{"id":15456,"date":"2023-09-21T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=15456"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:02:37","password":"","slug":"are-electric-vehicles-more-expensive-than-petrol-diesel-cars","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs\/are-electric-vehicles-more-expensive-than-petrol-diesel-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Are electric vehicles more expensive than petrol\/diesel cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upfront costs of EVs can sometimes be more expensive than petrol\/diesel vehicles, however, the charging and maintenance of an EV is much cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Many Australian Governments also offer a range of incentives that can help to reduce the upfront cost of an EV. It&#8217;s also important when comparing EVs with other vehicles that they are like-for-like, meaning they include the same level of safety technology, safe comfort trim, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The higher upfront cost of some EVs is primarily due to the cost of batteries. As battery costs continue to fall, EVs continue to become cheaper. Just a few years ago most EVs cost more than $100,000, and now there are several models available in Australia for under $40,000<\/p>\n<p>You can see a full list of EVs available in Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/about-ev\/evs-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upfront costs of EVs can sometimes be more expensive than petrol\/diesel vehicles, however, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[105],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-15456","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-costsavings"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":130,"total_views":"0","reactions":{"happy":"2","normal":"1","sad":"4"},"author_info":{"name":"Bailey Sievewright","author_nicename":"bailey","author_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/author\/bailey\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Cost &amp; Savings","term_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs-category\/costsavings\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15456\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=15456"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=15456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}