Tesla wants Australia's biggest public EV charging stop on the Sydney–Melbourne run. Planning documents lodged with Albury City Council call for a 37-stall Supercharger on a vacant 1,300-square-metre lot at 19 Diamond Drive in Thurgoona, about 2.5 kilometres from the Hume Highway on the New South Wales–Victoria border. ABC News, The Border Mail and techAU all report the same core numbers: a roughly A$3.5 million build, Tesla's V4 posts, and solar canopies rated at up to 100 kW.
What the application actually says
The Border Mail says Canberra firm Purdon Planning filed the development application on Tesla's behalf, and that the proposal is now on public display. ABC News puts the public window through Oct. 21, with a council assessment report due by the end of November. Nothing in the coverage approves construction or names an opening date. Tesla and Purdon did not respond to The Border Mail for a timeline.
techAU's read of the plans adds useful detail: 36 standard bays plus one accessible bay, 20 photovoltaic canopies, black steelwork with timber-look cladding, and a 2.1-metre radiant-heat fence at the rear for bushfire compliance. The lot sits next to a gym and across from a Coles supermarket hub, so drivers would have somewhere to wait while a V4 session finishes. Purdon's statement of environmental effects, quoted by The Border Mail, frames the site as serving Hume Highway traffic and the growing Thurgoona area, and as a draw for nearby retail during charge stops.
Why 37 stalls matters on this corridor
Albury already has a 16-stall Supercharger in the Commercial Club car park that opened in December 2023 and was briefly Tesla's largest Australian site. That title moved to Goulburn in August 2025, when Tesla switched on 20 V4 stalls that country director Thom Drew called the largest in the southern hemisphere, according to TeslaNorth. A 37-stall Thurgoona hub would nearly double Goulburn and more than double what Tesla already offers in Albury. Combined with the existing CBD site, the twin cities would approach 50-plus Tesla stalls if both stay open.
The location is the other half of the story. Drivers on the Hume now divert into Albury or Wodonga traffic to charge. Diamond Drive sits on the northern edge of the twin cities, next to the highway bypass, which is why the traffic study techAU cites expects up to 124 vehicle movements in the Sunday peak hour, assuming roughly 30 minutes for a 10–80% V4 charge.
Part of a wider Australian build-out
TeslaNorth notes parallel moves along the same routes: a planned expansion of Euroa's old six-stall V2 site to 10 V4 stalls open to other EVs, councillors in Wagga Wagga weighing chargers at the Tarcutta truck stop, and a near-doubling of stalls in Kaniva on the Melbourne–Adelaide run. The Border Mail separately flags a 24-stall plan at Yass and an Albury Tesla service centre targeted for November on Young and Dean streets. Tesla said in June it had activated its 1,000th Australian stall, and more than half of its sites there now take CCS2 cars from other brands.
What it means for owners: if you drive Sydney to Melbourne in a Tesla — or any CCS2 EV that can use V4 stalls — this is the most concrete capacity jump on that corridor in years, but it is still only a lodged DA. Watch Albury City Council through late November before planning a trip around Thurgoona. Until then, Goulburn's 20 V4 stalls and Albury's 16-stall CBD site remain the working options.