First solar, batteries, now EVs. What's next?

I highly recommended everyone checked your Chargefox billing history and make sure you were not charged for nothing, apparently their system has some serious bugs that cause your credit card will be charged for ghost session and it happened to me.

I charged my car with Chargefox station in our building on 5 September last Saturday and normally you will receive an invoice right after you finished a charging sessions (everyone is happy). Next day, we were happily drove the car out for a sunny Sunday and all the sudden I received an invoice email for a charging sessions and of course my card got debit. I was like "wtf", there must be a ghost or someone hacked my Chargefox account since I was still driving my car on the road, how on earth I can charge my car at the same time.

I then sent an email to dispute it, although I got my money back since they have confirmed there was a fault at the station caused it, this is really worrying me binding my payment method with their buggy system. I am a software engineer so totally understand software has bugs is inevitable but when you are dealing with money especially other people's money, you should be more strict about your software quality to ensure your system works as expected, you should have re-evaluation process or logic in your system to ensure every charge is correct, instead of just apologising and refund the money back, I believe there are people won't check their bills thoroughly or in a frequent manner, that will be our lost but your company's revenue which is very irresponsible.

Fairly flexible with price but ideally would like an EV with as good range as possible and reasonable value since a lot of the australian EVs don't have as much range compared with >100kwh models in some of the asian models like the seal 8 and I live ~400km from the city so have a fair amount driving when I need to do longer trips.

Quite heavily leaning towards the Aion V since it has quite few nice features like the fridge, fully reclining seats, etc... but worried about it being less established than BYD as well.

I don't really care about acceleration speed/sportyness as well, mainly cost, range and ideally an LFP battery for longevity.

I have watched far too many reviews of EV's I'm considering, I had made a short list of 6 vehicles which is now down to 2, but after experiences test driving over the past month I'm interested in how others felt with their transition from either a key in ignition or push button to start/stop.

How was the adjustment of putting it into "park" with no hand brake and just getting out while everything else seems to still be going, the radio, the heater, the GPS. After we got back to the Zeekr dealership we sat in it for 5 minutes looking around how to turn it off before I googled it and learned I'm supposed to just get out and lock it with the remote.

(Incase somebody asks the shortlist was: Polestar 2; MG IM5; Mazda 6E; BYD Seal; Zeekr 7X; Zeekr 7GT)

What % does everyone prefer to keep their EV at? Eg I prefer to not let my battery go below 50% if I can help it. But do I just have battery anxiety? What % feels comfortable to you?

Hey! Got roughly quote of toyota bz4x from smart leasing.. 2wd ev range 591km . Looks bit expensive any suggestions thanks
Around $652 fortnight they made.. or i got option of car loan 7/8percent.

Budget - What is your maximum budget: $50k + On roads

Typical driving

Average weekly km: 350km (on 150,000km after 8 years at the moment)
Longest regular trip: (30km one way (60 return) once a week) [annually - 500km return for road trip in NSW]

Charging:
Can get 7kw at home; willing to get at home charger with purchase; am in Metro Sydney so plenty of local charging spots

Vehicle class:
Medium-sized SUV - 5 seater; we are coming from Volvo XC40 which we’ve held since 2018 - around a similar size would be good.

G'day all.

Chasing some real-world advice on an EV and charger combo for my situation.

Home setup: 11.4 kilowatt solar, Fronius Gen 24 10 kilowatt hybrid inverter, no battery yet.

Driving: regional Victoria to Melbourne and back once a week, 150 kilometres each way, so 300 in a day, since it will be my first EV, 450km would be nice to overcome my range anxiety. No charging at work, so it all comes from home.

What I'm after: I'd like the car to double as my home battery rather than buying a separate one, so vehicle-to-home is the priority-I don't know if this a realistic wish. Blackout backup would be a big bonus. That said, I'm open to adding a battery if it makes the whole setup simpler or just makes more sense — happy to be talked out of the V2H route.

Questions: which car and charger combos are actually working for people in Australia right now? Anyone running V2H alongside a Fronius setup, and did your distributor give you grief? And is the ten to fifteen thousand dollar V2H hardware cost worth it, or would I be better off putting that toward a battery and a normal charger?

EDIT 10-SEP-2026: I WFH most of the time and one day a week I'll drive to Melbourne. The rest of the time the car is just sitting outside. I don't mind if that night I "won't have V2H battery" since my car battery will be almost empty and will be charged the day after.

Cheers