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Airbnb of electric cars leads the charge in Australia

Announcement posted by Everty Pty Ltd 18 Jul 2017

Sydney, 18/07/2017, You can only drive an electric car as far as its battery will take you, and ‘range anxiety’ and the lack of electric charging stations have been holding Australians back from taking up the technology. But not for much longer.

Sydney start-up Everty is breaking down this barrier with a peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging network that lets you top up your electric car when you need it.

Industry publication InsideEVs reported that Germany has a network of about 7,400 public electric car charging stations, one charger per 11,000 people. The USA has 16,000, one per 20,000 people. Yet a recent report, ‘The state of electric vehicles in Australia’, shows that Australia has just 470 public chargers, one per 50,000 people.

That’s why the team behind Everty is opening up existing private chargers and parking spaces to other electric car drivers.

“Most owners of electric vehicles have already installed a charger in their garage or driveway. With more than 4,000 electric cars on our roads, we can increase the amount of available charging stations dramatically and help electric car drivers who have on-street parking, or garages without power supply, to access charging stations in locations that are convenient for them,” says Carola Jonas, CEO of Everty.

According to the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, in 2016 29% of all cars registered in Norway were electric. In Australia, sales of electric and hybrid vehicles were just 0.1% of all car sales in 2016, offering huge growth potential over the next few years.

“‘The state of electric vehicles in Australia’ report found that 50% of survey participants are ‘aware of and would buy an electric car if they were in the market for a car’,” added Jonas. “That number gives us the confidence that people will buy more electric cars, especially when there is more choice in the market and as charging infrastructure becomes more accessible”.

“Until then, we’ll help electric car owners with home chargers to rent out their parking space to others. This will be especially attractive to homeowners with rooftop solar who are not at home during the day and can’t use the energy from their panels themselves.”

Electric cars make cities cleaner and improve the air quality for our future generations. John, who has listed his charger in Randwick, says:

"I listed my electric car charger on the Everty network and got a booking soon after. The process was really easy and I look forward to more chargers becoming available soon."


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