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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

How Canberra's love affair with EVs drives us toward China

Chinese-made Teslas have far outsold any other brands in the ACT in 2023. Picture by Gary Ramage

Further confirming the EV-centric nature of the Canberra market, sales of the Tesla Model Y electric vehicle in the ACT in July were more than double that of the biggest-selling vehicle across the rest of the country.

And for the first time, more Chinese-made cars were sold into the ACT this year than those imported from any other country. Elsewhere in Australia, Chinese-made vehicles still lagged behind those produced from Japan, Thailand and Korea.

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