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If you don't have any other option e.g. portable satellite, or one of the newer phones with emergency SOS via satellite, then something like that is advised.

You do need to compromise on speed or travel time in places with no access to fast charging. This is only temporary and will change over time as the networks expand. FWIW, we have never had to travel without the A/C or heat on. With heat pumps, those system's are very efficient in many EVs these days

Thats probably a bit extreme. There's a middle road when some planning for emergencies is needed. I can't but help think of how aboriginals have traversed this continent for tens of thousands of years without access to a AED :)

@@AUSY8 Nothing extreme. I got kangaroo strike last year which disabled my Hiace (auxilliary radiator was literally bent in half, so most coolant out), lucky it was old school toyota, it was diesel, it was winter and it could make last 10 km to Balranald without coolant, where it was patched and next day continued to Adelaide. But it was extremely unpleasant experience. Remark about "month to search" was also based on real story, 5 or 6 years ago some bogan from Melbourne went fishing to Darwin on his ute, just a small trip on free week... after month of search he was found somewhere in SA outback near Coober Pedy. Kangaroos traverse even now. Not all of them succede, the whole highway Broken Hill-Dubbo covered with their corpses every morning, but who cares if 10% perished on the way? Do you want to travel with the same survival rate?

@@antontsau I don't doubt what you are saying and there are dangers out there. We saw them. I met a guy stuck at the Mundrabilla Roadhouse with a radiator taken out by a kangaroo. He was stuck there for days, while a part was shipped from Adelaide. My view is that if you a) accept there are good people out there willing to help you, and b) stick to the major paved roads e.g. Route 1 and the Stuart, then we are at a lower risk of being stranded without any help. Also reduces the need for the laundry list of just-in-case stuff you suggest.

@@AUSY8 Stuck in roadhouse its good case scenario. Much worse is when there are 100 km to this roadhouse, +45 with scorching sun and your car cant move at all. No people there. Nobody. Its outback. On highway you can rely on someone else (btw - you rely on them, but can they rely on you? What you can do for them in case they need if you do not have this looooong and weighty list?), 20 km on side road and no one there for days. And even if someone can give you a lift to civilisation 90% you loss your car, with no insurance covers it.

Thanks ANG!

Good call out. And I read that some Android phones may the satellite service too eg the new Pixel 9

I'm assuming it's now legal for cars to be sold without any spare, because Tesla is not the only manufacturer that does this. I'm guessing Tesla, and others, consider their included roadside assistance as sufficient for covering people needing help fixing or replacing a tyre. However as I said in the video, it only covers you in reasonably populated areas. As for carrying 2 spares, are you are talking about remote areas that are off-road or away from the major highways? My definition of remote, as a city boy, is a major highway with only a roadhouse every few hundred k's

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you liked it. Ham radio is a good idea. Another option I forgot to mention in the video, is that iPhones sold in the last 2 years, and some recent Android phones, offer SOS text connectivity over satellite. That may be more accessible for some. Enjoy the new toy.

Ham radio is a genius idea 💡! Thanks for the great tip.

Murphy says: "Don't bring it and I'll make you regret it". Those lights are cool. Another mode they have is that they can act as power banks to charge another device.

No worries. Glad I can help.

Here is a green version of them: www.amazon.com.au/WUBEN-Rechargeable-Waterproof-Hurricane-Emergency/dp/B0C13G8LN4/

Good callout there. I added NRMA to the mix, because they have a version of their service that covers a greater towing distance.

Happy we could be of service. It is a simple mod indeed.

Not sure the manufacturer. Here is the PlugShare listing if you can figure it out Palmer St & Palmer St Parking 30-34 Palmer Street, South Townsville QLD 4810, Australia

We would have driven between 90-100 most of the way. Ours is the standard range with 60kw. NRMA seem to be the only hope out there. We got 3.6kw from the 15A in the homestead campground and that was enough. Note did have to try a few. Some get cooked in the sun.

