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You keep repeating this, but why? Tesla is the only truly usable charger network in Australia and has more chargers than the rest combined, if they stop expanding there's nobody who can credibly fill in the gap. It's a pipe dream, but I do wish BYD or somebody would get in on the act, the...

The Rozelle Interchange in Sydney opened on 26 November 2023, and I'm now typing this in May 2024, half a year later. While you can see the tunnels on the map, Tesla still doesn't know how to drive through them: every time I do, navigation freaks out and repeatedly tells me to turn left/right...

Elon has a long history of doing stupid 💩, but nuking the Supercharger team from orbit is quite possibly his stupidest move yet. It's bizarre to say this when they have (had?) the best-selling car in the entire world, but I'm starting to get genuinely worried for the future of Tesla.

Non-update update: visited the notional future 12-stall site in central Gundagai off Sheridan St near the tourist office today, and there was no sign of construction. With Tarcutta also still firmly on the drawing board, the current site at the Tuckerbox is going to become even more of a...

I checked out the putative Jindabyne SC site at 1 Bay St this morning, and there was zero construction going on, much less anything Supercharger-shaped. It looks unlikely that they'll have anything ready by the ski season, which is unfortunate, since there are plenty of Teslas flitting about...

Do we have different apps or something? You can get to a generic contact form if you wade through the "How to charge" guff, but it doesn't even know what charger you're at.

Tried to use the Evie 22 kW chargers at the Southern Cross Club in Woden, ACT today: completely hopeless, all four (!) plugs said "charging starting" but never actually juiced up. There's somebody on Plugshare complaining about the same issue back in February and zero successful charges since...

Got a mail from Tesla this morning: 118 Bourke Rd is the location of the existing Tesla Alexandria showroom.

Exciting stuff! This will be by far the northernmost SC in Australia, only about 550 km from Cairns. And since it's also out of range for the next one (Rockhampton, 520 km), it's pretty much guaranteed that Mackay, between the two, is next in line.

That's because, like almost everything else in Ethiopia, importing petroleum is limited to an incompetent government monopoly (EPSE). But instead of tackling the actual supply issue, they're hamhandedly trying to cut demand. Remember, this is the same country that's trying to fight inflation...

Ethiopia is a floundering communist dictatorship that's running out of money through economic mismanagement and fighting a whole bunch of wars/insurgencies simultaneously. Forcing an immediate switch to EVs in a country where GDP/capita is under $1000/year and power generation per capita is...

If you apply the "CCS2" filter in the Evie app, it removes all the Chademo crud: And then the map shows the actual count of usable plugs for you: 1⚡, not 2.

Update: Tyrepower ended up doing the rotation only and charging $60 for it, which suited me just fine and was well under half the price that Tesla mobile service wanted.

This is a good move. I park nearby regularly, and with street parking charged at $8/hour, plugging in your car to top up from 99% to 100% and then leaving it there for the day (no time limits at all!) for the grand price of $0.50 was a steal. Yes, it's technically illegal, but how is council...

My pet theory: there's a Tesla team that flies around the world commissioning sites in "minor" countries like ours. They obviously had their hands full here in November/December, but now they've buggered off and we're not going to have any new SCs until they deign to come back. I have no...

One more data point from Sydney: Tesla mobile service wants $142.56 to rotate my tyres (0.48 service hours * $270/hr), twice the $70 figure from last October, while the local Tyrepower shop wants $120 for rotation & alignment and claims to have all the necessary equipment for Teslas. I can see...

Dubbo is a destination in itself, it's the 2nd largest town in inland NSW (after Tamworth) and many families in Sydney/Canberra head over just to visit the Zoo. You can't really say the same for any other town on the Newell.

Google Maps has had the new tunnels for a couple of weeks now, but the Tesla maps seem to lag quite badly behind. This is sad and a bit surprising, since Tesla uses Google's mapping services under the hood, but I presume they need to download and cache them because the car may not always have...

