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Thank you. Glad you find them useful. The aim is to keep them informative, but inspiring you is a bonus.

No worries, glad you enjoyed it.

@ ive got a station about 40km from me but its a spaceX earth station and then we have a starlink ground station about 100km but its out west where I wont ever be going past.

@davebrouwer7333 glad you found it useful. I think you should be more than prepared with that kit. Per my video you can maybe get away without needed a 3 phase setup, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Also hopefully you can put the Fronius to good use as the wall charger at home?

Unfortunately I did not film that bit, but maybe this video from another TH-camr helps: th-cam.com/users/shorts_NWxk3XOMTw By pushing it in towards the pole it should come out.

Gold standard is good, but maybe a platinum standard is even better? To my mind that would be charging with just your credit card i.e. tap and go. Even Autocharge requires you to create an account and link a credit card. Fine if you use them regularly, but a pain if it's less frequent or you are just travelling through. However, Autocharge or Tap and Go, has got to be better than grabbing your phone out your pocket to start a charge session.

Agree. At least give the driver the choice.

There is only one connector on the car, it's called CCS2. it is the standard. Many people drive an EV and have no extra "crap". What I need is unique to long distance outback travel. Also I never asked you to drive a "fire bomb", so not sure why you are directing your insults here.

As EV charging gets simplified it will all be the same. Name one EV that’s has become a fire bomb in Australia?… Yeah just another anti EV person spewing there rhetoric that has been proven wrong. They can’t seem to get past that though. Still cheaper to run the EV with the costs of the extra cables. My m3 is best car I have ever owned.

The majority of the free charging was on the granny charger. The granny charger was free with my car. All the other cables I took are not needed for typical Aussie road trips. The last time we used 3 phase was back in April when we passed through Camooweal Qld.

​​​@@AUSY8great work on your trip. I prefer to use the term trickle charger as it better describes what it does. Keen to catch-up face2face if you are still in Launceston.

Good point @markpurcell4507. Trickle charging is also more inclusive. Would love to catch up. We are in town for another full day. You can find an email to contact me buried under a link on my channel home page. On a PC it should be under the banner somewhere. Also I see a Hobart based Mark Purcell on LinkedIn, I could DM you there, if that's you.

Really, this crap again? The one at Cauguna WA is powered by leftover oil from the chip fryer. The ones at the Nullarbor and Madura roadhouses are powered by the sun, maybe others too. Do you also want to know how many times our car caught fire?

Good question. I started to add it up, but once I got to Tesla, I got bored because each company reports the charge time differently. For Tesla I need to open a PDF for each session. Also the AEVA 22kW ones would need to be estimated, because there was no electronic billing for those. if you think it would be useful I can give it another go.

Glad you enjoyed it @sunrisejak2709

No worries, glad you liked it.

Nothing is wrong I don’t think. We took 18 months and so that total includes all sorts of side trips. For example it includes a side trip to Kakadu and the Daintree. It also includes doing the port Augusta <-> Threeways section twice. While on the road we continued to do normal living stuff, so it even includes going to the supermarket, doctor and vet countless times. The charging costs are inclusive of every km we drove. Hope that helps.

When you're driving around doing your normal daily tasks. Make note of how many kilometres you do. My sister and I clocked up over 3000km in 5 days travelling barely more than 300 kilometres in any direction from where we'd set up camp a couple of years back. Even short distances around your local area or town can quickly add up. Take Dubbo in central west NSW. One can easily clock up 80km's in a couple of hours running from one end of the town to the other. Because it isn't long distance, it goes unnoticed. (I used to live near Dubbo, so know how quickly mileage or kilometreage adds up in that town! 😂).

With some planning, it is very repeatable.

@AUSY8 planning? Forget it I could easily scratch off 5000 klm and then could just blaze my way in something like I haven't done in many many decades ! I kidd you not .

@ what I meant to say is if you only want to spend $1900 on “fuel” then it will take planning. You need to ask every accommodation owner up front if you can charge.

Yeah interesting location near the Telstra exchange. At least the slower charge gave us time stretch our legs, walk around town and grab a bite. Nothing worse than being at a busy charger and holding people up. It's a delicate balance. Also good to see some competition in town with a Tesla Supercharger.

I know that rain-soaked feeling-we lived in Seattle for a few years. Glad I can teleport some sunshine from Down Under! I have hours of dash cam footage with plenty of sunshine; maybe I could stitch them together into a slow TV special with a music soundtrack for those who are sun-deprived. Leaving the granny charger aside, I think the BYO Type 2 cable will become a necessity in our part of the world. Lamp pole chargers are starting to catch on, and unless people are okay with tripping over cables on the footpath, I believe BYO is the way to go. All the other three-phase plugs/cables you saw in my video(s) will likely go the way of the dodo. We think the seats in the Model Y are fine, but with all our sunshine, I’d definitely choose ventilated seats next time. That might not be an issue for you, though. I think there are better seats out there, but we don’t have any major complaints. Ground clearance is okay. Think of it more as an urban runabout that can mount a curb rather than something truly off-road capable. Thanks! I take pride in my amateur editing skills. I love my tech, so using multiple camera angles and a good video editing program to sync them together is half the fun.

