The Tesla supercharger community is the biggest EV quick charging community on this planet with over 50,000 lively stalls and 5,500 websites globally. And, infrequently, the corporate asks its clients the place the subsequent ones needs to be situated.
Initially, in 2012, the community began out as a approach to assist Tesla market its EVs to these serious about shopping for a brand new Tesla Mannequin S with places of the supercharger websites fastidiously chosen. However final October, Tesla began to ask drivers to vote on new Supercharger places in addition to suggesting new ones.
Since then, Tesla has been operating a number of rounds of voting.
Earlier this month, Tesla had its supercharge voting system opened for homeowners to recommend places. In Australia, Tesla homeowners have voted strongly and two websites have been chosen for the summer time spherical of voting in Australia.
The successful websites for Asia-Pacific have been shared by Tesla Australia and New Zealand account on Twitter/X. They included Mansfield in Victoria and Batemans Bay in NSW.
Summer time 2023 Supercharger location votes are in
Congratulations Batemans Bay, NSW and Mansfield, VIC https://t.co/YMUP1OuHhV
— Tesla Australia New Zealand (@TeslaAUNZ) October 29, 2023
Mansfield is situated 210 km northeast of Melbourne, which additionally occurs to be on the foothills of the Victorian alps. Batemans Bay is on the south coast of NSW, roughly 280 km south of Sydney.
Different profitable websites within the area have been all based mostly in Japan, and included Takayama, Ito and Yamaguchi.
Given Tesla calls it the “Summer time 2023 Supercharger location votes”, it’s probably that these websites might find yourself being constructed and commissioned earlier than March subsequent yr.
The subsequent spherical of voting has additionally already begun with just one Australian web site making it to the checklist. This location is at Rockhampton metropolis in Queensland with 511 votes. The highest 5 places on this spherical embrace:
Uljin County, South Korea – 990 Votes
Fukuchiyama Metropolis, Japan – 719 Votes
Hokkaido, Japan – 700 Votes
Asahikawa, Japan – 685 Votes
Rockhampton Metropolis, Australia – 511 Votes
One other native web site makes it into the highest 10 with Mildura sitting at quantity 6, having collected 459 votes.
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When the final spherical was opened, an Australian Tesla supercharger tracker and reader of The Pushed, Charles G described why few Australian websites make it into the top-5 checklist.
“Australian places have been up in opposition to websites from closely populated areas like Japan and South Korea. I additionally seen that there have been over 20 Australian places on the voting checklist, and we have been struggling to get any of them into the highest 5.”
With many extra votes coming in earlier than the voting for the final spherical closed, we did handle to get two websites in that spherical.
An summary of Tesla’s voting system will be seen on the overview web page with Tesla describing how the method works: “Vote on Tesla’s subsequent Supercharger web site. Each 3-month voting cycle, you’ll be able to forged a number of votes to assist us determine on new Supercharger places. Examine the leaderboard to see which proposed places are hottest.”
For the present spherical, EV drivers are inspired to pick out their prime 5 supercharger websites by navigating the Tesla supercharger voting web page which will be accessed by logging in with a Tesla account.
This is step one of the method the place as much as 5 votes can per forged by every voter: “Forged a complete of 5 votes (1 per location) for proposed Supercharger websites.”
Non-Tesla drivers are additionally inspired to vote given many of those websites are prone to be opened to non-Tesla sooner or later. For these and not using a Tesla account, it’s straightforward to set one as much as start voting.
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Riz is the founding father of carloop based mostly in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception stories and tendencies. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for vehicles, significantly EVs and desires to assist cut back transport emissions in Australia. He at present drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.