I managed to drive on the right hand side of the road, sleep deprived and all.

It’s weird having the driver’s seat and the car console flipped over to the other side, like some mirror universe.

I managed to keep the curb on my right (instead of left, in Australia). That method works fine, until you come across a roundabout, where it’s the reverse of the already reversed method. Our cousin, Nico, had by that stage come out on his bike to guide us the last few hundred metres. He facepalmed as he watched me hesitate at the last roundabout and then proceed the wrong way around it. Fortunately, we were in a quiet neighbourhood, with no one around. Until then, I had managed many other roads and a few roundabouts, so I’m blaming my brain glitch on jet lag 😉.

We parked 100m from our cousin’s houseboat, in a quiet neighbourhood street. It has several EV destination chargers next to parking spots! Amazing. Our Tesla has 90% charge, so I don’t want or need to take up a charging spot yet.

The UFODRIVE car comes nicely cleaned. It includes a CCS type 2 cable (suitable for the street chargers) and a mobile charging cable (suitable for power points). Contrary to the app’s help info, we don’t have access to the glovebox, I’m guessing to keep customers off the sentry cam drive.

I miss using the proper Tesla app, with this rental car. The UFODrive app is some kind of web app – not a proper native mobile experience. The navigation between features is a bit weird. I can’t reliably get the walk away auto lock to work, so am having to do it manually each time. I can’t pre condition the car prior to returning, and so on. But the car drives brilliantly, despite the driver.