Today we drove out through the towns of Woodend and Kyneton, Victoria.

Beautiful towns, even on a cold windy day. We’re still looking for a possible new home. We looked at one house at Kyneton Bushland Resort. Another house had 14kW of solar panels, a Tesla Powerwall house battery and a Tesla EV charger.

Lunch at Home Grown on Piper was delicious.

We bumped into the owners of a blue Tesla Model Y with the licence plate BEM3UP (“beam me up”) at one of the houses and at the Kyneton charger. Of course we discussed Star Trek 🖖.

Also had a brief chat with Tony, on a ride on his electric Harley Davison LiveWire, with his other biker mates.

Charging:

Kyneton and Woodend each have a 50kWh DC fast charger by Evie Networks. Disappointingly only one at each location, which can create queuing. We were only plugged in for a few minutes while using the adjacent toilet, so we were finished anyway when the next person arrived.

We’ve been trying out the beta version of Evie’s new app, which is improving. But this one seemed to lack a “Stop Charging” button, so I submitted a bug testing report.

Tony had trouble getting his app to connect. I wonder if that was just the phone carrier. I’m using Belong (a cheaper branch of Telstra). I saw someone else had trouble connecting their phone to the internet using Vodafone. This reminds me that I should order an Evie and Chargefox payment card, in case I’m ever at a charger with a failing app/internet connection.