Electric vehicle snapshot November 2021

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 31 October 2021

Graph showing an increase in the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from 2,115 in December 2019 to 7,129 in October 2021.

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 December 2019 to Oct 2021.

Month Number of battery electric vehicles registered
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 2021 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 2021 4,743
June 2021 5,266
July 2021 5,695
August 2021 6,143
September 2021 6,801
October 2021 7,129

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

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City 105
Southport 96
Surfers Paradise 79
Hope Island 74
Fortitude Valley 68
All others 5,772
Total passenger BEVs6,194
Total BEVs7,129

EV fleet penetration: 0.16%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie chart showing percentage of different models of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at 31 October 2021.

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

This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 31 October 2021.

Model % Registered*
Tesla 3 59
Tesla S 7
Nissan Leaf 7
Tesla X 5
MG ZS EV 4
Hyundai Kona 4
Hyundai Ioniq 2
Mercedes EQ C400 2
Mercedes EQA 250 1
Porsche Taycan 1
All others 7

* 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 2,199.66 kWh in January 2018 to 44,556.70 kWh in October 2021.

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from January 2018 to October 2021.

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

MonthkWhs
January 2018 2,199.66
February 2018 1,681.74
March 2018 2,350.05
April 2018 2,761.76
May 2018 2,483.36
June 2018 2,745.05
July 2018 2,340.67
August 2018 4,246.10
September 2018 3,332.92
October 2018 3,702.30
November 2018 4,638.39
December 2018 2,948.07
January 2019 3,231.52
February 2019 2,568.03
March 2019 4,202.28
April 2019 7,162.22
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

Popular fast-charging stations

Suburb kWh Usage%*
Hamilton 90,706.10 15%
Helensvale 44,016.81 7%
Coolangatta 39,959.74 7%
Cairns 39,413.13 6%
Springfield 34,552.56 6%
All others 362,553.81 59%
Total kWh usage 611,202 19%

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

Tailpipe emissions saved

704–826 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 234 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

3,213,428km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 171 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.