Chuq
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Another good tip is to include a current map/list of other nearby properties.. specifically their competitors.. which offer this ![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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A cafe in Campbelltown would be getting a customer out of every Tesla driving through if they installed a destination charger.A couple more new DCs in Tassie (possibly more elsewhere, but these are the ones I noticed)
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We need to sort out this whole north-west / south-east separation we have going!
Any current AGL customers enquired about this? Can you easily transfer?One year free home charging with AGL and destination chargers at Stockland shopping centres between Airns and Melbourne! Woohoo!
Tesla expands charging infrastructure in Australia with new partnership and free at home charging
Looks like the AGL offer is for people buying a new Tesla or waiting on an existing order, who switch to AGL power for their home.Any current AGL customers enquired about this? Can you easily transfer?
- Stockland shopping centres to have Tesla Destination Chargers rolled out from today over the next 12 months:
- NSW: Balgowlah, Cammeray, Green Hills, Jesmond, Merrylands, Baulkham Hills, Wetherill Park, Shellharbour, Bathurst, Nowra, Corrimal, Forster, Tamworth, Glendale, Wallsend
- QLD: Cairns, Townsville, North Shore, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Hervey Bay, Caloundra, Cleveland, Pacific Pines, Benowa Gardens, Burleigh Heads
- VIC: Highlands, The Pines, Trarlagon
- WA: Baldivis
- Existing Stockland Chargepoint EV chargers are located at: Balgowlah, Cammeray, Glendale, Jesmond, Shellharbour, and Baulkham Hills in NSW; Harrisdale and Balvidis in Western Australia; Point Cook Victoria and Burleigh Heads in Queensland.
Looks like the AGL offer is for people buying a new Tesla or waiting on an existing order, who switch to AGL power for their home.
Owners who have already taken delivery not included.
“To be eligible for Tesla to arrange for a year of free vehicle charging with AGL, should the customer choose to connect their electricity with AGL, the customer must purchase their Tesla vehicle prior to 31 July and take up the AGL Electric Car Plan before 31 August 2017. All existing orders (those who have not taken delivery of their vehicle yet) will also be eligible.”
So the AGL free charging from Tesla has all the same conditions as the $1/day deal, right? So effectively Tesla is paying the first $365 for you? Seems like the benefit is a bit exaggerated. Well, just good marketing I suppose.
For example Tesla has ruled out supplying any destination chargers between Port Augusta and Darwin.
Strange as they are supplying cars into Darwin.From the thread: Mobile charging for Australia
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What? That is crazy. That route is obviously not going to get superchargers for some time. Did they give a reason as to why?
The only excuse I can think of is that they may not want to be responsible for people trying to drive that route and not making it/getting stuck in the desert. Perhaps a lot of the towns there are run on diesel generators. But they sound like flimsy reasons...
We did a bit of a road trip last week, Canberra to Brisbane. As well as the various Superchargers we used destination chargers in the Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour.
Gold Coast was excellent, Tim at Hi Ho had two chargers installed in such a way that their cables could reach several bays each, so if one was ICE'd it was easy to work around. Charging there meant we could skip Knockrow on the way North.
Novotel Coffs Harbour was supposed to be the same idea. Skipping 45 minutes parked at the top of the hill behind the big banana by destination charging overnight. Travelling with a six month old, that little extra bit of hassle avoided would be worth a fair bit to us.
Ended up being nearly as much hassle to destination charge. Despite the carpark being mainly empty, both Tesla spots were ICE'd by hotel staff. They weren't the closest spots to reception or anything, and the spots either side were empty, so it seemed to be a deliberate policy. I guess it means they know who to grab if a customer wants to charge and a car needs to be moved? Once we got a car moved, we hit another hurdle - the boxes the charger are in are padlocked. It took several people and about 20 minutes to find the right key. The guy who unlocked it for me at first mentioned that he knew they had several other Tesla owners coming in the previous weekend and he was surprised it hadn't been a problem for them. By the time he found the right people and the right key he learned that apparently it had been a problem and those guests had just been in able to charge as no-one had been able to find the key.
So I ended up getting my destination charge overnight and all was good, but it took about 30 minutes of running around, or close to what just driving up the hill with a book and supercharging would have taken.
The hotel chain sent me a request for feedback, so I gave them some details of the runaround. The GM of that hotel emailed back this morning and said they'd consider unlocking them in the future. He also told me I was only the second person to successfully use their charger since it was installed in May this year. I pointed out that probably wasn't a good thing, since his staff know of at least two customers who tried and failed in the last week =)
Novotel Coffs Harbour...Despite the carpark being mainly empty, both Tesla spots were ICE'd by hotel staff. They weren't the closest spots to reception or anything, and the spots either side were empty, so it seemed to be a deliberate policy...said they'd consider unlocking them in the future.
Why would they need to be locked?