Electric vehicle snapshot April 2022

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 30 April 2022.

Chart description

This graph shows the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from June 2020 to April 2022.

Month	Number of battery electric vehicles registered
June 2020	2,824
July 2020	2,904
August 2020	2,939
September 2020	3,182
October 2020	3,273
November 2020	3,326
December 2020	3,597
January 2021	3,673
February 2021	3,737
March 2021	4,258
April 2021	4,339
May 2021	4,743
June 2021	5,266
July 2021	5,695
August 2021	6,143
September 2021	6,801
October 2021	7,129
November 2021	7,574
December 2021	8,057
January 2022	8,213
February 2022	8,676
March 2022	9,516
April 2022	9,701

Suburbs with most Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) registered (passenger cars)

Suburb	Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City	139
Southport	138
Surfers Paradise	111
Hope Island	95
West End	73
All others	8,046
Total passenger BEVs	8,602
Total BEVs	9,701

EV fleet penetration: 0.21%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Chart description

This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 30 April 2022.

Model	% Registered*
Tesla 3	60
Nissan Leaf	5
Tesla S	5
Hyundai Kona	4
Tesla X	4
Hyundai Ioniq	3
MG ZS EV	4
Mercedes EQA 250	2
Mercedes EQ C400	2
Porsche Taycan	1
All others	9

* Please note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.

Queensland Electric Super Highway

Yurika own and operate all fast charging stations along the Queensland Electric Super Highway.

Usage

Chart Description

This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from August 2019 to April 2022.

A $0.20/kWh charge was introduced on 28 January 2020.

Month	kWhs
August 2019	5,210
September 2019	7,163
October 2019	14,501
November 2019	16,256
December 2019	22,103
January 2020	23,941
February 2020	8,524
March 2020	8,263
April 2020	3,970
May 2020	7,113
June 2020	10,754
July 2020	13,609
August 2020	14,407
September 2020	15,935
October 2020	13,774
November 2020	13,302
December 2020	21,888
January 2021	20,422
February 2021	17,774
March 2021	23,134
April 2021	26,093
May 2021	30,365
June 2021	38,250
July 2021	41,805
August 2021	29,543
September 2021	41,512
October 2021	44,556
November 2021	43,358
December 2021	56,503
January 2022	52,277
February 2022	47,410
March 2022	66,618
April 2022	71,774

Popular fast-charging stations

Suburb	kWh Usage	%*
Hamilton	150,270	16
Helensvale	63,741	7
Coolangatta	62,823	7
North Lakes	61,295	6
Springfield	53,969	6
All others	557,047	59
Total kWh usage	949,145

* Please note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.

Tailpipe emissions saved

1,148–1,347 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 391 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

5,241,088km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 361 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.