NRMA funding 40 DCFCs around NSW

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Re: NRMA funding 40 DCFCs around NSW

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Hi All - some photos from Monday's official opening at Coonabarabran - the press release is on the NRMA Website. Four Tesla's attended (two S, an X and a 3) as well as several other local EV owners to support the NRMA roll out and the local community. Regards. Chris.
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Nell Payne NRMA and Mayor Dennis Todd
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Re: NRMA funding 40 DCFCs around NSW

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The last we heard of NRMA's plan for further charging sites was this article from early 2020:
Powering The Regions

Some of these sites were built, with the latest at Jerilderie. Temora has been listed as Coming Soon for a long time and nothing has apparently happened for about six months. Clearly something new was coming and the new strategy may be what was announced in the last day, with a bigger remit, but along fewer routes. It may be that this is a different project from what NRMA is doing. After reading various flavours of the glossy, hoping for more information, i eventually found the strategy PDF on this government page:
NSW Electric Vehicle Strategy

A new name variation has been bandied about - Ultra Fast. According to the PDF this does indeed mean 350kw Ultra Rapid chargers. The map highlights some towns with big or small dots and others not noted at all. The only real indicator of where the new chargers will actually be is the statement of "100 km intervals across all major highways in New South Wales". Regarding this and the other new charging infrastructure, the NSW government "will invest $171 million over the next four years". So that is the timeframe; longer than it would take to deploy 50kw chargers, but a much faster and denser infrastructure at least along the identified highways.
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There will be new sites at Tocumwal (between Jerilderi and Cobram), and up the coast from Eden, including Narooma and Ulladulla. While the NRMA rollout may continue, missing from the new strategy are routes inland from Batemans Bay, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour. And instead of the zig-zag route from Byron Bay through Narrabri to Bourke, it will be a more direct route from Grafton through Moree. The route from Mudgee to Walgett heading to St George is also excluded. The exclusions are all considered lesser roads, and i imagine the NRMA network will continue building these out with 50-75kw chargers. About the NRMA network, the PDF states "with 59 EV fast charging sites...as of July 2020, and another 35 underway". Expect the nominated sites, including many already covered by NRMA, together with in-between places that reduce the spacings to 100km, to all have 350kw chargers.
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Re: NRMA funding 40 DCFCs around NSW

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NRMA is back on the table with sites now planned for Coonamble and Walgett. Interestingly, they plan two chargers at Coonamble and only one at Walgett (according to PlugShare). My earlier uncertainty of whether the new NSW government initiative would be run through NRMA appears a little clearer. NRMA may now be favouring sites away from the main highways, but perhaps still providing valuable redundancy where the two networks cross paths. This suggests that the coming 350kw infrastructure will not simply upgrade existing NRMA sites but likely will build at new locations; so somewhere else in or just out of Walgett. NRMA may or not stick with the original plan to install their own chargers at Narabri and Moree seeing that the Newell will be well catered with adequate redundancy.
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