An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles

EVs are being taken up as a cost-of-living measure, experts say, with the ongoing fuel crisis an accelerating factor but ‘not the starting gun’. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images

Australians are buying electric vehicles at record levels, with sales more than doubling year on year and occurring at a rate equivalent to one EV sold every 100 seconds.

A record 157,957 EV sales occurred between January and June – an 117% increase on the same period last year, according to a new report released by the Electric Vehicle Council.