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

As of 1 October 2026, we list 1364 public charging sites in our editorial dataset (Open Charge Map plus our curated additions), 759 of them with DC fast charging and 125 free to use.

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

20 sites were newly listed between 1 September 2026 and 1 October 2026. Newly listed usually means newly opened, but it can also mean an existing site was added to Open Charge Map for the first time.

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

Australia’s listed public charging network grew in September 2026. Between 1 September 2026 and 1 October 2026, the number of public charging sites in our dataset went from 1344 to 1364 (+20), with DC fast-charge sites moving from 750 to 759 and free-to-use sites from 141 to 125.

The story of the month is in Melbourne’s inner north, where ten kerbside pole chargers arrived in the data in a single batch.

The fall in free sites is not a story about chargers. No site stopped being free in September: we corrected our own records. Sixteen sites we listed as free were not. Eleven NRMA sites still carried Open Charge Map’s old “free” tag, although NRMA has charged for its chargers since late 2023. The University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus charger is paid. And four privately owned sites need notice before you can use them, so we no longer count them as free. Our August report’s figure of 141 free sites included all sixteen; the corrected figure for 1 September was 125, and the August post now says so.

The national picture

1364 listed public charging sites (+20 for the month)
759 sites with DC fast charging (+9)
125 free-to-use sites (-16)
20 sites newly listed, 0 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	274	+2	174	+2	24	-11
QLD	135	+2	116	+2	10	0
SA	136	+1	55	0	19	-1
TAS	69	0	31	0	11	-1
VIC	307	+11	217	+1	20	0
WA	383	+4	124	+4	38	-3

Newly listed sites in September 2026

NSW

Avoca Drive, Kincumber: Ampol AmpCharge, 120 kW
Pacific Highway, Wyoming: BP Pulse, 300 kW

QLD

NRMA Camooweal, Camooweal: NRMA, 100 kW
Palmview Supercharger (Aussie World), Palmview: Tesla, 250 kW

Zema Estate Coonawarra, Coonawarra: Unlisted network, 22 kW

VIC

Bright Supercharger, Bright: Tesla, 250 kW
EVX pole charger - 221 Kerr St, Fitzroy: EVX, 22 kW
Pole charger - 10 Reeves St, Clifton Hill: Unlisted network, 22 kW
Pole charger - 157 Gipps St, Abbotsford: Unlisted network, 22 kW
Pole charger - 193-205 McKean St, Fitzroy North: Unlisted network, 22 kW
Pole charger - 198 Napier St, Fitzroy: Unlisted network, 7.4 kW
Pole charger - 2 Mark St, Fitzroy North: Unlisted network, 22 kW
Pole charger - 268 George St, Fitzroy: Unlisted network, 7.4 kW
Pole charger - 30A Rutland St, Clifton Hill: Unlisted network, 7.4 kW
Pole charger - 46 Noone St, Clifton Hill: Unlisted network, 7.4 kW
Pole charger - 54 The Esplanade, Clifton Hill: Unlisted network, 22 kW

Donnybrook Shire, Donnybrook: Chargefox, 60 kW
Elanga, Bridgetown: Elanga, 300 kW
Oporto - South Perth, Victoria Park: Evie, 75 kW
Shire of Denmark - Community Resource Centre, Denmark: WeVolt, 150 kW

The pole chargers deserve the longer note. Ten sites across Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Clifton Hill and Abbotsford were added to Open Charge Map together at the end of September, a mix of 22 kW and 7.4 kW units. Only one names its operator: EVX, which is rolling out pole chargers in Melbourne with RACV. The other nine list none, so we have not guessed. A same-day batch like this usually means an existing rollout reaching the data rather than ten chargers built in a week, but for anyone in the inner north without a driveway it is the most useful kind of addition. Our guide to charging without a driveway explains how pole chargers work and how to ask for one on your street.

Regional fast charging had a good month too. Denmark, on WA’s south coast, gained a 150 kW WeVolt site at the Community Resource Centre, which takes the town off our regional blackspots list: 106 of the 336 towns on the federal planning list now have no fast charger listed, down from 107. Nearby Bridgetown gained a 300 kW site from Elanga, the network’s first in Western Australia in our data. In Queensland, NRMA’s 100 kW charger at Camooweal, the last town on the Barkly Highway before the Northern Territory border, is now listed. In Victoria’s high country, Tesla’s Bright Supercharger has four 250 kW stalls at Woolworths, open to all EVs, giving Bright a second fast-charging site.

One listing is not new at all. The Palmview Supercharger at Aussie World on the Sunshine Coast, ten stalls open to all EVs, has been running since January but was missing from Open Charge Map until a reader flagged it. We added it ourselves, which is why it appears this month and why the Brisbane to Noosa and Brisbane to Sunshine Coast routes each gained a stop.

Region movements

Sunshine Coast (QLD): 11 to 12 listed sites.
Melbourne & Surrounds (VIC): 126 to 136 listed sites.
Albany & the Great Southern (WA): 8 to 9 listed sites.
Perth & Surrounds (WA): 150 to 151 listed sites.
South West WA (WA): 28 to 30 listed sites.

Trip corridors

Brisbane to Noosa (Bruce Highway (M1/A1)): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 28 km; 10 stops on the route (+1).
Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast (Bruce Highway (M1/A1)): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 24 km; 10 stops on the route (+1).
Sydney to Brisbane (Pacific Highway (M1/A1)): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 94 km; 33 stops on the route (+2).
Sydney to Byron Bay (Pacific Highway (M1/A1)): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 84 km; 31 stops on the route (+2).
Sydney to the Gold Coast (Pacific Highway (M1/A1)): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 85 km; 28 stops on the route (+2).
Sydney to the Hunter Valley (M1 Pacific Motorway / Hunter Expressway): longest stretch between charging stops unchanged at 58 km; 6 stops on the route (+2).
Sydney to Newcastle (M1 Pacific Motorway): longest stretch between charging stops moved from 41 km to 26 km; 8 stops on the route (+2).

Route-by-route detail lives in our EV road trip guides.

About this data

This report compares our editorial charging dataset as of 1 September 2026 and 1 October 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.