Fact Check: Does Australia have the lowest uptake of electric vehicles in the OECD?

and most national automobile associations exclude fuel-cell electric cars from its datasets due to uptake being so low that it is barely worth collating.Fuel-cell cars made up just 1.1 per cent of all electric cars sold in Japan, and this was the highest proportion in any country.

Getting an accurate assessment of the number of electric vehicles sold in Australia is challenging, mostly due to Tesla not releasing its sales figures.for the Electric Vehicle Council, 1208 battery EVs and 1076 plug-in hybrids were sold in Australia in 2017, making a total of 2284.later suggested the figure for Teslas alone was 1410.The political parties agree that electric vehicle sales are insignificant in Australia compared with petrol-fuelled cars.

However, finding a consistent and complete data source across all OECD member countries proved difficult., a Swedish website that describes itself as the electric vehicle world sales database. It shared its figures with Fact Check.

Great idea given that the greatest producer of green house emissions is vehicle use...a bit short on policy details. How are targets to be achieved? Taxing petrol vehicles just penalises lower income families.

Wow guess you have no concept of distances in outback--,

We also have the lowest uptake of nuclear power, the largest distances to travel, and the most uranium

One would hope so.

Australia is a far bigger country withe a population well spread out which doesn’t suit the electric cars (though they are getting better)

ABC pushing it bullshit Green agenda again

Great article. Many commentators are confused by the meaning of words & basic maths. Labour’s policy is for NEW cars. Let’s use 2017 as Eg. Total cars on road is approx 20 million. NEW car sales approx 1 million. 50% of 1 million is 500 thousand across all Aus. Utes are safe 👍

they're pointless coal powered smugmobiles for climate cult members

Foreign boss said there’s a fat sheep, money $$$$$.

Good! Because adopting bad tech that's unfit for purpose should never be something we aspire to.

Definitely cost which is limiting uptake. Huge uptake of Tesla in Hong Kong when there were government EV incentives. After they were removed, almost extra $40k USD, resulting in minimal demand. If the public had a fair choice, I believe they’d pick EV.

The fact is.... that is not a fact. Simple as that! Why does the ABC always need to rearrage the question to suit the left? It’s really simple... you say.. ‘that is not true’. Then the particular person can adjust their words so they are not lying! abcloveslabor

We need more cars elonmusk !!!

Please don't get caught up in illogical semantics. Mark_Butler_MP is close to the bullseye compared to COALition ratbags who incessantly lie through their teeth on every policy matter & miles away from reality. billshortenmp australianlabor ScottMorrisonMP liberalaus

Electric car stupid. Require too many AAA battery run.

Who cares😯 The electric cars are coming.😉 Its a fact of life😄 I'm keeping my petrol guzzler till the last day😃 Vahroooommmm😂

there are a lot of Australians who can't afford a $62,000 car.

In 2018 Australian's couldn't buy electric cars as manufacturers only made a small number available in Aus 2019 will be a better year for EVs in Aus relevant analytics in this tweet Meanwhile, across the ditch ping adamlmorton

Its the cost. Economics is the central platform. No infrastructurse for it. Ps How many Labor politicians drive electric cars? Is it zero.

That would be proportional to our population density and therefore an entirely appropriate situation given the current state of the technology. There is no point be a mug and buying something that does not do the job well enough, just to fund some non-Australia industrial system.

Yeah because they're already expensive and everything in Australia, even digital games and services, gets a little extra price gouging. Forget it.

we also have the lowest uptake on monorails. Australia normally adopts modern technologies when they have been debugged.

They cost too much.

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Govt’s electric car claim ‘doesn’t reflect’ reality | Sky News AustraliaCEO of the Electric Vehicle Council Behyad Jafari has dismissed the Coalition’s claim that Labor is planning to create a new tax to make homes and apartments electric vehicle charger-ready.\n\nAs part of its policy for all new car sales to be electric by 2030, Labor is planning to work with state and local governments to develop electric vehicle charging stations in new residential buildings if elected next month.\n\nEnergy Minister Angus Taylor has slammed the initiative, claiming government modeling shows it could cost ‘billions’ for new residential properties to install the technology.\n\nMr Jafari has told Sky News the government’s figures don't reflect industry modeling, saying that not installing the new technology now will have ‘significant costs’ down the line.\n\n\n EVCouncil AustralianLabor Heads up the copy currently reads 'for all new car sales to be electric by 2030'. While that sounds good to me, the ALP policy is for 50%.
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