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"Matt Holding set an alarm on his phone so he wouldn’t miss out on a limited
release of electric vehicles, but by the time he jumped online to buy one they
had sold out.
In six and a half minutes, all 109 of Hyundai’s electric SUVs had sold – 18,000
Australians had registered their interest.
“You’ve just got to keep on trying and get in there straight away, which seems
ridiculous when you’re purchasing an $80,000 car,” Holding says of the second
time he tried to beat the queue to buy Hyundai’s Ioniq 5.
The pace at which the cars sold out is part of a broader issue, according to
leaders in the industry, as the demand for them in Australia now outstrips
supply.
“Our biggest issue now is actually attracting supply of electric vehicles, not
getting Australians interested in buying them,” says Behyad Jafari, the chief
executive of the Electric Vehicle Council.
Jafari says Australia is underserved in EVs compared with many other countries
due to a lack of government EV and climate policies. The majority of EVs are
instead flowing to countries that require car manufacturers to sell them in
order to meet fuel efficiency standards and CO2 emission reduction schemes. The
UK has banned the sale of all new petrol-run cars by 2030, in South Korea the
date is 2025."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
