or has power...

I'll find out in a few years. Pack replacement is inevitable, since I paid for FSD and I want the car to still work when it's eventually launched here in oz, one of these years. I park under a tree most Saturdays and leaf litter always found a way into every intake. Two years ago I hit water on...

Some numbers from TeslaFi Last Saturday night I drove Uber for 6 hours in my 2020 Model 3 SR+. This was on free-flowing roads in Canberra, mostly at 80km/h (50mph), with air con running at 18degC, basically the same temperature as outside. The odometer went from 257,689km at 10:30pm (100% SoC...

I didn't think that was a high mileage car thing, but rather a LFP thing. LFP batteries have such a tiny range of operating voltages that it's near impossible to accurately measure its exact state of charge. Regular calibration is necessary, hence the weekly slow-charge-to-100% guidance. The...

The taxes of those of us without kids are subsidising the education of the kids whose taxes will eventually pay their age pensions, and the ballooning medicare and aged care budget spending that occurs when someone becomes elderly. It's an investment in the future that needs to pay off. Pity...

No tenant would want to pay another $10-$20/wk to save a fraction of that per week in power bills. Renters are hosed by the solar revolution. And nobody has $900k (or the borrowing capacity for that) to buy a house unless they were already wealthy. We have serious problems in this country...

The wealthy sure do love their subsidies... Minibuses are generally a bad idea. Demand-responsive buses aren't a total financial disaster, but the way we expect them to work, they seem to always be. The ones in Moree, and similar towns, are fantastic though. They replaced route buses that used...

Platform shouldn't be capitalised.

NSW has many duplicate place names. There are 3 Balmorals - Mosman, Buxton and Rathmines. But they expanded Mosman to encompass one of them to reduce misdirected mail. There are 5 Back Creeks, 2 Black Creeks, 3 Bakers Creeks, 2 Cabbage Tree Islands and 2 Cedar Creeks. There are 2 Barrys, 2...

Don't banks outside of Sydney have a habit of collapsing? ;-)

Chargefox no longer has its own fast charging sites. They flogged them all off to their parent company's member organisations mid last year. Every single site in the Chargefox app is owned by someone else.

Long term as EVs become normal, they'll need separate compartments or pods that can be partially flooded. Start with the keel, you can flood the lowest level to a limited extent and not lose the ship. Just all the cars on that level. As time goes on, put non-LFP EVs into individual waist-high...

The card does little more than announce its serial number when it comes close to the reader. It doesn't announce the logo on the front. If you enter the serial number in-app, and there's no duplicate, it should just work. I have 3 RFID cards. Well, 2, I lost my Chargefox one. I have my Evie...

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2023.44.30.5.1 and a CBR-SYD drive earlier. Enhanced nag was annoying but at least it beeps (both for eye recognition and periodic tug). I usually squint in daylight (I'm a night person), and I'm tall, so the cabin camera doesn't see my eyes most of the time. To cancel the eye nag I sometimes...

I'm at 12. Or 13 if you count both Evie apps. Evie Chargefox BP Pulse AmpCharge MyNRMA Exploren Jolt Elanga EVX UpCharge SmartCharge ChargePoint I used one of the also-rans apps (Exploren) just last night, at a car dealership in Canberra, for a few minutes while visiting the McBathroom next...

Testing shouldn't be done in your production instance!

I'd like to see them try crushing an EV with a structural battery pack! That'd surely melt the car crusher in a dazzling thermal runaway!

The last time Chargefox/NRMA Gundagai was down for a few days on a holiday weekend, Jugiong was down too. Yass was queueing, and Murrumbateman was the backup to the backup to the backup.

Obviously both are important, but Gundagai is a debacle every holiday weekend. At least NRMA's ex-Chargefox chargers are permanently throttled now & can't trip that big transformer that Tesla spent a fortune installing there. It used to go splat when all superchargers & their own stalls were all...

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.