Australia Charging FUD

Are some things really different in Australia?

MSEV said:

Are somethings really different in Australia?

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Nope, this just proves that it's the same in Australia as everywhere else. Tesla is changing the game, and the establishment is scared.

What a terrible article,

Yeah, if you use the airconditioning, your range will be halved. What a joke.

One thing I don't understand, Australian outlets are 240V and 10A. Why isn't there an adaptor for the UMC that can take advantage of this? Still would be better than the 110v and 12A we get in the USA.

(I moved from Aus to SoCal for my Tesla. Plan not to go back for the near future)

I don't know if Joshua Dowling was at the Tesla Launch last night but there was an awful lot of people there so I don't know where he gets his 50 orders figure from.
Focusing on the process and potential problems of adding an extra load to your electricity supply seems an odd story line. I doubt anyone has written a similar piece about the perils of installing air conditioning.
My installation was close to a worst case scenario requiring a new supply including a new meter and about 12 metre cable run and it cost me $3,500.
Currently Tesla is still having the mobile connector certified for Australian use but will be delivering it in Q1 2015, so currently it's true that you can't charge your Model S from any Australian socket but that will only be for a short time. In the mean time all Model S owners in Australia will receive an HPWC instead. So he is generating FUD from that situation.
Perhaps Joshua was just looking for any negative piece that would make his advertisers happy. Car dealers are still big buyers of ads in newspapers.

green1 said:

Nope, this just proves that it's the same in Australia as everywhere else. Tesla is changing the game, and the establishment is scared.

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I suppose it's comforting to know that Australia has as many morons in the media as we do

Wow. :scared: If this guy doesn't have an agenda, then he's a complete idiot. He has to have an agenda.

Not surprisingly, another Rupert Murdoch/News Limited outlet. But this is pretty blatent, even for them.

For what it is worth, I tweeted him:

@JoshuaDowling Tesla wall connector is provided free with the car and switchable 10A/16A/32A/40A (depending on what house can handle).

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The entire premise of his article is plain wrong.

ggr said:

Not surprisingly, another Rupert Murdoch/News Limited outlet. But this is pretty blatent, even for them.

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(If someone's wondering: News Limited was renamed News Corp Australia following the listing of the new News Corp on 1 July 2013.)

...] News Corp Australia has nearly three-quarters of daily metropolitan newspaper circulation [in Australia] [...

[2001 figure (!) (My edit.)]

Source: News Corp Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia... So take it for what it's worth...

The article has been amended to include some clarifications from Tesla. Still, a horrid bit of FUD.