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Electric vehicle snapshot January 2021

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As of 1 January 2021.

Graph of Battery Electric Vehicles registered in Queensland with upward trend line, individual data available in table below.

Registered battery electric vehicles include passenger cars, light vans, motorcycles, buses and trucks. Registration data includes private ownership, commercial fleet, and commercial dealership registrations.

Legend:
Registrations 
Trend line

This graph shows the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from April 2019 to December 2020.

Month Number of battery electric vehicles registered
April 2019 1,011
May 2019 1,054
June 2019 1,095
July 2019 1,134
August 2019 1,217
September 2019 1,661
October 2019 1,742
November 2019 1,894
December 2019 2,115
January 2020 2,201
February 2020 2,337
March 2020 2,588
April 2020 2,636
May 2020 2,691
June 2020 2,824
July 2020 2,904
August 2020 2,939
September 2020 3,182
October 2020 3,273
November 2020 3,326
December 2020 3,597

Suburbs with most Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) registered

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City 59
Hope Island 45
Surfers Paradise 41
South Brisbane 38
Fortitude Valley 38
All others 2,638
Total Passenger BEVs2,862

EV fleet penetration: 0.11%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie graph representing the top battery models registered in Queensland full data available in table below

Tesla accounts for almost three-quarters of Queensland's total battery electric passenger vehicles.

Legend:
Tesla Model 3
Tesla Model S
Nissan Leaf
Tesla Model X
Hyundai Kona
Hyundai Ioniq
Mercedes EQC400
Jaguar I-Pace
BMW I3
Mitsubishi I-MIEV

This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 1 January 2021.

Model % Registered
Tesla Model 3 45
Tesla Model S 15
Nissan Leaf 12
Tesla Model X 11
Hyundai Kona 6
Hyundai Ioniq 4
Mercedes EQC400 2
Jaguar I-Pace 2
BMW I3 2
Mitsubishi I-MIEV 1

Tesla accounts for almost three-quarters of Queensland's total battery electric passenger vehicles.

Queensland Electric Super Highway

Yurika own and operate all fast charging stations along the Queensland Electric Super Highway (QESH).

Usage

Graph of vehicle usage on the Queensland Electric Super Highway full graph data available in table below.

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from April 2018 to December 2020.

MonthkWhs
April 20182,762
May 20182,483
June 20182,745
July 20182,341
August 20184,246
September 20183,333
October 20183,702
November 20184,638
December 20182,948
January 20193,232 ($0.20/kWh charge introduced on 28 January 2020)
February 20192,568
March 20194,202
April 20197,162 (COVID-19 travel restrictions commenced)
May 20195,438
June 20197,019
July 20195,389
August 20195,210
September 20197,163
October 201914,501
November 201916,256
December 201922,103
January 202023,941
February 20208,524
March 20208,263
April 20203,970
May 20207,113
June 202010,754
July 202013,609
August 202014,407
September 202015,935
October 202013,774
November 202013,302
December 202021,888

Popular fast-charging stations

Suburb KWh usage%
Hamilton 65,440 22
Coolangatta 28,661 10
Cairns 25,087 9
Helensvale 20,589 6
Springfield 18,520 6
All others 137,774 47
Total kWh usage296,071 

Tailpipe emissions saved

324 - 380 tonnes saved by using Green Energy, equivalent to removing 108 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

1,480,266km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 102 times.

Last updated:
10 February 2022
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