The new normal: EV sales double in Australia, while petrol car sales fall off

Electric cars continue to experience unprecedented success in Australia, against a backdrop of continued declining sales petrol and diesel-fuelled vehicles.

The latest story from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries reveal that sales of zero and low emission vehicles have doubled in 2019 compared to a year-to-date (YTD) figures from 2018.

Granting to the FCAI, some 1,839 EVs and PHEVs have been sold so far in 2019 compared to 887 in the same period in 2018, although it should be noted that these figures exclude sales from Tesla, likely to be boosted from this month with the first deliveries of the Model 3.