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Oli burger and FSD on the Hume Highway

Oliver's Real Food Gundagai
Snowy Mountains + Gippsland 2025–26
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Lunch stop at Oliver's, just outside Gundagai. I recommend the Oli burger 🍔.

Tesla Model 3 with stripes parked near us.

FSD along most of the Hume Highway. It does a great job, and avoids human fatigue. A few complaints, though, including it repeatedly thinking that the speed limit is 100, even when it’s actually 110 (pictured). Occasionally it dropped to 80 or 40, presumably after seeing some random sign off the highway.

Pretty good driving efficiency with FSD, too, about 14kWh per 100km. See screenshots.

Charging

Tesla Superchargers conveniently located in the car park behind Oliver’s. It’s the first EV charging station I recall noticing, many years ago, long before we went electric.

We just park, plug in, walk away. Charging finished just as we finished lunch. Perfect. Takes less than ten seconds of our time.

Most Tesla chargers these days are compatible with all EVs. But these at Oliver’s are Tesla only. The general EV chargers have moved next door, to The Dog on the Tuckerbox. It’s now just one unit, with two cables.

A few kilometres up the road, in Coolac, there’s a whole new 12 stall bank of Tesla Superchargers, which I’m guessing is accessible by all EVs. When we looked it up in the navigation (pictured), it showed no amenities open nearby, so we chose Gundagai. When we drove by, however, it seems to have a service centre with food options.

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  1. Alice Chiew via Facebook ↗
    Yes the random change in speed is annoying!
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  2. Chris Fenwick via Facebook ↗
    Ooooo, the model 3 looks nice.
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  3. Tshing O Liew via Facebook ↗

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  4. Howard Thrift via Facebook ↗
    Strange that only a month or so back I stopped at a big service centre on the Hume Hy just south of the border at Euroa , it was mid afternoon on a Friday . The place was full of cars filling up with fuel or grabbing some KFC from the drive through , but there was a number of charging bays there out in the open . There were 4 EVs parked and hooked up and another half a dozen or so waiting to hook up , all their owners were chewing the fat and checking out each other's cars . As I drove past in my vehicle which after leaving Melbourne did not need any more fuel for another 500km I laughed at the fact that those waiting would still be there hours or so later while meantime I had a pee grabbed some KFC at the drive through and would have been a couple of hundred kilometres up the highway before those waiting had even hooked up .

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  5. Greg Lewis via Facebook ↗
    I will be using the Coolac one next week then from there to Goulburn, it saves me going into Yass. I wish my MG4 had that efficiency. I normally sit around 20kWh/100kms on the Hume.
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