EV connector checker
Pick your car, then pick a station. The checker reads what charger your car uses — both of its inlets — compares them with the plugs the station lists, and answers twice, AC and fast, with fits or no. In Australia the plugs a car uses are the plugs the posts carry, so the fit is usually direct: a Type 2 post charges a CCS2 car at AC speed, and a Type 2-only car is told plainly that a CCS2 plug will not take it.
- Models
- 199
- Stations
- 1,338
- Type 2 stations
- 838
- CCS2 stations
- 377
The checker · 1,338 stations · 199 models
Will your car charge here?
Two inlets · three answers
01Your car
Its AC inlet and its DC inlet, read from the vehicle record.
Tesla Model 3
Model page · 2027AC inlet
Type 2
DC inlet
CCS2
02The station
Any station in the directory, by name, city or state.
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Pick a charger and the two verdicts land below: fast charging, AC, or both — with the adapter named when one is needed.
Or hit Surprise me for a random station in the directory.
03The answer
Physical fit only — access, price and availability are the operator's.
DC fast
Waiting for a station
Zap or adapter, at this post
AC · Type 2
Waiting for a station
Type 2, at this post
Tesla Model 3 across the directory
1,087 of 1,338 stations can charge it
- Fast, as it is
- 305
- Fast, + adapter
- 0
- AC only
- 782
- Nowhere
- 251
A post that lists only a household, three-phase or caravan socket is not counted as a car plug here: the socket takes a portable charger's lead, not the car's inlet, and the directory counts those as outlets rather than stalls.
The three plugs
What fits what, and how much of it exists
The counts are records in this directory, not market totals: a station can list two connectors, and a car can have two inlets. Type 2 is AC only, so the fast-charging column is a property of the post rather than of that plug.
| Plug | Carries | Stations | 50 kW or more | Cars that use it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type 2 | AC | 838 | 51 | Almost every electric car here, at home and on the street |
| CCS2 | DC | 377 | 268 | Every new fast-charging model — the standard on the highway |
| CHAdeMO | DC | 149 | 90 | The Leaf and other older Japanese EVs |
The adapter layer
Nothing to adapt, and the one plug that does not fit
An adapter belongs to the car, not the post: it changes the shape of the inlet, not what the station is willing to do. In Australia the two plugs a car needs are the two the posts carry, so the fit is normally direct and the checker names no adapter at all.
| Your inlet | The post | What you need | Then |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type 2 + CCS2 | Type 2 | Nothing | AC speed — the Type 2 plug is the top half of the CCS2 inlet |
| Type 2 + CCS2 | CCS2 | Nothing | Fast, up to the lower of the car's and the post's limit |
| Type 2 only | CCS2 | Nothing | It does not fit: a CCS2 plug will not enter a Type 2 socket |
| Type 2 + CHAdeMO | CCS2 | Nothing in common use | The car stays on CHAdeMO for fast charging |
A session runs at the lower of the car's limit and the post's, so the plug decides what is possible and the car decides how fast. The Type 1 adapters sold for imported cars are the exception this page does not name: they are not how a car sold here is charged.
The method
How the check is made
Two inlets, not one badge
The vehicle record carries an AC inlet and a DC inlet: Type 2 and CCS2 on almost every car here, and Type 2 with CHAdeMO on a handful of older Japanese models. The checker reads them separately because a Type 2 post cannot fast-charge a CCS2 car.
The post, by speed
A station is split the same way. Type 2 is AC, and CCS2 and CHAdeMO are DC connectors whatever the post reports. A post that lists only a household, three-phase or caravan socket offers no car plug, so it charges nothing here — the directory counts those connections as outlets.
The intersection, and then the truth
If the sets meet, it fits. In Australia they usually do: Type 2 on both sides for AC and CCS2 on both sides for fast charging. No car-side adapter is in common use, so the checker names none and a Type 2-only car is told plainly that it fast-charges nowhere.
It is the same rule the station pages apply when they list the models that fit a charger, and the same build-time data the directory filters on, so a station page and this checker cannot disagree about a plug. What neither knows is everything that is not a plug: access, price, availability, cable reach and parking rules.
Connector questions, answered
What charger does my electric car use in Australia?
Almost every electric car sold here has a Type 2 inlet for AC charging and a CCS2 inlet for fast charging — CCS2 is the Type 2 shape with two DC pins added underneath, so one port takes both. A handful of older or imported cars have a Type 1 inlet instead, and the Leaf and some other Japanese models use CHAdeMO for fast charging. Pick your model above and the checker reads both inlets from the vehicle record. In this directory 838 stations list Type 2 and 377 list CCS2.
Can I fast charge a car with only a Type 2 inlet?
No. Type 2 is the AC inlet; a CCS2 plug has two DC pins that a Type 2 socket has nowhere to take. Almost every car sold here lists a fast inlet — 199 of the 211 models in the catalogue, with the rest waiting on a verified record — and a car that lists none charges at AC speed only. Every DC site needs a car with CCS2 or CHAdeMO to be of any use: 268 of them deliver 50 kW or more.
Do I need an adapter to charge in Australia?
Almost never. The plugs the cars use and the plugs the posts carry are the same two — Type 2 and CCS2 — so the match is direct, and this checker names no adapter for a car sold here. The exceptions are imports: a car with a Type 1 inlet needs the Type 1 lead that came with it, and a CHAdeMO car needs a CHAdeMO post, because there is no car-side adapter in common use.
Will my Tesla charge at a non-Tesla site?
Yes, where the site has CCS2 or Type 2. Tesla sells Type 2 and CCS2 cars in Australia, so a third-party fast charger plugs in directly — there is no adapter to carry and no brand program that decides whether the plug fits. The plug shape answers the physical question; the operator's terms still decide whether you may use the site.
Does a Type 2 post fast charge?
No. Type 2 is an AC connector. The 51 stations here that list Type 2 and report 50 kW or more hand that power out through a CCS2 connector on the same post, not through the Type 2 pins. A car whose AC inlet is Type 2 takes those posts at AC speed.
What about CHAdeMO?
149 stations in the directory list CHAdeMO, and a few models here use it as their fast inlet — the Leaf most of all. No car-side adapter is in common use, so a CHAdeMO car fast-charges at a CHAdeMO post and uses Type 2 for everything slower. Where a site lists CCS2 and CHAdeMO on the same post, the two are separate cables, not a conversion.
Why does the checker show no inlets for some cars?
Because the inlets come from a reviewed registry rather than from a guess: 12 of the 211 models in the catalogue have no verified inlet yet and keep the gap instead of printing a plug that might be wrong. A model with no inlets is not listed here at all. Use "Not listed?" to add it from a reply that names its inlets.
What does the checker not know?
Fit is physical only. It does not know whether a site is open to your car, what it charges, whether a stall is free, whether the cable reaches your port without blocking another car, or whether the site's parking rules allow you to plug in. The station page carries the price and the hours where the feed has them; the access rules are the operator's, not the plug's.
My car is not in the list. Can I still check it?
Yes. Type the make and model, then use "Not listed?" — the page writes a prompt you can paste into ChatGPT, and reads the reply back into the checker once it names the car's AC and DC inlets. The reply is validated before it is used, a photo or a source link is optional, and the car is checked by exactly the same rules as one from the catalogue of 199 models. A car with no model year, an import or a conversion can be checked this way.
Is the checker free, and does it store my car?
Free, with no account. The car you pick — or paste in — lives in this page's memory and is gone when you leave it: nothing is stored in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. The station list is one static file, fetched once, and the verdicts are computed in the browser.
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