Electric vehicles have for the first time overtaken petrol-driven cars in the race up the sales charts in the medium-sized car category.
Internal combustion engines still dominate passenger vehicle sales in all other categories, but three out of five new medium-sized cars sold in Australia in the first quarter of the year were powered by electric batteries, according to new figures from the Australian Automobile Association.
Australians bought 7866 medium-sized EVs between January and April, up from 2988 the previous quarter. At the same time, 4205 medium-sized internal combustion engines were sold. Fuel-efficiency standards act as pollution caps and limit average emissions, measured in grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre, produced by the overall fleet of vehicles sold into the market by a manufacturer to encourage them to sell more EVs.The government will consult for six weeks with industry over the settings of the cap and aims to release draft legislation in time to impose the standards by the start of next year.
“Without a fuel-efficiency standard, car manufacturers won’t prioritise the sale of their most technologically advanced products to the Australian market,” he said.
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