AUSTRALIA’S best-selling electrical car model, Tesla, has opened nearly half of its Supercharger EV charging stations to non-Tesla EVs, encouraging extra drivers to make the transfer into an electrical car and aiding the journey plans of EV drivers throughout the nation.
Following on from the favoured New South Wales-based Tesla Pilot Program, by which 5 Supercharger websites had been made out there to non-Tesla EVs, Tesla has now prolonged using 30 of its 63 EV charging stations to different manufacturers.
Websites within the ACT (1), New South Wales (11), Queensland (3), South Australia (3), Victoria (10), and Western Australia (2) at the moment are open (see full checklist under), selling what Tesla says is its pragmatic dedication to the worldwide shift in direction of sustainable vitality.
“I feel we do wish to emphasise that it’s our objective to help the arrival of sustainable vitality, it’s not to create a walled backyard and use that to bludgeon our opponents, which is typically utilized by some corporations,” mentioned Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, on the firm’s 2021 Earnings Name.
Tesla says the step is instrumental in encouraging extra drivers to transition to electrical autos, and that choose Supercharger websites have been seamlessly built-in into the Tesla app, granting non-Tesla EV drivers entry to Tesla’s “superior charging community”.
The Tesla app could also be downloaded for iOS or Android units. Customers want solely to obtain the app, create an account, choose ‘Cost Your Non-Tesla’ and discover their nearest Supercharger website. As soon as the car is charged, merely the faucet ‘Cease Charging’ to finish the session.
Concurrently, Tesla drivers retain all current entry privileges, whereas Tesla actively screens every website to handle potential congestion and collect consumer suggestions.
Commenting on its Supercharger community, Tesla Australia says it’s dedicated to the reliability of the system which has a claimed international uptime common of 99.95 per cent (based mostly on 2022 figures).
The community is presupposed to be totally powered by renewable sources and gives handy charging with stations situated “strategically alongside main routes” and “with the potential to add as much as 275km of vary in simply quarter-hour”.
Tesla Supercharger places now open to non-Tesla EVs:
| ACT | Tuggeranong |
| NSW | Bathurst |
| Berry | |
| Blaxland | |
| Campbelltown | |
| Dubbo | |
| Hollydene | |
| Knockrow | |
| Narooma | |
| Tamworth | |
| Tenterfield | |
| Wollongong | |
| QLD | Gympie |
| Rochedale | |
| Toowoomba | |
| SA | Clare |
| Mount Gambier | |
| Tailem Bend | |
| VIC | Bendigo |
| Field Hill | |
| Cann River | |
| Colac | |
| Geelong | |
| More | |
| Mornington | |
| Shepparton | |
| Warrnambool | |
| Yea | |
| WA | Margaret River |
| Williams |
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