Electric vehicle snapshot January 2023

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

Battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland

As at 31 January 2023.

Graph showing an increase in the number of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland from 2,201 on 1 Jan 2020 to 16,731 on 31 Jan 2023.

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 285
Southport 207
Surfers Paradise 170
Hope Island 156
Rochedale 144
Robina 138
Fortitude Valley 133
All others 14,077
Total passenger BEVs15,310
Total BEVs16,731

EV fleet penetration: 0.4%

Battery models registered in Queensland (passenger cars)

Pie chart showing percentage of different models of battery electric vehicles registered in Queensland as at 31 January 2023.

Legend:
Tesla 3
Tesla Y
BYD Atto 3
MG ZS EV
Nissan Leaf
Hyundai Kona
Tesla S
Hyundai Ioniq
Tesla X
Volvo XC40
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 23,941 kWh in January 2020 to 92,817 kWh in January 2023.

Usage

Legend:
Usage 
Trend line

Popular fast-charging stations

SuburbSessions kWh Usage%*
Hamilton 12,156 231,196 13
North Lakes 7,559 122,493 8
Coolangatta 7,187 112,747 8
Helensvale 6,325 97,067 7
Springwood 5,766 104,401 6
Springfield 5,353 94,573 6
Cairns 4,435 79,120 5
All others 41,845 805,228 46
Total kWh usage90,6261,646,825 

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

Tailpipe emissions saved

2,065–2,423 tonnes saved by using Green Energy—equivalent to removing 704 cars off Queensland roads.

Kilometres charged

9,427,161km charged, equivalent to driving around Australia 650 times. Based on an estimated distance of 14,500km to drive around Australia and 1kWh equating to 5–6km travelled.