Queensland's FIRST AmpCharge EV Charger | AMPOL Foodary Bruce Hwy Carseldine | ABB 150kW EV Charger
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- Hi, welcome to Electric Car Australia the Aussie EV & Sustainable living TH-cam Channel. My names Greg and today I’m in Carseldine on the North side on Brisbane checking out Queensland first Ampol Foodary ABB Rapid charger.
This charger is part of the AMPOL Australian rollout of rapid EV chargers across Australia. Partly financially supported by ARENA (Australian Federal Governments funding agency) Ampol has committed to installing over 100 AmpCharge branded high powered EV chargers across Australian highways and main road routes.
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Hi Greg, I always look forward to your excellent informative videos.
Thanks @philbee, I, appreciate your support. 👍
Great video Greg! Nice to see the first AmpCharge in QLD and in such a convenient spot too 👍😃 Thanks for the shoutout 🙏
Cheers. Thanks for the Share. 👍😆
Nice, I'm often looking for a charge heading North to the Sunshine Coast.
Nice one mate. Maybe doing a quick video myself at this location in the near future but a bit different to yours, more to do with the charger.
Cheers JD, look forward to your video. 😀🔋⚡
We also were here for the first time on july 31st and drove on as we stood around waiting for a tesla.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, pity not more chargers but next month might see patronage drop when it costs $0.60kWh to charge.
More chargers are needed in country Victoria, like in towns like leongatha, korrumburra, fish creek, foster
Hi Adrian, yep there's a lot of small regional areas needing chargers.
Hope they put them at all their stations
Would be nice, at least initially in areas not well serviced by other chargers.
Great video mate…. I have an order in for one of the first series 2 mg zs ev’s. Dealer called me to inform car is at the port and off the boat…. If you would want to do a update video of the new model? , I’d love to meet up in the next few weeks when mine arrives to film an update…. Cheers, Ryan
Thanks for the offer Ryan, will take you up on the offer. Get in touch via DM on twitter or via my website. Cheers.
@@ElectricCarAustralia sent via your website enquire form. Cheers
They are at the port now and official release date Australia is Wed 14th I believe. Guessing I’ll have a car in the next 2 weeks
@@ElectricCarAustralia fyi they have a demo new ZS EV series 2 at Springwood MG as of today….
Great location for it, with an eatery, toilets etc.
So, just the one charging cable for each type?
Yes, let's hope another couple chargers go in once they see how popular they are.
What are your thought about offering AC chargers along side DC ?
Great idea as backup or for those cars not needing a rapid charge. 👍⚡🔋
Very informative Greg. Strange though how Ampol, with its $8.5B market cap, relies on a Govt subsidy to install 1 charger. Presumably you weren’t charging because the Tesla was using the CCS2 charger. Ampol should need to install 10 chargers before getting 1 Aus tax dollar IMO. Very underwhelming. Good vid though:)
Hi Nathan, I agree as well as all the $$ gifted to keep the Ampol oil refinery open through Covid fuel consumption slump. Maybe repayable loans with interest would provide the general public better outcomes rather then just handouts to Corporates. Just a thought, but who are we to challenge? :)
I assume ChaDeMo is lower voltage, so more amps. Hence thicker cables.
Hi, thanks for the comment. Yep I think your right.....just didn't think it would be such a big difference.
@@ElectricCarAustralia btw, my MG rebuild is coming along well. Check out my progress on my channel.
It’s great the govt funded it … but only one CCS point is pretty poor for a major public location
Hi Murray. Agreed, let's hope it's just a start and once Ampol see how popular it is they fully fund extra plugs. Cheers Greg
Thanks
Cheers. 👍
Great to see this begin - using petrol station loctions (& ditto for BP). Has been some venom elsewhere about using petrol stations and the ethics of these fuel companies. However, the existing infrstructure - public locations, well lit, rest stop facilties and the rest make it very obvious for now vs. (say) female solo driver in out of the way, hard to find locations being totally unnaceptable for obvious reasons. And these same factors not only effect the solo female, but everyone really. I guess the other factor is the present waste of time in the massive trend to install 7kw home chargers in shopping centres everywhere. Total stitch-up. Minimum should be 50kw & just like Ampol appear to be doing.
All good points Paul. Thanks for the comment.
Yeah i will stick to the tesla chargers mostly the network is much larger
Hi Pk, thanks for the comment. Yes if you have a Tesla no brainer to use the most reliable and wide spread network being Tesla's own. Having said that lots of Tesla owners use other, particularly the lower cost or free chargers.
The Charger is installed at a unfortunate location and the bays on a strange angle. It's basically the exit road from all the Dinojuice browsers. While the ABB charger has a nominal rating of 180kW it is actually limited to 200A. This means 800V vehicles get a peak of 160kW max whilst 400V vehicles (which is the vast majority) get about 75kW peak only. And while the charger can load share the other cable is wasted with a Chademo connector. One charger only at a very busy location was ok 4 years ago.....Tesla does it right for over 10 years: 4 stalls minimum per site (plus those are ultra reliable). Given the price of a whopping $0.69 / kWh (Chargefox is $0.30 / kWh, prices as of 14FEB23) this service is almost a joke. To top it off: A dozen of fossils under the roof at the browsers watched me operating high voltage equipment with zero protection in the middle of a down pour a few days after this charger was opened: There is a looooong way ahead before EVs become attractive for the masses.
Hi Rheingold, good points.
Why would you choose to hang around a place like this for 20 minutes?
For road trips wouldn't it be more sensible to offer charging 100 to 150 Km away from the CBD after all then people going both ways would be in the position to get a top up.
While more charges is great has Ampol considered the nuances of rapid charging for EVs? Such as many people leaving home on a road trip will be fully charged on leaving home.
Hi Don, thanks for the comment. I think short answer is facilities. Things like food, drink, toilets, tyre pressure test, windscreen clean etc. Not everyone passing here started trip in Brisbane. Could be Warwick, Toowoomba etc. or taxis, ride share or commercial operators as well. Any new chargers are good one 😀
@@ElectricCarAustralia yes any charger is a good one.