Coffee Guru, opposite Mittagong's Evie chargers

NSW Central Coast + Seal Rocks 2025

On our way out of Bowral this morning, we grabbed a coffee at Coffee Guru Mittagong.

Conveniently located across the road from Evie fast chargers, so we could all be charged up for our long drive to Cessnock and Seal Rocks.

Charging

The Tesla’s navigation has the option to route through third party EV chargers. But it misses out on showing a lot of them. To get this one to show, we had to type “Evie” into the navigation, then select it from the list. The navigation is smart enough to even precondition the battery for this destination, but not yet smart enough to include it in the list of chargers. Hopefully a software update will fix this.

The Evie Networks chargers have a great “auto charge” feature, where we can just plug in our car and walk away, like we do with Tesla chargers. No tap card, app or faffing required. Since this was our first Evie charging of this new car, however, we needed to use the app, to set up the account details. This also prompted me to remove our old car from our Evie account, so we don’t end up paying for the new owner’s travels.

This site has four charging cables on two stations. The screen shows them as only 75kW each, but it gave us 150kW with no one else connected.

All charged up by the time we returned from grabbing a coffee.

10 comments

  1. It's a pity only certain Evie chargers have the auto charge.
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  2. Safe travels in the heavy rain 🌧️ What was the kWh charge rate $?
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    1. Peter Hofland Thanks. It’s been almost endless downpour. 74c/kWh (see photo 😉)
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      1. Tesla Tripping yikes, that’s up there 💵

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  3. Coffee Guru, is it you?
    (RIP Marc Bolan)

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  4. Are you aware of flooding and road closures around the area especially on the pacific highway between Hexham and Taree which the seal rocks road turn off is at buladelah lakes way?
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    1. Riona Twomey Tindal Thanks. Yeah, we made it out okay. Upcoming posts.
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      1. Tesla Tripping great news. Medowie is an island and the back way from Cessnock to booral is chockablock with closed roads so how did you manage to seal rocks :) look forward to posts
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      2. Riona Twomey Tindal We drove into Seal Rocks on May 19, and back out yesterday on May 22. We saw plenty of flood plains and some water over road, but no blockages for us going back to Cessnock and Central Coast.
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      3. Tesla Tripping I miss Seal Rocks :) I hope you took photos
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