Tesla Hits 1,000 Supercharger Milestone in Australia and Deploys Custom Design

Tesla just hit a big milestone in Australia, and it announced the news on X with a pretty cool custom-designed Supercharger to mark the occasion.

The company activated its 1,000th Supercharger stall in the country with a brand new station in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Tesla says the new site fills in a key gap for EV drivers, and with it, more than 10,000 kilometres of major Australian highway corridors are now covered by its fast-charging network.

Tesla’s charging network in Australia has come a long way in roughly a decade. It started out as a closed system mainly built to connect major cities along the east coast, with one of the early wins being a 1,600-kilometre corridor linking Melbourne to Brisbane. By this past spring, that had grown to 150 active charging locations across the country, and the company has been leaning more into its V4 hardware lately, which can push charging speeds past 250kW.

Tesla also tends to build bigger sites than most of its competitors. Where other charging networks often install just one or two slower plugs per location, Tesla usually rolls out at least four to six stalls at a time. Some of its newer hubs go even further, like the 20-stall site in Goulburn and an upcoming location in Mackay that’s set to have more than 25 stalls, both built to handle the crush of holiday road trip traffic.

The network has also opened up a lot to drivers outside the Tesla ecosystem. More than half of all Supercharger sites in Australia now support CCS2 connectors, meaning any EV with that plug type can use them too, not just Teslas. That’s made long road trips a realistic option for basically any EV driver in the country now, not just Tesla owners.

The milestone comes as Tesla has started rolling out FSD 14 Supervised in Australia and New Zealand.

This custom design for the 1000th Supercharger in Australia looks pretty rad. Nicely done, Tesla team.