Electric vehicle snapshot April 2022

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 30 April 2022.

Graph showing an increase in the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from 2,824 on 1 June 2020 to 9,701 on 30 April 2022.

Registered battery electric vehicles include passenger cars, light vans, motorcycles, buses and trucks. Registration data includes private ownership, commercial fleet, and commercial dealership registrations.

Legend:
Registrations 
Trend line

Suburbs with most Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) registered (passenger cars)

Suburb Number of BEVs (passenger cars)
Brisbane City 139
Southport 138
Surfers Paradise 111
Hope Island 95
West End 73
All others 8,046
Total passenger BEVs8,602
Total BEVs9,701

EV fleet penetration: 0.21%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie chart showing percentage of different models of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at 30 April 2022.

Legend:
Tesla 3
Nissan Leaf
Tesla S
Hyundai Kona
Tesla X
Hyundai Ioniq
MG ZS EV
Mercedes EQA 250
Mercedes EQ C400
Porsche Taycan
All others

Queensland Electric Super Highway

Yurika own and operate all fast charging stations along the Queensland Electric Super Highway.

Graph showing increasing usage of the Queensland electric super highway from 5.210 kWh in August 2019 to 71,774 kWh in April 2022.

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

Popular fast-charging stations

SuburbkWh Usage%*
Hamilton150,27016
Helensvale63,7417
Coolangatta62,8237
North Lakes61,2956
Springfield53,9696
All others557,04759
Total kWh usage949,145 

* Please note: these values are rounded to whole numbers and may not total to 100%.

Tailpipe emissions saved

1,148–1,347 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 391 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

5,241,088km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 361 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.