Indian for lunch.

Boring charging details: We navigated through the carpark at Broadway Shopping Centre to the Tesla superchargers (and other chargers) near the exit. The first Tesla supercharger was empty, with the cable on the ground. We tried it, but realised that the cable in the ground was a signal from the previous person that it wasn’t working. All the other superchargers were full, so we tried the available Tesla destination charger, but we missed the red light indicating that it too wasn’t working. Then we tried the third party chargers which required our own type 2 cable, but I couldn’t get an Internet connection for the Chargefox app to unlock it. One of the other cars vacated a supercharger, so we pulled in. Fortunately we had discussed with another one that pulled in afterwards that we were “next”, since there’s no queuing mechanism. It worked, but was slow and the power jumped between 12kW and 60kW.

Then a Tesla technician arrived. Very nice guy. We moved to a fully working charger and left him to his work, while we had lunch. 25 minutes later, the app told us to return to our car since it was nearly ready to go.

The technician mentioned that all the chargers were down about a week ago, because the mains to the whole shopping centre had failed. The centre then ran on emergency generators (diesel, I presume), so they turned off the car chargers.