Grenadine
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Sydney people are snobs..../exit stage right
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Tesla Model 3 in Australia
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yes I just updated v10 in aus and no smart summon and I paid for FSD. O well
hopefully it comes soon
Both Sydney centers are either booked out or they have blocked all online bookings. Given how under prepared they were to deliver our cars it should come as no surprise they’re under prepared to fix them too.
You can get a 3 pack of Tenda mesh wifi for around $100
I get coverage 10 metres outside my house
No no the chargefox (ABB) chargers are 350kw ultra chargers with both ccs2 and chademo connectors, they plug straight in to Tesla model 3. Use chargefox app to authenticate. (Although I’ve found the app a bit hit and miss so going to call them tomorrow and request an rfid tag).
Each of those two sites Euroa and Barnawatha (probably spelling it wrong ) has 2 x 350kw ABB ultra chargers, and 2 x Australian made Tritium vefill 50kw chargers. (Tritium - made in brisbane - also makes 350kw ultra chargers being deployed in Europe by the hundreds, not aware of any in Australia but I hope to see more of them in future). Barnawatha has spare bays with no chargers for expansion. I hope we Tesla owners use these regularly as chargefox is a startup surviving on large investments of taxpayer dollars plus funds from racq racv nrma etc etc... please oh please use them. Also u have to manually tell Tesla nav where they are... use plugshare or chargefox app for addresses. They’re on free vend mode right now but I want to see the day where they’re confident to start billing in the hope that offering ev rapid charging becomes a profitable enterprise.
Again, tritium, an Australian company based in Brisbane, using dc rectifiers made by RectifierTtechnologies an Australian manufacturer, both listed on ASX, make faster DC chargers than Tesla!!!! Despite our stupid government and the Murdoch media that controls it.
Can I just point again the Tritium 350kw chargers are faster than the Tesla supercharger v3. And they’re made in Australia!!!!!
As I said in my previous post the stupid thing about today was that the most expensive part of driving Melbourne to Albury and back (for the fun of it) was the McDonald’s breakfast! I both love and hate that. We need ev charging to become stand alone profitable.
So can I just suggest one thing to all you model 3 (ccs charging) owners. RACV, racq, nrma, Vic govt, Nsw govt, qld govt, (presumably other govts as well I don’t know) have tipped a pretty penny into the chargefox network, please use it, at the very least alternate between Tesla and ‘others’. If Tesla’s are 80% of the ev market and we don’t use the ‘other’ chargers, they won’t succeed and the conversion to ev will be held up/stall. Chargefox is Australian, go use it!!!!
(And no I’m not a rep of chargefox, I’m just a model 3 owner of 4 days, finally appreciating the realities, and the fact that Australian companies like chargefox and tritium are actually at the forefront of EV adoption in spite of our governments lies and obfuscation - ev will ruin your weekend, what a load of nonsense- go take your Tesla and support an Aussie company occasionally (like chargefox and tritium), otherwise they will not be able to expand as we need them to.
My 2c rant over... feel free to flame me.
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I could be wrong, but I think the 350kw ones are 40c/kwh and all the other ones are free.
WoodWombat
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Yes, you are indeed wrong
The new Torquay 350kW charger is the only ultra-fast unit charging at the moment. Euroa and Barnawatha are free. Best way to see this is to download the ChargeFox app.
WoodWombat
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If your car can charge at 800v, then yes, these 350kW chargers can be faster than a Tesla V3. However, since we drive 400v Tesla's, the most that you will get out of a 350kW charger is around 200kW, and that only in a Model 3 with long range pack. The V3 Tesla charger will deliver 250kW in the same situation.
I thought so too... still a few cents cheaper than Tesla. But having checked chargefox app billing history, they were free...
The nice thing (and I'm not even an environmental person) is that the Barnawatha ones are powered by a huge bank of solar panels. (I'm sure they have an electric backup too)
Yes, you are indeed wrong
The new Torquay 350kW charger is the only ultra-fast unit charging at the moment. Euroa and Barnawatha are free. Best way to see this is to download the ChargeFox app.
Oh really.., my Tesla wall connector install is Tuesday morning, then (ironically, and since I have a couple days off work) was planning o drive down to Torquay and try it. It’s ok I don’t mind paying... I want to pay!!! Making them free won’t make more of them appear where we want/need them so the sooner they start billing us the better imho
The nice thing (and I'm not even an environmental person) is that the Barnawatha ones are powered by a huge bank of solar panels. (I'm sure they have an electric backup too)
I used that exact one this morning,.....
Semantics, you get my point. The irony that Australian companies are producing kit that is top of the league globally, while our ridiculous government says you’ll lose your weekends, or it’ll be faster to walk to Wagga, I mean the fact that aussies can do that against the torent of negativity from our federal government makes them hero’s in my eyes...
I must add that my M3 SR+ has max dc charge of 100kw. That was so fast at Barnawatha I barely had time to pee and buy a chicken salad sandwich and get back to the car. At some point ultra rapid stupid fast charging goes beyond the point of utility.
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Just a heads up for those of you wondering how much supercharger credit you have left (because Tesla's "free km" thing is misleading), friend and I were comparing accounts because mine is still free.
Login to your Tesla account and click on "History", and choose a supercharging session if you have one. You will see a KwH remaining and that is your credit balance left.
Looks like 1,500km = 372kwH = $174.84
Login to your Tesla account and click on "History", and choose a supercharging session if you have one. You will see a KwH remaining and that is your credit balance left.
Looks like 1,500km = 372kwH = $174.84
There’s a meetup of TOCA in Newcastle on October 2nd.
https://www.teslaowners.org.au/index.cfm?module=event&pagemode=indiv&page_id=917997
Woo hoo! You should contact Electrek or reneweconomy.com.au and let them know, I’m sure they’d like to do a story on the first person to line up in the world finally taking delivery of their Model 3.
Yeah, that would be me
but no order yet, yet alone a delivery date I was very surprised and happy to take delivery earlier as I’m in the US from Oct 4Awesome, great to hear someone in Melbourne has got their Red/white P+
According to the spreadsheet yours was meant to arrive on Debussy on Oct 5, it seems that you're one of the lucky ones!
Paid cash, no trade in if that makes a difference in priority.
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