Electric vehicle snapshot October 2022

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 31 October 2022.

Graph showing an increase in the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from 3,182 on 1 September 2020 to 13,656 on 31 October 2022.

Registered battery electric vehicles include passenger cars, light vans, motorcycles, buses and trucks. Registration data includes private ownership, commercial fleet, and commercial dealership registrations.

Legend:
Registrations 
Trend line

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

Month Number of battery electric vehicles registered
September 2020 3182
October 2020 3273
November 2020 3326
December 2020 3597
January 2021 3673
February 2021 3737
March 2021 4258
April 2021 4339
May 2021 4743
June 2021 5266
July 2021 5695
August 2021 6143
September 2021 6801
October 2021 7129
November 2021 7574
December 2021 8057
January 2022 8213
February 2022 8676
March 2022 9516
April 2022 9701
May 2022 9938
June 2022 10161
July 2022 10318
August 2022 11312
September 2022 12928
October 2022 13656

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

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City 231
Southport 190
Surfers Paradise 157
Hope Island 133
Rochedale 112
All others 11,605
Total passenger BEVs12,428
Total BEVs13,656

EV fleet penetration: 0.3%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie chart showing percentage of different models of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at 31 October 2022.

Legend:
Tesla 3
Tesla Y
Nissan Leaf
Hyundai Kona
Tesla S
Hyundai Ioniq
Tesla X
Atto 3
MG ZS EV
ZS
All others

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

Model % Registered*
Tesla 3 49
Tesla Y12
Nissan Leaf 4
Hyundai Kona 4
Tesla S 4
Hyundai Ioniq 3
Tesla X3
Atto 32
MG ZS EV 2
ZS2
All others17

* 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 (QESH).

Graph showing increasing usage of the Queensland electric super highway from 8,524 kWh in February 2020 to 85,688 kWh in October 2022.

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

This graph shows the number of kilowatt-hours used along the Queensland Electric Super Highway from February 2020 to October 2022.

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

MonthkWhs
February 20208,524
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                   29,544
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

Popular fast-charging stations

SuburbkWh Usage%*
Hamilton214,72915
North Lakes107,0018
Coolangatta89,3416
Helensvale84,4316
Springwood82,3406
All others816,66358
Total kWh usage1,394,506 

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

Tailpipe emissions saved

1,832–2,150 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 624 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

8,367,037km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 577 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.