We stopped in Holbrook to have the obligatory photo with the submarine and a couple of…

…pies.

We chatted with one guy who was driving his Tesla and daughters from Adelaide to Sydney. Also chatted with Kate and Karen in their Kona 😊 (pictured). They’ve only had it a few weeks and this was their first big trip. Lovely to chat with them.

We talked about the Kona. I mentioned that we had chatted with Margaret McDonald about her pioneering trip in the Kona a few years back. Karen said she knew Margaret and Hugh Sykes through her work at the Central Coast ABC (if I recall correctly). Margaret and Hugh are EV celebrities that inspire many 🤩.

Charging story:

When entering the trip into the navigation in Melbourne, I had only set our destination as our first stop, in Thurgoona (to visit some old friends), so the Tesla didn’t have the chance to tell me I needed another charge after Yea to get to our next stop at Gundagai. As you can see from the screen, it starts to freak out if there are no Tesla branded chargers around 😆. No dramas though. There’s The NRMA charger in Holbrook. Unfortunately, there’s only one, so queuing becomes an issue. Two here would make a big difference. But each person charging, when they saw the next person waiting (in PlugShare), just finished up in a few minutes, and planned their next bigger charge at the next stop. For us, that would be Gundagai, which has several Tesla and other chargers.