100th Aussie Supercharger

Never seen this 1 b4 🔥

Where is this?

Glenelg, South Australia

TIL the national colors of Australia are green and gold

Not Glenelg Scotland or Glenelg Mars then?

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Australia is only beginning their ramp away from blood oil. Good for them. Expect these superchargers to pop up like mushrooms.

The Polish opening is trash bro

100th location, not individual charger.

Reminds me of the colours worn by Raygun at the Olympics.

At first (and still does to me) it looks more Brazilian than Aussie, but the green and gold does look cool.

You mean the national colors of Australia?

I thought that meant it was the diesel charger.

I am aware they are the same CCS Type 2 as Europe but damn those charging plugs are gigantic. The NACS was such an elegant solution compared to this (and yes, I am aware the issues with NACS and countries that use 3 phase power, I am just saying.)

Yes, the country we all started hearing about because of Raygun

Must have been installed by a Brazilian /S

100th site, not stall

You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. The US uses 3-phase power for electrical loads of any significance, it just isn’t common in residential applications.

Everything reminds me of her .... ~~I should call her~~ 

Jesus Christ, as someone with a dual major in computer science and electrical engineering I very much know exactly what I am talking about. What are you even implying I said? I just said I know about the issues related to using NACS with 3 phase power and why they cannot use NACS outside of NA. It is simple, for non-DC fast charging you cannot get all 3 phases (L1, L2 and L3) out of 2 pins on the NACS or J1772. Even in the US when there is a 208V 3-phase power available such as in commercial settings, an EV charger will only be connected with L1 and L2. This is because the J1772 or NACS (J3400) plugs have no way of using the 3rd phase. You do not get the full possible charge rate available normally on a 208V 3-phase system. In 3-phase countries that use all 3 all the way to the residence, a separate charging plug was required (Type 2 aka Mennekes) to make use of all 3 to the maximum extent. Hence, the incompatibility of NACS to be fully utilized in 3-phase countries, which is what I was originally hinting at.

South Australia is the state.

Interesting, so does that mean non-DC fast charging is the same "charge rate/speed" in 2-phase and 3-phase countries with NACS? While it could be much faster if it used all 3-phases in those countries?

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John Deere….

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There tractors are the latest OEM to sign with tesla for charger use.

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r/ConfidentlyIncorrect

No one is talking about adding phases together. I’m talking purely about hardware configurations and full utilization of each system. Everyone and their mother knows it’s volts * amps = watts. I don’t see where I ever said anything about that. NACS is not fully suited for three phase markets, end of story. Can it function on three phase? Yes. Can it fully utilize it to the maximum potential? No. Take the stick out of your ass, I’m not here teaching a graduate level class on these systems and am not going to go into useless technical information that doesn’t matter to your average consumer. All this derived from a damn comment about why I understand they don’t use NACS outside of NA.

What’s the significance of the colors for Australia? National colors?

NACS is only used in countries where 2 phase is common to residential (USA, Canada and MX as far as I know) and tops out in most cars at 50 amps (10-11.5kw depending on 208 or 240v). Some cars support 80 amps for a peek of 19.2kw (240v). From what I've seen for EU countries and other places that support 3 phase, they top out at ~22kw using the Type 2 connector. In NA, we may start to see smaller DC chargers replace Level 2 AC chargers as there are a very small amount of cars that support 80A (19.2kw) AC, while every EV can support 20kw DC charging. Having these smaller DC chargers would make a lot of sense for shopping settings, office buildings, apartment complexes and such. 2 hours charging at 20kw is ~50% or more of most EV batteries.

Bokke!

Raygun uniform colors lol

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lol first thought I had

Where is supercharger bro

Master chief charger

Oooohhh!! I was like "only 100 charging plugins in the whole gigantic land mass...umm... Thanks for the clarification.

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Colours of the golden wattle.

Thank you. An understory plant in the eucalyptus forest apparently. 

it actually looks better close up lol

It’s really not that bad. Tesla makes a good CCS2 charging handle and cable

Flushes out contaminated electrons not reached by other chargers

So you didn't know about us before? We have done lots of other things. I can't actually think of any right now....

