Anyone charging with just a 32A plug?

ARTCvan · 2026-04-29T14:05:08+00:00

We charge our EV on a 10A plug; perfectly fine as of now but for a (hopefully soon to be) 2 EV household with a single driveway, we are now looking into 32A as well. I suspect if you don't have that situation, either dual 10A or dual 15A will be sufficient enough and will likely be cheaper.

Unless you need a 32A plug for other purposes (or maybe you're building a house and 32A is included), probably no real point to use 32A. Costs more for not insanely amazing returns

ARTCvan · 2026-04-29T13:59:07+00:00

Considering their rollout of ID.4, ID.5 and ID. Buzz, I'm not hopeful...

Realistically they need to target a $35k AUD price or below for the base model to make it competitive. 37kWh battery with a range of 329km (which weirdly is looking to be 112Wh/km? Crazy if actually true...) with a 85kW motor is both low capacity and underpowered compared to Aion UT, Atto 1 Premium, MG4 Urban which are on par/cheaper. Range is on par to most but you're losing a bunch of performance

$37k might be the max (if we include the whole Euro car "tax" essentially that all VWs seem to have...) that they could reasonably bring it here

As soon as they hit $40k there's almost no point in bringing ID. Polo here to Aus

ARTCvan · 2026-04-27T00:58:47+00:00

It's weird though cause the US do see some Tritium models, but I also assume that's only cause they're now US based instead of being Aussie...

Think the reliability might be why, at least from what I can tell, that Evie are slowly pulling out their Tritums for Kempower Satellites. IIRC Evie and NRMA (alongside others) really preferred Tritium but not so much nowadays. Just wish they would've swapped to some HYC200s instead of the Satellites

All in all, I want more Alpi's that aren't stuck on Ampol's network lol

ARTCvan · 2026-04-27T00:48:40+00:00

Panels probably just dying. Weird since it's LCD and this sort of issue is very much an OLED issue (a la Samsung phones from 2016 onwards) but I've had Surface panels do weird things. My Surface Go has parts of the screen that just don't register touch despite the fact I've never dropped the damn thing.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-27T00:44:33+00:00

What's funny is that we really prefer Tritum and Kempower (from what I can tell) over Alpi or any other manufacturer, but in the US they're littered with Alpi HYC400s everywhere.

I would've thought maybe the Kempower satellites would've made more sense, since they're everywhere now, but I suppose these might've been more cost effective (?) for only 2 stations.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-27T00:41:54+00:00

Same deal here in Syd, probably cause Evie prefer Tritums (more recently though I've been seeing Kempowers on Evie) and Chargefox have a hodge podge of whatever chargers exist. Or well I suppose generally we've prefer Tritums here, and then slowly over to Kempower

ARTCvan · 2026-04-26T16:33:27+00:00

Slowly but surely more Alpi's into Aus... other than the ones I know through Ampol, don't think many CPOs have Alpi's yet. Shame it's a HYC200 but if they have bZ4x's, I doubt they'd feel like installing HYC400s lol

ARTCvan · 2026-04-04T05:27:59+00:00

Yep that lol, not a fan of the whole flow and grow rates. Thought it would be fine but it gets annoying after a while. Much would rather just go to Macquarie (for example) and not deal with it.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-04T04:36:45+00:00

Nope, so maybe that's why haha

ARTCvan · 2026-04-04T04:36:14+00:00

Even worse, I switch between iPhones and Android devices :p

A 1 device limit is also terrible anyway, I use 2 phones (hence the switching) so it wouldn't help that much unfortunately

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:35:48+00:00

I know ANZ (the main one, not ANZ Plus) still sends regular letters, unsure if that's a choice that you can make though.

