Circumnavigated Port Phillip Bay yesterday anti-clockwise with a planned lunch at RACV Torquay. Total distance travelled was 273.08kms with an avg consumption rate of 144wh/km with a family of 4 in the car. It was a sunny day of about 20C with dry roads and quite windy along the coasts (I didn't note the wind directions).
Left home with 100% SoC. Used NoA from Eastlink southbound, off-ramp/on-ramp to Monash Fwy inbound, thru Domain tunnel (no NoA inside tunnel), over Westgate bridge and on Princes Fwy before NoA ended on the off-ramp into Geelong.
NoA performed very well on this leg with minimal lane changes (average with confirmation setting) and no dramas. Unlike 2019.40.50.7's tendency to hug the rightmost land, 2020.40.1 would happily cruise in the middle lane at less than the set speed limit after a couple of lane change cancellations. There's room for improvement for off-ramps ... I would prefer it engages the left turn signal 1-2s earlier (that's what I would do), and it's still a bit jerky after getting on the off-ramp.
At Geelong the MG car club had their annual car show at the foreshore.
It was great to see these wonderful looking ICE cars on display with their enthusiast owners. I couldn't help but marvelled at how far my SR+ has come compared to these similarly gorgeous looking oldies
.
Arrived at RACV Torquay with 62% SoC. I used the destination charger in the basement carpark after calling ahead. Plugshare reported 3 chargers (2 x Tesla and 1 x Type 1) in the basement carpark, but there was only 1 Tesla charger. I reckon they'd removed the other 2 now that there are 4 new Chargefox chargers in the outside carpark.
The destination charger was similar to my HPWC; single phase 32A, charging at 52km/hr. Added 96.19kms during our lunch.
We took the ferry from Queenscliff to Sorrento. NoA on the Peninsula Fwy and Eastlink homeward bound was uneventful except at the start of the Peninsula Fwy at Rosebud---I was on the right lane of two lanes, there was a big gap to the vehicle in front of me, and there was a ute slightly ahead of me on the left lane. NoA was engaged at 100kmh but the car stalled at ~70kmh as if there was a car up close in front
. I nudged the accelerator and as soon as I passed the ute, things were back to normal. Transition from Peninsula Fwy to Eastlink was perfect.
The cost of FSD may be hard to justify but I can truly say how much more relaxing AP with NoA is on road trips.