The company isn’t letting concerns about grid capacity constraints or a slowdown in EV sales derail plans to have almost 1100 chargers at 372 sites next year.
2022, Australia’s largest charger operator has tripled the size of its east coast network. It plans to keep expanding.
That would lift its total to 1100 bays. Mr Fox says that although the rate of growth in EV sales has declined, it is off a larger base and EV charging networks still need to expand to meet growing demand and Evie Networks has only rarely encountered the kinds ofIt even has proprietary technology that automatically backs off the chargers when the slushie machine or the air conditioner at a nearby store cranks up, to avoid overwhelming the local network.
He was backed by Nick Black, head of EV charging and infrastructure development at AusGrid, the network operator for metropolitan Sydney from Cronulla to Newcastle, who said about 30 per cent of new connections can be dealt with quickly but a percentage are more challenging and can take as much as 12 months.
Early on it built charging stations on intercity highways and often had to add new transformers or other improvements to the connection, but it rarely has to do that in metropolitan sites.
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