ChargeNet adding three hyper-rapid EV charge sites

Electric vehicle charging infrastructure provider, ChargeNet, will establish three hyper-rapid EV charger projects in the Waikato, Wellington, and Queenstown.

They’ll use co-funding announced by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) in the final round of the current form of the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund (LEVCF).

ChargeNet will install two 300kW hyper-rapid EV chargers at each site, allowing up to six EVs to recharge simultaneously.

Each site can accommodate four CCS vehicles at up to 300kW and two CHAdeMO vehicles at up to 62kW.

Specific EVs can charge at the 300kW hyper-rapid chargers six times faster than at ChargeNet’s standard 50kW charging stations. That enables newest generation EVs to add up to 400km of charge in 15 minutes.

ChargeNet’s continuing development of a hyper-rapid EV charging network will see another 18 chargers installed on routes from Kaiwaka to Queenstown over the next 18 months.

EV drivers can currently find hyper-rapid charging stations at Bombay and Taupo, with 10 additional sites in the pipeline, at Kaiwaka, North Shore (Auckland), Waikato, Tauranga, Rotorua, Bulls, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, and Dunedin.

“Since the introduction of the Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount, we’ve already seen an increase in customer sign-ups and charging sessions,” says ChargeNet CEO & Co-founder. Steve West.

ChargeNet manages more than 256 public rapid chargers nationwide.