‘I am not minimising the frustration … but this will allow us to do congestion modelling with real-life data to tell us where we should upgrade,’ Evie Networks boss says
Sylvia Wilson became the first person to drive around Australia in an electric car. She bought this Tesla sight unseen.Sylvia Wilson became the first person to drive around Australia in an electric car. She bought this Tesla sight unseen.ustralians are familiar with holiday frustrations: queues at theme parks, traffic jams at the beach, competition for Boxing Day bargains. But this year, some discovered a new source of stress: delays when charging their electric cars.
“This year was the first year where there were enough electric cars on the road for anyone to have experienced congestion,” he says. “The mentality is changing. People are feeling more confident about doing that and that comes from the expansion of networks around the country.” The Tesla Owners Club of Australia national president, Peter Thorne, says getting the locations of chargers right was imperative in Australia where demand for electric cars is rising.“It’s really only in the last year that EVs have started to take a good hold in Australia and the infrastructure is going to have to catch up with that.”
Climate Council advocacy head, Dr Jennifer Rayner, says electric vehicle charging points are most needed in regional and rural areas of Australia. State governments, including those in Queensland and New South Wales, have issued grants to deploy electric vehicle chargers in regional locations, and the issue of funding more charging stations was discussed in the National Electric Vehicle Strategy consultation paper last year.
“We’ve already got locations along the freeway at petrol stations. All you’ve got to do is set up a grants program, lay out the criteria for it, and let people apply.
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