Tesla has been at the forefront of charging infrastructure globally. What once began as a marketing exercise to promote EVs to early adopters is now the largest and most reliable charging infrastructure provider globally, accounting for over 50,000 DC fast chargers.
In recent years, Tesla has been using a voting system designed for highlighting and selecting future supercharger sites. The voting system allows Tesla owners to vote on future sites that are likely to be built.
At the end of every three-month period, the top five locations in each region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific) get added as “winning sites” to the future supercharger map allowing Tesla owners to be part of the network’s growth.
In the round currently opened, several Tesla supercharger sites in the Asia Pacific regions are trending with an Australian site leading the charge. That happens to be in Mansfield in Victoria which at the time of writing had over 1,270 votes.
Other sites joining Mansfield on the podium are Takayama in Japan and Bateman’s Bay which has also secured just 1,001 votes. The next Australian site is Orange at number 6 in the current voting round with 865 votes.
Australian sites are quite difficult to rank due to the nature of the voting system.
As an avid Australian Tesla supercharger tracker and reader of The Driven, Charles G puts it: “Australian locations were up against sites from heavily populated areas like Japan and South Korea. I also noticed that there were over 20 Australian locations on the voting list, and we were struggling to get any of them into the top 5.”
A way to help get more Australian sites on the list is for Tesla owners to cast their votes and select up to 5 sites that they feel will make the biggest impact.
Charles further elaborated on this by saying: “If as many Australian owners as possible pooled our votes into a set number of sites, we would have a better chance of getting some of them into the “winning” category. We can help by voting for routes that are currently under-served.”
The timing for voting for this and future rounds is great as it’s no longer just Tesla owners who can vote.
Non-Tesla owners looking at helping to choose future sites can do the same using their Tesla account which is needed to charge a non-Tesla at Tesla supercharger site. That’s thanks to Tesla opening 30 sites out of its 69 current supercharger sites to non-Tesla EV owners.
Interested EV drivers can select their top 5 supercharger sites by jumping onto the Tesla supercharger voting page and logging in with a Tesla account. For those without a Tesla account, it can be created to begin voting.
