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"Rebates and incentives to help more drivers slip behind the wheel of an
electric vehicle are required to give Australia a chance of meeting its 2050
net-zero target, a report has found.
The warning comes as the pace of electric vehicle sales slowed in Australia,
the Electric Vehicle Council’s market report revealed on Monday, even though
motorists were expected to buy more than 110,000 cars in 2024.
It came after four states “prematurely” removed electric car rebates, the study
said, and as the slow economy and misinformation about the low-emission
vehicles made some consumers delay purchases.
The State of Electric Vehicles 2024 report found Australians bought more than
85,000 battery-powered cars by the end of September 2024, representing 9.53 per
cent of all new vehicles sold.
Electric car purchases grew 13 per cent, the study showed, and the number of
electric and plug-in hybrid models available in Australia jumped 50 per cent.
Despite the growth, the figures represented a slowdown from a record-breaking
2023, Electric Vehicle Council chief scientist Dr Jake Whitehead said, and a
more “gradual” adoption by motorists.
“By any measure, there are more EVs on our roads today that ever before and
that is set to grow,” he said.
“The pace of that growth, however, will depend on the level of support from
governments and industry.”
Australia needed electric vehicles to make up more than half of all new cars
sold by 2030 to meet its net-zero goal, the report found, and governments
should aim to meet an interim target of one million EVs on roads by 2027.
The early removal of electric car purchase incentives in NSW, Victoria,
Queensland and South Australia had made those targets more challenging to reach
as financial assistance should remain in place until “at least 30 per cent EV
sales are achieved nationally”, it said."
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
