ACT EV statistics
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.