{"id":214005,"date":"2025-10-15T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214005\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:00:14","slug":"australia-sees-record-electric-vehicle-sales-report-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214005\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia sees record electric vehicle sales: report-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

People view an electric vehicle by Polestar during the Everything Electric Australia, a home energy and electric vehicle show, in Sydney, Australia, March 7, 2025. (Xinhua\/Ma Ping)<\/p>\n

SYDNEY, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) — Electric vehicle (EV) sales hit record highs in Australia, with more than 72,000 units sold in the first half of 2025, marking the highest six-month total ever recorded, according to an industry report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The new report from the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), the national body representing Australia’s EV industry, revealed record sales and rapid growth in charging infrastructure during 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Australians purchased 72,758 battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the first half of 2025, a 24.4-percent increase over the same period in 2024, the report said.<\/p>\n

EVs now make up 12.1 percent of Australia’s new car sales, up from 9.61 percent in 2024, with June 2025 marking a peak market share of nearly 16 percent, it said, adding EVs only account for 2 percent of all cars on Australian roads.<\/p>\n

A staff member introduces Deepal electric vehicles during the Everything Electric Australia, a home energy and electric vehicle show, in Sydney, Australia, March 7, 2025. (Xinhua\/Ma Ping)<\/p>\n

Australia now has more than 410,000 EVs in the national vehicle fleet as of September 2025, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the report said that Australia had 1,272 fast-charging locations for motorists to visit to plug in and at least 4,192 high-power public charging plugs across the country in June 2025, representing year-on-year increases of 20 percent and 22 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

Despite progress, the report said Australia needs at least 1 million EVs on the road by 2028 and a 50-percent EV market share for new car sales within the decade to meet the country’s emissions reduction targets, meaning a total of 145,000 EVs sold in 2025, an additional 240,000 EVs sold in 2026 and a further 320,000 in 2027.<\/p>\n

“Transport will become Australia’s largest-emitting sector within years,” said EVC Chief Executive Officer Julie Delvecchio.<\/p>\n

The EVC called for stronger, consistent government support, including Goods and Services Tax exemptions, energy bill credits, and clear targets with a petrol and diesel vehicle sales ban.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People view an electric vehicle by Polestar during the Everything Electric Australia, a home energy and electric vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,131205,44,65406],"class_list":["post-214005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-ev-sales","tag-news","tag-wn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}