A Yackandandah cake stop, hidden from the paparazzi
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On our way from Bright, Victoria to Yass and Berry in NSW, first stop in Yackandandah for toilet, coffee and… cake. Francis hid from the paparazzi shot, while Tom claimed it was ordered when he ducked outside.
Yackandandah is one of our favourite places to stop along the way. It featured in an episode of “Back Roads” on ABC.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/back-roads/series/1/video/I…
Charging
“Yack” has its own “Yack” community EV charger in town. We plug in while parked, so we’re usually fully charged when we get back to the car. It takes about 30 seconds of my time to plug in, and hit start on the Chargefox app.
I was interested to see that the charger costs a third less between 10am and 3pm, perhaps because solar makes it free?
When we arrived, a Nissan Leaf was plugged into the charger’s Chademo cable. I thought that we wouldn’t be able to charge until they had finished. But I plugged in anyway to the CCS2 cable, to try it out. To my pleasant surprise, it charged both our cars at the same time.
The Nissan Leaf was nearly finished when we arrived and was still parked, fully charged, when we left, which isn’t good charging etiquette. They also hadn’t checked in on PlugShare, so there was no way to communicate with them.
I unplugged at the time as I didnt want to bump the Tesla already charging. After they left I plugged in and went to get food.
Wasnt impressed to find my car not charging while Tesla #2 next to me got full rate claiming they didnt notice my charge rate drop to nothing.
Something to be aware of, try to be courteous if that happens.