That’s interesting. Thx for the clarification. The charge was limited to 35kw due to capacity constraints. Be interested to see how it handles more than 2 cars simultaneously

@@AUSY8 Same setup at Nullarbor Roadhouse which has more EV's but same thing again with only 2 CCS cables so would need a 60kWh Leaf or a couple of to test with 4 cars. Suspect wouldn't be very fast charging rate mind you on each car.

We are on Telstra. We did not have any issues activating charging. For the networked sites we mostly used an RFID card linked to the Evie and Chargefox networks. For the rest it was either free or we negotiated a price with the site owner. As for connectivity on the road, most roadhouses had at least 3G/4G but the the signal would barely reach 30km down the road before we entered black spots of many hundreds of kilometres.

Glad I can help you @adriennewright68. The good news is that remote charging is improving all the time but it will take a long time before it’s something you don’t even need to think about. My recommendation is to buy a car with a biggish battery and good efficiency. At highway speeds you are unlikely to get the advertised range. Same is true for petrol cars but in this case it will really help you if considering and EV. Let me know if there is anything I can help with. Happy to have a one on one if that helps.

@KevsTesla thanks! So glad I could share Hunter's passion with you.

Don't forget to subscribe to my channel for my EV road trip ideas.

@@AUSY8 I am planning on leasing a 2024 Model 3 performance soon but will in no way road trip it. My kids couldn't put up with it. We will road trip in our RAM pickup. But I watch your channel out of curiosity

That’s great news @outbackev-hunter6035. That should encourage more EV owners to enjoy the amazing NT outback.

Sorry to hear that, but sounds like you are very close. I would say you have a bad connection in your Ethernet jack. I am almost certain on this. Especially if you are getting some throughout. Try reseating the wires in each connector. Do you have the plastic tool to seat the wires?

​@@AUSY8 i already change ethernet connector and cable but same results. is it possible that the POE Transformer is damaged

@@tsantaandrianarivomanana5260 I'm not sure. I was getting no signal when I burnt the traces near the POE transformer. You however seem to beI getting some signal, so I think maybe you have a different problem. It really sounds like a connector problem.

@@AUSY8 ok, thank you for taking an interest in my problem

They may be what Henry Ford said too, but we are baaaack!

Thanks AnG! Will definitely look you up in the big smoke of Melbs.

Red or white goes best with the black trim, but there are too many white cars out there :)

@alasdairdougall7868 Thanks for the words of encouragement and suggestions for more content. I had planned to do a grand reveal of my charging spreadsheet of data at the end of the trip, it will include the breakdown you are looking for. A sneak peek… we paid very little. The worst was probably $50. Many were free with accomodation, or a nominal amount or donation.

@SydneyEV you are right there. I wonder how many are not listed? As always it is the right thing to do, and ask. If they have no idea on price I always err on the side of paying too much. I would much rather leave them with a positive attitude to EV owners. After all many of us a saving a pretty penny on running costs, the least we can do is donate a bit of that back.

@RaymondVolker sorry to hear that. Yeah after passing one too many road trains, in the top end, we got some chips that ended up being large cracks. Had to wait until we got to Perth to replace with Tesla. Cost us $1960, so same as your quote. I don’t know if it’s daylight robbery but I do know I’d be reluctant to have someone else do it until I could be sure they know what they are doing. There is a lot of tech at the top of the windscreen for the Tesla Vision system. In hindsight we may have been able to get the chips repaired in Darwin, but that boat has sailed.

Thanks. We try hard

If I had done the trip in a Mondeo, not sure I would have got any hits on this video, including yours, but good on you. Maybe I should make this clearer on the channel homepage, but I'm more about giving other EV drivers advice on what to expect, and less about convincing Mondeo drivers to switch.

Good for you bro.

That would be the lower number 120 kWh/km. Just like petrol cars, the lower the km/L number the better.

No worries at all.

I’ve also been fast car travelling fast. Got to do 130km/h from the NT/SA border to Alice Springs.

Not sure, there information out there but the official Starlink ethernet adapter is fairly cheap USD60. Have you considered that option?