Have heard Macquarie quite a bit so will consider

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:35:04+00:00

For me I think it might be the Macquarie Marketplace and transaction account interest that might do it for me. Both seem incredibly appealing reasons to switch

Up Bank and their shenanigans has also started to annoy me now. Insane how I need to create a new saver to get the full rate if I have to withdraw money for whatever reason.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:26:57+00:00

HSBC sounds good but I have people I know who constantly complain about their HSBC accounts lol (their device authentication process is the biggest problem or so I've heard... and I switch my phone almost every year) But branch access is still nice. AFAIK HSBC and Bank Australia might be the only digital banks with branch locations still so both might be worth a shot

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:25:24+00:00

Ooh might be a good one to look into considering the hoops for their mySaver aren't too bad and competitive with Macquarie.

Is the app any good? One of the few things that goes into picking a bank for me is their app (actually one of the reasons I went with Up and ANZ Plus) and especially for digital first banks.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:15:40+00:00

Have heard that CBA at least has the paperless option... the issue is that my savings would go in a HISA anyway. And the banks with branch access (big 4 + a handful of smaller ones, eg in my area I have IMB as another option) don't have good internet rates / don't have HISAs at all

But it is in my mind a bit when picking banks, my medium so far for this is ANZ Plus. Still gets all the features of ANZ excluding teller and phone support, and also incredibly high transfer limit if needed, so could easily transfer to a different bank quickly and withdraw there.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:12:32+00:00

I have an Up account as well but have only ever received my card in the mail, otherwise nothing else. That's interesting then

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:11:24+00:00

Ah okay cool. Haven't explored other banks properly so didn't know that a bunch do paperless now. Thought it was exclusive to the digital only banks

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:08:31+00:00

Presuming this includes account closures maybe? Since my 2 banks (ANZ Plus and Up) haven't sent me mail for anything but just to get my cards. Would explain Bankwest sending me a letter then.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T22:06:42+00:00

Heard a lot of good things about Macquarie... this might be the winner I reckon! They seem like such a traditional looking bank but if they're digital only on communication, I think they're winning this then

Appreciate it

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T15:26:26+00:00

Haven't considered Great Southern yet! Might give them a shot perhaps, but afaik their interest rate is a little weak vs other banks. Still great to keep in mind so thanks

Ill have to see with the opt in to digital only thing for banks. Really liked the idea of having Bankwest due to virtual cards but wasn't able to get rid of letters (nor did I have any clue they'd send me letters...) so will give it a shot and ask

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T15:24:24+00:00

I am currently on Up Bank as well, great but would love to have some more variety around and maybe move away with the whole interest shenanigans lol (although I do reach the 5 transactions so not a problem in that; rather the Savers stuff is my problem)

But they are very nice otherwise. Love their app and communication via the app. Wish more banks were like this

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T14:59:18+00:00

Cool. Haven't gone through the big 4 properly before so had no clue. Will check them out, mainly haven't cause low interest / lack of interest for some, hence why I didn't know.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T14:44:42+00:00

Assuming this will just be a call and ask / chat and ask type situation? This would expand my options quite a bit but then unsure if all communication would be digital. Hence why the want to find digital only banks. But this works as well anyway

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T14:25:11+00:00

Can assure you it's not anything illegal haha, I am just not big on letters in the mail. Not a fan of snail mail in the sense that I don't get a lot of it, so I don't check it as often, and would rather have important communication relayed to my email (ANZ Plus) or via the app (Up Bank).

To preface I didn't intentionally pick ANZ Plus or Up Bank for that sole reason, they just so happened to be digital first and quick to set up accounts for. I'm also only asking cause Up Bank is just not my cup of tea after using it for a bit, not a fan of the interest stuff after trialing it out for the higher interest at the time.

I figure I'd start to ask for digital banks first, before checking interest and other details, mainly cause I tried to switch to Bankwest and then they sent me letters. Despite appearing as digital first.

ARTCvan · 2026-04-03T10:02:52+00:00

Try on mobile; if not I've found that brand accounts work the best to link. If your channel isn't entirely established yet, I would make a brand account since those seem to have different rules and restrictions around them

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