Road trains and a rainbow
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The scenery kept changing on the run from Marla, north towards Uluru. A flat-topped mountain stood out on the horizon and stayed there for kilometres, while the low scrub slid past in front of it. Bright sun, sunglasses on.
Twenty minutes later the weather had changed. Dark clouds built up ahead of us, and light rain came through.
Several road trains passed us going the other way, throwing spray off the wet highway.
The car warned us that we were almost too far from known charging locations. We have seen that message before, and it seems to only know about Tesla Superchargers. It does not appear to count the NRMA fast charger at Erldunda, or the RAA charger we had just left at Marla, and it knows nothing at all about the 15 amp pole at the Kulgera campsite we were heading for.
The rain moved off ahead of us and left a rainbow sitting in the side mirror for a few kilometres.
The border was 65 km north.
Charging
Leaving Marla, the car predicted we would arrive at Kulgera with 11%.
An hour north it still estimated 11% on arrival. We held 90 km/h in a 110 zone, because speed is the main lever on consumption out here. We made sure we were never blocking traffic — not that there was much of it.
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