Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. We pulled into a place called Aileron last night right at 5pm. Charged up for a bit (but not a lot because of clouds) and camped out for the night. Met a bunch of friendly locals who ran the campground/gas station and got to bed early because we didn't have to make dinner or clean up.
We did our tire changes this morning which was a little more hectic. Not to mention there was a motor change that happened too. Unfortunatly, that motor didn't behave properly and we put the old one back in only a couple hundred meters down the road. Guess we learned from that one.
Pulled into Alice here today at 11:09. We departed 30 minutes later in 7th place. Now you may ask how we moved back up? Because our class (challenge) has only 6 square meters of solar panels versus the adventure class, they were handicapped and delayed until at least 12:00 today. Some teams wont be leaving here until after 2:30pm. So for us to keep our position we will have to do very well.
No updates on the battery front - but perhaps we can shed some light on those later tonight with a blog post. You can check the map for our new location. The convoy is too far ahead right now but I believe we are doing 65km/hour. Skies are clear, bright blue and it should hold until tomorrow. Friday morning we see a low pressure system moving in with cloud towards Adelaide, so we're planning a straegy that will get us into Adelaide early afternoon Friday with enough power to get through the clouds.
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