ARENA/NRMA national fast charging network

[RichardV]

NRMA are installing their first off-grid charger at Erldunda Roadhouse, at the turn off to Uluru on the Stuart Highway, some time this month.

'It's very novel': Could this portable charger with solar panels solve range anxiety in the outback?

There are not many electric car chargers along one of Australia's longest roads, but one local company has developed a prototype it hopes will help range anxiety in the outback.

www.abc.net.au

 

[RichardV]

NRMA are installing their first off-grid charger at Erldunda Roadhouse, at the turn off to Uluru on the Stuart Highway, some time this month.

'It's very novel': Could this portable charger with solar panels solve range anxiety in the outback?

There are not many electric car chargers along one of Australia's longest roads, but one local company has developed a prototype it hopes will help range anxiety in the outback.

www.abc.net.au

 

[RichardV]

NRMA are installing their first off-grid charger at Erldunda Roadhouse, at the turn off to Uluru on the Stuart Highway, some time this month.

'It's very novel': Could this portable charger with solar panels solve range anxiety in the outback?

There are not many electric car chargers along one of Australia's longest roads, but one local company has developed a prototype it hopes will help range anxiety in the outback.

www.abc.net.au

No indication of anyone charging on this yet but looks like it is energised. With the world solar challenge rolling through from tomorrow we may get some more action.

 

[RichardV]

NRMA have just recently in the last few hours added this as a coming soon charger to plugshare.

At least initially it appears it will be free.

The map marker location is not accurate but you can't miss it being directly adjacent the the highway.

 

[Quickst]

Looks like 80 solar panels (40 each side)
Potentially 20kW peak generation
NT gets 6 peak solar hours
So about 120kW per day generating

What's the battery storage?

 

[PC__LoadLetter]

I find it slightly funny that NRMA has installed more stalls at Erlunda than they did at Mittagong, Yass, Scone, Tamworth, Bathurst, Dubbo, or just about anywhere in NSW!

 

[moa999]

Looks like 80 solar panels (40 each side)
Potentially 20kW peak generation
NT gets 6 peak solar hours
So about 120kW per day generating

Think it's more L shaped. I'd guessed about 40 panels. But a modern panel is 400+W. So 16kW.

And (guessing) maybe 200kWh storage.

Agreed with the comment on the number of stalls - but I suspect its more redundancy - like Willcannia where there are two stalls but only one is designed to be in operation at any one time.

 

[Midnight Man]

Looks like 80 solar panels (40 each side)
Potentially 20kW peak generation

Potentially higher? Assuming they used 400W panels (our 12 month old installation at home uses 440W panels), the generation would cap at 32kW?

 

[donmac]

Looks like the fee for charging is now rolling out beyond the pilot sites.
More pins in the My NRMA app now showing.

 

[moa999]

Some info on Erldunda from Robin Dean on EVfA FB forum.

25kw solar, sufficient battery for storage (think they originally wrote 180kWh). As it’s an area of high solar production that’s enough for 4 cars per day before the generator kicks in, until decent DC charging continues through to Port Augusta or Darwin I expect the generator will only switch on for maintenance reasons. At this time the 2 seperate charging units are under a test phase so are reportedly limited to 35kw.

 

[moa999]

Looks like the fee for charging is now rolling out beyond the pilot sites.
More pins in the My NRMA app now showing.

Seems so. Some #plugsharebitching going on.

Looks like they are trying again with Picton tomorrow with an outage listed on Plugshare.

Some Plugshare entries have been edited (eg. Berry). Others are presumably locked (eg. Mittagong) but comments suggest it is now billing.

 

[moa999]

Looks like Picton is still free, and Mittgaong broke somehow in turning on billing.
Berry and Wollongong also billing.

Up north they got an RT50 billing at Grafton and billing now goes as far north as Casino.

 

[Lachlan Smith]

There is already misinformation on social media that the diesel generator runs constantly. I'm guessing the noises are for temperature regulation of the battery bank, or some kind of self test.

 

[positiv]

Some info on Erldunda from Robin Dean on EVfA FB forum.

Interesting. I wonder what the power rating on the generator is.

 

[Quickst]

I wonder what the power rating on the generator is.

I suspect it would be to charge the storage battery rather than directly charge a car..?
A 25kVa gennie would be much bigger than the blue enclosure

 

[Chuq]

Im here at Jamestown SA and just got a Plugshare notification of a new nearby site - the NRMA National site in Port Augusta..

In the middle of the bridge apparently.

I see some of the other sites are also being added. I’m guessing all of these locations are inaccurate, or has a list of addresses been released somewhere?

 

[scully]

Just plonking them in from the linked list maybe? https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowe...ehicle-charging-network-connect-all-australia

 

[Chuq]

Just plonking them in from the linked list maybe? https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowe...ehicle-charging-network-connect-all-australia

Yep, it would appear so. Some are just in the middle of an empty dirt patch or in a park. So there is no actual location or timeframe info being provided by these pins.

You can’t filter these out, and Plugshare renders them on top of other pins (including “active” RAA sites for example). All they are doing right now is confusing people, so I’ve flagged them for deletion with Plugshare.

 

[RichardV]

Hunter Murray on LinkedIn: The NRMA with EPC Solar is currently installing 180KW chargers into Alice…

The NRMA with EPC Solar is currently installing 180KW chargers into Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.. looking mid January 2024 for complete...It's bloody hot…

www.linkedin.com

More outback charging under construction.

 

[RichardV]

News Story - Electric Vehicle Charging Station Under Construction at Lindsay Street Carpark » Katherine Town Council

www.katherine.nt.gov.au

Another just starting construction in Katherine.

Good to see the NT getting some attention.