{"id":60416,"date":"2022-04-04T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=60416"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T04:42:43","slug":"ev-uptake-sales-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ev-uptake-sales-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"10% of New Cars Sold Today Are Electric. In Australia It’s 2%"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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There are so few EVs on Australian roads, I had to badly Photoshop one onto this picture.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

As I write this, approximately 1 in 10 new cars sold worldwide are electric.\u00a0 But not in Australia. \u00a0 Here it’s little more than 1 in 50.\u00a0 That’s a large difference and it’s not because we regularly drive beyond the black stump.\u00a0 Australia is more urbanized than Germany and, on average, we drive our cars fewer kilometres than they do.\u00a0 Most Australian families keep at least one vehicle well within the black stump.<\/p>\r\n

Our lack of EVs also is not because we don’t want them.\u00a0 Plenty of Australians want an electric car.\u00a0 They just have trouble getting them.\u00a0 Electric vehicles are either available in limited numbers far below demand or have waiting periods that can be over a year depending on the model.\u00a0 While some conventional cars currently have long waiting periods, for EVs they’re far worse.<\/p>\r\n

This comes down to Government policy.\u00a0 (Boo! Hiss!).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\r\n

Not only have we been slow to introduce incentives, but we’ve also been quick to introduce disincentives.\u00a0 Despite this, Australian EV sales tripled last year.\u00a0 They are now just over 2% of new car sales and I expect this figure will increase rapidly.\u00a0 I also think uptake won’t just mirror that of other countries, but we’ll start to catch up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In this post, I’ll tell you what’s happening with EVs in the rest of the world and why Australia lags so far behind.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Tesla doesn’t have a reputation for getting things done on time, so if you order a Tesla Model 3 on the same day you get pregnant, I’d say it’s 50-50 you’ll be driving bub home from the hospital on electric power.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

World EV Production<\/h2>\r\n

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a report on the current state of EVs that you can check out here<\/a>.\u00a0 There’s no need to be scared of it.\u00a0 It’s not 260 pages long like most IEA reports<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s only a single page.\u00a0 Admittedly, to get to the bottom of that page you have to scroll down around 30 metres — but it’s still, technically, only one page.<\/p>\r\n

In the report1<\/a><\/sup> they estimate there are 16 million EVs on the road today.\u00a0 These electric vehicles should have reduced world oil consumption and CO2 emissions, but increased sales of ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) SUVs cancelled it out.<\/p>\r\n