Superchargers in Australia

[aegidius]

Great view, but it's a long walk down/up a very steep hill to get a drink or use the bathroom!

It's crazy. Roll on Coffs Harbour South, and it will never be needed again.

 

[Vostok]

It's crazy. Roll on Coffs Harbour South, and it will never be needed again.

Well Taree SC was only a few days away from being completed and opened… and absolutely nothing has progressed there since Elon sacked the SC team. Funny that.. Who knew you might need human beings to deal with contractors, handle inquiries and pay invoices?

So don’t hold your breath…

 

[karlos22]

Well Taree SC was only a few days away from being completed and opened… and absolutely nothing has progressed there since Elon sacked the SC team. Funny that.. Who knew you might need human beings to deal with contractors, handle inquiries and pay invoices?

So don’t hold your breath…

In that case I’ll be doing my Christmas drive overnight this year…..

 

[johnchidgey]

Who knew you might need human beings

Nah mate. We have AI Overviews for that stuff now...

 

[B3AU]

Latest update on the BYD Atto 3 & Seals built before the start of this year not working with the V3 and V4 Superchargers, shared on last night's Ludicrous Feed podcast.

tl;dr BYD will fix it - it's a hardware issue, and the fix will take about an hour; a replacement resistor and firmware update. At least for the Seal - no confirmation for the Atto 3.

 

[dronus]

Latest update on the BYD Atto 3 & Seals built before the start of this year not working with the V3 and V4 Superchargers, shared on last night's Ludicrous Feed podcast.

tl;dr BYD will fix it - it's a hardware issue, and the fix will take about an hour; a replacement resistor and firmware update. At least for the Seal - no confirmation for the Atto 3.

You would think that at some stage during the testing, before someone would have driven one to a supercharger and tested it haha

 

[B3AU]

You would think that at some stage during the testing, before someone would have driven one to a supercharger and tested it haha

The first Atto 3s were delivered from September 2022 (BYD delivers first customer cars in Australia), and Tesla only started opening up the Supercharger network in January 2023 (Select Tesla Superchargers open for all electric cars in Australia), all of which were V2 units.

It wasn't until August 2023 that a bunch more Supercharger sites - including V3 sites - were opened to Non-Tesla EVs, Tesla opens 30 Superchargers to rival electric cars in Australia At which point the Atto 3 had been on the road for a year.

Even the Seal was here in ~November last year - First customer BYD Seals come ashore in Australia
So probably not possible to do the testing in time?

(Though mind you, the Atto 3 has been available in Germany since October 2022, the UK in March 2023.... where some Superchargers have been open since ~June 2022, so yes, you'd think they had tested it on the V3 units in Europe first! Select Superchargers open for others in the EU - electrive.com)

 

[dronus]

The first Atto 3s were delivered from September 2022 (BYD delivers first customer cars in Australia), and Tesla only started opening up the Supercharger network in January 2023 (Select Tesla Superchargers open for all electric cars in Australia), all of which were V2 units.

It wasn't until August 2023 that a bunch more Supercharger sites - including V3 sites - were opened to Non-Tesla EVs, Tesla opens 30 Superchargers to rival electric cars in Australia At which point the Atto 3 had been on the road for a year.

Even the Seal was here in ~November last year - First customer BYD Seals come ashore in Australia
So probably not possible to do the testing in time?

(Though mind you, the Atto 3 has been available in Germany since October 2022, the UK in March 2023.... where some Superchargers have been open since ~June 2022, so yes, you'd think they had tested it on the V3 units in Europe first! Select Superchargers open for others in the EU - electrive.com)

Yeah all makes sense but also the tests and trials would have been much earlier than the delivery dates. I guess during the technical design and evaluation *someone* might of asked.. “so where are we going to tell people to charge these, is there a chance any chargers require anything specific so we can use them etc.”
Who knows, lesson learned I guess