That’s where you charge your John Deere

https://preview.redd.it/mnlxtd0jrupd1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=c81d34a050cd6ae75726726d7aaf2d09a6fe5989

There’s been confusion in headlines, but according to the Tesla invitation it is “100th Supercharger site”. https://thedriven.io/2024/09/18/tesla-celebrates-100th-supercharger-site-in-australia-with-green-and-gold-colour-scheme/amp/


It’s the Vegemite Charger

The thing is, generally its predominantly gold with green trim.. this way round looks more like South Africa than Australia.

I genuinely don't know if this is serious. Like "dollary-doo"

Are the colors significant to Australia in any way?

[Australia's national colours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_colours_of_Australia). Used by all our national sporting teams for decades, and often used in preference to the Australian flag in other examples (like this) because depending on how the image is used you can't tell the Australian flag apart from the NZ or UK flags.

I had no idea. I would’ve thought it would be some sort of red/white/blue given that’s the colors on the flag. But that is a good way to differentiate it from other countries.

I'm guessing you're not from a country that follows cricket, rugby or football!

Correct, I’m from the USA, and football is “American football” to you. And your football is soccer to us.

To add to confusion, most Australians would have thought I was talking about Australian rules football, but you did get the right one :P But the USA gets on the World Cup bandwagon though don't they? Or is it like the Olympics where you only ever see reports about the US team?

I mean like any sport there’s some die hard fans, and there are nationwide soccer/football teams that play against each other, but I can only think of the Chicago Fire (which is the team closest to me). But most people mainly only care about US soccer/football around the World Cup or Olympics whereas American Football and other sports like basketball and baseball are much more widely enjoyed and has a much bigger fan base and are enjoyed by millions each year. Anyways I’m off to bed because it’s almost 3:30 in the morning here, so good night/afternoon.

I don’t think I ever actually saw this video, just the memes. It’s absolutely worse than I thought. My god…. The overconfidence is painful.

I don't think the issue is the charging speed from using one less phase. You would get a bit more power with 3 phases rather than 2. I think the bigger concern is that you will unbalance a 3 phase system if you only use two of the three phases.

Have you tried a V4 charger in subzero temperatures? You physically cannot bend the cable - at -15C it will freeze in its hanging shape.

CCS2 is less bulky than a what you were used to at the gas pump. So I don't get that people make a fuss about this - they didn't for the last 80 years at gas stations, either.

I would say I less so fussing, and more so just finding it slightly amusing how much larger it is than the Tesla NACS plug. I was fussing a bit over the NA variant, CCS1, though. That further included a physical latch on top of it that had to hook in, added an extra failure point and made the profile of the plug even larger, that thing was a monstrosity.

Also call it Raygunn.

I wanted to forget but you've given me fear

New Zealand and Aus do not see temps that low

Green with a little gold seems to be what we picked for the Olympic uniforms this year though. It does seem to have changed over the years, Cricket was always gold with a little green.

Yeah, though Australia’s Olympic/Commonwealth games uniforms do rather have a tradition of being an odd colour scheme

this one is now on my bucklist + all the red ones in the US

I thought that was the bowser super charger

No reason they couldn't heat the cooling fluid in those states that experience such temperatures. Australia and California are not such places.

WiFi among other things [Timeline of Australian inventions - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Australian_inventions)

Red white and blue isn't special to Australia, it is likely that any flag that ever replaces the union jack would not be red white and blue. The unofficial boxing kangaroo flag is predominately green and gold.

i only use V-Power in my car!

Glenelg, south Australia

I live near this do ill post a photo when I use it

That middle one is diesel, the rest are unleaded.

Funny you mention that, had a chance to ask the project lead for supercharging in norway/iceland this exact question yesterday. Apparently the V4 stalls have a Model Y heatpump built in, and they (being developers in California) hadn't thought about enabling *heating* as well. Shoul be fixed by now, he said.

At -15 they are frozen solid, but even at 5C they can be very hard to move.

Almost looks like a BP theme on that SC.

I’ve used them in 5c and have not noticed them being difficult to move at all.

JAMAICAN SUPERCHARGER