Australia isn't one of the biggest markets in the world for electric vehicles, but it is one of the most interesting. With a small population, long-standing love of petrol-guzzling highway cruisers and close proximity to China, it's a nation that in some ways lags behind the rest of the world in EV adoption, and in other ways… also lags. But it's trying its best.
It’s another to tell them there might be lines keeping them there for an hour or more during holidays , and that’s if the machines are even working in the first place. This is less of a concern for Tesla owners, of course, because like in many other markets the company has scores of proprietary charging stations all across Australia. And last year Tesla began the process of opening some of these up to owners of non-Tesla vehicles, albeit at a premium price.