Australian EV Charging Statistics
How many public EV chargers Australia has, by state and network, updated monthly from the EV Roadside dataset.
Listed on Open Charge Map as of 1 October 2026
Australia has 1,390 public EV charging locations listed on Open Charge Map as of 1 October 2026, 785 of them with DC fast charging, +45 locations since 1 September. Another 640 map-only sites from OpenStreetMap appear on the map but are not counted here.
The figures on this page come from the same dataset behind our charger map and state directories, and they update automatically with every monthly data refresh. Each number is a count of charging locations listed on Open Charge Map, not charging bays or plugs, and “listed” is not the same as “built”: sites sometimes join the source data after they open.
Month by month
Data behind this chart
| Month | Public charging locations |
|---|---|
| August 2026 | 1,338 |
| September 2026 | 1,345 |
| October 2026 | 1,390 |
Data behind this chart
| Month | Locations with DC fast charging |
|---|---|
| August 2026 | 748 |
| September 2026 | 751 |
| October 2026 | 785 |
Year-on-year change appears here once the series holds twelve months of live data.
State by state
| State | Locations | DC fast | Free | Share | Since Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Australia | 384 | 125 | 38 | 28% | +5 |
| Victoria | 310 | 220 | 20 | 22% | +14 |
| New South Wales | 274 | 174 | 24 | 20% | +2 |
| Queensland | 148 | 129 | 10 | 11% | +14 |
| South Australia | 138 | 57 | 19 | 10% | +3 |
| Tasmania | 70 | 32 | 11 | 5% | +1 |
| ACT | 48 | 36 | 2 | 3% | 0 |
| Northern Territory | 18 | 12 | 1 | 1% | +6 |
Data behind this chart
| State | Locations by state |
|---|---|
| WA | 384 |
| VIC | 310 |
| NSW | 274 |
| QLD | 148 |
| SA | 138 |
| TAS | 70 |
| ACT | 48 |
| NT | 18 |
Where the gaps are town by town, measured against the federal government’s own list of regional towns that need fast chargers, is on our regional blackspots page.
Networks
| Network | Locations | Since Sep |
|---|---|---|
| Chargefox | 319 | +4 |
| Evie | 197 | +3 |
| Tesla | 147 | +12 |
| NRMA | 75 | +9 |
| BP Pulse | 39 | +1 |
| Exploren | 32 | 0 |
| Ampol AmpCharge | 30 | +1 |
| JOLT | 23 | 0 |
| ChargePoint | 17 | 0 |
| WA EV Network | 6 | +1 |
Chargefox is a platform rather than an operator: its sites belong to councils, businesses and motoring clubs, so its count is not one company's network. Sites with no network recorded are counted in the totals but not here.
Speed, free charging and access
- 56% of listed locations (785) offer DC fast charging.
- 339 locations (24%) list 100 kW or faster. That is a floor: 31 sites list no power at all.
- 125 locations (9%) are genuinely free to use. The full free list.
- 169 locations carry an access restriction (Tesla vehicles only, or guests, customers or staff only). Public-access sites only on the map.
Quick answers
- How many public EV chargers does Australia have?
- 1,390 public charging locations were listed on Open Charge Map as of October 2026, 785 of them with DC fast charging. A location often has several charging bays.
- Which state has the most EV charging stations?
- Western Australia, with 384 listed locations as of October 2026.
- How many EV chargers in Australia are fast chargers?
- 785 locations offer DC fast charging and 339 list 100 kW or faster, as of October 2026.
Monthly reports
- Australia's EV Charging Network: What Changed in September 2026 1 Oct 2026
- Australia's EV Charging Network: What Changed in August 2026 1 Sep 2026
Next update: first week of November 2026, after the monthly data refresh.
About this data and how to cite it
Sources. Open Charge Map (CC-BY-4.0), plus a small set of curated additions we have verified ourselves for remote corridors. The OpenStreetMap layer shown on our map is excluded from every figure here because it is not verified to the same standard.
Method. Operational public sites only, de-duplicated across sources, counted by location. The series starts in August 2026, the first month our pipeline read the live Open Charge Map API. Before that it ran on a frozen export mirror, so the launch figure of 1,279 locations on 12 June 2026 is not comparable and is not charted. Free counts start in September 2026: mis-flagged free sites were corrected on 11 September 2026, and the August refresh predates the fix.
Download. ev-charging-stats-australia.csv: one row per month for Australia and each state, CC-BY-4.0.