If Australia is to decarbonise our power machine via 2050, we want to get started the transition to electrical automobiles very quickly. Vehicles offered within the 2030s will most commonly nonetheless be at the highway in 2050, so now we have to ensure maximum of them are electrical. However electrical vehicles (together with plug-in hybrids) these days account for handiest 3.5% of recent automobile gross sales in Australia.
The sector chief is Norway, the place 87.6% of recent vehicles (together with 4.8% plug-in hybrids) are electrical. Australia’s determine could also be some distance not up to in Europe (27.7%