We have just clicked over 30,000 km on the trip. I estimate we did about 10% of that distance at 80-90, the rest would be at the speed limit. With access to fast charging we had fun recently going at 130 km/h on parts of the Stuart. Once fast charging becomes pervasive, the hypermiling hacks we used will be considered quaint by future EV owners. I plan to post a future video on a summary and costs of all the charging we did. The majority of it was free as part of our accomodation cost (either campground/roadhouse or Airbnb). So the answer is going to surprise most. However not many of us have the time to do slow trickle charging on a 30,000km road trip and so I would not use our costs as typical. As a teaser, for the first 1,100 km our total charging costs were $51. That included a bit of free NRMA free charging on the Hay Plain. I think those chargers are now in billing mode. Good points on the unrestrained objects in the car. I did consider the risk and figured the best place for the wheel was behind a seat because it is immediately restrained by the seat for a forward collision. However if we are rear ended or T-boned, gods knows what it would go. As for rest to it, there's way too much of it to even know where to start. Under normal circumstances we do not travel this way so have accepted the risk. In fact now that we have reached the civilisation of the east coast I plan to ditch the spare and just rely on Tesla and NRMA roadside assistance. On that note is anyone interested in an unused Bruamach spare wheel? Will suit Model 3 or Model Y.

@@AUSY8 Really interesting. Thanks for the reply.

I think those days have sailed. A majority of EV's charge at home. It's just plug and go there. When we lived in the city we only ever visited a servo for air or a 1L of milk. On road trips in populated areas, Tesla have the best experience for a Tesla car with a Tesla charger... just plug in and walk away. No need to use any app. In many cases with chargers being in town's that we used to bypass e.g. Euroa, we now get to visit the local cafe and interact with real people there. Very refreshing compared to freeway service centres.

@@AUSY8 Having a little EV runabout in town or the suburbs with home solar charging would be fine, but apartment blocks are being built at a much higher rate than single dwellings in Australia. I’ve rented a few EVs over the past 2 years and I think they’ve still got a long way to go before they’re as versatile as a conventional car. If you’re having to charge up at Euroa after, I assume, leaving Melbourne and heading north up the Hume, that’s only 160km. Or am I misinterpreting this. Nice little historic town though, always worth a stop there.

@@MrPropanePete Yeah apartment blocks are probably the harder one to solve. You have to deal with body corporates, power, sharing etc etc. While EV's do have a long way to go here in Australia, if you look at markets like California or Norway they must have overcome the versatility hurdle already. How else do you explain their market dominance there? We have had an EV now since 2020. And that's our only vehicle. We are unique but we made it work, and there is no going back to ICE for us. We used to live in Canberra, so Euroa was a favourite stop on the way down to Melb.

@@AUSY8 Okay, that makes sense now, you were travelling southbound so pop into Euroa for a top up before hitting Melbourne. Glad to hear you're happy with your EV, too many conflicting stories around.

I imagine similar things were said about cars back when they were replacing horses. The only constant in life is change. Better get used to it.

Teslas in Australia run off Telstra. Reception was okay around towns and roadhouses, but was nonexistent on many of the remote parts we travelled. Bring a Starlink, or an Iphone 14 or later if you are in that ecosystem. iPhones now support emergency SMS: support.apple.com/en-au/101573

Sorry to hear it's half working. I think you are close if Dishy is online. I'm assuming it also shows as online from your account on Starlink.com? I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably your ethernet connector. Remember to wire it as a "B' connector and use the Starlink colours as normal, i.e. no swapped colours. Also make sure the wires are well seated. I've prepared many an ethernet connector where a wire or two is not seated correctly. As for ground, I did not ground the connector.I used a plastic connector and I don't think it has facility to use ground. Hope this helps. Good luck

