Public charging

When we all drove ICE cars it was very easy when you filled up to check your tyres and clean your windscreen. Most public EV charging stations (Ampol excepted) have no such facilities. Is this an oversight? Should we advocate for air and water to be available near EV chargers? What's the etiquette f

Chargefox and Evie offer RFID cards, so as well as loading their apps, I ordered a card, just in case I had to use a charger where mobile signal was out (perhaps in underground carparks, or during an outage). I actually find myself using the card instead of the App to start / stop /pay for the sessi

To avoid charging for longer than needed at interim stops on a road trip I do the following:-1. First thing when I stop at the charging location - plug in and start charging.2. Then enter next planned charging stop as the destination in Navigation app.3. Open the Energy app and go to the second tab

A big new parking station near work has all-day parking for $10 including 8 free EV charging bays. It's slow 7kW charging, so it'll take a good chunk of the day, but since I'm at work all day anyway, that's no big deal. Slow charging uses a trivial amount of power, and the power grid can handle mas

Very happy to see more public chargers popping up. I like JOLT, who give you the first 7kw free.   They are 22kw chargers so takes exactly 19 minutes to get to 7kw, the perfect amount of time to go to the shop and pick up a few things.   😎 Adds about 50km of range for FREE, love it.&n