Increase of EV Sales In Australia

As of April 2022, there are 30 electric vehicle models available in Australia, including 65 variants, compromising 28 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and 37 battery electric vehicles (BEVs, or EVs).

FREMONT, CA: In Australia, more than 40,000 electric vehicles have been sold since 2011. 30 electric vehicles will be available for purchase in the country in 2022, with a total of 65 versions. Additional models are expected to enter the market later this year as well. Global sales of electrified vehicles reached about 6.6 million in 2021, roughly tripling from the previous year. Leading the charge in terms of sales in China, which accounted for a staggering 53 per cent of 2021 worldwide EV sales with 3.4 million electrified vehicle sales in 2021, more than the whole global market for 2020. Europe lags behind China, where 2.3 million electric vehicles were sold in 2021, a 70 per cent increase from 2020.

The number of electric vehicle sales in Australia, where just 20,665 EVs were sold in 2022, is a far cry from this. Even though twice the number of EVs are expected to be sold locally in 2020, this is still a tiny number in a market that buys more than 1 million new cars every year. EV sales are clearly on the rise, even if they only made up nine per cent of all new cars sold globally in 2021. In 2012, over 130,000 EVs were sold worldwide. Today, many cars are sold per week. 2019 saw the sale of 2.2 million electric vehicles, and 2020 witnessed the deal of 3 million electric vehicles, despite a weakening global auto market. Due in large part to Tesla finally disclosing its sales numbers, the market share of EVs increased from 0.78 per cent in Australia to 2 per cent in 2021. 12,094 Tesla Model 3s were sold in total in 2021, making about 60 per cent of all EV sales in Australia.

The lack of incentives and tax breaks for potential EV drivers in Australia is a major contributing factor to the country's low uptake of electrified vehicles. Victoria even passed a law imposing a special road tax of 2.5 cents per kilometre on electric car owners and 2 cents on hybrid car owners. Other nations don't take a stridently anti-EV stance; in fact, they generally take the opposite position. The Australian government's reluctance to provide incentives for driving electrified cars has had a detrimental effect on both their cost (few sales equal high price tags) and what is available for purchase.