Wol747
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They should look at the CCTV for the shot where an EV was being flatbedded away with an empty battery......
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NRMA fast charging network
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Sheesh, they would have to come in low. There's two destination chargers in the shopping centre 200m away...
(unless it was CHAdeMO)
I tried charging at Wallsend at 6am on Saturday. One positive entry on PlugShare made me think I should give it a shot.
Alas I may have drained the battery a bit much during a long nap at Liddell, having overridden the air con preferences when I enabled camp mode. I had left Scone on 90%, failed to charge at Wallsend on 27%, and I reached Tuggerah on 1%. MCU nav kept trying to send me to Heatherbrae when I left Wallsend. Thankfully reaching Tuggerah barely required hypermiling. Unfortunately the MCU nav for Tuggerah ends at the bottom of that damned ramp!
Alas I may have drained the battery a bit much during a long nap at Liddell, having overridden the air con preferences when I enabled camp mode. I had left Scone on 90%, failed to charge at Wallsend on 27%, and I reached Tuggerah on 1%. MCU nav kept trying to send me to Heatherbrae when I left Wallsend. Thankfully reaching Tuggerah barely required hypermiling. Unfortunately the MCU nav for Tuggerah ends at the bottom of that damned ramp!
Tight, tight!
About 10 days ago, we left Scone with 90% and got to a cafe on the Northern Beaches of Sydney with 34%, aircon and speed limits all the way (270km). But we did not have an air conditioned nap and it was also a LR.
Scone is only a single charger so hopefully that does not get vandalised or that area would become very poorly served. It is likely to get very congested with a few more EVs on the road. Hope they add a second one there.
About 10 days ago, we left Scone with 90% and got to a cafe on the Northern Beaches of Sydney with 34%, aircon and speed limits all the way (270km). But we did not have an air conditioned nap and it was also a LR.
Scone is only a single charger so hopefully that does not get vandalised or that area would become very poorly served. It is likely to get very congested with a few more EVs on the road. Hope they add a second one there.
There is an alternative 50kW charger in Newcastle West, but it can get busy and you probably already knew that, and it is about 10km out of your way.
For those really stuck there are 11kW Type 2 chargers at Newcastle Uni which is closer than Newcastle West. BYO cable.
Plugshare has photos and how-to instructions. The top of the ramp is likely to ground your underside too unless you approach at an angle.
It's currently broken too. Currently no 3rd party fast charging options in Newcastle.
It's worse when you consider there never has been any 3rd party charging in the Central Coast or Hornsby Shire either. Once you pass Karuah Chargefox or Scone NRMA, there's currently no DC charging for non-Teslas til you reach Lane Cove Evie, Macquarie Centre Evie, or Seven Hills Evie.
And re the ramp at Tuggerah, I was more thinking in terms of I really don't want to drive up a steep ramp at 0% if I can avoid it
My SR+ doesn't bottom out on it thankfully.
And re the ramp at Tuggerah, I was more thinking in terms of I really don't want to drive up a steep ramp at 0% if I can avoid it
My SR+ doesn't bottom out on it thankfully.
Hard to tell given we don't have much to compare to. Certainly Chargefox had some issues with ABB originally.
But there does appear to be some parts delays with Tritium.. and Chargefox at least is calling them out on it - eg. From some of the Gold Coast chargers on Chargefox app.
The few Delta chargers around have had some lengthy periods out of service too.
It is certainly curious how there can apparently be parts available to build new units, but not to supply for repairs?
I genuinely wonder (as in: I'm not being cynical, not at all, not in the least) what the government would do if all of a sudden all petrol stations at the ~300km mark between Sydney and 600km+ remote towns had all pumps fail, effectively cutting the remote locations off. Surely they'd just leave that to the free market to resolve, right? Like they would never waive the fuel excise during a petrol price hike so that petrol companies can pump up the prices even more. I mean - that would be the pinnacle of cynical to suspect anything like that, right?
Westfield Tuggerah is only one paddock away from the freeway too. Easy access both directions.
Looks like the vandalised Wallsend charger has been replaced. With a 75kw!
Those are modular chargers that can be configured for either 25kW, 50kW or 75kW operation. Did you test that it's set up at a 75kW?
He ended up getting 49.8kw (50) and the other side was 'available' at 25kw CHAdeMO. So looks like they've enabled both sides.
Not sure yet if it is 50kw CCS2 and 25kw CHAdeMO or 50kw to the first person who gets there.
Too bad there's only 2 EV spots, although there is one public space to it's right (and a disabled space to the LHS's left). So may be possible to have 3 cars charging if one is CHAdeMO.
I'll check it out myself tomorrow..
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