I'm about to renew the comprehensive insurance on my 2022 Tesla 3. As thanks for never making a claim, AAMI has yanked up my premium by 38% from $1,473.28 to $1,997.67 (excess $1500), but I'm getting $2000+ from competing providers so I'll likely stick with the devil I know. So, my actual...

Given the spate of openings after Dec 15th, I've rerun the numbers to see if they've moved the needle. (Raw data here.) 488 SCs (+67%), up from 447 (+53%) 190 Teslas per SC (was 208) 369 EVs per SC (was 403) 100 MW power (+95%), up from 51 MW (+76%) 1.08 kW/Tesla (was 0.97) 0.56 kW/Tesla...

I'm surprised there's still no supercharger at Pokolbin to cater to the wine tasting demographic, which overlaps pretty well with Tesla early adopters. (Just check how many destination chargers there are on Plugshare!) The only SC on the way there from Sydney or back is at Central Coast, which...

Source: Specs and pricing here. Deliveries from Q1 2024, superchargers also planned for Mall of Qatar and Doha Festival City.

How nice of Tesla to give the superchargers seasonal festive elf hats 🎅

The kW/car figure is there precisely to account for newer chargers being 250 kW, that's why we're seeing a 76% increase in available power vs "only" 54% in SC units. Preconditioning has also been around for a while. I'm also generally skeptical about any arguments that driver behaviour has...

It's a step in the right direction, but to be honest this looks worse than I was hoping. The one feature I liked about the Atto 3 was the 360° camera, which gives you a drone-style camera view of the car (not fuzzy 3D models) from above by doing image processing magic to meld all cameras together.

Like many Tesla owners, I've been delighted by the huge spurt in new fast superchargers recently. Surely this holiday season will be much better than the last one? But to confirm my gut feel, I crunched the numbers (Google sheet), and I'm afraid it's not looking good at all. There are 447 SCs...

Injecting some actual laws into the debate, in the ACT it is an offence under Section 5A of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 to Testing out your Tesla's 0 to 60 speeds at a suburban traffic light arguably qualifies for #3, plus #1 and maybe #4 if it can be construed...

So I double-checked my phone settings, and y'all were right, much to my surprise the default language was indeed "English (United States)". I switched to "English (Australia)", and now the app shows everything in Aussie dollarydoos, labeled "A$" instead of just "$". Cheers! 👍

The "Petrol Savings" bit of Charge Stats in the Tesla app seems to think that petrol costs on average $1.41/L these days (screenshot attached). The only way I can reconcile this with the $2+ prices I actually see at the bowser is that that this price is actually in USD, so it translates to a...

It's this one: Evie Charging - Apps on Google Play

You know you're in Australia when... somebody describes an 8,000+ km drive as "a doddle". Maybe I should stop fretting about my own oh-so-ambitious road trip plans to drive from Sydney to Melbourne and back 😅

Mixed thoughts about this one: the Tramsheds car park gets packed, particularly on weekends. And looking at the photos, the SCs will be inside the building which is extra small, cramped and tempting to people pushing trolleys full of groceries, not in the outside parking lot.

(oops, premature post) ...and it did the job for our 4-week trip, but just barely. The cover is water-proof and reflective on the outside, padded on the inside and roughly Tesla 3 shaped, although it was just a little bit too small -- the front bit had pulled up while we were out. On the...

Thanks for the poke. In the end, I went with this $47 jobbie from Temu and

I did a little detective work: The Tesdaddy $90 cover appears to be identical to this $32 cover on AliExpress, which has a number of complaints about it being flimsy and damaging the paintwork when left in the sun. Bullet dodged! There are a bunch of even cheaper covers like this $25 job that...

I'll be leaving my poor Model 3 outdoors for an extended trip, and am looking to buy a cover to protect it from the elements and prying eyes. The official outdoor cover costs $470 and has less than discreet Tesla logos all over it. Any recommendations for third-party covers...

Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm doing a novated lease on a Model 3 and will be out of the country for over a month later this year. I was thinking of renting it out while I'm away, preferably to a colleague or other known quantity for the full period, instead of trusting randos on...