The Hatter and the Hare, in Bayswater

Beautiful food. Amazing cakes. Terrible parking.

I asked if they had any black forest cake. They said they’re planning on adding it to the next three month cycle, which starts in a month. The chef is still perfecting it. I offered to beta test, but they didn’t ask for my details. Looking forward to it.

The parking there is terrible. Small shared car park with other businesses. One of the “cafe” marked spots was blocked with a bollard and crate by another business.

Charging

I ended up parking a block away, but then thought I might as well be charging while parked. So, I moved the car equally far away, and plugged into the JOLT Charge charger in Bayswater. It’s a slow DC 22kW charger, but it is a good match while parking anyway to have lunch. It took me three goes to get it to work – I don’t know why.

We took 21kWh which cost $6.36. At Jolt chargers, the first 7kWh per day is free, then 45c/kWh. 21kWh gets us about 140km. So that’s about 4.5c per km. Not as cheap as the 1c per km when charging from home solar or super off peak, but still pretty good. A comparable petrol car would cost about 25c per km.

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  1. Do you need another app for Jolt?
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    1. I followed your link, yes is the answer. One day it’ll get simpler.
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    2. Kool Bass Yes. One app for JOLT Charge. A different app for Evie Networks. Yet another for Chargefox. And PlugShare to just find the closest ones, regardless of brand. We need one app to rule them all.
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      1. Tesla Tripping agreed. I like using the Tesla supercharger where available, no app, just plug n play

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      2. Kool Bass Yes, the Tesla superchargers are super easy and fast, though a bit more expensive.
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