How many public EV charging sites does Australia have as of October 2026?

As of 1 November 2026, we list 1395 public charging sites in our editorial dataset (Open Charge Map plus our curated additions), 787 of them with DC fast charging and 124 free to use.

How many new EV charging sites were added in October 2026?

34 sites joined our dataset between 1 October 2026 and 1 November 2026, and 3 dropped out. Eight of the 34 were new in Open Charge Map. The other 26 were existing sites that Open Charge Map did not list, which we checked against operator websites and official lists and added ourselves.

Australia's EV Charging Network: What Changed in October 2026

Australia’s listed public charging network grew in October 2026. Between 1 October 2026 and 1 November 2026, the number of public charging sites in our dataset went from 1364 to 1395 (+31), with DC fast-charge sites moving from 759 to 787 and free-to-use sites from 125 to 124.

Most of that growth is not new concrete. While building our summer road trip guides, we found 26 open sites that Open Charge Map, our main source, did not list, and we added them after checking each one against the operator’s website or an official list. Ten are Tesla Superchargers on the Bruce Highway that take any EV. Eight more are NRMA sites, six of them in the Northern Territory. They explain all of Queensland’s +13 and the Northern Territory’s +6. Only eight sites arrived through Open Charge Map itself.

The one free-to-use site we lost is Brunswick EV Hub in Melbourne, which Open Charge Map no longer marks as free.

The national picture

1395 listed public charging sites (+31 for the month)
787 sites with DC fast charging (+28)
124 free-to-use sites (-1)
34 sites newly listed, 3 no longer listed

State by state

Only states and territories that moved this month are shown.

State	Sites	Change	DC fast	Change	Free	Change
NSW	277	+3	177	+3	24	0
NT	18	+6	12	+6	1	0
QLD	148	+13	129	+13	10	0
SA	139	+3	58	+3	19	0
TAS	71	+2	32	+1	11	0
VIC	312	+5	221	+4	19	-1
WA	382	-1	122	-2	38	0

Newly listed sites in October 2026

New in Open Charge Map

NSW

BP Young, Young: BP Pulse, 300 kW
Club Lime Narrabundah, Narrabundah: Viva eCharge, 40 kW. Narrabundah is in Canberra, but Open Charge Map files this site under NSW, so it counts toward the NSW figures above.
Cooma Supercharger 2, Cooma: Tesla, 150 kW

Yunta, Yunta: NRMA, 80 kW

TAS

Lythgo’s Row Cottages, Pontville: a 7 kW charger at holiday cottages, for guests only

VIC

7-Eleven EV Charging Station, Truganina: Chargefox, 160 kW
Weston Street, Brunswick: Chargefox, 7 kW

Color Patch Cafe, Augusta: Chargefox, 22 kW

Added from our own checks

These sites were already open but missing from Open Charge Map. NRMA does not publish the power of each site, so for its sites we show 50 kW as a conservative floor.

Adelaide River (NRMA), Adelaide River: NRMA, 50 kW
Alice Springs (NRMA), Alice Springs: NRMA, 50 kW
Devils Marbles (NRMA), Karlu Karlu (Devils Marbles): NRMA, 50 kW
Gregory (NRMA), Gregory: NRMA, 50 kW
Ti Tree (NRMA), Ti Tree: NRMA, 50 kW
Yulara (NRMA), Yulara: NRMA, 50 kW

QLD

Bowen Supercharger, Bowen: Tesla, 300 kW
Calliope Supercharger, Calliope: Tesla, 250 kW
Carmila Supercharger, Carmila: Tesla, 250 kW
Ingham (NRMA), Ingham: NRMA, 150 kW
Mackay Supercharger, Mackay: Tesla, 250 kW
Maryborough West Supercharger, Maryborough: Tesla, 300 kW
Mount Sheridan Supercharger, Mount Sheridan: Tesla, 250 kW
Rockhampton Glenmore (Evie), Rockhampton: Evie, 150 kW
Rockhampton Supercharger, Rockhampton: Tesla, 250 kW
Sarina (Railway Square), Sarina: Queensland Government co-funded site, 75 kW
Thuringowa Supercharger, Townsville: Tesla, 250 kW
Tully Supercharger, Tully: Tesla, 250 kW
Yandina Supercharger, Yandina: Tesla, 250 kW

Glendambo (RAA Charge), Glendambo: RAA Charge, 50 kW
Port Pirie (NRMA), Port Pirie: NRMA, 50 kW

TAS

Cradle Mountain Hotel (Electric Highway Tasmania), Cradle Mountain: Chargefox, 80 kW

VIC

Fish Creek (Evie), Fish Creek: Evie, 50 kW
Kilmore Supercharger, Kilmore: Tesla, 250 kW
Yanakie (South Gippsland council), Yanakie: Chargefox, 60 kW

Caiguna (WA EV Network), Caiguna: WA EV Network, 50 kW

No longer listed

These three Witchcliffe Eco Village chargers are no longer listed as operational in the source data. That usually means temporarily offline or delisted rather than permanently closed; check before you rely on one.

Witchcliffe Eco Village Cluster 1A, Witchcliffe: Chargefox, 75 kW
Witchcliffe Eco Village Cluster 1B, Witchcliffe: Chargefox, 75 kW
Witchcliffe Eco Village Cluster 1C, Witchcliffe: Chargefox, 75 kW

Region movements

Sunshine Coast (QLD): 12 to 13 listed sites.
Hobart & the South (TAS): 17 to 18 listed sites.
Devonport & the North West (TAS): 11 to 12 listed sites.
Gippsland (VIC): 17 to 19 listed sites.
Melbourne & Surrounds (VIC): 136 to 138 listed sites.

Trip corridors

We changed how we measure these in October. Our trip tables now give distances along the road instead of in a straight line. That pushed the longest gap on every corridor up by 7 to 38% with nothing changing on the ground: Sydney to Brisbane, for example, now reads 113 km where it read 94 km. Month-on-month figures for October would mostly show our new ruler, so we have left them out. The current figures are on each trip page.

Three corridors did change for real:

Adelaide to Perth (the Nullarbor): the longest gap is now 194 km, between Elizabeth and Port Pirie. Our old figure of 388 km was our own error. The route line ran straight from Port Augusta to Ceduna and missed the chargers at Kimba, Wudinna and Poochera. With those, Port Pirie and Caiguna, the route has 21 stops, five more than before.
Darwin to Adelaide: six more stops, mostly the new NRMA sites. Ti Tree and Karlu Karlu mean Alice Springs to Tennant Creek is no longer a gap of around 500 km. The longest stretch is now Katherine to Tennant Creek, 668 km by road, so plan this leg with care.
Brisbane to Cairns: NRMA Ingham closes what looked like a 146 km gap between Townsville and Cardwell. The longest stretch on the Bruce Highway is now 135 km, Marlborough to Carmila.

We also started tracking seven new routes: Melbourne to Bright, Melbourne to the Grampians, Melbourne to Wilsons Promontory, Sydney to Coffs Harbour, Devonport to Hobart, Hobart to Cradle Mountain and Brisbane to Cairns.

About this data

This report compares our editorial charging dataset as of 1 October 2026 and 1 November 2026. The dataset combines Open Charge Map (CC-BY-4.0) with our own curated additions for remote corridors, and it excludes the OpenStreetMap layer we show on the map, which is not verified to the same standard. Newly listed is not always newly built: sites sometimes join the source data after they open. The full network is browsable on our charger map and in the state directories, running totals are on our charging statistics page, and the bigger picture is in our analysis of Australia’s EV charging gaps.