Where energy and transport collide for customers and climate: JET Charge

Why Melbourne?

JET Charge started with Tesla’s entry into Australia, who also chose to launch in Melbourne. Victoria provides a very supportive environment to build an impact driven company, and as part of JET Charge’s journey it has been embraced with open arms by the startup ecosystem in Victoria, which owes a lot to some key initiatives of the Victorian Government.   

Challenge

There is comprehensive consensus that we won’t be able to reach net zero without decarbonising the transport sector - in Australia it makes up around 20% of emissions. With the mass adoption of EVs, the EV transition is seen as one of the lowest hanging fruit and one of the largest impact factors for decarbonisation. 

Solution

We accelerate EV adoption by breaking down the barriers to EV charging. We also enable consumers and businesses to use EVs as both transport and energy assets so that they can reduce their carbon footprint as well as their energy and fuel bills. 

We enable customers to charge their EVs, and to use EVs as both transport and energy assets so that they can reduce their carbon footprint as well as their energy and fuel bills. 

Result

We have deployed over 12,000 chargers across Australia and New Zealand and employ almost 100 Victorians and 170 in total across Australia and New Zealand. We were the deployment and technology leads for some of the most cutting edge grid orchestration projects, including the REVS Vehicle to grid trial and the EV Grid trial. We were the delivery leads for the WA Electric Highway, one of the longest in the world.

We are planning to roll out over 40,000 chargers over the next 3 years, and we want to do it in a way that maintains the public’s trust in the industry, with leading operations and maintenance capabilities. To do this we will need to invest in more people, systems and technologies.