First Dedicated Volt Charging Station Opens In Melboune, Australia

[BlackVolt]

Hi Guys,

Holden has opened the very first "Volt only" charging station in the country. Great work GM and Holden for making this possible.


http://media.gm.com/media/au/en/hold...ngStation.html

[REB]

Thanks for sharing BlackVolt,

Loved my time in OZ. Looking forward to someday returning and driving a Volt with right hand drive.

Ross

[Dan & Nan]

EV EVerywhere

[bjhorton2005]

Hmm as a person who has charged at Nissan dealers, and elsewhere I really hate to see it restricted to Volts. I think they need to just promote the technology!

[dwl]

Yeah I'd prefer not seeing (manufacturer)-only charging stations. That's not going to help anyone. General adoption is going to help the Volt more than charging stations like this.

[Dan & Nan]

Who knows what their regulations (gov, contractual, insurance) are though. Maybe this one must be Volt only.

I do agree that having different EVSE (and charging ports) for different cars isn't going to help anything. Our own fight in the U.S. over the SAE Combo and CHAdeMO could be a problem for a lot of station owners and builders and won't help EV grow.

[bjhorton2005]

Hehe. I doubt there is any regulation. I also bet if someone else charges there they wouldn't mind. It's probably just cheekyness. Around here we have a lot of "Corvette Parking Only" signs and at the McDonalds drive through it used to read "Speed Limit 10mph, Corvettes 85mph" lol