After travelling in our EV for a year, up and down the east coast of Australia, we have…

…the keys to our new home, in Emerald Victoria! After a few stressful days wondering if the money transfer worked with ANZ Australia, we picked up our keys from Barry Plant Emerald.

Thanks also to Mortgage Choice in Tumbi Umbi, NSW, for sorting out the otherwise mind numbing loan application forms, to get us this far.

The painter has already started prepping. We’ve organised new carpet. Hopefully the solar and battery will follow soon from Lightning Energy.

Charging:

The all important test of our new home: the power point in the garage charged the car at 2.3kW for a couple of hours with no heating in the power point. So, the electrics seem good!

Lightning Energy will also be connecting our Tesla wall charger, when it arrives with our removalist in about three weeks. The house has only single phase power, so we’ll get about 7.5kW out of it. That’s 7.5kWh per hour. So, our 60kWh battery will get half a tank in 30 / 7.5 = 4 hours. That will come free from our solar panels.