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The Palm Beach (Sydney Northern Beaches) has been more-or-less my private DC charger since it opened. I don’t think I have encountered another car actually charging there when I turn up - which is usually right after I finish surfing and while I am having a coffee and a chat with my friends just...

I think if you have a parking sticker or have otherwise paid for parking just take that spot to the left/north of the “official” one anyway if it is available. What I might do tomorrow (assuming I surf then buy coffee afterwards - both fairly reasonable probabilities) is try using the official...

The Palm Beach one is like that too; the allocated EV parking space does not line up well with the charge cables, especially for cars with the charging port on the left. In this photo below - which I meant to post earlier to show the (installed yesterday) parking signs, but I forgot - my car is...

There would have to be enough space within the box for another charger at the other end if demand ever required it. I don't think I have a "before" photo of the green transformer that the Jolt charger wraps around but it wasn't _that_ long. BTW the original plan submitted to council was for the...

That’s my most common use for the Jolt chargers - if I am buying groceries and/or coffee in Mona Vale (where there are two of them) or now by preference in Palm Beach near where I have coffee most days anyway, a 25-30 minute stop at a charger, even (or especially) a slow-ish one suits me...

25kW so I get the usual 22-23 into the battery. The green substation that it is “wrapping” was a larger one, accounting for the larger box size. Has advertising LCD panels both ends but I don’t think that accounts for much of the size. Here’s a photo from the other side of it. Will work out...

New charger opposite Barrenjoey House at Palm Beach. Just opened (and working).

It is not appearing on mine, despite having that app version (since early this morning), PowerWall firmware version 23.44.0, HPWC firmware version 23.44.0 and Model 3 firmware version 2024.2.7. Elon presumably needs to turn some backend switch on in addition to all those version requirements...

If I wasn’t already on the expressway at 110km/h by myself in the car when the nav system told me the Exeter chargers were all offline I might have been able to get my phone out and look at the Evie app ;) I also - again without being able to look in the Evie app - had no way of knowing if that...

Yeah, I know - I have used them before :) I really wanted a milkshake and custard tart from Heatherbrae Pies and didn't feel like McDonalds (and it is too far to walk to Heatherbrae Pies from the Evie chargers behind McDonalds), so my fallback was to use the Goulburn KFC chargers and walk around...

I was in Jindabyne (and surrounding areas) yesterday. Parked and walked around where the Supercharger is planned/promised to be. Here is what I can tell you: * The skate park has had a total rebuild, which is nearly complete (landscaping isn't done yet but all the concrete/features seem to be...

They were borked (totally - none working and the car wouldn't consider the site as a charging stop) yesterday afternoon also. I was on my way back to Sydney from the Snowy Mountains and intending to stop there. Ended up going to the Kempower charger at KFC at Goulburn instead, as the Goulburn...

I went for a bit of an explore earlier this morning and charged at the new ChargeFox chargers at North Parramatta (Sydney). It is at the big intersection where James Ruse Drive meets Church St - where there used to be a Bunnings, and now a new Woolworths and some other shops. Sidenote: the...

I didn’t get the survey email either - have a Model 3 and a PowerWall (and a HPWC at home that is also connected to my Tesla account).

I found that yesterday also when navigating to a busy supercharger (Macquarie Centre, Sydney). To get a refreshed/accurate count of bays available I had to tap on the Supercharger icon on the map to bring up the pop-up information panel about the charger, and then it updated the count of...

I charged at Macquarie Park this morning - had about 25% SoC and some driving to do today. Some short updates from there (from this session and my previous one a couple of weeks ago which I forgot to post about): * Sometimes the Supercharger area is absolutely filthy - discarded fast food...

Update on the Intellihub pole-mounted AC charging trial for (Sydney) Northern Beaches LGA, email I just received from council: I have to say that Terrey Hills and Allambie Heights aren’t really an alternative to Palm Beach and Mona Vale (in many ways ;) ) but I guess it is what it is...

