New Zealand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure manufacturer Evnex says it has now installed 1,000 EV chargers in Australia and is looking to ramp up operations in the country in the coming year.
Evnex has installed more than 6,000 of its smart charging units in New Zealand and Australia, and expects to more than double that number – with another 7,000 installations – over the next year. It is the preferred home charging partner forPolestar and CommBank.
Evnex founder and CEO Ed Harvey says that while the company will remain active in New Zealand, his company was shifting its main focus area to Australia.
“We see a huge opportunity in the Australian market, and we have plans to significantly scale up our presence in Australia,” said Harvey.
Harvey says the smart charging units allow for charging at off-peak times, allowing customers to take advantage of preferable electricity rates and reduce the need for fossil fuels to be used in the energy generation process.
Joshua S. Hill is a Melbourne-based journalist who has been writing about climate change, clean technology, and electric vehicles for over 15 years. He has been reporting on electric vehicles and clean technologies for Renew Economy and The Driven since 2012. His preferred mode of transport is his feet.
I guess this charger is single phase so suits many homes. Downside is this concentrates demand for versus a 10amp power point. Most households drive less than 50km a day per car. This means owners can generally keep their EV battery around 10kWh from full. Recharge to full takes around 4 hours or less in a power point at home. Reducing it to an hour and a half will suit some people if tariffs make timing difficult but to do this in some states means losing control of timing.
I have yet to meet a person that only drives 50 kilometres a day, just like the most ev owners charge from home from free solar during the week they drive to work
I own a petrol fuelled car and would barely drive 50 kilometres in a week!
Perhaps it’s you who needs to get out more?
Most people I know commute less than 50 km a day to work and at that rate they are easily able to just charge their car once a week on the weekend with solar.
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You can use UBlock Origin in Chrome, and right click the components that make up the floating annoyance, and block them.
Do you mean Hurry?
Great work by Evnex and the team at Sydney EV Chargers. These are great EVSE units and come in single phase and three phase with solar integration.
Oh my
Very happy with how our EVNEX charger is working. We have it set up so it only uses solar and will automatically stop charging when there isn’t enough solar production. It includes a type B RCD so it’s cheaper to install than other chargers that require a type B to be installed on the main board
No mention of the geographic spread for the new chargers. If they all go to Bondi then not much benefit to the rest of Australia.
I must have missed something, in the article – I did not see any mention of pricing…