Tesla has hit a new milestone in Australia with the official opening of its 150th Supercharger site in the country, just in time for the Easter break.
The 8-stall site in the Hunter Valley in Pokolbin, NSW is open to both Tesla and non-Tesla vehicles and features the company’s V4 superchargers with speeds of up to 300 kW.
At Pokolbin, pricing for Tesla vehicles is $0.46 per kWh, while non-Tesla vehicles pay $0.65 if charging without a Tesla Supercharger membership.
This site opening in time for Easter this year pleased a few EV drivers, with one saying: “Just in time for the Easter rush. Couldn’t be happier that my region in The Hunter finally has the infrastructure of Tesla Superchargers to support the wine lovers who visit. This is my local Supercharger!”
Another shared: “Great choice of location. This area only had 2 NRMA chargers that were only 75kw and very unreliable and destination chargers previously.”
The 150th site in Australia comes just 18 months after the 100th site opened in South Australia in September 2024.
That was the Glenelg Supercharger, and Tesla celebrated the milestone by covering one of the 6 Tesla V3 250 kW superchargers with a green-and-gold casing.
Latest data compiled by carloop also shows the growth in our local Supercharger network, which now stands at almost 1,000 Supercharger bays.
Over the last 15 months, the number of Tesla Superchargers has grown by 39%, making more reliable charging available across many parts of the country.
That’s an addition of 42 sites, stretching from its southernmost charger near Hobart, Tasmania, all the way up north into Queensland.
The Hobart charger, opened just 5 months ago, was also the 75,000th Supercharger Tesla opened globally.
The 150th site opening is part of the significant global growth and also came in the same week that the company announced that it had hit its 80,000th supercharger, which happened to be just north of Le Mans in France.
The recent surge in adoption and EV interest will also provide extra confidence to charge point operators to continue to grow infrastructure in both cities and around regional centres.
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.