Superchargers in Australia

[Chenkers]

The imbalance between eastern and western suburbs keeps growing.. . Granted we don’t have that many apartments/units in the west, but still some areas around Monee Ponds are pretty dense with only 4 stalls to serve them. I guess all the Tesla top brass live in the eastern suburbs

Moonee Ponds is 6 stall V2 and it does get pretty busy. Another supercharger site in the west is definately needed soon as there's plenty of Teslas out that side of the city. Footscray is growing rapidly and getting enough apartment density to warrant a v3 site. Or else further out with decent access from the M80 ring road.

 

[Chuq]

On the supercharger voting call-to-action: This is the write-up/summary I'm going to use to suggest to the admins of the big Aussie Tesla/EV FB groups - proofread/thoughts anyone?

Supercharger voting - call to action

docs.google.com

So none of the group admins paid much attention to the "tag @everyone" request, but I posted it in a few FB groups 3 nights ago: "Tesla Owners Australia", "TOCA Official", and "Electric Vehicles for Australia".

This is the result so far (colours summarise my general descriptions in the document):

Observations: It is definitely having an effect: The suggest sites are getting votes as a faster rate; Port Wakefield is in 6th place, and only 7 votes away from 5th place; Campbell Town has move up 6 spaces, from 20 to 14. But so many people are still voting for Orange and Batemans Bay... sigh. If nothing else, at least if they make top 5 they'll be taken out of the voting pool next quarter.

I wonder if I should change the recommendations around, given Mansfield has what appears to be an unassailable lead. Swap it with Leongatha? Then I might post in "Tesla Model 3 & Y Australia", "Tesla Model 3 Australia" and 'Tesla Model Y Australia" for a bit more of a boost.

 

[RichardV]

So none of the group admins paid much attention to the "tag @everyone" request, but I posted it in a few FB groups 3 nights ago: "Tesla Owners Australia", "TOCA Official", and "Electric Vehicles for Australia".

This is the result so far (colours summarise my general descriptions in the document):

Observations: It is definitely having an effect: The suggest sites are getting votes as a faster rate; Port Wakefield is in 6th place, and only 7 votes away from 5th place; Campbell Town has move up 6 spaces, from 20 to 14. But so many people are still voting for Orange and Batemans Bay... sigh. If nothing else, at least if they make top 5 they'll be taken out of the voting pool next quarter.

I wonder if I should change the recommendations around, given Mansfield has what appears to be an unassailable lead. Swap it with Leongatha? Then I might post in "Tesla Model 3 & Y Australia", "Tesla Model 3 Australia" and 'Tesla Model Y Australia" for a bit more of a boost.

I think leave the request as is. You may end up getting an unexpected side effect and knock out Mansfield if you do happen to get an @everyone tag and deny the obvious leading site of those who engaged with the process.

Also, I am a member of one of those groups you sent the request to and almost did not see it at all. So I suspect you are still missing a large potential set of voters.

 

[leonk]

Moonee Ponds is 6 stall V2 and it does get pretty busy. Another supercharger site in the west is definately needed soon as there's plenty of Teslas out that side of the city. Footscray is growing rapidly and getting enough apartment density to warrant a v3 site. Or else further out with decent access from the M80 ring road.

Looking at the current supercharger map on the Tesla site, the West and North are barren.

I do find it weird how all the chargers are inner eastern suburbs though, considering how many Teslas you see out in the outer South East now.

 

[Chuq]

I think leave the request as is. You may end up getting an unexpected side effect and knock out Mansfield if you do happen to get an @everyone tag and deny the obvious leading site of those who engaged with the process.

Yeah I did consider that, while unlikely would be a bit of a disaster.

Also, I am a member of one of those groups you sent the request to and almost did not see it at all. So I suspect you are still missing a large potential set of voters.

That a problem in how FB works unfortunately. Not everyone sees every post in the group, some might only see it a few days later if it gets a bit more traction, etc.

 

[RichardV]

Now at 4/5

 

[SPadival]

V4 installation manual, just in case you need to install one in your garage and misplaced the manual

https://twitter.com/x/status/1706768319825506584

He has also published the manual for a pre-assembled V3 SC. I don’t think we have this here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707175861001003165

 

[Jules22]

V4 installation manual, just in case you need to install one in your garage and misplaced the manual

https://twitter.com/x/status/1706768319825506584

Ha, planning to install one in your driveway?

 

[Zoltrix77]

120x510mm mounting holes to hold the charge stall post down, would be interested to see if that is the same as the traditional v2/3charge post. Might need to swap a lot of them out for the cables to reach more vehicles, even if the back end charger remains the same.

 

[SPadival]

120x510mm mounting holes to hold the charge stall post down, would be interested to see if that is the same as the traditional v2/3charge post. Might need to swap a lot of them out for the cables to reach more vehicles, even if the back end charger remains the same.

That’s what Tesla Bjorn guessed in his review of the V4 supercharger being installed alongside older V3 chargers.

 

[Midnight Man]

Greater Sydney is starting to look sparse compared to Melbourne in terms of supercharger sites.

I'm hoping some of the planned ones listed on supercharge.info (e.g., Chatswood/Eveleigh/Alexandria et al) get under construction soon!

 

[moa999]

As are the other capitals..
But yes strange Sydney is so far behind particularly given most have govt funding attached.

 

[Chuq]

What’s going on with the traffic in Northern NSW?

Related to some sort of sportsball thing this weekend perhaps?

 

[PcS000]

What’s going on with the traffic in Northern NSW?

Related to some sort of sportsball thing this weekend perhaps?

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Maybe Labour Day long weekend in NSW too - people heading north!

 

[Baymax44]

The estimated wait time is around 20-25 mins, I assume the north routes may be more busier during the long weekend.

 

[Onshore]

What’s going on with the traffic in Northern NSW?

Long weekend in the middle of school holidays.

 

[Vostok]

What’s going on with the traffic in Northern NSW?

Long weekend - EV charging congestion will be even worse tomorrow, then another dose on Monday.

 

[Quickst]

What’s going on with the traffic in Northern NSW

Sydneysiders depart Sydney and typically head north from around 2am on Friday
Expect Monday afternoon to be the same

October long weekend....

 

[Midnight Man]

Sydneysiders depart Sydney and typically head north from around 2am on Friday
Expect Monday afternoon to be the same

October long weekend....

Had to come home (Hunter Valley) from Sydney after picking up my Tesla on Friday morning.

M1 to Newcastle was rather busy! Thankfully the kind folks at Tesla had the car to 100%, so I didn't need to stop and charge anywhere.

 

[Chuq]

Tesla has just achieved the feat of opening 6 new supercharger locations in Australia within one calendar month! Previous record was 3.