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Tesla has filed plans for a 37-stall Supercharger in Albury, on the New South Wales and Victoria border, which would become the largest public EV charging site in Australia if it’s approved. That’s according to ABC News, which says the $3.5 million development application was lodged with Albury City Council for a vacant 1,300-square-meter lot in the suburb of Thurgoona, about 2.5 km from the Hume Highway.
The plans call for 37 charging bays under solar canopies that could generate up to 100 kW, and the application says the site is aimed mainly at long-distance drivers on the busy Sydney to Melbourne run. ABC News reports the hub is slated to use Tesla’s V4 chargers, and it would sit next to a gym and across the road from a supermarket complex, which gives drivers something to do while they plug in.
Albury already has a 16-stall Supercharger in the CBD, which held the title of Tesla’s biggest Australian site after it opened in December 2023. That crown moved to Goulburn in August 2025, when Tesla switched on 20 V4 stalls on Lockyer Street near the Big Merino, a site Tesla’s Australia and New Zealand country director Thom Drew called the largest in the southern hemisphere. At 37 stalls, the Thurgoona hub would come close to doubling Goulburn and more than double what Tesla already offers in Albury.
The Hume corridor has become one of the busiest stretches of the network, and Goulburn’s original eight-stall site in town still sits alongside the newer V4 hub. Further south in Victoria, Tesla has applied to expand its Euroa Supercharger, one of its oldest in the country, from six V2 stalls to 10 V4 stalls and open it to other EVs, while councilors in Wagga Wagga are weighing a call for new chargers at the Tarcutta truck stop, another midpoint on the drive. Tesla is also looking to nearly double the stall count in Kaniva, on the Melbourne to Adelaide route.
The bigger picture is a network that has grown quickly. Tesla activated its 1,000th stall in Australia this June with a new site in Byron Bay, saying its chargers now cover more than 10,000 km of major highway corridors, and more than half of its Australian sites now accept CCS2 cars from other brands. V4 hardware is a big part of that shift, with the Goulburn stalls rated at up to 250 kW per car and open to any CCS2-compatible EV.
The Albury application is on public display until October 21, and a council assessment report is due by the end of November, so construction is still a ways off. It also fits a global push that recently took the network past 85,000 stalls worldwide. You can see Tesla’s charging map and current vehicles here.
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