Brief stop in Bridgewater, on our way (sort of) to Hahndorf for a couple of nights.

At one point, I think the car started heating, and it warned us thate might see steam eminating from the bonnet. I recall reading a year or so ago that a few people thought they saw smoke coming out of Teslas while charging, so I goes this is just to prevent worry.

Charging:

When we asked for charging options, the Tesla navigation included Evie Networks chargers, like this one, in the list. That’s good.

We saw “Mount Barker” in the description, realised that’s just before Hahndorf, so chose it as “on our way”. Unfortunately, it turned out to be on “Mount Barker Rd, Bridgewater” but the listing truncated that to just show “Mount Barker”. So, we drove past Hanhndorf, charged for a few minutes, then drove back. That’s bad. No big deal, but we’ll have to check the full listing more carefully next time, somehow.

We plugged into the charger. That’s it. No app, no card. It just started charging. That’s because we’ve already set up the Evie app to auto charge our car whenever we plug in. That’s good.

The charger was listed as 150kW, but we seemed to only get 125kW max. That’s okay.

We charged for 14 minutes to get half a tank.