Electric vehicle snapshot January 2022

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 31 January 2022.

Graph showing an increase in the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from 2,588 in March 2020 to 8,213 in January 2022.

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 March 2020 to January 2022.

Month Number of battery electric vehicles registered
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 20203,273
November 20203,326
December 20203,597
January 20213,673
February 20213,737
March 20214,258
April 20214,339
May 20214,743
June 20215,266
July 20215,695
August 20216,143
September 20216,801
October 20217,129
November 20217,574
December 20218,057
January 20228,213

Suburbs with most Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) registered (passenger cars)

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Southport 127
Brisbane City122
Surfers Paradise 90
Hope Island 81
Fortitude Valley77
All others 6686
Total passenger BEVs7183
Total BEVs8213

EV fleet penetration: 0.18%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie chart showing percentage of different models of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at 31 January 2022.

Legend:
Tesla 3
Tesla S
Nissan Leaf
Tesla X
Hyundai Kona
Hyundai Ioniq
MG ZS EV
Mercedes EQ C400
Mercedes EQA 250
Cooper SE
All others

This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 31 January 2022.

Model % Registered*
Tesla 3 59%
Tesla S 6%
Nissan Leaf 6%
Tesla X 5%
Hyundai Kona 4%
Hyundai Ioniq 3%
MG ZS EV 5%
Mercedes EQ C400 2%
Mercedes EQA 250 2%
Cooper SE 1%
All others 8%

* Please note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.

Queensland Electric Super Highway

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

Graph showing increasing usage of the Queensland electric super highway from 5,437.89 kWh in May 2019 to 52,277.27 kWh in January 2022.

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from May 2019 to January 2022.

A $0.20/kWh charge was introduced on 28 January 2020.

MonthkWhs
May 2019                  5,437.89
June 2019                  7,018.79
July 2019                  5,388.92
August 2019                  5,210.10
September 2019                  7,163.24
October 2019               14,501.00
November 2019               16,256.40
December 2019               22,102.89
January 2020                23,941.00
February 2020                  8,523.82
March 2020                  8,263.00
April 2020                  3,970.00
May 2020                  7,112.78
June 2020                10,754.05
July 2020                13,609.00
August 2020                14,407.00
September 2020                15,935.00
October 2020               13,774.00
November 2020               13,302.00
December 2020               21,888.00
January 2021                20,422.00
February 2021               17,774.00
March 2021               23,134.00
April 2021               26,093.00
May 2021               30,365.00
June 2021               38,250.00
July 2021               41,805.00
August 2021               29,543.60
September 2021               41,512.26
October 2021               44,556.70
November 2021               43,358.73
December 2021               56,503.75
January 2022               52,277.27

Popular fast-charging stations

SuburbkWh Usage%*
Hamilton110,150.4315%
Helensvale52,741.047%
Coolangatta48,002.986%
Cairns44,845.926%
North Lakes43,025.486%
All others459,854.1661%
Total kWh usage763,342.00 

* Please note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.

Tailpipe emissions saved

904–1,060 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 301 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

4,126,267km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 285 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.