So leg 2 of the Barossa Odyssey turned into a bit of a mission and a few lessons learned.
Was always going to be a long trip with the sightseeing we had planned. Should have known it was going to be a bad day when the hotel fire alarms went off at 0300 before we left. Had to evacuate and stand around in the cold then took a couple hours to get back to sleep, so we left a couple hours later than planned slipping my estimated arrival in the Barossa from 2200 to 0000.
Sight seeing along the Great Ocean Road took up a bit more time than expected as well, slipping my timings back even further, but all was well till we left Warrnambool (should really have just planned to stay there the night). I'd originally planned to go Warrnambool to Keith and even though the Tesla said it wanted to charge 7 or 8 minutes more at Warrnambool, I saw it had about 10% predicted at Keith so decided to push on.
Shortly after it wanted to go via Mt Gambier but still looked like we'd have ~10% at Keith, so I forced it towards Keith and kept going. On the country roads, 10% quickly turned to 5%, then 4, then 3 so I was starting to get a little worried. It did creep back to 5% but then back to 4, and at this point we were getting pretty hungry so I asked chief Nav to see if she could find something along the way that maybe had a restaurant and charger (we still had about 55-60% at this point, so had plenty of options).
Unfortunately the town she picked was about 30 mins or so East, so not really on the route but it had destination chargers and an EV charger, destination was connected to a hotel and restaurant, happy days! Turn up at 1834, restaurant is shutting up, turns out it closes at 1830 every night (except Friday when they stay up till 1930 and party like it's 1959!) as does pretty much every restaurant in cooee. Couldn't see the destination charger anywhere so went to the EVEE and got a quick top up while we looked for a plan B C.
Found a servo with a Hungry Jacks (seems there were more chargers in the area than servos) about an hour back the way we'd come. Both getting hungry, threw in the towel and went back to get a feed. From there apologised profusely to Sriracha for questioning her judgement and asked her to just get her to our hotel and promising to do whatever she asked. I think to teach me a lesson, she took me on a tour of all the SA superchargers, 10 min top ups at each of Horsham, Keith and Tallem Bend, but she was good to her word and got us here just fine albeit just after 0200.
Lesson learned, trust the car and don't try to outsmart it. We may have made it to Keith, I could have slowed down, turned AC off etc, but I just wasn't prepared to risk it in that location and that time of night. Also a bit spoiled by travel on good highways I didn't properly account for how much range is affected by country roads, constant slowing through country towns, etc. Clearly the car nav did a better job of that than I did.
But seriously who closes a restaurant at 1830???? I mean WTF, if you are closing at 1830 then you are only doing lunch, close at 1400 lol
EDIT - Oh and still zero steering nags for the entire trip even through roadworks, undivided highways. I'm hearing more reports that others have experienced this since 8.9 as well. In the suburbs they are still getting them but any highway is nagless so long as you are paying attention (haven't tested deliberately not paying attention, but I did see someone say they got a nag after a few minutes of pretending to not pay attention)