Tasmania's electric vehicles users are set to benefit from more electric vehicle charging stations after the first round of funding from the Future Fuels Fund was announced.
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The funding will see 10 charging stations be built in Tasmania by Evie Networks and Electric Highway Tasmania in the next two years.
The five stations from Evie Networks new project will be utilise $800,000 in funding split between the company and the federal government.
"The stations will mean that no one is more than 15 minutes away from a publicly available fast charger station no matter where they are in Hobart," Evie Networks chief executive Chris Mills said.
The stations will be centered on metropolitan areas around Hobart including Kingston and Glenorchy and further add to Evie's pre-existing stations including Westbury IGA and Brighton.
The expansion comes on the back of the organisation's success in Campbell Town, which remains one of Evie Networks best performed charging station.
"Campbell Town has been a smashing success, a surprising one but a smashing success for us," Mr Mills said.
"It's consistently our stand out town, it's not like it's been great for a few months and then fallen down, it's been consistently like that for several months.
"I just think Campbell Town is a great spot between Launceston and Hobart, it's really picturesque place to take a break and the facility is good."
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Mr Mills was excited to expand Evie Networks operations around Tasmania.
"With these additional sites in Hobart, Tasmania will have a really good roll out which will encourage people to make the change [to electric vehicles]."
"Tasmania as a state is easily the best served state for fast charging for electric vehicles, easily the best."
Mr Mills said the new stations would be a win for all Tasmanian electric vehicle users as the cars became more common.
"The strength of the network across all the suppliers, the renewable energy available to be able to power all those chargers, it all goes into the recipe to make it quite attractive to people to make the change," he said.
"Tasmania has always been at the forefront at renewables and ecology and I think you just continue to be leaders in that space."
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