Image: Wilson L via Driveteslacanada
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Tesla was to rapidly increase supercharger sites across Australia with updates to its supercharger map showing up to 35 new upcoming sites across the country.
One of these sites is about to open, the Glenelg Supercharger in South Australia, and Tesla is celebrating the milestone by covering one of the 6 Tesla V3 250 kW superchargers with a green and gold casing.
Apparently, it is the only supercharger stall in the world with this colour scheme. Images of the site were taken by Wilson L and shared by Drive Tesla Canada on X.
This comes after the company’s decade of supercharging in Australia with the first supercharger coming online back in 2014.
On top of the special supercharger stall casing, Tesla has also organised an event to mark the site’s opening and the Supercharging milestone.
Tesla also plans to open its Bordertown site soon, taking the total number of Supercharger sites in the state to seven. Tesla’s first supercharger in South Australia opened back in 2017.
The supercharger network rollout has been picking up pace since the company decided to open part of the network to non-Tesla EVs, which it was required to do under government co-funding arrangements.
With the Glenelg site, the network now stands at 100 sites and includes over 600 fast charging stalls across the country.
Tesla’s supercharger network is known for its reliability, speed and availability.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.
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Not many drive through stalls?
Are you actually driving an EV in Australia?
I do 30.000km /a and I have a 2 ton rated trailer as well. 400000km on the screen of my Model S.
Different to any other networks there are many stalls at 250kW per site. Most other networks have one unreliable crappy 50kW charger per site, 2 75kW rated but 50kW enabled chargers if you are lucky.
Most times I'm the only one charging at Tesla sites and I park sideways blocking the neighboring stall but I either stay with the vehicle or leave my mobile number. So most times the uncouple cycle can be avoided.
Teslas have their charging ports on the rear left side, stupidly many other EVs have them at different locations. That's an issue with drive through sites as frequently neighboring stalls are blocked by non-Teslas.
In countries with a decent uptake of EVs they do have large drive through sites, in Europe they even have the first 25m long drive through sites with 1MW chargers for trucks.
Here we are an EV 3rd world country still dreaming of Hydrogen vehicles (and wasting taxpayers money right now) and Tesla is the only company of doing an AMAZING job rolling out charging infrastructure, no need for ANY whinging.
he raises a pertinent point, and a lot of drivers would like that, some potential EV buyers holding back for drive through stalls particularly along the major highways
Still enjoying lifetime free Supercharging after all those years. Thanks Tesla for providing the best network by far...including non profitable inland locations. Shame on all you gov funded other networks.
Awesome 👍. Still a lot of gaps to fill though , especially inland west of Bathurst, south coast NSW and Tassie.
There is a new site at Orange, NSW, Dubbo and Griffith with Parkes opening soon. South coast has been a joke until recently. Then there's Tassie.