{"id":8628,"date":"2022-01-31T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:01:51","slug":"ev-sales-boom-presents-chance-to-capture-serious-electric-benefits-if-government-acts-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/ev-sales-boom-presents-chance-to-capture-serious-electric-benefits-if-government-acts-now\/","title":{"rendered":"EV sales boom presents chance to capture serious electric benefits,\u00a0if government acts now"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8628\" class=\"elementor elementor-8628\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c86a580 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c86a580\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9f8a61b\" data-id=\"9f8a61b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86a088c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"86a088c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12900\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/15.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15178d1e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15178d1e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6431e190\" data-id=\"6431e190\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-719131c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"719131c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Electric Vehicle Council has today released exclusive 2021 sales figures that show Australia at the precipice of an EV economic boom \u2013 if the federal government plays its cards right this year.\n\nSales of plug-in electric vehicles tripled in the past year from 6,900 in 2020 to 20,665 in 2021. EVs now account for 2% market share of new cars, up from 0.78% in 2020.\n\nEVC chief executive Behyad Jafari said the boost in sales was being driven by positive policy change at a state level and that momentum could now be built upon.\n\n&#8220;The penny has now well and truly dropped on how good electric vehicles are. Most people in the car market will now be considering an electric option. The role of government is to help them make the jump,&#8221; Mr Jafari said.\n\n&#8220;Governments that take the path of encouragement will capture myriad societal benefits \u2013&nbsp;cleaner air, reduced respiratory illness, smaller carbon footprint, quieter roads. Those that lag will make themselves a dumping ground for old tech, dirty vehicles.\n\n&#8220;It\u2019s great that some state governments have received the global message, but at a national level we\u2019re stuck in the past. We desperately need the federal government to introduce Australian EV rebates alongside fuel efficiency standards, just like other developed nations. If we get these changes, you\u2019ll see sales figures really rocket ahead.\n\n&#8220;As a wealthy, car-loving, early-adapting nation, Australia should be an electric vehicle leader. If we were we could restart a thriving manufacturing industry supporting thousands of quality jobs. But we need to build rapidly on this current momentum.\n\n&#8220;After so many wasted years, Australia\u2019s a long way back from the pack, but then again the cool thing about electric cars is how quickly they move from zero to a hundred.&#8221;\n\n<strong>Top 10 BEV &amp; PHEV models<\/strong>\n\n1 Tesla Model 3 12094\n2 MG ZS 1388\n3 Mitsubishi Outlander 592\n4 MG HS 580\n5 Porsche Taycan 531\n6 Hyundai Kona 505\n7 Volvo XC40 495\n8 Hyundai Ioniq 407\n9 Nissan Leaf 367\n10 Mercedes-Benz EQA 367\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Vehicle Council has today released exclusive 2021 sales figures that show Australia at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13327,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions\/13327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}