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Nearly 50% of vehicles sold in Australia in the last quarter were EVs or plug-in hybrids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-sales-2026-

Nearly 50% of vehicles sold in Australia in the last quarter were EVs or plug-in hybrids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-sales-2026-iran-war-fuel/106987252 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-s...

aetherspawn 2mo ago
Sweet free free sunshine down here.
- tialaramex 2mo ago
  Right. Australia is crazy sunny. You might intuitively expect there'd be more PV power closer to the equator but that's not how it works, Australia just doesn't have as much cloud as almost anywhere on Earth, especially places a bunch of people actually live - and so that's a lot more energy ("insolation") from the sun ready to harvest.
  - aetherspawn 2mo ago
    Yeah, also we have a lot of room we don’t care about and nobody goes there, so we just put solar panels out there.
emil-lp 2mo ago
A record for EV sales in Norway was set in 2025: 95.9 percent of all new passenger cars sold were fully electric, up from 88.9 percent in 2024.
- emil-lp 2mo ago
  Top 10 new passenger cars 2025 1. Tesla Model Y: 27 621 2. Volkswagen ID.4: 8 802 3. Toyota bZ4X: 7 274 4. Volkswagen ID.7: 6 976 5. Tesla Model 3: 6 608 6. Volkswagen ID.3: 5 572 7. Volvo EX40: 5 270 8. Volvo EX30(xc): 5 206 9. Skoda Enyaq: 4 836 10. Nissan Ariya: 4 565
- bashtoni 2mo ago
  Yes, but Norway is a very rich country because of all the resources they can just extract from the ground. Australia.. wait, never mind.
  - padjo 2mo ago
    In fairness Norway does have ludicrous levels of hydro per capita which makes electricity very cheap.
    - kalleboo 2mo ago
      Although I guess now Australia has ludicrous levels of solar per capita - they're famously launching 3 hours/day of free electricity to try to soak it all up.
      - padjo 2mo ago
        Hydro has the benefit of being available at night when you're unlikely to be using your car.
        kalleboo 2mo ago
        Australia has been subsidizing home batteries
- rstuart4133 2mo ago
  Yes, Norway leads. But it's not an apples with apples comparison. Norway is a smallish country (you can fit 24 Norway's in Australia - so less range anxiety), whose government pushed the transition to EV's hard. Australia has the worlds most competitive new car market and with one of the least restrictive emissions controls on ICE engines. It's not that surprising that Norway's government engineered transition to EV's was successful. In Australia EV's became around the same price as ICE vehicles in the last 12 months, and it feels like we've hit a market driven tipping point. If battery developments take their predicted path, with pricing dropping about 10% per years and range per unit weight doubling, it's difficult to see how it isn't all over bar the shouting - for USA car manufacturing. Trump sealed the USA's fate, when his changes EV policies lead to $51B in direct write downs. I don't see how you can recover from that.

aetherspawn 2mo ago

Sweet free free sunshine down here.

tialaramex 2mo ago
Right. Australia is crazy sunny. You might intuitively expect there'd be more PV power closer to the equator but that's not how it works, Australia just doesn't have as much cloud as almost anywhere on Earth, especially places a bunch of people actually live - and so that's a lot more energy ("insolation") from the sun ready to harvest.
- aetherspawn 2mo ago
  Yeah, also we have a lot of room we don’t care about and nobody goes there, so we just put solar panels out there.

emil-lp 2mo ago

A record for EV sales in Norway was set in 2025: 95.9 percent of all new passenger cars sold were fully electric, up from 88.9 percent in 2024.

emil-lp 2mo ago
Top 10 new passenger cars 2025 1. Tesla Model Y: 27 621 2. Volkswagen ID.4: 8 802 3. Toyota bZ4X: 7 274 4. Volkswagen ID.7: 6 976 5. Tesla Model 3: 6 608 6. Volkswagen ID.3: 5 572 7. Volvo EX40: 5 270 8. Volvo EX30(xc): 5 206 9. Skoda Enyaq: 4 836 10. Nissan Ariya: 4 565
bashtoni 2mo ago
Yes, but Norway is a very rich country because of all the resources they can just extract from the ground. Australia.. wait, never mind.
- padjo 2mo ago
  In fairness Norway does have ludicrous levels of hydro per capita which makes electricity very cheap.
  - kalleboo 2mo ago
    Although I guess now Australia has ludicrous levels of solar per capita - they're famously launching 3 hours/day of free electricity to try to soak it all up.
    - padjo 2mo ago
      Hydro has the benefit of being available at night when you're unlikely to be using your car.
      - kalleboo 2mo ago
        Australia has been subsidizing home batteries
rstuart4133 2mo ago
Yes, Norway leads. But it's not an apples with apples comparison. Norway is a smallish country (you can fit 24 Norway's in Australia - so less range anxiety), whose government pushed the transition to EV's hard. Australia has the worlds most competitive new car market and with one of the least restrictive emissions controls on ICE engines. It's not that surprising that Norway's government engineered transition to EV's was successful. In Australia EV's became around the same price as ICE vehicles in the last 12 months, and it feels like we've hit a market driven tipping point. If battery developments take their predicted path, with pricing dropping about 10% per years and range per unit weight doubling, it's difficult to see how it isn't all over bar the shouting - for USA car manufacturing. Trump sealed the USA's fate, when his changes EV policies lead to $51B in direct write downs. I don't see how you can recover from that.