On our way out of Bowral this morning, we grabbed a coffee at Coffee Guru Mittagong.
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Conveniently located across the road from Evie fast chargers, so we could all be charged up for our long drive to Cessnock and Seal Rocks.
Charging:
The Tesla’s navigation has the option to route through third party EV chargers. But it misses out on showing a lot of them. To get this one to show, we had to type “Evie” into the navigation, then select it from the list. The navigation is smart enough to even precondition the battery for this destination, but not yet smart enough to include it in the list of chargers. Hopefully a software update will fix this.
The Evie Networks chargers have a great “auto charge” feature, where we can just plug in our car and walk away, like we do with Tesla chargers. No tap card, app or faffing required. Since this was our first Evie charging of this new car, however, we needed to use the app, to set up the account details. This also prompted me to remove our old car from our Evie account, so we don’t end up paying for the new owner’s travels.
This site has four charging cables on two stations. The screen shows them as only 75kW each, but it gave us 150kW with no one else connected.
All charged up by the time we returned from grabbing a coffee.