My wife and I have lived here for about 5 years and have been interested in EVs and all the new energy things that goes with them for a long time. We took delivery of a BYD Atto 3 in September last year. As you can imagine, there are no public or fast charging facilities out here, which is not a problem for us since our solar and the grid keep us charged. Over the Christmas holidays, we took a 5,500 km trip via Broken Hill to our families in Adelaide and Canberra.
We were concerned about flood waters prior to leaving Gayndah and did as much research as we could. For instance we booked cabins at caravan parks that we thought we would need prior to leaving Gayndah. That gave us an opportunity to talk to people about the situation in their area. We used the in-car navigation all the way and it didn’t let us down although a couple of times it took us on interesting roads. We didn’t have to wait at many chargers except one where a Tesla owner left his car plugged in for one hour even though it was fully charged. Rather than wait we went and checked into the cabin at the caravan park where we had pre booked and came back later in the afternoon.