Tesla puts “missing” Supercharger site back on map after Driven reader response

Tesla’s supercharger network has grown over the years to now have over 600 reliable fast charging stations across 100 sites around the country.

In recent weeks, the company revealed plans to add 30 new supercharger sites around Australia in a big boost to the EV network. One of these sites which was previously on the map was noted to be missing.

Now, thanks to the readers of The Driven and the EV community, it has been placed back on the map. The news of the update was shared by Charles G on X.

Massive thanks to @TeslaAUNZ's Thom Drew for responding to community concern about the proposed Hobart (Tasmania) supercharger dropping off the recent map update.
We now have more detail, with the updated marker being labelled with the suburb of 'Sandy Bay'! pic.twitter.com/EPWjvnjzVz

— ⚡chuqtas (@chuqtas) September 23, 2024

This is the most-southern proposed supercharger site in the country, located in Hobart, Tasmania.

The only Tesla site being shown on that state’s map when the update to Tesla supercharger was made was the Devonport site, which opened back in 2021.

New Tesla Supercharger: Devonport, TAS (3 stalls) https://t.co/PPy5kbM3ln pic.twitter.com/8wg8BLWWlq

— Tesla Charging (@TeslaCharging) June 16, 2021

Now, the second site has been re-added and appears on the map as Sandy Bay, Tasmania and is listed with a status of “In Development”.

It was noted by Tesla’s country director, Thom Drew who replied to a post on Linkedin by a Tesla owner saying: “Thanks for flagging Craig. This was an error from the most recent map update and has now been rectified.”

Although the new pin is not exactly in Sandy Bay itself, it’s expected that the new site will be around Hobart CBD.

The addition of this new supercharger in Tasmania brings the total number of upcoming supercharger sites to over 30 in the coming months.

The new proposed supercharger is also not too far from the new Tesla Hobart store in Derwent Park which officially opened last month.

The opening of this store also attracted quite a crowd as Tesla’s Cybertruck had also made an appearance before continuing on its roadshow across the country.

Our Hobart TESLA Store Opening attracted over 2500 people on Saturday.

– M3 and MY Test Drives
– Cybertruck
– Roadster
– Paint a Tesla
– Local food and coffee
– TOCA vehicles: MS, MX, M3, MY
– Tasmania’s largest Lightshow

Thank you to all who made this what it was! pic.twitter.com/mmKhI955mx

— Mark Davis (@davis190470) August 13, 2024

Last week, Tesla celebrated its 100th Australian supercharger site with a green and gold supercharger stall, making it one of the most unique supercharger sites across the world.

The occasion also highlighted the investment Tesla has put into this network of 100 current sites along with government co-funding by some states.

Quite a few of these sites are also open to non-Tesla drivers and have been helping EV drivers get to many parts of the country.

With over 115,000 Tesla vehicles in the Australian fleet, more superchargers are going to be welcomed.

We’ll continue to track how Hobart and other proposed sites progress and update the EV community when these come online.

Riz Akhtar

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.