I was looking on Plugshare last night at the check-in comments for Castle Towers (NW Sydney, 3* Tesla destination chargers). Seems from the comments there is a ridiculous amount of penny-pinching charging there (same cars charging every day, owners tag-teaming between cars/chargers and holding...

Extra capacity in Jindabyne (or equivalent sub-alpine town in Victoria) over winter, moved to some coastal place - that similarly only needs 2-3 times “normal” capacity for a couple of months of the year - over summer. It is worth the trouble vs just building out more permanent chargers in both...

Yes, that is the situation in Cooma currently, only that site has only 2 dedicated bays and 2 anyone-can-park bays. The unfortunate reality there is that those two Supercharger bays where ICE cars can park are a honeypot for (a particular demographic of ICE owners) to park there by choice even...

I drove past yesterday and it seems to have stalled. Where it is at now is the charger is mounted in place but wrapped in plastic. Lines are painted and site cleared, still with temporary fencing in front of the parking bays. Bollards around the charger. The charger seems to be to the left of...

No, I don’t see any way to do that at all, and I would doubt the detail in the (eventual) actual transaction against my card is enough to substantiate what the payment was for for tax, etc reasons. I mean it is from “Fast Cities Australia” (which is what all the Evie charges show as) and only...

FYI as a follow-up to the above, the $50 pre-authorisation for the Evie tap-and-go charging session got changed to the actual cost (about $10) just now, so it stayed as $50 for a bit over 24 hours. I filled in their survey on the tap-and-go. Here is what I put in the free-form comments box at...

I am trying the tap-to-pay direct card payment they have the initial installation at Evie Belrose now. Costs $0.55/kWh vs $0.50/kWh normally. I used my Apple Watch to pay, authorised and started charging really quickly. It doesn’t work with Amex at all and says it only works with debit (rather...

This is with Existing chargers (<50kW and >50kW) on as well as the two rounds of Approved chargers. You can see the two entries for the two destination chargers at Rydges (top middle in aqua), ie they show there being 4 of them there when there are 2. The existing NRMA 50kW chargers are in the...

...and there are some dupes too, so making the overall numbers look bigger than they actually will be. Examples from just a quick 5 minute click around the map: Jindabyne Supercharger (6 bay) is shown twice Rydges/Horizon in Jindabyne (2*AC destination charger) is shown twice M1 motorway...

I had a new scenario for this earlier this morning. Driving at a set 60km/h (where that was also the posted speed limit, ie no roadworks signs or buses or anything to convince the car of a lower limit applying) up a road with little red poles - effectively witches hats, but the little straight...

At the Evie 50kW chargers at Belrose (Sydney Northern Beaches) the chargers seem to have been retrofitted with direct credit card payment terminals. I haven’t tried using it - I have an Evie RFID card - but that would seem a helpful enhancement, especially for those sites with poor mobile...

I drove up past the North Palm Beach site first thing this morning but didn’t see any signage or other indications of any pre-work starting there yet. I’ll keep an eye out for that one and give it a try as soon as it is operational. That area is a (paid, or annual permit) 12 hour daily limit...

Apologies for not updating the thread sooner, but Northern Beaches Council last month approved an additional seven Jolt DC charging locations. Full information at: Electric vehicle charging stations - proposed locations June 2023 The locations are: Pittwater Park South carpark, Palm Beach...

FYI for (Sydney) Northern Beaches area, I just received this email from the Council as I had made a submission in support of this: Dear Ted Recently we asked for your feedback on 12 proposed sites to install EV charging stations as part of the Intellihub EV Streetside Charging Project. We...

Some action at the Ampol at St Ives (Mona Vale Rd, eastbound towards Northern Beaches) today - where for the last several months the fenced-off area for the intended EV charging has been a storage area for what looked like bulk landscaping supplies. Anyway when I passed it early this morning I...

Terminology clarification: ICEing an EV charger refers to a non-EV parking at or otherwise blocking access to a charging bay. In the specific case of that carpark in Jindabyne it is pretty full pretty much of the time. I was in Jindabyne on Friday and had a walk around that carpark looking for...

