Chargefox have announced that they will be working with motoring clubs to roll out a 350kW charging network around Australia. WA should get three new chargers over the next year (expected by early 2020 at the latest), one in Perth, one on the northern corridor and one south.
At present, Teslas can not make full use of 350kW CCS-2 chargers*, as we only have DC options of SuperChargers (120kW) and CHAdeMO (50kW). There is much discussion about Tesla’s next move, as they are members of the CHAdeMO and CCS working groups, and stated in their Australian Senate submission they advocate the rollout of 100kW+ charging using Type-2/CCS-2. Whether Model 3 will come with CCS-2 in Europe and Australia is yet to be seen, and there is much hand-wringing about the ability to adapt current vehicles to CCS-2.
It’s still great news that commercial funding continues to grow for EV infrastructure.
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* In fact – no currently shipping vehicle can charge at 350kW and none that are likely to ship before 2020 will.