Overnight stay at Best Western Plus Goulburn, to break up my road trip from my home in…

…Emerald Victoria, to hers in Cessnock NSW.

Really nice motel and staff. Great breakfast.

Charging:

Bonus: free EV charging on site. We could have avoided our previous stop in Coolac, altogether, and just charged here overnight at 11kW.

In the morning, when I was packing the car, another Tesla Model Y Juniper pulled up, with a family doing a similar trip to us. I moved my car out of the way, so they could connect. They couldn’t quite get the plug in, so I helped and showed them. When I returned from checking out at reception, I noticed that the family were sitting in the car. As the driver got out, he said “it’s very slow”. I asked if he was staying at the motel. He said no. I explained that this is just a destination charger, which is designed for people staying here, and that he’d be better off using one of the two Tesla Supercharger sites in town.

It reminds me of how very little we knew when we were thinking of buying an EV, over three years ago. I wonder if there’s a comprehensive but simple guide somewhere for newcomers, so they don’t have to trawl through dozens of YouTube videos, like we did in the early days of anticipation.