Tesla’s supercharger community is the world’s largest EV quick charging community with over 60,000 lively stalls and 6,600 websites globally. Each quarter Tesla opens it as much as the EV neighborhood to vote for his or her favorite location for the subsequent EV charging website.
Now, the brand new spherical for Asia Pacific, which ioncludes Australia, is open.
On the time of writing this text, three Australian websites have been situated within the high 5 websites within the Asia Pacific area. These are unfold throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
Leongatha, Australia
Braidwood, Australia
Ipswich, Australia
Gwacheon, Seoul
Namyangju – Dasan, South Korea
For this Spring 2024 spherical, EV drivers can choose their high 5 supercharger websites by visiting the Tesla supercharger voting web page. This voting web page might be accessed by logging in with a Tesla account.
Tesla explains the supercharger voting system on the corporate’s web site as: “Vote on Tesla’s subsequent Supercharger website. Each 3-month voting cycle, you possibly can forged a number of votes to assist us resolve on new Supercharger areas. Verify the leaderboard to see which proposed areas are hottest.”
This is step one of the method the place as much as 5 votes can per forged by every voter: “Solid a complete of 5 votes (1 per location) for proposed Supercharger websites.”
Non-Tesla drivers can even vote, given lots of the future websites are more likely to be opened to non-Tesla EVs.
The earlier 5 Australian supercharger voting successful websites are listed on the present supercharger map with a yellow star dot. These with the standing of “In growth” embrace:
Batemans Bay, NSW
Mansfield, Victoria
Apollo Bay, Victoria
Port Augusta, South Australia
Southern Cross, Western Australia
On high of those, earlier this month, Tesla revealed 30 new websites being deliberate or underneath development in Australia.
A giant chunk of those websites have been in NSW and Queensland partly because of co-funding of EV charging infrastructure by governments in these states.
Comparable funding isn’t the case in Victoria because of the lack of presidency precedence given to charging infrastructure within the state so it’s good to see Leongatha being one of many top-voted websites thus far on this spherical.
That may assist EV drivers and Tesla house owners journey additional in direction of standard vacation locations like Wilsons Promontory Nationwide Park and components of Gippsland in regional Victoria.
With EV uptake exceeding 220,000 by September primarily based on the info compiled by carloop, extra charging infrastructure is required to proceed to drive EV adoption.
Getting the EV neighborhood concerned is an effective way to roll out chargers the place they’re most wanted and we encourage Tesla together with different firms to run these EV infrastructure-building initiatives into the long run.
Riz is the founding father of carloop primarily based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception studies and traits. 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, notably EVs and desires to assist scale back transport emissions in Australia. He at present drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.