EV Charging Stations and Roadside Assistance in Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour has fewer public chargers than a city of 80,000 might expect and more fast-charging bays than most cities twice its size. Within 25 km, Open Charge Map lists 5 public charging locations, every one of them DC fast, led by Chargefox’s 350 kW ultra-rapid site at North Boambee Valley and three Tesla Supercharger sites, the Big Banana, Moonee Beach and Park Beach Plaza, that between them run 37 bays and are all open to non-Tesla cars. There is no verified free charging. NRMA covers electric cars on every plan at no extra cost and tows an out-of-charge EV to the nearest charger. The Pacific Highway in both directions is well stepped; the Waterfall Way inland is the road to plan.

EV charging stations in Coffs Harbour

The newest and biggest site is the Big Banana Supercharger at 351 Pacific Highway on the northern edge of town: 16 bays of V4 hardware at up to 300 kW, opened on 19 December 2025 in time for the Christmas rush and open to other EVs with CCS compatibility through the Tesla app. It replaced a temporary two-bay unit that Open Charge Map still records, which is why our count shows two plugs at this address rather than sixteen. With the fun park, cafe and a supermarket a short walk away, it is the natural stop for anyone passing through.

Eleven kilometres north at Moonee Beach, Tesla’s 15-bay Supercharger on Moonee Beach Road opened in April 2025 at 250 kW and is open to all CCS2 cars under its government co-funding. The original Coffs Harbour Supercharger at Park Beach Plaza shopping centre, 253 Pacific Highway, is a different generation: six V2 stalls at up to 130 kW, running since December 2017 and now also open to non-Tesla cars, with the shopping centre around it for a longer stay.

For non-Tesla drivers the fastest plug in town is Chargefox at 380 Pacific Highway, North Boambee Valley, 3 km south of the centre: two 350 kW CCS2 chargers and two 100 kW CHAdeMO units. Coffs was named in the first phase of Chargefox’s ultra-rapid network in September 2019, the club-backed build funded through the motoring clubs, so NRMA members get 10 per cent off here by linking their membership in the Chargefox app. bp pulse runs a single 75 kW unit with CCS2 and CHAdeMO at the BP on the highway at 136 Pacific Highway near the centre, open 24 hours and useful when the Chargefox bays are busy.

Slow charging is where Coffs is thin. Open Charge Map lists no 22 kW public AC posts in town and no clearly free charger within 25 km. The Tesla destination chargers at hotels on Camperdown Street and Park Beach Road are for guests. If you are staying a week, a charger at your accommodation matters more here than in most cities; our caravan parks with EV charging directory lists the Coffs Coast parks that have one.

The regional picture, from Macksville to Woolgoolga, is on our Coffs Coast charger page; the state-wide list is on our New South Wales chargers page. If the apps-and-plugs side of public charging is new to you, our guide to public EV charging in Australia covers how each network works and what fast charging costs, typically between about 50 and 80 cents per kWh as of August 2026.

EV roadside assistance options in Coffs Harbour

NRMA is the New South Wales club and the default roadside choice on the Coffs Coast. Every NRMA Roadside Assistance plan covers battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid cars at no extra cost, with unlimited callouts, and if you run out of charge NRMA tows you to the nearest accessible charging station, or your destination if that is closer, within your plan’s towing allowance. Metro towing runs from 25 km to 100 km depending on the plan. In Coffs any tow is a short one: from anywhere in town the Chargefox hub or a Supercharger is within 10 km. The allowance matters on the Waterfall Way, where the next fast charger inland is Armidale. Our NRMA EV roadside guide sets out each plan.

NRMA also has skin in the charging game here, as the backer of the Chargefox ultra-rapid site and the operator of its own fast chargers at Grafton, Ballina and Port Macquarie up and down the highway. For how club cover compares with insurer add-ons and the manufacturer programs bundled with new EVs, see our complete guide to EV roadside assistance in Australia; all of those operate normally in Coffs Harbour. Keep the risk in proportion: the bulk of EV roadside work remains flat 12-volt batteries, tyres and lockouts, identical to petrol cars, and those are standard entitlements on every plan.

Mobile EV charging in Coffs Harbour

Nobody brings a charger to you here yet. NRMA’s mobile EV charging trucks operate in Sydney and Canberra, and the commercial operator Mobile EV Charging lists New South Wales among its service areas but its no-call-out-fee radius is 20 to 50 km from a capital city CBD, and Coffs Harbour is about 530 km from Sydney’s and 390 km from Brisbane’s. A flat battery here means a tow to a fast charger, which NRMA’s cover handles, and with 37 Supercharger bays and a Chargefox hub inside town it is a short one. The national state of play is in our mobile EV charging guide.

Charging on Coffs Harbour’s main routes

Pacific Highway (A1) south to Port Macquarie and Sydney. The easy direction. On our data Evie’s 350 kW site at Macksville is about 55 km out, Nambucca Heads has a 22 kW AC post in the Ridge Street car park, and Port Macquarie at around 155 km has NRMA’s 50 kW at Sovereign Place plus Tesla’s John Oxley Drive Supercharger at 250 kW. Beyond that Taree has both an Evie 350 kW service centre and a 12-bay Supercharger. Our Sydney to Coffs Harbour trip page has the full stop list with the live longest gap.

Pacific Highway (M1) north to Ballina, Byron and Brisbane. About 390 km to Brisbane. Moonee Beach’s Supercharger is the first stop at 11 km, then on our data nothing at Woolgoolga or Halfway Creek until Evie’s 350 kW at the Tyndale Shell roadhouse around 95 km, which is the one to aim for; NRMA’s 50 kW at the Grafton library is 10 minutes off the motorway if you want the town. Ballina at about 190 km has NRMA’s 84 kW Chargefox site, and Byron Bay gained an eight-bay 250 kW Supercharger in June 2026. Our Sydney to Brisbane trip page covers the rest of the run.

Waterfall Way (B78) west to Bellingen, Dorrigo and Armidale. The one to plan. It leaves the highway near Urunga, about 25 km south, and on our data there is no fast charger at Bellingen, Dorrigo or Ebor, nor anywhere else in the roughly 190 km to Armidale, where NRMA has a 50 kW unit at the visitor centre and Tesla a four-bay 250 kW Supercharger open to all. The climb from Bellingen to Dorrigo is about 30 km of winding escarpment and costs noticeably more than its distance; you win some of it back coming down. A Bellingen and Dorrigo day trip is no trouble on a full battery. Driving through to Armidale is a full-charge leg with no fallback, so leave Coffs at 100 per cent and do not plan on charging at the top.

The Coffs Harbour bypass. Transport for NSW expects the 14 km bypass, from Englands Road in the south to Sapphire in the north, to open in December 2026. Through traffic will skip the town centre and its lights, and with it the Park Beach Plaza and bp pulse sites, which sit on the old highway through town. The Chargefox hub at North Boambee Valley is at the southern end near the Englands Road interchange, and the Big Banana is a short detour off the northern end, so neither is lost to the bypass; just follow the signs on the day rather than a sat-nav map that may not have caught up.