Nine EVs up the Black Spur, in the rain
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Low cloud, drizzle that wouldn't quit, and a convoy of nine EVs heading up the Black Spur — turns out the wet road makes it better.
Met Jess (the organiser) and the cars at the Beechworth Bakery in Healesville just before 11. Mostly Teslas — a couple of new Model Ys, a Performance 3 with racing stripes, a wide-body Y running a serious aero kit — plus a Mercedes-Benz EQS AMG 53, also fully electric and roughly five times the price of our Y. Jess's group is open to anything that plugs in, which is honestly how this stuff should be: same silent drive, very different sticker.
Quick line-up at the Maroondah Reservoir lookout, then north on Maroondah Hwy through the Spur. Mountain ash, tree ferns, taillights threading the bends — the kind of road that's almost better when it's drizzling. Quiet inside the cabin too, music on, no engine note from the cars ahead.
Lunch in Buxton, then back down the Spur and home through autumn-leafed Healesville in fading rain.
Charging
No public stop. The Y rolled out on charge banked from a few sunny days at home and came back with about 50% — roughly 200 km round trip including the Spur, all on excess solar.
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Links
- Jess's EV cruise group, open to anything that plugs in Charged Up- VIC (Facebook group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/charged-up-vic
(Or search "Charged Up- VIC" on Facebook.)