If you don’t have chargers, people won’t buy electric vehicles — a bit like the chicken and the egg dilemma. It all has to happen simultaneously. We need the ecosystem in order to support the uptake of vehicles. If New South Wales in Australia aims to achieve 50% of new vehicle sales being EVs by 2030, the state government has to support a fast charging system.
The $35 million on offer is part of a $171 million funding program to roll out 1,000 ultra-fast charging stations across the state over the next four years. This will be good news for all those people who have taken advantage of the NSW state EV incentives, a $3,000 rebate for the first 20,000 EVs priced under $68,750, and a stamp duty exemption for cars priced under $78,000.
Construction of all charging stations approved in this first round is expected to be completed within two years. Depending on the each individual EV’s ability, ultra-fast chargers can take as little as 15 minutes to charge up to 400 km. Each site will be required to provide four charging bays, two of them rated at 350 kW and two rates at 175 kW or more.
With all the government subs. Why would any manufacturer even developed a moderately priced or reasonably priced bev.
This is too slow. Sweden is already at 50% new EVs. Every state needs to aim for 50% by 2025. GO BIG with the charging networks ASAP!