{"id":94726,"date":"2025-09-24T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=94726"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:25:12","slug":"victoria-ev-charging-mb3276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-ev-charging-mb3276\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian EV Charging Inquiry Seeking Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Electric<\/p>\n

A recently launched parliamentary inquiry in Victoria is delving into how the state can best balance EV charging with electricity supply and demand in the state \u2014 and feedback from the public is invited.<\/p>\n

What Does The EV Charging Inquiry Cover?<\/h2>\n

Among the issues to be examined are strategies to support the uptake of electric vehicles. This includes facilitating bidirectional charging that allows a compatible EV to not only charge from the grid, but to send power back to it (V2G – Vehicle to Grid<\/a>); or to the home (V2H – Vehicle to Home).<\/p>\n

It will also be looking at ways to reduce EV charging during periods of peak grid demand, while increasing the activity during periods of peak supply when the state’s hundreds of thousands of rooftop power systems and other considerable renewable energy resources are cranking clean energy.<\/p>\n

Whether public charging infrastructure is being installed at a sufficient rate will come under scrutiny, including in older suburbs where most residents don’t have access to off-street parking.<\/p>\n

On the electricity distributor side of things, the inquiry will consider how Distributed Network Service Providers (DNSPs) can participate in rolling out infrastructure and how EV charger distribution network tariffs should be set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at how Victoria can support the transition to electric vehicles in a way that benefits both consumers and the energy system,\u201d said Committee Chair Georgie Purcell. \u201cThis includes making sure charging is accessible, affordable and sustainable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The inquiry extends to end-of-life issues for EV batteries, repurposing old EV batteries for residential\/community energy storage, and associated barriers and opportunities.<\/p>\n

Victoria’s Legislative Council Economy and Infrastructure Committee is running the inquiry.\u00a0The terms of reference can be found here<\/a> and submission instructions here<\/a>. The Committee is inviting submissions until 31 October 2025 and will table its report by 27 March 2026.<\/p>\n

Finding A Public EV Charger In Victoria<\/h2>\n

Whether you’re in Victoria or anywhere else in Australia for that matter, you can see where you can top-up while on the road using our public EV charger map<\/a>; powered by Plugshare. Plugshare also offer a handy (and free) app for Android and Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victoria’s EV Uptake Goals<\/h2>\n

The transport sector is one of the biggest\u00a0 sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Victoria, accounting for 25% of the state’s total carbon emissions. The Victorian Government is aiming for half of all new light vehicle sales to be zero emissions vehicles by 2030, in line with the Federal Government’s goals.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a> the Australian Automobile Association, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) represented 6.75% of new light vehicle sales in Victoria in Q2, 2024 and 10.19% in Q2, 2025 (PHEVS: 4.62% and 4.11% respectively).<\/p>\n

The state has a Zero Emissions Vehicle Roadmap<\/a>\u00a0supported by a range of policies and programs, including Destination Charging Across Victoria (DCAV). This program provided grants totalling $5 million to 32 applicants to support installation of another 133 EV fast-charging stations located within 116 high-use areas and tourism hotspots across regional and metropolitan Victoria by next year.<\/p>\n

Victoria once also offered an EV subsidy \u2014 $3,000. The zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) rebate was discontinued on June 30, 2023. At the moment, the state incentive<\/a> cupboard is bare for home EV chargers<\/a> and electric vehicles aside from a $100 discount on EV registration; but both have been dropping in price over the last few years.<\/p>\n

Victoria’s Big EV Tax Blunder<\/h2>\n

For a state government that declared it was encouraging EV ownership, a serious misstep involving charging of a different kind was made a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Introduced on July 1, 2021,\u00a0 the ZLEV Road-User Charge had Victorian EV owners paying 2.5 cents per kilometre and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) owners paying 2 cents per kilometre; adding up to around $330 a year for the average EV driver. The ZLEV road user charge was widely condemned as the “worst EV policy in the world<\/a>” \u2014 too much, too soon.<\/p>\n

However, the High Court struck down the ZLEV road user charge<\/a> in 2023, ruling it amounted to an excise; which Australia\u2019s Constitution forbids states from collecting. All impacted EV owners were refunded in full by VicRoads, including card payment fees and interest. The total cost of these refunds was reportedly approximately $7 million.<\/p>\n

But a national EV road user charge<\/a> is now on the cards at a federal level. While it won’t it won\u2019t happen overnight, it will eventually happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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