About one in 40 cars in the city are now entirely battery powered, with one happy driver declaring “the family loves it”.
The number of electric cars in Brisbane has increased almost twenty-fold since the pandemic began.Brisbane TimesThe numbers have roughly doubled every year since 2020, when 1069 electric cars were registered across the Brisbane City Council area.
Uber driver Ali Taei owns one of them, forking out about $44,000 in January last year for a Chinese-made BYD Atto 3. Tesla still dominates the Brisbane market, with its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV variants making up more than half of all registered electric cars.BYD’s Atto 3 is the next most popular model, with 2053 on the road, followed by the Polestar 2 and Volvo’s XC40 .Uptake is lower outside Brisbane, accounting for just 44,454 of the state’s 3,267,133 cars – just over one in every 100 vehicles.
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