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Sydney no-longer has station to station tickets with Opal. Just tap on, and tap off*. *Except when catching the Manly ferry where you only tap on.

Perfect application for 3-7 kW chargers. Those 22 kW chargers are a waste for all day parking.

This is why Uber has one app globally, but it has hundreds of screens for the all the different local payment options. Uber has to just work when someone walks out of the airport anywhere.

If you look closely commercial supply agreements have two components, one is a complex way to charge for the poles and wires (fixed + usage), and the other part is the actual energy cost. For residential this is simplified to a daily charge for poles and wires, and per kWh which includes the...

After the first 6 times rashing the same two wheels, I learnt to stop mostly by avoiding the really tight shopping centre driveways and learning to not care backing up and holding the person behind me up. At least it doesn't stand out as much on the stock silver wheels.

I've also seen SPL on Polestar so makes sense that they are rideshare, which also explains why the drivers are all taking a nap. I don't mind them using paid charging stations, but I do mind them using any of the free charging stations that are still around. High utilisation of public chargers...

You wouldn't want to be in most bus lanes, on Victoria Rd anyway there are no indented bus bays.

There is already misinformation on social media that the diesel generator runs constantly. I'm guessing the noises are for temperature regulation of the battery bank, or some kind of self test.

There is already enough FUD about EV batteries made from devices using a similar type of battery.

I don't see people selling their ICE because they had to queue for fuel. I didn't mention before, but trying to find the chargers at BP Ballina travel centre, there was a queue off the highway offramp to get in, then got stuck in a queue for fuel going around the back entrance. If every travel...

Drove north today. Left Sydney 5 am and progressively got busier as it got later into the day. I generally avoid Tesla to try and incentivise other networks to expand. I got lucky at Coffs, no-one was at the Chargefox at 12:00 that usually has a queue. I got unlucky at BP Ballina, I yeeted to...

11:00 to 15:00 is four hours which is not that helpful when you only get 3 hours driving and should stop ever 2 hours. Port Macquarie had long queues at Christmas, 10 months later there are lots more Teslas. The North Coast route to Queensland between Newcastle and the Gold Coast is a bit...

For Olympic Park, there's plenty of other places to charge nearby. For regional chargers it will mean people who are road tripping may actually be able to use them instead of locals queuing up for a free charge.

The ACT is seriously lacking in DCFC.

With the increased number of places to charge, there's no need to charge to 100% even in an EV with a lower range.

Not much will change, Tesla has the most EVs in Australia. I would like to see more third party chargers anyway.

Thank you! Those are the two I was wondering about.

Thanks, so Ampol needs to share data... Pretty big miss of them to not have their chargers show on the route planning between the major capitals.

Is there any way to get Ampol to show up in abetterrouteplanner?

The host has to want to manage billing the charging and all the extra work involved in that for a start. For a lot of sites, the cost of charging is a small fraction of providing parking to begin with, so they eat the cost (looking at multi-level parking garages and shopping centres). They...

Looks like plugshare actually filters by stations not plugs.

Evie is the only not Tesla charging network with 4+ CCS2 plugs at 50 kW+ (Sutton Forest) in NSW on plugshare (there are others in other states). The other networks have to actually install more DCFC stalls.

Water discharge (condensate) is not an issue and is a normal part of any heat pump, typically when it is warm and humid. Did you happen to be running the air conditioner for an extended period?

There is no gate keeping other than WHS law which requires employees are trained in the work they do. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/training/ Here is the parts catalogue with the restriction on each part. https://epc.tesla.com/en-AU/enable-parts-ordering/new-application

I've seen people being dropped off/picked up by an ICE at Macquarie Uni late at night (as the gym is open late there).

It is the same thing at a certain shopping centre with free charging (not far from the only NRMA charger in Sydney) that has both tethered and untethered AC charging. The tethered chargers will be first to fill with people too scabby to buy a type 2 cable and will ask you if the cable is worth...

This was the case in the 2010s with ICE cars, in the 2020s especially the quality out of Tesla Shanghai, Chinese EVs quality is on par. Remember EVs don't have fidgety combustion engines and the Chinese are really good at electric motors, lithium batteries, LEDs, and electronics. All key parts...

