Richard, when rereading this fantastic note from Blue heaven....how does it match with your experience till now?
Interesting question Dylanpete!
Blue Heaven is pretty well right. We average about one REALLY interested person per day who has spent hours on the internet looking up Tesla, plus about 6 casually interested people per day. No detractors yet, apart from only one roadhouse owner who flat refused to talk to me.
One way I do fail to live up to Blue Heaven's post is in the area of mental serenity. For example:
ROUTE 66 ... 450 KM FROM 80% CHARGE !
(a couple of days ago, and I can now just bring myself to write about it.)
Terrible power supply in the caravan park at Camooweal, and we are sill charging when all the caravans have left.
By 11:30 we have to leave for Tennant Creek, 470km away still with only 80% charge. Looks like we have a 23% deficit, but off we go anyway. We are already 1 day behind schedule, and it will be 2 if we don't get to TC!
How do we do it? This shows the agonising solution. Drive at 70 km/h in a 130 zone (65 at times and never over 70) for 7 hours on dead straight roads with the aircon off on a day that topped 30 deg. Great economy though as you can see!
Hooray progress ! (albeit just a few km into the day)
This straight (the longest of many) is 66km long (that's an hour!)
(That's a mirage in the distance not a crest)
Great news - on the middle of the straight, Andrew from the upmarket Barkly Roadhouse agreed to install an AEVA 3 phase outlet that I dropped off, but unfortunately not for our benefit!
The day drags on ...
And to a weird crocodile-style sunset, we finally pull into a roadhouse about 20km short of Tennant Creek, and the day is saved!