General EV Discussion

[Quickstatus]

Perhaps there should be a federal mandate that for every X EVs a manufacturer sells into the Australian market, they must install Y public chargers.

I have always felt that there should not be Govt incentives to buy an EV, rather the funding should be directed to co-funding Fast charging infrastructure. Most of the anxiety with EV is the charging.

 

[moa999]

Should be noted that in other markets manufacturers other than Tesla have funded networks.

USA
Electrify America - funded by VW (albeit mostly from Dieselgate penalties)
Ionna - JV by BMW, Mercedes-Benz, GM, Stellantis, Hyundai, Honda, and Kia., with Toyota joining later

Europe
Ionity - BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen Group

Japan
NCS - joint venture of Toyota,, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi

China
BYD, Xpeng have charging networks, and Nio battery swap. Though the largest networks (TELD and Star Charge) are owned by charger manufacturers

BYD is reportedly going to roll out it's own high speed network in Australia.