Zeekr Big Lap: Day 15 - Cloncurry to Barkly Homestead

Day 15 of the Zeekr Big Lap and we crossed into the NT! Started the day with a charge on the Queensland Electric Super Highway station at Cloncurry, as well as a curry pie and chocolate milk. It's a small world as former KI residents Sheree and David, now living on a nearby cattle station, found me at the charger and we had a quick chat. It was then a quick 160 km hop to Mt Isa for a grocery shop and charge at the brand new NRMA charger to 90% before setting off to Camooweel on the Queensland border, a distance of 190 km. Here we had high hopes the new eLumina NRMA charger was working, but alas, it has yet to be connected as was evidenced by dangling wires. So Plan B was to 3 phase charge at the RACQ mechanic workshop, but unfortunately a broken truck was blocking access to the 5 pin plug. Some quick rearranging inside the workshop had the Zeekr manoeuvred into position for a 1 hour 30 minute charge on 22kW to 76 per cent before I made the call to leave in order to make Barkly Homestead by sunset. The good news is that with the help of some advice of an Australian Electric Vehicle Association member I figured out the Wattpilot cable situation. Apparently it locks on to the cable once you disconnect it from power, so I simply needed to reconnect it to dislodge it!  A quick photo opp at the NT border sign preceded the 260 km lo ng drive hypermiling at 95 kph to get to my overnight stop. While I arrived at Barkly Homestead with 27% at 5.30pm, I was also half an hour too late to secure the last powered camp site, as this remote outpost was packed out. So I will snag the first available plug in the morning to start charging, and will probably just spend the whole day here as it's a lovely spot and I need some R&R to do laundry and take a breath. I arrived with about 138 km range and the next NRMA charger at 3 Ways Roadhouse on the Stuart Highway is only 190 km away, so only really needed about six hours on the 15 amp powered site to make it.  From 3 Ways it is 963 km of two days drive to Darwin! Trip stats for the day were 566 km driven with an efficiency of 19.6kWh/100km. The total distance covered is 6700 km.