You may enjoy rhe views with sun, but could handle the heat? .. I was born here some 50 years ago and I'm still not used to the heat! 😂

All great points there @moestrei. What it does highlight too, is that EV charging is still too complex. Luckily things are improving fast. For example I predict 3 phase for remote travel will become an oddity within a few years.

@AUSY8 Yes. I even go further saying that the future is DC bidi only. No point of the car carrying heavy ac chargers. If you ever see/lift one yourself you understand what I mean.

I was surprised how often I got a yes at first, but I think people appreciate us asking.

​@AUSY8 that's the key. Common courtesy goes a long way and helps overcome any prejudice of EVs

I'm sure future owners of EVs will look back at this video and think it was rather quaint that us early adopters carried a bunch of cables when travelling afar. @wyjpremium in the other comment shows us there is already a world without BYO cables.

Glad you found it interesting. Trust the Aussies to find another thing to BYO. I think they started the whole BYO booze thing too, right? Anyway yeah 3 phase is a bit of an oddity, however the Europeans have a version too, but I think they have standardised on just one connector. Thankfully we seem to be standardising on the 5 pin, 32 amp one too. I do wish we had a smaller fast DC connector (NACS) like the US. The CC2 combo adapter can be a very chunky affair.

@@AUSY8 Alas no, the EU has 32A and 16A connectors. (BMW and Mini's in Australia come with an 11kW portable charger, and the only 3 phase tail they offer is the EU spec, which means I had to get an adapter cable)

@@dadegroot thanks for the info. Is that why some are orange and some are blue? Now I don’t feel so bad about the half dozen 3 phase plugs types we have here.

Crazy right. If it wasn’t for the tyres and glass they would be paying me to travel around ;)

Very cheap, but wait until you try to offload your EV. It. will end up costing you more, IF you can sell it. EVs are good shopping trolleys and golf buggies.

@@tonymaiorano2749 ?? the cheapest of cheapest model 3s is 40k - I don't understand the shopping trolley comment - am I missing something.

@@subarusmith2662 Burning processed hydrocarbons is freedom. 🤦🏻 old mate probably uses a rascal scooter

That makes sense. Thanks for confirming.

Thanks @petedawborn. Good to know. In my case I went through a lot of glass.

Thanks Pete. Who knew that summer in Tas is an optional extra. Glad we bought the puffers during a recent Canberra cold spell. That was after the endless summer we enjoyed in the top end.

Slow and steady wins the race :)

Your strategy should work just fine. The only thing is outlets at rest areas are going to be pretty rare from my experience. As always PlugShare is your friend. Also February is outside school holidays so fast DC charging queues should be light. You have the bonus of being able to use superchargers too. Hope you enjoy your trip.

In any type of car the lap is memorable, but even more so in an EV. I've not checked recently, as things are changing fast, but the slower stretches for us were, Broome <-> Port Hedland and Threeways <-> Mount Isa. Also Pimba <-> Ghan, but that's not part of the lap. Enjoy your trip

It sure was a great trip, but it's not over. Maybe we will see you out there. What are you travelling in?

Thanks. Glad I can help fill out your charging toolkit.

We have most used granny chargers at our accomodation, so our charging costs will be very low for the 43,000 km. I hope to get those numbers out on a video soon. We stayed in Mallacoota, well worth a visit.

​@AUSY8 we normally do the same but this trip had Superchargers everywhere we went so decided on the quick and easy way for a change. Our last 3000km trip worked out at just over $4 per 100km with mostly AC charging. Mallacoota is a gorgeous place

I know, not cheap. I guess there is a Tesla tax built in.

​@@AUSY8I'm very impressed with the factory Hankooks on our M3LR (22). They have 50000km and another 20 to 30000 left. I can't remember if you said what yours had from factory?

@ yeah ours have been Hankooks from factory. The replacements too.

​@AUSY8 i wonder is there are batch differences in tread wear as ours have been the best wearing tyres I've owned? Interesting

@@Rabs73 maybe. Could also be my style of driving and the extra weight of all our luggage. However in my defense we have the car on chill mode to improve efficiency.

Does sound like a tough nut to crack in the UK. Especially then you consider that your public AC /DC charging rates are so much high, compared to ours. Maybe some charging at work, will help close the gap a little?

Thanks. With NZ being a smaller market I wonder why?

Thanks for clarifying. And like you, I'm here to show that while EVs are relatively new for the mainstream, they are very viable for getting from A to B, no matter how far the distance.

