Australian Company leads the way with Queensland Electric Motorway

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The Brisbane-based company-Tritium recently announced it will launch a Fast Cities Network initiative which is a proposal to have a main road network for Electric Vehicles-EV in Queensland Australia.

Tritium has had great success with their EV fast charging technology in three counties across Europe and it is wanting to connect about 450km of main arterial roads-highways in South-East Queensland and create Australia’s largest “electric car super highways”.

The Fast Cities initiative would install fast chargers at strategic locations on major transport corridors, giving travellers super-fast charging for electric and hybrid vehicles making EV owners a great option.

The charging system was developed about 10 years ago to give EV owners the ability to charge their cars 20 times faster than plugging it into the wall at home plus add 50km range to an EV battery in only 10 minutes.

Locations for the chargers are proposed for;

Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley

Coorparoo

St Lucia

Noosa Heads

Caboolture/Burpengary

Ipswich

Toowoomba

Carrara

Southport

Coolangatta

Tweed Heads

Byron Bay

Tritium has asked Australian companies and organisations to support their project and to promote greater awareness of the benefits of Electric Vehicle ownership.

“Australia, ahead of the world in so many areas, is lagging behind as a nation in the uptake of electric vehicles, which have been shown to make an enormous contribution to creating cleaner, healthier cities,” said Tritium commercial director Paul Sernia.

“We are launching this initiative as a global demonstration of how to operate and run a fast-charging EV network beyond just one population centre. EVs are coming and it’s something councils around the world need to deal with. We want them to be looking to Queensland to see how a great intercity charging network can be operated.”

Sernia said Tritium was in the process of talking to a number of organisations about how they could become involved in the project, but was interested in hearing from any business, car club or civic association that might like to support the initiative or host a charging unit along the route.

The company estimates that the cost of implementing the Fast Cities Network will be around $450,000 AUS which is really very reasonable indeed.

Hopefully the Business Community, the Government, and the General Public will support this plan and help to keep our little planet a cleaner place.

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