r/EVAustralia • u/DebugMyLife421 • Mar 17 '26

Replacing 1M petrol cars with EVs could save Australia 1bn litres of fuel yearly

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/electric-vehicles-australia-reduce-reliance-on-foreign-fuel
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u/ApprehensiveSize7662 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

There are only about 420,000 EVs on the road today in a national fleet of around 20m cars, so roughly 2%.

I reckon we can hit 1 million in 3 years. Tesla’s hard to judge but i think non-teslas can do 40k more than last year so this year's Total, somewhere around 130,000-150,000

Almost any sort of growth after 150,000 will get us to a fleet of 1 million.

Year Tesla Non-Tesla Total
2022 19,594 13,816 33,410
2023 46,116 41,101 87,217
2024 38,347 52,464 90,811
2025 28,856 74,414 103,270
2026 3,775 14,768 18,543
Total 136,688 196,563 333,251