ELO-42N is not on any car, neither is ELO-69N and several others. Not a single combination is on a Tesla.

I saw EZx-nnx plates in Sydney this week.

Then why is the council cos playing as an energy provider? EV chargers aren't some nice green washing project to put in the council newsletter that you can abandon after the press release, they are critical infrastructure.

I think just that other councils have rolled out their own chargers without any kind plan to allow others to install competing chargers, and that councils should stick to approving sound DAs and let companies do the work of identifying business opportunities. Otherwise councils will install 2...

Oil is only a fossil fuel when used as a fuel. It is possible to reuse the long carbon chains in plastics to make new plastics. With enough cheap energy those long carbon chains could be reused indefinitely to make new plastic products (energy is currently too expensive but will continue to drop...

School zones come from map data; I think mostly openstreetmap. Which city are you located? School zones are time based which aren't the easiest signs to read from the dashcam recordings. What speed is it on mapbox/openstreetmap?

Just keep in mind which states it is legal to sleep in a car in, and if there are any local laws against it. Other than that, camp mode works well. https://lawpath.com.au/blog/is-it-legal-to-sleep-in-your-car

If they are indeed new sites and not just co-branded with other motoring clubs, then that is very positive, and should help with working charger anxiety.

Part of the hope is that $60k cars will end up on the second hand market in a few years. Despite all the battery fear mongering, EVs with low battery degradation will hold their value better on resale, people won't want an expensive to maintain ICE. Buying a base model 3 with iron based LFP...

Westfield own the Tesla destination chargers at Bondi, so the answer is yes to both questions.

Dealers will sell whatever imports meets the fleet emissions criteria. There is no local manufacturing industry that isn't meeting international benchmarks to protect.

What industry, we don't have any industry to protect.

Watch this class of vehicle get a vague exemption for being "work" vehicles. This is a lie unless you exclude Tesla from the conversation. We can all see where traditional auto manufacturers are failing economies of scale on tear downs, and they keep doing it. They will continue to ignore...

That just sounds like there aren't enough chargers of either type in that area. At Rhodes Waterside we only have AC charging (another Mirvac), and it is always full (all apartments). Plugshare check-ins for Tramsheds at Glebe suggest that it is heavily used AC only charging as well. Edit: My...

That is exactly why there aren't enough AC destination chargers being installed, everyone has "fast brain", but it's too slow to slow to sit around "petrol doesn't take this long to fill", but too fast to go and do some shopping, or eat some food.

Day 1 of easter long weekend summary of negative plugshare checkins Jindabyne: 1/2 up Sovereign Place: 1/2 up Yass: long queues Jugiong: broken Holbrook: long queues Wilcannia: 1/2 up (1 as backup) Brewarrina: 1/2 up (1 as backup)

Someone from Tesla should reach out to you as your order gets closer to delivery.

White noise -

If going to Bunnings at 11 pm is part of your routine it makes sense. What doesn't make sense is any fuel stops that are not part of a road trip, that don't fit into an existing routine. For the millions of Australians who can charge at home, routine 11 pm charging will look like plugging into a...

This is why I don't use any of the service station chargers in Sydney. EV charging should fit into an existing routine as much as possible and eliminate specifically stopping for fuel altogether. Important caveat is on road trips, but you can mostly fit charging into a stop revive survive break...

On the surface it looks very good, projects are generally required to consider the environment/offset emissions/use renewables, Sydney trains operations are offset. But this on its own fails to consider the whole picture including deforestation, the Eraring coal plant closure delays, Narrabri...

It really depends on the weather and where exactly in those cities you start and end your journey, and the state of charge at the end of journey. The default setting on ABRP is quickest which is 4 stops in a MY RWD, but if you change to fewer but longer charges, it drops to 3 stops. Daytime...

The problem with the ACT is the lack of third party ultra rapid DC fast charging. As for the light rail, 9% of Canberra's 395790 residents live within a 1km walk of the light rail[1], at a $675 million construction cost[2], that is $18949 per resident in the catchment of the light rail stage 1...