EV charging, counted
Charging is only useful if it is fast enough to be worth stopping for and priced so you know what you are agreeing to. Both are counted here, for both countries.
Australia
1,355 charging sites
EV charging sites
1,355sites
1,324 publish a power rating, up to 400 kW
Rapid or faster
745
55% of sites — 50 kW and up
Fastest on record
400 kW
Median 50 kW
How fast
- Trickle (under 7 kW)50
- Slow (7-22 kW)163
- Fast (22-50 kW)366
- Rapid (50-150 kW)496
- Ultra (150 kW+)249
- Not recorded31
What it costs
224 free to use (24% of those that say)
699 charge a fee
432 do not publish a price at all
Tariffs as published
- 1 site
- $0.30 per kWh1 site
- Free to use for 3 hour sessions1 site
- -1 site
- ?1 site
- .351 site
Who runs them
- Chargefox317
- Evie195
- (Business Owner at Location)103
- Tesla (Tesla-only charging)77
- NRMA66
- Tesla (including non-tesla)61
- Queensland Electric Super Highway41
- BP Pulse (AU)38
- Exploren32
- Ampol AmpCharge30
By state or territory
- Western Australia355
- Victoria284
- New South Wales260
- Queensland133
- South Australia127
- Tasmania67
- Australian Capital Territory48
- Northern Territory8
- State not recorded5
New Zealand
983 charging sites
EV charging sites
983sites
792 publish a power rating, up to 300 kW
Rapid or faster
359
37% of sites — 50 kW and up
Fastest on record
300 kW
Median 25 kW
How fast
- Trickle (under 7 kW)85
- Slow (7-22 kW)153
- Fast (22-50 kW)195
- Rapid (50-150 kW)292
- Ultra (150 kW+)67
- Not recorded191
What it costs
139 free to use (18% of those that say)
649 charge a fee
195 do not publish a price at all
Tariffs as published
- $0.25 kWh + $0.25 per min1 site
- $0.80/kWh6 sites
- DC: $0.20 / kWh + $0.275 / minute, AC: $0.20 / kWh1 site
- $0.24 / kWh + $0.24 / minute1 site
- $0.24/kWh + $0.24/min7 sites
- $0.25 / kWh + $0.15 / minute4 sites
Who runs them
- ChargeNet NZ286
- (Business Owner at Location)193
- Zero (Meridian Energy)65
- BP EV Charging (NZ)48
- Z Energy46
- Tesla (Tesla-only charging)27
- Hikotron16
- OpenLoop15
- WEL Networks Ltd14
- Chargefox13
By region
- Auckland116
- Canterbury96
- Waikato96
- Wellington73
- Northland43
- Bay of Plenty42
- Manawatū-Whanganui36
- Otago26
- Hawke's Bay13
- Southland13
- Marlborough11
- Taranaki11
About these numbers
Sites come from Open Charge Map, requesting openly-licensed records only. A site is one location, not one plug — a forecourt with six stalls counts once.
Power is the highest-rated connector at the site, so a location offering both a 22 kW and a 150 kW plug is counted as ultra-rapid. That is the honest way round: it is what you can get there, not what you are guaranteed if the fast one is occupied.
Cost is free text in the source, not a structured tariff, so it is reported as three buckets and a sample of the tariffs exactly as published. We do not parse a rate out of it — a price inferred from a sentence is a price we would be inventing.
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