"There's a resistance to EV's in the press and this propagates down to the public perception as well that EVs are rubbish. " If they were good then the perception would change. There are huge concerns in the minds of the public that are never properly addressed. They catch fire, they are impossible to insure, they do not have the range of a ICE, you have to fart about plugging the thing in every time and spend an hour loitering around some grim car park while it charges up. There are lots of people who tried an EV but gone back to a hybrid or ICE. The video talks of lots being around but only 3% of cars are EVs and despite it being 25 years since the Prius and 12 years since the Zoe new sales are only on 18%. That is rather pathetic. "As more cars go EV then the price of petrol and diesel will go up" Well already Diesel car sales are down to about 5% as "the press" has got it in for the fuel. Overall the UK is buying more fuel than ever. Fewer diesel sales means more petrol sales, and each car then uses more fuel, people buy hybrids for the tax breaks but just use them on the engine. Also, as with the monster car in the video, your saving of the planet does not seem to stop you joining the nuclear arms race of enormous cars that are far less aerodynamic than normal height and size cars. Over time the tax-dodging EV will need to pay its share of the cost of road upkeep as you are a parasite on a diminishing host. So the tax on EVs must drop over time. Sorry that all the infrastructure and additional costs you get for free may be slightly offset by you having to pay the going rate for charging up.

@@grolfe3210 Thanks for your comment. Not sure what conclusions I make from it other than we are in a transition. And like any transition it can be a bit messy, but there is no going back, this one is inevitable. If you consider the health benefits alone, it is the right thing to do. I do not consider a Prius an EV, so I don't count those. According to Wiki the UK was at 5% BEV penetration as at 2023. It must be higher now, and maybe I was in an area where BEV penetration is higher?

@@AUSY8 Penetraton into the UK market has stalled. EVs have failed. People are buying huge great hybrid tanks and they are using more fuel than a regular ICE. I rather think the way forward is to just set higher criteria for ICE. Over 20 years Diesel pollutant dropped to about 2% of what it was. Just keep pushing at that. The public do not like being pushed into anything. Where we will go is when the ICE stops, car sales will stop and we will all just hang on to the car we have - like they did in Cuba. You can keep a good car going for ever. The simple truth is people expect the next generation to be better no so awful ugly space ship that you have to keep plugging in. They are about as desirable as going vegan.

⁠@@grolfe3210Rubbish. You’re just scaremongering like the press. You need to live with one first before criticising one. Get back into the flock like the rest of the sheep.

Probably similar to here in Australia. It's important do to some research on any charging infrastructure, before setting off on a trip to more remote parts. That requirement will lesson over time, as charging infrastructure expands further.

@morganoela Nice one. What sort of range do you have and do you want to do it quick or slow? I only need the type 2 because my 32amp Fronius does not have a built-in type 2. Watching back my Nullarbor video (this is the UK video btw :) the only place I used the Fronius/type 2 setup was at Cocklebiddy and Penong. Cocklebiddy was not a mandatory stop for me but I wanted to film there. Bottom line depending on how you answer my questions, you may be able to get away with a 15amp granny charger. Most of the popular chargers on the Nullarbor are already cabled.

My car is a Kia Ev6 awd Gtline. I have a type 2 cable and 10amp granny cable that came with the car. I have watched all of your TH-cam videos and was thinking of buying a 15amp cable as it seemed to be more common than 32amp in caravan parks. Planning a two weeks or more return trip to visit relatives in Perth accompanied by my little dog for companionship 0:02 . Have done the Nullarbor six or more times before but in a diesel motorhome. Your thoughts ??

@@morganoela Sounds like your real world range is about 400km at highway speeds, which is better that my RWD Model Y at about 350. Given that, you could probably could get away with no cables on the Nullarbor and just rely on the supplied DC changing cables. Even Balladonia has a supplied DC cable, I just choose not to use it because I wanted to camp. In your case, if any of the DC chargers are not working, you could use the granny charger a backup, I don't think it's worth buying a 15A for just this trip. However if you planning other trips in the future and plan to stay at campgrounds then the 15A might be a useful tool for your kit bag.

Thanks again for your help. Will sell my granny 10amp and buy a 15amp cable with 10 amp tail so I have both.

This seems to be a duplicate comment. Please see my response to you in the UK EV scene video.

He actually owns 42% of it, but I hear what you are saying. If he switched it off I would go back to how it was before or use a competitor. I’m only invested month to month and the hardware was relatively cheap. Other companies that do business with Space X would be impacted more and I’m sure would have something to say.

Yeah the Starlink ground stations are powered by the grid I believe, but for a home user, it’s a great option for those off-grid.

Actually @AutosNGizmos if you pause the video a few seconds in, and zoom in, I pass a Shell station. The price listed on their board for unleaded is £1.40 a litre. That ends up being $2.72 per litre, so expensive compared to Australia. I would say the charging rates are higher by about the same ratio.

Luckily that’s not what I experienced. I paid what I was originally quoted for with the Jeep Avenger: AUD 289 for 6 days. I thought that was a good bargain. I covered the rental car excess with my travel insurance.

Thanks. Yeah very little security other than the fence, however the Pimba one is in the middle of almost nowhere so security by obscurity maybe?

Thats not correct. Both sites I visited are confirmed by the federal government ACMA register as Starlink ground stations. GPS co-ordinates confirm they have everything to do with Starlink

Such an ill informed comment. You should do some research before sticking your foot in your mouth.