Home from Byron Bay, 4,985 km later
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Three weeks away, and we rolled into the garage fifteen kilometres short of five thousand.
The last run was Yackandandah to home in Emerald, and we took the back way through Yea rather than the Hume. A toilet stop at Lake Nillahcootie, where the gums stand with their feet in the water, and a photo of an old gum spreading over a paddock fence near Bonnie Doon.
Down the Melba Highway to Krissy and Tim’s place in Mooroolbark for lunch. A home cooked meal and the best coffee, from our favourite chef and barista. Krissy sent us home with soup for dinner as well.
Twenty two days, Emerald to Byron Bay and back, catching up with family and friends the whole way up the NSW coast.
Charging
No charging needed on the trip home, since we have a fuel station waiting in the garage. The pub's 50 kW charger in Yackandandah had filled the battery over dinner the night before, and that one charge carried us 329.6 km: 45.3 kWh at 137.6 Wh/km, on the car's own trip meter. We pulled into the garage on 9%.
The whole three weeks:
- 4,985 km at 142 Wh/km
- 19 charging stops on the road, in 17 places, for 510 kWh
- 16 charges where we were staying, at 4 of them, for 311 kWh: the Byron cabin, the Central Coast, the Armidale Inn and the Maclean motel
- Quickest stop: Raymond Terrace, 25.6 kWh in thirteen minutes
- Highest rate anywhere: 183 kW
- Last one we paid for: the Coolac Supercharger the day before, $9.85 for 20.5 kWh at 48 cents, on the Tesla app
Back home, the car charged at 7 kW from the wall connector, and all of it came out of the Powerwalls rather than the grid. We don't normally charge the car from the house batteries. We did this time because 9% is lower than we like to leave it: we want at least 30% in case we have to go somewhere unexpectedly, and a battery is happier resting above 20% than near empty. There was plenty to spare anyway. The roof had made 45.3 kWh over a cloudless day, 37 kWh of it had gone into the Powerwalls, and they were sitting at 100% with the sun still up, so anything more would have gone out to the grid.
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Anyway, welcome back to Sunney Melbourne. Er, I think it's gonna rain soon. :)
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