Hopefully a couple more record months before Xmas, particularly on the Hume and Pacific Hwys
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Superchargers in Australia
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I want to see the other "Target opening in 2023" sites in QLD come online, but I'm not holding my breath
Chuq
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Wagga and Calliope were both spotted early on in construction. Wagga took about 5 1/2 weeks and Calliope took less than 4 weeks!15 stall sites at Albury, Raymond Terrace and Coffs Harbour would be grandbut that might be asking for a bit much with no sign of a start on any and only 13 weeks to go.
Port Wakefield is a mere 2 votes short of fifth place in Asia-Pacific, behind Shimoda, Japan!
Chuq
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I noticed that this morning! The Japanese have been launching a counter attack. Shimoda received 100+ votes in the last day
Looks like the Japanese have banded together. We are down to 2/5 - Mansfield and Batemans Bay.
Chuq
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Yeah, we are now in a worst state than before I began the campaign!
But who knows, the Japanese voters much have done their en-masse voting anyway though.
Progression of the voting:
Green = the "voting block" five
Blue = the high ranked but intentionally omitted sites (Orange and Batemans Bay)
Red = Japan
Grey = other Australia
Orange = other Asia-Pacific locations
Perhaps in hindsight I should have included Orange and Batemans Bay in the list, just to get them off the list for next month. It's going to be another three months of explaining not to vote for Orange.
Interestingly, the increase in vote count for those two was almost the same as the "voting block" 5 during the entire two weeks. A lot of people seem to have seen the reminders to vote but ignored the recommended list.
We're now at the awkward stage where we don't know when the campaign is going to end. Last time round it was the 12th day past the end. The time before that it was the 5th day. The next round starts immediately after this one finishes (we don't know what sites will change on the list yet). So I'm basically at the "wake up every day and check the page to see if it's reset" routine!
And last time we ended up with five South Korean sites and they wiped the floor voting wise.
Personally I'm not sure if it makes a massive difference. Tesla has lots of sites under investigation/ progress/ construction, and it's not voting that determines the timetable.
Personally I'm not sure if it makes a massive difference. Tesla has lots of sites under investigation/ progress/ construction, and it's not voting that determines the timetable.
Chuq
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Yeah - five, and only five South Korean sites were in the list - so they were effectively forced into a voting block.
So far this round, 9543 votes have been made for Australian sites. If we were organised and all voted for the same five, they'd get over 1900 votes each!
I don't know if it does either. For all we know every site on the list is one that Tesla already has plans for, but we don't know that. And the fact they put (for example) Southern Cross as "2025" suggests it wasn't really planned and they now have to put some work into going somewhere they weren't really thinking about.
Chuq
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It's because they're already included in the NSW Govt's grant list - they're going to get built either way, the voting won't make a difference.
The only upside of them making the top 5 is at least Tesla takes them off the list for the following quarter!
Yeah, unfortunately Riz didn't actually mention the "voting block" five sites, or link to the Google Doc with the info :-(PS. I see you have triggered an article on thedriven.io
But we're at the tail end of Q3 (I've been saying that for a week though...) will probably wait until Q4 voting starts before making another big push.
We are also way overdue a general map update.
Next round of voting probably depends on how many South Korean sites they add. Ideally it's 0 or 20+
Next round of voting probably depends on how many South Korean sites they add. Ideally it's 0 or 20+
Chuq
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The article at TheDriven has given the Aussie sites a last minute uptick in votes. Although oddly enough, the Japanese sites at exactly the same time.
Green = the "voting block" five
Blue = the high ranked but intentionally omitted sites (Orange and Batemans Bay)
Red = Japan
Grey = other Australia
Orange = other Asia-Pacific locations
I'm predicting the round to end somewhere between 10am-12pm AEDT tomorrow (last two rounds ended at ~5pm California time on a Wednesday).
If this happens, the Q4 voting block will be:
Green = the "voting block" five
Blue = the high ranked but intentionally omitted sites (Orange and Batemans Bay)
Red = Japan
Grey = other Australia
Orange = other Asia-Pacific locations
I'm predicting the round to end somewhere between 10am-12pm AEDT tomorrow (last two rounds ended at ~5pm California time on a Wednesday).
If this happens, the Q4 voting block will be:
- Port Wakefield, SA
- Campbell Town, Tas
- Leongatha, Vic
- Braidwood, NSW
Chuq
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Didn't know this one was coming - "Recharge at our new four-stall Supercharger location in St Kilda, Victoria"
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Edit - sorry, already noted Supercharger - St Kilda, Vic
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Edit - sorry, already noted Supercharger - St Kilda, Vic
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Some progress on the 6 stall v3 Superchargers at Port Coogee-
