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I wonder how you stop the auto-boot opening when you don’t want the boot to open, if all it uses is UWB proximity? 🤔

Glitch in the Matrix? Did you take the red pill or blue pill?

Even betterer would be: Only verified network owners (e.g. Tesla, Evie, NRMA etc) can upload new station information for their own network. Individuals would not be able to. This restriction is already in place for editing such locations (e.g. only Tesla can edit a Tesla entry in Plugshare)...

Did you purchase the Tesla pedestal for the HPWC? They are not cheap… but look great. Or is it an AliExpress knock-off 🤣

Nice overview! I purchased a Type 2 to Type 2 cable (and 5-pin UMC tail) in preparation for my Gregory & Greaves Corner trip in 2022, but never needed either. They aren’t cheap (around $250/$180 respectively) so wondered if I’d wasted my coin. Ironically, I’ve now used the Type 2 cable a bit...

Sounds a lot like my LEAF 🤣 except it’s never had an OTA update because it doesn’t support it, the battery degrades about 5% p.a., Nissan shut their Telematics service down in 2021 (their App never really worked anyway) and map updates could only be done at a dealer at a “you’ve got to be...

The price is almost dropping faster than my insurer’s “Agreed Value” 🤣 which effectively means I still have a “new for old” replacement policy, even though my car will turn 5 this year 🤣. Incredible price reductions. My LR cost me $95k on the road in 2019. More than double the previous...

Each to their own but the Tesla UI isn’t that bad. Seen plenty worse. At least now the UI has a search box, which largely neuters any UI confusion as to where a particular control is. These days I hardly ever interact with the UI anyway, it remembers all the driver’s settings, so what is left...

Article in today’s SMH: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/stockland-and-ampol-rev-up-superfast-ev-charging-stations-20240422-p5flsa.html

Normally that happens the other way. When waiting for a turn arrow, straight ahead goes green and you’ll get the chime.

That’s not been my experience. I just copy the entire folder hierarchy from my Mac’s iTunes folder as-is onto my SSD and it works fine. The Tesla media player recognises the metadata embedded in each song and the user can select from the Albums, Artists, Songs etc. tabs in the Tesla UI just...

I don’t use streaming music services and put my entire music collection on an SSD… the UI to play it is not that bad 🤷‍♂️

It’s not an EV parking bay but an EV charging bay - big difference. I’m sure EV drivers would be totally OK with the same $2200 fine applying to any vehicle parking next to a petrol bowser without being “plugged in” - in the name of equity.

Hence the asterisk in my post, because that’s the behaviour that should be encouraged, even if the rule doesn’t require it… plug in and start a charging session. I don’t know why the rule wasn’t written requiring a session to be started, because it would be trivial to prove whether that...

That’s cheap. NSW introduced a new road rule in Nov 2022 for unlawful parking in a designated EV charging spot. If a vehicle is not plugged in, or is plugged in but charging was never initiated(*), the fine is up to $2200. I should lodge an FOI request to find out how many fines have been...

I make an effort to use the EVX polechargers in Sydney even if I don’t really need to. Some might think paying $0.50/kWh for AC charging is nuts but I like their solution, they are a home-grown company and I like supporting them. The Carillion Ave site near RPA is great… it’s a nightmare area...

At least it’s on the passenger side so you can drive the car until Tesla (or whoever you get to replace) is ready to do it on a day convenient for you, minimal time off the road. And depending on your insurance policy, should be a “free” no-excess claim. These things happen. I’ve had one...

Or trying to convince advertisers they have a captive audience with sticky eyeballs for 20 minutes… “Look at our charging stats!!!”

I’m sure someone at Jolt has produced a histogram of the power delivered per session across all sessions in the network… and found that the modal power delivered is in the 6.9-7.0 kWh bucket.

Hydrogen combustion is even more stupid than hydrogen fuel cells, which is saying something. And also very polluting - spews out toxic nitrogen oxides.

The longest piece of timber I have fit inside my Model 3 was 3.0m long.

How many millions did the previous Government throw Tritium’s way, one of our few home-grown tech companies, in order to set it on a more sure footing? Did ScoMo ever do a photo-op there? Plenty of bucks though for fossil fuel companies. Including $2 billion to keep two oil refineries here...

I thought you were cracking a joke, like maybe you needed to work harder at “Exerter” to get a charge… 🤣

Everything has value, even if that value is not high. Tritium would still have valuable IP and a customer list and presumably binding contracts to continue supplying parts and spares to a number of network operators, i.e. generate ongoing revenue. The tricky bit will be reining in the costs of...

Nah, fill them with hydrogen so that the pro-hydrogen cranks finally have something to cheer about!

