1、Public high power EV charging availabilityPrepared by Ross De RangoMay 20231Public high power EV charging availabilityThe transition of our road transport sector from vehicles reliant on foreign oil,to vehicles running on electricity,requires the construction and operation of significant amounts of

2、electrical infrastructure,spanning generation,transmission,distribution,all the way down to the public EV charging equipment consumers will use every day.Transitions of this scale take time to execute.It took decades from the introduction of petrol cars for petrol to be readily and reliably availabl

3、e in regional Australia.It also took decades from the introduction of electricity in the major cities before many rural properties were connected.Along the way,challenges around reliability and performance were experienced,and overcome.Supply of petrol for our cars and electricity for our homes will

4、 never be 100%flawless,but its very good by global standards,having had a hundred years to evolve.Public high power EV charging is at an early stage today in Australia,and its not quite at the level of reliability that it needs to be.The high level goal should be that a driver rolling up to a public

5、 high power charging location experiences similar availability to a driver rolling up to a petrol station today.Its OK for an individual pump to be out of action,and its OK for there to be short queues at particularly busy times,but absent issues like flood or electricity network outage,the service

6、should be available.This whitepaper lays out some considerations for public EV charging point operators(known as CPOs),and for the parties providing funding to them,in the Australian context.These considerations have been developed by an Electric Vehicle Council working group,comprised of many stake