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Do you think the car will charge on non Tesla DC?
Another good case for having at least one destination charger close to Superchargers at this early stage.
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Sydney to Melbourne via Tesla Superchargers, how long?
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Do you think the car will charge on non Tesla DC?
Another good case for having at least one destination charger close to Superchargers at this early stage.
Hard to say and I don't have a CHADEMO adapter to try it. Issue appears to be with the handshake which may affect other DC charging as well.
We quite enjoyed the Spirit of Tasmania crossing. Only negative was the long wait to board. Dinner then saw Darkest Hour in the cinema and slept quite well in the porthole cabin. Getting off at the other end was less waiting.How was the ferry experience? It always worries me to contemplate
I called the Melbourne Service Centre and one of their techs has agreed to come in next Saturday to fix the Supercharger issue on my car. Assuming he can fix it, that means we won't leave until lunch time so will get home in the wee hours. Wish us luck.
Thanks for the offer @eclectricdave. The plan B at this stage is to fly home on Saturday if they can't fix it and return the next week-end to pick it up.
Turned up at Richmond about 8AM Saturday morning as the ferry throws you off from 6:30. Plugged in to the Supercharger to test the car again and if not successful hopefully generate some error codes. Of course this time it worked perfectly and started to Supercharge like nothing had ever been wrong, grrrr.
As Tesla had agreed to open the Service Centre on a Saturday just for us I thought it would be rude to leave anyway and it would be at risk of it breaking again.
So we had breakfast at Top Paddock and went for a drive to burn time until they opened at 10AM.
Luke our tech was great, apparently they had been examining the car remotely which may explain why the change in operation but there were still some concerns that he'd needed to address, so they provided us with an Uber to NGV to spend a few hours. Luke was a bit guarded over exactly what went wrong but indicated that he would be replacing one of the chargers. This surprised me as I was under the understanding that Supercharging bypassed them.
Got going at 1:30PM and arrived in the Southern Highlands house at a quarter to midnight after an uneventful drive north. The car recommended to charge at Euroa and Gundagai only but we were scheduled to arrive at Gundagai after Olivers closed at 8 so stopped at Wodonga as well to have dinner so we may have been able to make it a bit faster if we needed to. In any case Olivers was open until 9PM so grabbed a coffee before they closed.
So that's just over 10 hours, add another 1.5 to get to Sydney proper along with 30 minutes at Goulburn, means that my initial guess of 12 hours Melbourne to Sydney was a pretty close.
If my Model 3 arrives in time in December for a trip from northern Sydney to Melbourne, I wanted to get some advice from those who've done that trip.
I'll be travelling on my own but with my dog and so I felt I should stop overnight about halfway. Any dog friendly recommendations where I could sleep and charge?
A Better Route Planner suggests it will take about 10 hours including stops at Goulburn, Gundagai and Barnawartha North. If that's realistic, My reading of this thread suggests that most people are doing it in one day so I'm tempted to leave early and do that. However, I'll not have had much experience with the car at that point.
I'll be travelling on my own but with my dog and so I felt I should stop overnight about halfway. Any dog friendly recommendations where I could sleep and charge?
A Better Route Planner suggests it will take about 10 hours including stops at Goulburn, Gundagai and Barnawartha North. If that's realistic, My reading of this thread suggests that most people are doing it in one day so I'm tempted to leave early and do that. However, I'll not have had much experience with the car at that point.
Very easy drive. If you leave on 100% you may be able to make Gundagai (stop at Goulbourn if nervous or Jugiong has an NRMA fast charger), then only charge enough to get to your next charging point with say 10% buffer It should take 10 to 10.5 hours. You will arrive fresh if you let the car drive itself for most of the way.
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As someone that did Brisbane to Melbourne on the second day of ownership I can feel your excitement!
It is a very easy drive but if you do want to break it up I highly recommend hillview farm stay. They are pet friendly and have Tesla destination chargers - and are right off the highway.
Hillview
Thanks PJF and Grenadine.
That's encouraging, then I can splurge on somewhere nice for a night or two in Melbourne. (Tips on accommodation there would be welcome too.)
Wow, that could be perfect, if not this trip, then another! Thanks.
That's encouraging, then I can splurge on somewhere nice for a night or two in Melbourne. (Tips on accommodation there would be welcome too.)
Wow, that could be perfect, if not this trip, then another! Thanks.
If you stay in South Yarra you are amongst all the shopping, restaurants, some nightclubs etc. Can walk around, close to botanic gardens, MCG (good museum), tram/train to city or walk along Yarra, Tesla SC less than 1k away. Olsen or Como hotels are reasonable.
Yes, but how do you identify them... I've not found that info clearly identified in the hotels I've looked at. It doesn't even appear that Google has that as a filter in their Maps search. It'd be interesting to read what techniques others are using.