It’s hilarious in that story how BP says “Our EV ambitions have not changed [ the restructure ] is a step towards ensuring that we can execute our goals with even greater precision and effectiveness.” So they are arguing that employing fewer people leads to better execution. Taking that to its...

Liquid cooling allows the cable to conduct much higher current without overheating. But they are really, really heavy and very difficult to manoevere. I have no idea why BP Pulse insisted on them, every BP Pulse site I’ve seen uses them. But 350 kW Chargefox and Evie sites seem to cope OK...

I find the plugs OK, solid and robust, but wait until you try a BP Pulse. Those liquid cooled cables are not nice 😬

A lot of folk might roll their eyes at such an old-school wish, but it would be nice if a Tesla software update included an MP4 player to complement its audio player. So old fuddy duddies could play USB stored video content when the car is in park, if they wanted to. Elon did hint at doing it...

I hope it provides a toggle to prioritise PW2 charging over the car with Charge on Solar…

Highway service centres are fine if not great places to have DCFCs. Suburban servos… not so much. In fact, typically horrible. My local council thought it would be great if they could encourage local servos to add EV charging, and I told them in very clear terms that’s about the worst idea...

Super! Will try it next time we are up that way. When Taree is open as well, the first bit of the Pacific heading north will be far less problematic.

Well I’ve been told that you should get even small chips resin repaired ASAP. Reason being that microscopic bits of dust and dirt will accumulate in cracks and crevices the longer you leave it, and that will affect the quality and longevity of the repair. Also if there is even a tiny crack...

Yeah, how long is it since fart mode was updated with new and different farts? Not good enough, Elon. 🙄

Teslas being deaf to “wake up” messages is a randomly occurring issue that occurs everywhere on the planet. Happens to me periodically. The App is agnostic to the final connection to the car (WiFi or Cellular). When a car is charging, it is also awake. So if the App could not connect to the...

Yep. Trust the Nav. And a bird in the hand etc… if you are already charging and it says keep going for another 8 minutes then do it. It’s not a long time. Also most people report that a Tesla can go 10-20 km after reaching 0%, so you would have made it to Keith comfortably. Worst case, you...

A 2019 Nissan LEAF is a very different prospect to a 2012 first-gen Nissan LEAF!

Doesn’t hotspotting your phone to your car do exactly that? Or is Model S crimped in that regard…

Even my Nissan LEAF has it 🤣 although the maps are now horribly out of date 🤣 and I ain’t paying Nissan $100 to update them 🤣

Hooley dooley that is a lot of electricity. Are you into hydroponics or something 🤣 Over the past 12 months we’ve used 6.45 MWh from the grid (we have 2 x EVs) or 17.6 kWh/day, and solar export was 1.27 MWh total. We did that at the same time as getting solar + battery. We replaced every...

@meloccom - a lot of posts in this thread about grid rateplans that might be suitable for EVs - not really a topic specific to Highland M3. Possibly should be moved to a new thread… “Best electricity plans for EVs / solar / battery” or similar? Although it would be a bit of work to unscramble...

There’s probably lots… every few hundred metres or so 😄

Increased grid prices reduce the payback time of the battery, but has only a minor effect on how big the optimum battery needs to be (although I didn’t model that bit extensively). The bigger driver is household consumption - how much grid draw is avoided by having a bigger battery.

Not correct. There is a UE dependency as well. https://www.lightreading.com/5g/why-is-5g-sa-taking-so-long-

By the way, modems in cars usually support only a small subset of the mobile frequencies - typically the lowest band used for each technology, since that’s what gives the coverage. And they are also unlikely to support more than 2 techs (e.g. 2G/3G or 3G/4G). This is for cost reasons. So in...

Don’t want to turn this thread into a mobile technology thread 😄 but Telstra launched 5G SA last year, a number of Samsung devices support it. Not sure about Apple devices yet. All recent devices support IPv6 too. https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/making-australia-s-best-5g-even-better

Well, yes, but it is prepaid only, with no data rollover. I prefer Belong postpaid, which although gets access to the slightly smaller Telstra “wholesale” 4G/5G network footprint, has data rollover, so unused data one month rolls over to the following month with no cap on how much you can...

Next target - Anzac Day long weekend (I’d expect most folk to take the Friday off) and the end of school holidays trip home…

What I’m unclear on is if in the future my PW2 (after it hits the warranty replacement trigger 😄) was replaced with a PW3, would that mean goodbye to my SolarEdge inverter because it’s not needed anymore? 🤔

🤔 TL;DR: you can’t ignore the cost of that… it’s a relevant factor. — A few years ago I did a horribly complex spreadsheeting exercise to do a “what if” analysis of having different battery sizes. This analysis used my actual historical 5-minute energy flows (solar generation, household...