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 favored New South Wales-based Tesla Pilot Program, by which 5 Supercharger websites have been made obtainable to non-Tesla EVs, Tesla has now prolonged the usage of 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) are actually open (see full listing beneath), selling what Tesla says is its pragmatic dedication to the worldwide shift in the direction of sustainable vitality.
“I feel we do wish to emphasise that it’s our purpose to assist the appearance of sustainable vitality, it isn’t to create a walled backyard and use that to bludgeon our opponents, which is usually 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 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 faucet ‘Cease Charging’ to finish the session.
Concurrently, Tesla drivers retain all present entry privileges, whereas Tesla actively displays 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 world uptime common of 99.95 per cent (based mostly on 2022 figures).
The community is presupposed to be solely powered by renewable sources and affords handy charging with stations situated “strategically alongside main routes” and “with the aptitude so as to add as much as 275km of vary in simply quarter-hour”.
Tesla Supercharger areas 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
Moe
Mornington
Shepparton
Warrnambool
Yea
WA
Margaret River
Williams