The Perth suburbs with the most electric vehicles … will soon face competition
The Cook government will offer five million more reasons to buy an electric car in Thursday’s budget.
It comes as WAtoday reveals Osborne Park and Herdsman are Western Australia’s number one suburbs for electric vehicle registration per capita.
Cars being registered to the 6017 postcode’s high number of businesses, rather than its relatively low population, results in the high rate of one electric vehicle for every 18 residents, according to ABS data and the latest Western Australian Electric Vehicle Analysis Summary.
The 6011 postcode, which takes in Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove, came in second with one electric vehicle registered for every 43 residents.
The Cook government has committed $5 million in its budget to topping up its zero-emissions vehicle rebate scheme, which offers $3500 rebates for buyers of new electric vehicles valued $70,000 or less.
Assistant Transport Minister David Michael said WA had seen an almost fourfold increase in sales since June 2022, as well as an improvement in supply.
“We’re seeing that flowing a lot more now; you just have to go down to Freo ports to see a whole berth of new cars,” Michael said.
“I noticed myself, just on the roads; you see a lot more EVs on the road, whether they be Tesla or BYD or other models out there.”
Nearly 6000 people have already received the rebate, with a total of $20.7 million paid out so far.
“It obviously indicates people are a lot more interested and again seeing them on the road they are clearly getting through into the market,” Michael said.
The rebate is available until May 2025, or until the funds run out.
The news follows the federal government signalling it would scale back its Fuel Efficiency Standards plan, a contentious plan to mandate lower carbon emissions for about 1.2 million new vehicles sold each year, as voters had expressed doubts about forcing car makers to meet the targets.
The revised plan planned to ease the impact on some of the nation’s top-selling sports utility vehicles and set a smoother trajectory to cut carbon emissions over the next five years, in line with changes to a similar plan in the United States.
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