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A Telstra telecommunications outage affected the Chargefox EV charging network across Australia, disrupting charging services for electric vehicle drivers. The issue was reported by CarExpert, highlighting the dependency of charging infrastructure on mobile network connectivity.

Why it matters: This incident underscores the vulnerability of EV charging networks to third party telecommunications failures, raising questions for CPOs about network redundancy, failover solutions and service level agreements with connectivity providers.

EnergyAustralia has begun installing ultra-fast EV chargers at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, with 10 sites planned over two years. The first site at Roxburgh Park, Victoria, is now operational with either 200kW or 400kW chargers enabling 20% to 80% charging in approximately 12 to 15 minutes. The rollout includes three Victorian sites by end 2026, four in New South Wales and three in Queensland through 2027 and 2028, accessible via the Chargefox network or tap and go payment.

Why it matters: The partnership demonstrates how fuel retailers are integrating high power charging into existing forecourt networks, offering CPOs a proven convenience store model for site acquisition. The phased multi state rollout and dual payment options provide a template for scaling ultra-fast infrastructure across dispersed geographies.

Danish charge point management software provider Monta has published its 2025 Charger Performance ranking based on uptime and charging success rate across 260,000 chargers, mainly in Europe. Alpitronic, used by Ampol AmpCharge and BP Pulse in Australia, secured the top four positions, while Kempower (deployed by Evie Networks, Exploren and RAA) took fifth and seventh with its C and S series units. Autel, installed at Woolworths sites on the Chargefox network, ranked sixth with the second highest uptime but the lowest charging success rate in the top ten at 87.85 per cent.

Why it matters: The ranking provides procurement teams and CPOs with comparative reliability data on hardware already deployed across major Australian networks, highlighting that even top performing units such as Alpitronic experience a 4.5 per cent charge initiation failure rate. With charging success harder to mitigate than uptime, the data underscores the importance of hardware selection in tender processes for new rollouts.