Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland
As at 31 March 2025.
Data source: Department of Transport and Main Roads
Registered battery electric vehicles include passenger cars, light vans, motorcycles, buses and trucks. Registration data includes private ownership, commercial fleet, and commercial dealership registrations.
The way that registration data is presented in the electric vehicle snapshot may change each quarter due to the point in time of when the data is filtered and processed. Please see the latest published electric vehicle snapshot for the most up to date data.
Legend: Registrations Trend line
This graph shows the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from March 2020 to March 2025.
Month
Number of battery electric vehicles registered
March 2020
2,588
April 2020
2,636
May 2020
2,691
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
May 2022
9,938
June 2022
10,161
July 2022
10,318
August 2022
11,312
September 2022
12,928
October 2022
13,656
November 2022
14,244
December 2022
15,166
January 2023
16,731
February 2023
17,897
March 2023
19,378
April 2023
21,031
May 2023
22,284
June 2023
24,476
July 2023
25,778
August 2023
28,198
September 2023
33,488
October 2023
31,144
November 2023
33,488
December 2023
35,047
January 2024
36,413
February 2024
38,335
March 2024
40,528
April 2024
41,920
May 2024
44,156
June 2024
46,323
July 2024
47,990
August 2024
49,445
September 2024
50,688
October 2024
52,158
November 2024
53,467
December 2024
54,968
January 2025
55,879
February 2025
57,080
March 2025
58,528
Local Government Areas (LGA) with most Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) registered (passenger cars)
Local Government Area
Percentage of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane
44%
Gold Coast
15%
Moreton Bay
8%
Sunshine Coast
7%
Logan
6%
Ipswich
4%
All other
16%
Note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.
BEV passenger care fleet penetration: 1.3%
Data source: Department of Transport and Main Roads
Battery Electric Vehicle models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)
This graph shows the percentage of battery electric vehicle models (passenger vehicles) registered in Queensland as of 31 March 2025.
Model
Percentage registered*
Tesla Model 3
25
Tesla Model Y
23
BYD Atto 3
9
Mg4
5
BYD Seal
3
Mg Zs Ev
3
Kia Ev6
2
Polestar 2
2
All others
28
* 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
Data source: chargefox.com
Legend: Usage Trend line
This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from March 2020 to March 2025.
On 30 June 2024, the charging rate for 50kW and 75kW chargers at Queensland Electric Super Highway sites increased from 30 cents per kilowatt-hour to 55 cents per kilowatt-hour, with the current fee for 22kW chargers maintained at 30 cents per kilowatt.
Month
kWh
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
29,544
September 2021
41,512
October 2021
44,557
November 2021
43,359
December 2021
56,504
January 2022
52,277
February 2022
47,411
March 2022
66,618
April 2022
71,775
May 2022
67,685
June 2022
66,357
July 2022
69,774
August 2022
75,980
September 2022
79,877
October 2022
85,688
November 2022
70,983
December 2022
88,518
January 2023
92,817
February 2023
74,398
March 2023
88,715
April 2023
113,050
May 2023
115,823
June 2023
136,618
July 2023
157,689
August 2023
149,911
September 2023
177,298
October 2023
157,599
November 2023
157,877
December 2023
185,759
January 2024
172,954
February 2024
149,093
March 2024
165,600
April 2024
156,388
May 2024
148,579
June 2024
141,680
July 2024
137,063
August 2024
132,803
September 2024
137,284
October 2024
137,477
November 2024
131,010
December 2024
131,432
January 2025
121,552
February 2025
98,766
March 2025
111,163
Popular fast-charging stations (2018 to 31 March 2025)
Suburb
Sessions
kWh usage
Percentage
Hamilton*
23,774
522,751
10
North Lakes
18,738
402,874
8
Helensvale
16,114
344,089
7
Slacks Creek
15,947
336,982
6
Gold Coast Airport (Coolangatta)
19,225
323,433
6
Springfield
12,880
286,505
5
Cairns
11,948
255,436
5
All others
129,744
2,751,308
53
Total
248,370
5,224,603
100
Note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.
On 27 May 2024, the Queensland Electric Super Highway Phase 1 site in Hamilton was decommissioned to facilitate the new Bluey’s World attraction. A new site in Hamilton (at Dock A Car Park, corner of Wharf Street and MacArthur Avenue) opened in March 2025.
Kilometres charged
28.74 million km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 1,981 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.
