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NASA plugs into Australian electric vehicle chargers

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Brisbane-based EV charging tech company Tritium has been notching up some pretty significant achievements lately.

Not least of all, the company last month signed a deal with Munich-based IONITY to supply as many as 600 of its world-leading high power chargers for an EV charging network being rolled out across Europe.

As we reported here, the IONITY project, a joint venture with BMW Group, Daimler, Ford and the Volkswagen Group, ultimately aims to deploy a pan-European network of around 400 high power charging stations, to ensure EV drivers are always within 120km of a fast charge point.

But we thought this image – posted on LinkedIn by the company’s head of sales, Christian Hewitt – was too good not to share: eight of the company’s 50kW fast chargers installed at a car park at a NASA base in California’s Silicon Valley.

Being destination chargers, they are not Tritium’s latest or fastest technology. Those – its “world’s fastest” 350kW High Power Chargers – are capable of delivering 150km of battery range in just 5 minutes, and are better suited to to the world’s highways and autobahns.

But we’re sure they’re just right for the modern astronaut.

Sophie Vorrath

Sophie is editor of Renew Economy and editor of its sister site, One Step Off The Grid . She is the co-host of the Solar Insiders Podcast. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.

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