Burning off excess solar fuel, in The Dandenongs.

Excess solar fuel is a welcome problem. The Powerwalls had been parked near 100% for days from a stretch of sunny autumn weather, the car not far behind. We "needed" to go for a drive to use some of it up.

Up Mount Dandenong Tourist Road, past Kalorama, into the carpark of a lookout high above Silvan Dam reservoir.

The reservoir sat flat and silver in the afternoon sun. Sculptures dotted the parkland, and a bench faced the view that was begging to be sat on.

Home through tree-fern back roads. Plugged the car in to soak up the last of the afternoon sun before heading back out to Box Hill South that night, where it joined a few thousand other Teslas dancing in time to music — still at 80-something percent.

Anyone else done a "drive to use up the surplus solar" trip — and where did you end up?