IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.
Before you begin
Before applying for grants funding, you must complete the following steps:
You can also read the frequently asked questions for further information.
Contact the EV Destination Charging team for any queries about your application at destination.charging@environment.nsw.gov.au and quote your application number.
Background information
The Net Zero Plan Stage 1: 2020-2030 sets out the state’s ambitions to protect our future. The shift to electric vehicles (EV) will play an important part in reducing transport emissions.
In June 2021, the NSW Government launched the NSW Electric Vehicle Strategy to make NSW the easiest and most affordable place to buy and operate an electric vehicle (EV) in Australia.
The Drive electric NSW EV destination charging grants are a $20 million investment to rollout widespread, public EV charging infrastructure at visitor destinations across regional NSW.
The grants aim to:
Starting your application form
Progressing through the form in page order is suggested to reduce missing information and mathematical calculation errors. Please ensure you save as you go.
To progress forward or backward through the application, click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of the screen.
Use the form navigation box on the left-hand side to navigate and move around pages of the application.
Most importantly, ensure you save your progress at the bottom of each page before proceeding.
Download the SmartyGrants help guide for applicants or the SmartyGrants FAQs for more help.
Saving your draft application form
To leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. You can reopen your draft application later and start where you left off.
Your application can be found under the 'My Submissions' link.
You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.
Submitting your application
Once reviewed, submit your application by clicking on ‘submit’ at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel.
You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors. The system will point these out to you.
Once your application is submitted, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.
Once submitted, you will receive a confirmation email, to the email address used to register, with an attached copy of your submitted application.
If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email, and have checked your spam or junk email folder, then presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.
Attachments and support documents
Attachments are required to be uploaded and submitted to support your application. Ensure documents are saved on your computer or on a storage device to assist this process
Allow time for each file to upload before attaching another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, it is recommended to keep files to a maximum of 5MB.
Completing an application as a group or team
Several people can work on an application using the same login details as long as only one person is working in the application form at a time. Ensure you save as you go.
Submissions post application - Evidence for payment
Successful applicants will be required to return to the application platform to submit evidence for payment once the approved EV chargers are installed. Please ensure you read and understand the evidence requirements outlined in the EV destination charging grants guidelines.
Privacy statement:
This privacy statement sets out the Office of Energy and Climate Change’s practices relating to the privacy of your personal information. The office’s privacy practices are regulated by the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988 (NSW) (PPIP Act) and the office’s Privacy management plan.
When you complete your Drive electric NSW EV destination charging grant application form you will be asked to provide information to the office. The information provided relates to you personally and includes any information or opinion made about you. Personal information includes your name, address, phone number, email address or any information from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained.
The office will only collect your personal information for the purpose of administering the Drive electric NSW EV destination charging grants.
The office may only use your personal information in a way that is consistent with this purpose, which could include contacting you in relation to your application or project.
We will hold information you have provided for a period that is appropriate for the purpose for which it was provided. Your information will be archived and disposed of in accordance with the office’s policies, legislative requirements and guidelines based on the NSW State Records Act 1998.
We will not disclose your personal details for any other purpose unless the disclosure is authorised by the PPIP Act and Regulations. Your consent to disclose information for particular purposes may be sought by us or given by yourself for a specific purpose. If appropriate consent is not provided, we may not be able to provide certain products and services to you or your agents.
Under the PPIP Act you have the right to access your personal information held by the office without excessive delay or expense. You also have the right to have your personal information corrected in certain circumstances (e.g. if it is incorrect).
Should you wish to access or correct your personal information contact the office’s designated privacy team:
Information Access & Privacy Unit
4 Parramatta Square, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: 02 9860 1440
Email: privacy@dpie.nsw.gov.au
Confidentiality and disclosure information
Any information provided by you that is clearly identified as commercial in confidence will be treated and disclosed by the office in accordance with the EV destination charging grants guidelines.
Limitations: The office and its employees, agents and officers (Office representatives) do not give any representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied, in relation to the information contained in this application or the guidelines. This include their completeness, accuracy, currency or reliability or the process by which they were prepared.
None of the Office representatives give opinions regarding, legal, accounting, regulatory, taxation or any other matters. Without limiting the foregoing, nothing in the guidelines is or should be regarded as advice in relation to those matters. Nothing contained in the guidelines or application form may be relied upon as a promise, guarantee, representation or warranty.
