QUEENSLAND Brisbane based Tritium is
having some great success selling their chargers
internationally with the latest batch going all the
way to America.
The City of Pasadena, California has installed
20 Tritium RT50/50kW DC Fast Chargers. The
addition of these 20 fast chargers adds to the
existing 24 Tesla Superchargers, making it one of
the largest public charging locations in the US.
The design of the Tritium RT50/50kW fastchargers
installed at the Marengo location fits
into compact spaces and existing structures
typical of Level 2 A.C. chargers. They operate
over a wide range of environmental conditions,
including temperature, humidity, and corrosive
conditions.
The chargers have a wide operating temperature
range of -31 to +122 degrees Fahrenheit and
offer ingress protection of IP65, NEMA 3R. EV
owners can get up to 80% charge in as little as
30 minutes with the Tritium 50kW charger.
NEW SOUTH WALES New data by Transport
for NSW shows that speed-related fatalities
and drink-driving arrests are rising during the
COVID-19 pandemic. The executive director
of the Centre for Road Safety, Bernard Carlon,
said there had been a “worrying increase in the
percentage of fatalities where speeding had
been a contributing factor” in March and April.
Compared to January and February when
speeding was a factor in 30 per cent of road
deaths, this percentage rose to 72 per cent in
March and 54 per cent in April, he said. Drinkdriving
also rose in the first few months along
with a spike in pedestrian deaths.
About two thirds of the 35 speed-related
fatalities occurred on country roads. With less
traffic, deaths on NSW roads fell from 155 this
time last year to 126, a 19 per cent drop. This
figure includes 77 deaths on country roads.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA The state’s principal
water supplier Water Corporation has introduced
two full-electric vehicles (EVs), the first of a
wider commitment to further reducing carbon
emissions and minimising its environmental
footprint. The move comes as the organisation
aims to achieve its target of becoming a zero net
greenhouse gas emission utility by 2050.
Water Corporation currently has 102 passenger
vehicles in its metropolitan fleet, including
30 hybrid EVs. Over the next five years, the
Corporation will transition up to 40 percent of its
metropolitan fleet to EV as existing vehicles in the
fleet are renewed.
Two Hyundai Konas are now available to Water
Corporation employees for daily tasks in the
metropolitan area. These EVs are fully powered
by an on-board battery and have the capacity to
travel 449km on a single charge.
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