We arrived on the NSW Central Coast on Tuesday night, July 18.

A very generous friend, Margaret, offered us her villa while we’re staying here for a couple of weeks ☺️.

Margaret is a bit of a legend in the EV community. She bought a Kona EV several years back and made the occasional road trip when there was less infrastructure than is now available for us. Other residents in Tarragal Glen Retirement Village started to take notice. One day they told her "did you see that Hugh Sykes up the road has bought a Tesla?" She thought she'd best go and meet the new EV owner on the block. They soon fell in love and got married! They now do a few speaking circuits to tell others the benefits of driving an EV.

You can see their story here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-20/electric-vehicle-r…

Charging:

The villa comes with 5.9kW solar and a 7kW EV charger. So, whenever the car is parked here during the day, we just plug in, and set the max rate to a guess of 4kW (to allow for less winter sun) so the car charges from 100% solar. Driving on sunshine ☀️

Geeky extra: I tried to connect my app to the SolarEdge inverter, so I could use Charge HQ to automatically adjust the draw by our Tesla to exactly match the fluctuating solar, but it seems I can't do that as a visitor without the SolarEdge login credentials. So, Margaret gave me the details, and I was able to set ChargeHQ to ensure that I only used roof top solar to charge the car ☀️⚡️🚗