Tesla’s supercharger network is the world’s largest EV fast charging network with over 60,000 active stalls and 6,600 sites globally. Every quarter Tesla opens it up to the EV community to vote for their favourite location for the next EV charging site.
Now, the new round for Asia Pacific, which ioncludes Australia, is open.
At the time of writing this article, three Australian sites were located in the top 5 sites in the Asia Pacific region. These are spread across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
- Leongatha, Australia
- Braidwood, Australia
- Ipswich, Australia
- Gwacheon, Seoul
- Namyangju – Dasan, South Korea
For this Spring 2024 round, interested EV drivers can select their top 5 supercharger sites by visiting the Tesla supercharger voting page. This voting page can be accessed by logging in with a Tesla account.
Tesla explains the supercharger voting system on the company’s website as: “Vote on Tesla’s next Supercharger site. Every 3-month voting cycle, you can cast multiple votes to help us decide on new Supercharger locations. Check the leaderboard to see which proposed locations are most popular.”
This is the first step of the process where up to 5 votes can per cast by each voter: “Cast a total of 5 votes (1 per location) for proposed Supercharger sites.”
Non-Tesla drivers can also vote, given many of the future sites are likely to be opened to non-Tesla EVs.
The previous 5 Australian supercharger voting winning sites are listed on the current supercharger map with a yellow star dot. Those with the status of “In development” include:
- Batemans Bay, NSW
- Mansfield, Victoria
- Apollo Bay, Victoria
- Port Augusta, South Australia
- Southern Cross, Western Australia
On top of these, earlier this month, Tesla revealed 30 new sites being planned or under construction in Australia.
A big chunk of these sites were in NSW and Queensland partly thanks to co-funding of EV charging infrastructure by governments in those states.
Similar funding is not the case in Victoria due to the lack of government priority given to charging infrastructure in the state so it’s good to see Leongatha being one of the top-voted sites so far in this round.
That would help EV drivers and Tesla owners travel further towards popular holiday destinations like Wilsons Promontory National Park and parts of Gippsland in regional Victoria.
With EV uptake exceeding 220,000 by September based on the data compiled by carloop, more charging infrastructure is needed to continue to drive EV adoption.
Getting the EV community involved is a great way to roll out chargers where they are most needed and we encourage Tesla along with other companies to run these EV infrastructure-building initiatives into the future.
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.