BP Pulse Network

[RichardV]

BP Eastern Creek under construction in SW Sydney
Very useful location, just south of the Light Horse M4/M7 interchange.

bp Eastern Creek | Eastern Creek, NSW | EV Station

Dual CCS DC Rapid Charger capable of charging speeds up to 75kW

www.plugshare.com

Gotta be quick around here. I just posted those photos and was about to update here.

 

[schnaxxl]

Southbound Caboolture listed as dual CCS and plugshare photo seems to confirm.

yep
I didn’t take a pic of the panel, but here’s my car charging there yesterday

 

[ARMARM]

Looks like Campbelltown/Macarthur is live, I might have to go for a drive to confirm.

 

[moa999]

Looks like Campbelltown/Macarthur is live, I might have to go for a drive to confirm.

Checkout the likely Supercharger site while you're at it.

Supercharger - Campbelltown, NSW

There are some spaces cordoned off in Campbelltown, Sydney, in about this pin location which roughly matches the announced site location for the Campbelltown Supercharger, https://goo.gl/maps/TxHwgxwnB8P5iJVJ9 This might, or might not, be in preparation for the Supercharger site. Watch this...

teslamotorsclub.com

 

[Chuq]

Interesting it's another non-Chademo site. Their first was immediately opposite another of their sites that included Chademo, but this is the first one of theirs on its lonesome (admittedly on a route well served by other providers).

 

[RichardV]

Looks like Campbelltown/Macarthur is live, I might have to go for a drive to confirm.

Checkout the likely Supercharger site while you're at it.

Supercharger - Campbelltown, NSW

There are some spaces cordoned off in Campbelltown, Sydney, in about this pin location which roughly matches the announced site location for the Campbelltown Supercharger, https://goo.gl/maps/TxHwgxwnB8P5iJVJ9 This might, or might not, be in preparation for the Supercharger site. Watch this...

teslamotorsclub.com

ARM is there charging already,

 

[ARMARM]

ARM is there charging already,

I was! Stalker! I thought I'd try it out, I'll rarely use this one as it's a bit too far away from my place, as the uni chargers are way closer.

Checkout the likely Supercharger site while you're at it.

I drove around that area this morning, but I hadn't seen the photo posted. Now I know where the roped off bit is exactly, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[ARMARM]

Took my wife's 3 to BP Macarthur this morning, no power to the unit. Switched off or just a typical Tritium feature?

 

[aliciar]

Took my wife's 3 to BP Macarthur this morning, no power to the unit. Switched off or just a typical Tritium feature?

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The one at Coomera was like that and then as soon as it was switched back on, it was no longer free

 

[moa999]

Installs don't always go to plan. Eg BP Marulan Northbound seemingly has some power issues.
Macarthur showing 1/2 available now.

 

[ARMARM]

Installs don't always go to plan. Eg BP Marulan Northbound seemingly has some power issues.
Macarthur showing 1/2 available now.

"Offline" or "Technical Fault" which is code for Tritium makes sh*tty products.

 

[RichardV]

Found another BP site while out and about today at Asquith. BP seem busy on sites unlike the two Ampol sites with DAs out this way.

Remote charger location

Satellite charger location. No EV paint parkings yet. Cambelltown BP charger location site looked like this last week except it had paint marking, so could be next week or next month or...

Charger site in context of station. Interesting that those chose a more prominent location instead of directly next to the remote charger next to the bins which are around the corner to the right in the shot here.

 

[scully]

Ooh, I hope they have chademo. I know no-one else cares, but I need to take a short range leaf to the central coast in Feb

 

[moa999]

Found another BP site while out and about today at Asquith.

Good spotting
Going back to Lee's (not a car guy) video interview with Andrew W they were targeting 100 chargers (not necessarily sites) by end Q1 (so by 30 March 2023) across Aus and NZ, so it's literally a new charger every day.

 

[Chuq]

BP seem busy on sites unlike the two Ampol sites with DAs out this way.

I thought this comment was worth highlighting, it does seem BP (without any incentives) are flying ahead of Ampol (with the ARENA contribution).

Maybe Ampol is taking on learnings from the first five sites, before deploying more. One example would be feedback on the 200A cables, which limited charge rates on Teslas to ~70-80 kW. The mixture of Chademo/CCS plugs is another, although probably not relevant when there is only one unit as it will always be 1 of each. Their 2-unit/4-stall sites could have one with Chademo/CCS and the other dual CCS.

To get back on topic (BP) their use of the PKM150 (so the 75 kW units can be boosted to 150 kW later) is a good sign, as well as their experimenting with dual CCS at a couple of sites.

 

[leonk]

Tritium Secures Largest Order in Company History from bp | Tritium

Tritium’s largest order to date will deliver fast chargers across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia.

tritiumcharging.com

Hope they got a good support deal with that order..

 

[Vostok]

Hope they got a good support deal with that order..

If BP has experienced and competent commercial contract negotiators they should have.

 

[moa999]

So given the initial order was for 1000 stalls, this is presumably even more

(And BP to date has only rolled out about 10 across Aus/NZ). Obviously UK will be the biggest market.

 

[blubbernator]

Pretty disappointing they are only 75KW each? The ones i used in Germany (Aral Pulse, subsidiary of BP) were always 300KW Alpitronic Hyperchargers. 2x CCS, 1x Chademo. They worked rather well, 150kW if shared obviously.

 

[raffdog]

Tritium Secures Largest Order in Company History from bp | Tritium

Tritium’s largest order to date will deliver fast chargers across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia.

tritiumcharging.com

Hope they got a good support deal with that order..

I heard they purchased out of order signs for all of them.
This shows BP are more concerned with rollout speed rather than getting the network correct with the right software and equipment.