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.
Another commemorative Tesla Supercharger, this time marking the 100th Supercharger in Australia š¦šŗ
This @TeslaCharging Supercharger is finished in green and gold, Australia's national colours. It is located in Glenelg, and is expected to open this week.
šø: Wilson L pic.twitter.com/f5fjQfFa9Q
— Drive Tesla šØš¦ (@DriveTeslaca) September 17, 2024
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 siteās opening and the Supercharging milestone.
100th @Tesla Supercharger opening in Australia š¦šŗ
Thursday 19th Sep at 10am
RSVP here: https://t.co/jmfPvt7ABx
āOn 19 September 2024, you are invited to the opening of our 100th Supercharger site in Glenelg, South Australia.
We opened our first Supercharger location inā¦ pic.twitter.com/9SK9i6L0Jl— š¶Pabloāsšš°Brokeā”ļøššš¦šŗ š¦ (@Pablos_Broke) September 16, 2024
Tesla also plans to open its Bordertown site soon, taking the total number of Supercharger sites in the state to seven. Teslaās 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.
Teslaās supercharger network is known for its reliability, speed and availability.
RizĀ 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.