@@AUSY8 thanks, it WAS an issue with my crimper not making the connection properly, for some reason it wasnt pushing down on pin number 6 !! all now sorted. thanks. as you said, ground isnt needed. for my enclosure i have used a 45mm wide piece of upvc window trim, i used my wofes crafting heat gun to bend the upvc around a simple jig. it actually works brilliantly, no need for 3d printed enclosure, i scorched a couple of corners, but next time i would heat from the inside so you wouldnt see it. it is secured to dishy using sikkaflex and is pretty solid. a purpose size cut piece of perspex will be used on the bottom. is there a way i can send you a couple of photos as it might help others? as i have two starlinks, my next project will be to move to a one cable connection. i could do this with a poe injector and splitter i believe, BUT i am considering using a cat 6 cable but only using four of the wires for TX and RX and the other four for power in/out. so it would be an rj45 with four RX and TX out of the router, then a connector allowing me to add power to the unused wires and then at the dishy end (internally( the cable would be split again, with only the rx and tx going into the dishy connector and the other two going to the power connections. can you see any reasons why this wouldnt work? i am aware that it would cap the mbs to around 100mbs, but that is more than enough for my needs in my RV (motorhome in the UK)

@@misterb5216 Wow that is wonderful news. Well done. You can contact me using this address: redwood_watt.0k@icloud.com - if you are interested I would be keen to include you and/or your pictures, in a follow up video. You are taking this hack to this next level. I will have to leave it to my followers on the viability of moving to 1 cable.

@@AUSY8 its up and running just using one cable !!! ive used the four data wires in the ethernet cable to provide data from the router and the other four wires to provide power. it looks a bit rough at the moment but i will send photos so you can see the 'concept'. i now no longer need the power connections in the enclosure so will rejig it all when i get back (going over to Europe mainland for a few weeks in my motorhome) im only getting around 60mps but thats more than enough for tv, laptop etc !

ZPDR-10V-S Is the connector to dishy that the data (and original power) uses. You can now do the hack without cutting any cables ! You will need the pins of course, which are a pain in the arse to connect to the wires! Anyone have any tips to do this ??

That makes sense. There’s very little between Border village and Ceduna so they have a captive audience when you arrive.

No worries. With one exception, all sockets on our trip have been 5 pin 32 AMP. The one exception was Marla Travellers Rest near the SA/NT border. It did have a 20 AMP socket but this has since been decommissioned now that the site has a RAA 7kW AC charger. Suggest you watch my other vid that covers SA/NT charging. It covers the backwards step that this is for Marla.

With that attitude this is a weird video for you to watch. It's about helping current/potential EV owners who want to travel outback before fast charging becomes a thing everywhere. It does not even pretend to try and convince the likes of you to switch. Suggest you flick back to where you came from.

Really? hate to break it to you dude but nobody cares what you drive aside from yourself. Get a hobby.

The holy grail has to be solar +wind + battery = enough power for business and EV charging. And yes upfront would be huge but savings in diesel should eclipse that cost after a number of years. How many? Not sure

Glad you liked it. Hope you checked out my other other vids on EV charging in the outback

100% absolutely, will be doing a lot of drivinv with my EV doing Uber and Road Tripping....makes me happpy that some of these places which I want to visit have charging stations, I will be saving this video for later....thank-you for sharing

@@AUSY8 Yep, I have subscribed.

It is for real. I guess with a small population in NT and if you start Tesla journey in 2016 you have a good chance.

Thanks. Yeah microgrids with solar/batt is likely the go. If you watch my most recent vid with outback EV hunter he thinks that's the way to go too. And if big enough the whole roadhouse/restaurant/accomodation could get off diesel too.

No worries. Did not realise this video was triggering. I'll see how I might tone it down in the future.

@@AUSY8 it wasn't triggering or anything that bad. At the start I was keen to digest what you were showing me but you were switching feeds a little too much for my liking was all. Thank you again for the video, I'm tempted to pull mine apart as I'm currently mounting it flat via suckers. I'm still in the speed testing and reliability phase of that approach as it's kinda a one way trip.

Wtf indeed. A few too many conversions there.

A whole lot of watts. Also the inverter may out be needed if your car/rv etc has a true 12v. Tesla output 15v-16v from the cig. lighter

Also you don’t need a POE injector