Home of the bin chicken. Visit our friends:
Went out for drinks yesterday with a work colleague at their request. Somewhat of a mistake, as I don't usually drink.
Bit of a headache now but I should be able to soldier through until I get on a plane to fly home and sleep through it all ๐ซ๐ด๐ฌ
The guys in Melbourne wanted me back next week as well, but my boss said, "No, maybe another time." So no work paid trips to another state for a while ๐คญ
Decided to take the Seal out for random adventures around Brisvegas... Figured I'd try this charging business being that we'll need to do it at some point.
Buggered if I can find a charger that's actually able to be used.
They're all either out of order, or have half a dozen Tesla's camped around it like it's a FPS spawn point.
FPS spawn point
The game was rigged from the start.
So, charging infrastructure isn't even ready for a small number of EVs we have on the road?
Do you get adaptors to charge your vehicle at different places or is it all universal plug and play?
The main issue is I don't have a BYO cable yet. I've ordered one (now), but that's the missing link in opening up charger options.
There's a few different standards but the most common is Type 2. The trouble is there's not many chargers with the charging lead provided that are Type 2 - you'll have a row of six charging slots, but it'll be 1 X Type 2 and 1 X Chademo with cables fitted, and 4 X BYO (they provide a Type 2 socket, but you need to bring your own cable to plug from car to socket). In our case last night, you'd find the Type 2 is always already taken, the Chademo is always empty (cause no one uses it much anymore, just the Nissan Leaf and the like), and I couldn't use the BYO options cause I didn't have a cable.
Ended up using the Jolt charger at Carindale which gives you 7kwh free a day, then a relatively expensive charge over that. I put in 20kwh and called it a night which was like $2. Didn't really need to charge as we still had >50% battery but I wanted to work out how it all works.
The car comes with a "granny charger" which plugs in to your standard home power socket, but at 1.5kw it's a slow old process to charge a 85kwh battery pack. Probably enough for the daily commute though if you plug it in overnight, we use 3% battery to work, 3% to home so someone can work out the maths in kWh.
I also have a 7kw charger ready to install, I just haven't got around to it. That'll smash our weekly usage overnight, or during the day when the solar is pumping.
Well that's good to know. Slightly more complicated than going to a servo to pump petrol with a nozzle. But also way cheaper compared to petrol.
If my maths is right, that would be roughly $5-$6 for 42.5kwh (50%, is that correct?) verses $40-$50 filling my car up from near zero to half tank with petrol.
Also have to take in the time to charge aswell, so way more beneficial to get it charging at home, and with a home battery, that would be even better for night time charging. Money saving.