Australian Model 3 Waiting Room

[cafz]

For no Perth users, I've looked at a similar plan with Red Energy:

Red also have an "EV Saver" that offers free power between 12pm - 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Retail rates across the NEM will vary depending on your distributor because there's distribution and transmission costs bundled into the retail rates, but this is what it looks like on the EvoEnergy network:

To see this, put your postcode in here, then use the right arrow to move across when the plans are shown - it's not on screen by default.

 

[slknv]

I'd assume this would be from the mini vin storm yesterday. What's the build date on the invoice?

I might be a bit dense today - I said I had an invoice, but all I had on the website was a balance to pay off. Where do I find the invoice, and the build date?

 

[SpicySol]

I'd assume this would be from the mini vin storm yesterday. What's the build date on the invoice?

I got a VIN yesterday and the build date says 1/11.

 

[Stokesy]

Red also have an "EV Saver" that offers free power between 12pm - 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Retail rates across the NEM will vary depending on your distributor because there's distribution and transmission costs bundled into the retail rates, but this is what it looks like on the EvoEnergy network:

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To see this, put your postcode in here, then use the right arrow to move across when the plans are shown - it's not on screen by default.

I saw this too, and was unsure how useful a 2 hour window on Saturday and Sunday right in the middle of the day would be in any way useful.

It's likely I'm going to out of the house then with the car. A more useful time for free electricity would be weeknights between 10pm - 5am (doesn't have to be this full range) where I'm topping the car back up from the work commute.

 

[[Zombie]]

Where do I find the invoice, and the build date?

It should be on the website, under "Documents" (next to the "Order Agreement")

 

[bennett_461]

Same config as mine. Any idea what time it came in for you?

26th of Oct. Not sure what time as I just happened to open the app around 7 30pm and seen the tesla vision prompt.

 

[bennett_461]

11/03 same config and no vin

Melbourne? There allocation is so sheit.

I will mention that I did email my SA 2 days before hand and ask for an update as I knew there were vins been slowly allocated. Not sure that would make a difference though.

 

[Missimpatient]

A post from FB Tesla 3&Y group, rather amusing and apt for this forum:

Depressing thought. When I ordered my Model 3 RWD I had 1233 days to reach the average Australian male life expectancy. I now have 975 days. That means I have spent 21% of my expected remaining existence waiting for this car. It better be worth it.

 

[Missimpatient]

I saw this too, and was unsure how useful a 2 hour window on Saturday and Sunday right in the middle of the day would be in any way useful.

It's likely I'm going to out of the house then with the car. A more useful time for free electricity would be weeknights between 10pm - 5am (doesn't have to be this full range) where I'm topping the car back up from the work commute.

If it's free, it will never be in a useful time

 

[Priit]

I saw this too, and was unsure how useful a 2 hour window on Saturday and Sunday right in the middle of the day would be in any way useful.

It's likely I'm going to out of the house then with the car. A more useful time for free electricity would be weeknights between 10pm - 5am (doesn't have to be this full range) where I'm topping the car back up from the work commute.

I do not believe they went for useful, they probably go for free because that is the time every solar panel is producing usually and during weekend there is less business power draw, so they dont pay for it and can give it out free hoping to coax more people to use it so it dont go to waste.

 

[raffdog]

Melbourne? There allocation is so sheit.

I will mention that I did email my SA 2 days before hand and ask for an update as I knew there were vins been slowly allocated. Not sure that would make a difference though.

Absolutely zero difference they know nothing

 

[Speedgull]

For anyone in Perth that is interested, Synergy (our only power provider in WA so this isn't an endorsement of a particular company), have just released a new energy plan called the Electric Vehicle Add On that gives better rates in the middle of the day and overnight, it does have a big peak charge between 3pm and 9pm of 50c a kW but I've run the figures on my actual usage and it works out cheaper even before I have a car to charge at home.

Car needs to be registered in the same name as on your Synergy bill to be eligible which sucks for company purchased cars, but for others it seems quite good:
Electric Vehicle Add On

Supply charge per day: 120c
Tariffs:

• Overnight (11pm to 6am) - 18c

Take advantage of the second lowest rate for electricity by shifting the time you charge your EV to during this period.

• Peak (3pm to 9pm) - 50c

Where possible avoid or use less electricity during this time as it has a higher rate.

• Super Off Peak (9am to 3pm) - 8c

You could save by shifting your electricity use to this period, which offers the lowest electricity charge.

• Off Peak (6am to 9am / 9pm to 11pm) - 22c

These two time periods offer a rate between the Peak, Overnight and Super Off Peak rates.

Thanks for sharing. Looks good but for me I'm currently on single phase @ 27 cents per KWH and 98 cents daily supply charge as well have 4.5KWH solar so essentially any day light hours I'm living off the solar. I'll be driving less than 30Km on weekdays so still cheaper to remain on my plan even if charging at peak time. Will do a deal with my land lord to charge during day as my car bay is adjacent to a power point

 

[neuralnetwork]

EDD went from 8th November - 22nd November to 27th November - 11th December...

WHY TESLA... why must you toy with a mans feelings for so long

 

[penn_]

EDD went from 8th November - 22nd November to 27th November - 11th December...

WHY TESLA... why must you toy with a mans feelings for so long

EDDs tend to slide around. Wouldn't put too much stock in them, for the sake of sanity

 

[Ray6555]

EDD went from 8th November - 22nd November to 27th November - 11th December...

WHY TESLA... why must you toy with a mans feelings for so long

Me too, from 9 Nov-23 Nov to 26 Nov-10 Dec

I saw my vin on ship arriving BNE on 18 Nov, don’t know why they said delivery from 9th Nov

 

[Ignition]

EDD went from 8th November - 22nd November to 27th November - 11th December...

WHY TESLA... why must you toy with a mans feelings for so long

Mine has done the same, pretty sure ours are on the same ship (RCC Shanghai) and it’s currently off the coast near Bundaberg due in to Port Kembla on Saturday morning so I’m still hopeful for the end of next week on the assumption they’ll be offloaded at Port Kembla + quarantine/paperwork and trucked up to the GC.

 

[cafz]

I do not believe they went for useful, they probably go for free because that is the time every solar panel is producing usually and during weekend there is less business power draw, so they dont pay for it and can give it out free hoping to coax more people to use it so it dont go to waste.

What they pay for it is... complicated. They do actually have to pay a small amount of solar feed-in; across all their customers they (Red Energy) will still be net purchasers of electricity even at that time; they are a vertically integrated gentailer (they're owned by Snowy Hydro) so they're sort of buying it from themselves to some extent; even given that they're a gentailer, the electricity they're giving away for free could have been sold on the wholesale market; the wholesale market price is often negative at those times.

They do certainly have to pay the DNSP per-kW charges to the distributor to get that electricity to you, though.

Personally I don't factor it in as relying on "charge 44kWh of free power every weekend" to make the numbers work, but it turns out we're often home for lunch around that time between sport and things, so will generally aim to have free capacity in the battery to utilise it when we're around. It's brought my average home charging price (as calculated by the Tesla app) down to about 11c/kWh.

 

[ImStillHereAww]

No offence but let's leave charging etc to a different thread for now esp at this time.

For now let's stick to vins and it was worth the wait posts. It's vin season for the next few weeks so let's focus on that.

 

[SpicySol]

OK so I got a VIN yesterday, and now the app has reverted back to Aug-Nov. Wtf is going on?!

 

[Stokesy]

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OK so I got a VIN yesterday, and now the app has reverted back to Aug-Nov. Wtf is going on?!

No! More Adelaide VINs not less.

There have been several reports in the last few weeks of this happening to others as well.