If you live in a big city, finding a charger for your electric vehicle (EV) isn't hard. But drive a few hours in any direction and the story changes.

For most regional Australians, the nearest public charger is still a detour, not a stop on the way. And for anyone planning a long road trip, the chargers along the route fade for hundreds of kilometres at a time.

A new interactive EV charging monitor I helped develop shows, for the first time, just how uneven the network really is. This map refreshes daily, pulling live information from the Open Charge Map database and plotting every public charger in the database across the nation.

When we overlay those chargers with population data , a clear pattern emerges: we've built a strong urban network, but a patchy national one.

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