I see the same - spanner icon means something is definitely up with that charger (either dead or reduced capacity/speed). I’d charge enough to get home in Goulburn. It’s less busy than it used to be now that Exeter exists, and there’s a park and playground across the road from it. Alternative...

Agreed. That would be a much better location, still only a block or so from Coles (if that’s your thing), close enough to cafes, toilets and so forth, and very much less likely to be ICEd than the current location. Four bays in the main part of Cooma is nowhere near enough, even this winter...

I looked in at the intended Jindabyne (NSW Snowy Mountains) site again yesterday and still no sign of any work or pre-work underway. I really *don’t* know how that location won’t be a disaster for ICEing during ski season BTW as even on a pretty quiet weekday getting towards the end of ski...

I got what seems to me to be a definitive reply on Whirlpool a little while ago. From user “dpskipper” on there: My UMC was included with my car in early 2021 and has charged everything I have plugged it into, so that - and what turns out to be a 4-year old one that @hooty has which doesn’t...

I know of several Atto 3 users who either also own a Tesla or who specifically went out and bought a UMC to use with their Atto 3 and the combination is working for them. I even just asked in the Atto3 thread on Whirlpool earlier this morning to reconfirm and got two replies already that it...

I have used mine (current firmware, ie 10A/15A enabled) to charge a Hyundai Kona and also a Porsche Cayenne PHEV. Do you have a specific repeatable example of an EV that the UMC can’t or won’t charge?

This has now been sold.

My car is always a “last quartile” kind of car for updates, and my PowerWall is still on firmware 23.12.2, so even before I saw Tesla saying last week that the feature was only for USA/Canada initially (sigh, I guess because the sun shines upside down here or something…) I wasn’t holding my...

I have a “European” 32A 3-pin tail, so I can use my Tesla UMC with the wall socket I had installed for my Porsche charger (when my son brings an EV home or someone is visiting and my Tesla wall connector is already in use). This is the big round blue one, which is different from the Australian...

Just on paint, and please accept this as a sample size of ONE, but at least a direct experience: * I am a Porsche owner. I owned one from new for over 8 years, and just (last few days) traded that on another one. The paint on both of them is excellent; the one I traded in pretty much as good as...

Mine is also 23.12.2. Numbering convention is similar to the car firmware, ie YY.WW.nnn so that firmware is from a branch started in week 12 of 2023. See Software Updates | Tesla Support Australia - and note that 23.12.* is still too new (sigh) for that version to even be listed on that page...

If mine (2021 LR, retrofit done at Tesla Chatswood) is making a noise when in Drive, it is so quiet as to be useless. I couldn't hear it in either of these two situations when I specifically listened for it: (1) standing next to my car as the mechanic drove it onto the hoist to do a tyre change...

In an ideal world I personally would never leave home without both ski gear and a cello in my car - equipment for all occasions. Nearest I have managed on a few occasions is surfboards and skis in my car at the same time and using both on the same day. Apres-ski cello is I think under-appreciated.

I have been wondering about this. My car is usually a magnet for weird firmware bugs, but I haven’t had this issue at all, driven 1000km or so in the almost 2 weeks I have been running that version. Could it affect (only/more) the newer cars with the AMD Ryzen MCU chipset, and not (as much) the...

Proposal from Northern Beaches (Sydney) Council for 8 new Jolt charging sites. Information page linked from this week’s council newsletter: Electric vehicle charging stations - proposed locations June 2023

I just checked TeslaFi for you, drive summary is: * Left Cooma Supercharger at 16:49 (74% SoC) * Average speed 95km/h, maximum 109km/h. I always go via Majura Rd (ie past the airport). * Average outside temperature 8.6C. Nett altitude change -90m in 260km. Aircon (20C), heated seats, heated...

Charged to 85% in Cooma. Stayed overnight in Berridale (sentry mode off, but not plugged-in), pre-heated the car - was -1C yesterday morning - drove to Perisher (slush/snow on the road from Ski Rider, chains for 2WD from Prussian Creek), parked in Perisher carpark with sentry mode on, pre-heated...