Registered vehicles

According to reports from Access Canberra from January 2020, there were 446 battery electric vehicles registered in the ACT. At the time, these represented one vehicle in every 686 registered.

The following chart and table gives a breakdown of the different motive power types for all vehicles registered in the ACT. The chart does not plot hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as there is a negligible number of vehicles.

Note: this chart is only updated periodically.

Petrol 241,718
Diesel 68,205
Hybrid (non-pluggable) 15,503
Battery electric 11,624
Plug-in hybrid 2,436
LPG or CNG 1,025
Other 88
Hydrogen fuel cell 9
Total 340,608

ACT Registered Vehicle data

In May 2025, the ACT Government began publishing de-identified data from the ACT motor vehicle registry on the Open Data Portal. There are several excellent data sets available.


ACT Government Dashboard

The ACT Government maintains the following ZEV dashboard. It is updated regularly.