Australian Electric Vehicle Association

Vehicles registered in the ACT - January 2020 onwards

According to reports from Access Canberra from January 2020, there were 446 battery electric vehicles registered in the ACT. These represented one vehicle in every 686 registered. How things have changed!

By 20 March 2023 this number had risen to 3,641.

Below are details of the reported categories of vehicles registered in the ACT.

PETROL 248,049
DIESEL 65,761
HYBRID (without plug) 8,325
BATTERY ELECTRIC 3,641
LPG or CNG 1,418
PLUG-IN HYBRID 757
OTHER 112
HYDROGEN 22
TOTAL 328,085

 


SALES

For the ACT, there were 1280 sales of BEVs in 2022.  The table and charts below show the sales per make of BEV for this period.

Sales of BEV into ACT 2022

Information from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.


ACT Government Dashboard

The ACT Government runs this ZEV dashboard:

 

ACT Government car fleet

Under the ACT Government's Action Plan for Transition to Zero Emission Vehicles, all newly leased ACT Government passenger fleet vehicles will be zero emission vehicles from the financial year 2020/21, where fit for purpose.

The ACT Government advised that its car fleet has about 600 passenger vehicles that are suitable for replacement with zero emission vehicles.

As of 25 November 2021 the fleet had 174 zero emission vehicles (76 battery EVs, 78 plug-in hybrid EVs, and 20 fuel cell EVs). 

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