Electric vehicle snapshot July 2022

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 31 July 2022.

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at Jul 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 June 2020 to July 2022.

Month Number of battery electric vehicles registered
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
January 2021 3,673
February 2021 3,737
March 2021 4,258
April 2021 4,339
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
February 20228,676
March 20229,516
April 20229,701
May 20229,938
June 202210,161
July 202210,318

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

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City 171
Southport 141
Surfers Paradise 117
Hope Island 98
Newstead 79
All others 8,569
Total passenger BEVs9,175
Total BEVs10,318

EV fleet penetration: 0.2%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

battery models percentage registered in queensland as at Jul 2022

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

This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 30 April 2022.

Model % Registered*
Tesla 3 57
Nissan Leaf 6
Tesla S 5
Hyundai Kona 4
Tesla X 4
Hyundai Ioniq 4
ZS2
Mercedes EQA 2502
Mercedes EQ C400 2
ZS EV2
All others14

* 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.

Queensland electric superhighway usage Jul 2022

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

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

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

MonthkWhs
November 2019 16,256
December 2019 22,103
January 2020 23,941
February 2020 8,524
March 2020 8,263
April 2020 3,970
May 2020 7,113
June 2020 10,754
July 2020 13,609
August 2020 14,407
September 2020 15,935
October 2020 13,774
November 2020 13,302
December 2020 21,888
January 2021 20,422
February 2021 17,774
March 2021 23,134
April 2021 26,093
May 202130,365
June 202138,250
July 202141,805
August 202129,543
September 202141,512
October 202144,556
November 202143,358
December 202156,503
January 202252,277
February 202247,410
March 202266,618
April 202271,774
May 202267,685
June 202266,657
July 202269,774

Popular fast-charging stations

SuburbkWh Usage%*
Hamilton182,52016
North Lakes81,3457
Coolangatta77,7037
Helensvale73,5916
Springfield66,5396
All others670,32358
Total kWh usage1,152,022 

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

Tailpipe emissions saved

1,514–1,776 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 516 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

6,912,132km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 477 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.