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Australia’s EV sales are skyrocketing. Our charging infrastructure may soon struggle to keep up
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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Won't most EV users be home charging anyway?
What percentage are really looking for distance road trips?
More dumb analysis, FFS wake up!
That’s the brilliance of it - electricity retailers are already offering really cheap overnight rates to take advantage of baseline power supplies.
At most, I can’t see us ever doing more than one massive road trip per month that would require public fast charging, and more realistically it would only be once a quarter.
So ~4-8 fast charges a year, and ~350+ days of home charging.
That math works out great, as long as everyone's 4-8 fast charges a year are spread out so on average the demand is spread out evenly throughout the year. But if Australia is even a little like Europe, that won't be the case, and most people will try to take those long distance trips during the summer holidays. Obviously during those peak demands charging rates will be restricted to avoid overloading, but rich consumers (who can buy electric cars) have become such babies that they can't or won't understand this technological reality.
It's more about actually having enough chargers than having enough energy, at this point at least. The fast chargers along the east coast got hammered last Christmas/New Years and there will be more demand this year.
This claim was made in every country against EVs. Is there a single one where it held true? Sure, modernizing the net costs money but it seems that even the most buerocratic countries stayed in top of it.
And I promise you, capital has been mad about it ever since