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The registration is for Queensland so perhaps not?

I'm not sure whether preconditioning the cabin also preconditions the battery. Maybe someone with an OBD scanner can let us know. The scheduled departure/scheduled charging setup is supposed to be location-aware, though.

You hit the 'camera' icon from the bottom tray - the one that has the red light when sentry is on. It's possible to get there through the menus too, probably under Safety & Security.

I've had all my favourites disappear after an update too, but they definitely are stored in the cloud-synced account, because my favourites appeared in the Tesla service centre loaner vehicle. No idea how they get lost when an update goes wrong though.

I was under the impression that track mode (in the previous M3P) let you turn regen down/off already.

They make most of their money tempting you with a mars bar and a coke in the attached shop, so EV charging looks pretty attractive to them I reckon.

Getting a warrant to search your car's memory is no different to getting a warrant to search the papers in your office.

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.

That's because it's already flowed through Canberra pipes on its way to you!

The shipments are large enough that it takes a long time to import process them, move them on the car carriers to Sydney, then actually deliver them to customers. It seems like yours is just expected to be a bit further back in that pipeline.

How sensitive is it to the grid price you face?

The 350kW is for 800V cars - no standard CCS2 charger can do more than 200kW with 400V cars like ours (the Tesla Superchargers can do more because they control both sides, so aren't limited by the standard). Those Evie chargers can get there, though - I've maxed out at 196kW at the Taree site...

Yes. It causes all the car systems to remain awake.

$16,000 2014 dollars were worth a fair bit more than $16,000 2024 dollars.

A 4-stall-per-cabinet setup by the looks of it.

If you mean the new Coles at Dickson, note that those chargers are no longer free, they're now $0.35/kWh.

Yeah, highly recommend using PIN-to-drive.

Yes, the allocation for things like servicing & tyres isn't a payment to them - it's your money being set aside pre-tax to pay for those thing as they arise. If you allocate too much it'll just end up being repaid to you eventually (with tax taken out, of course!).

Who told you that? The wear on tyres isn't any less than any other car, and may be more if you're enthusiastic with the right foot. I reckon I spend more on tyres than on electricity.

I noticed today that it shows average speed zones as well, with a note in the navigation area saying "entering average speed zone" and "leaving average speed zone" (the same place that the note about preconditioning the battery appears).

Apart from the charging network apps, the two I use a bit are ABRP (ABetterRoutePlanner) and Plugshare.

The "your order has not even been built yet" is a load of crap, the sales droid in Australia has no way of knowing that. All they knew was that a VIN hadn't been allocated yet.

It might or it might not. Check the comments/pictures on the Plugshare entry.

They've passed the price drop on to existing order holders (just like they've done in the past) - or would your order have arrived before the price drop if you'd held on to it?

It's confusingly written but it means you can't package it as a separate item, you have to be leasing "car with tinting" for the total cost of the car-with-tinting. You can't lease a car then have tinting paid for like a running cost. This affects the minimum residual value at the end of the...

I think it is fairly likely that the source for the speed camera locations is the same as the source for live traffic (this is presuming it shows the recent locations of mobile speed cameras).

Maybe the existing road trip thread?

The side cameras cover the areas that are in the blind spot of the mirrors.

I use it when stopped in a queue at the lights to keep an eye on the bike lane that I'm about to cross over when the lights go green.

The USS aren't really any more or less "physical" than the cameras. They send out a pulse of high frequency sound, listen for the pattern of echoes coming back from objects and interpret from that the position of obstacles. The cameras watch for light bouncing off objects and interpret from...

No. People generally seem to say it takes a couple of weeks.

I've noticed that the Chargefox app now indicates when a cable is required at Type 2 sites.

The order update email quoted earlier says "and our latest Autopilot hardware.".

I changed from a 2019 with the original headlights to a 2021 model with matrix lights and I'd say they're at least as good if not better.

If someone said "you can pay $1k to get a VIN allocated now", would you take it?

If it's down just go to the Evie over the other side of the highway?