Electric car sales are booming in Australia, but it's not where you think it is
Electric car sales are booming in Australia, but it's not where you think it is
Nanda, who lives about 60km from Melbourne's CBD, says he's saved up to $6,000 a year thanks to switching to an electric car. He's part of a growing trend that has seen EV sales in outer suburbs boom as cost-of-living pressures bite.
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Makes sense, if you live in an apartment, where do you charge your car?
More density also equals better public transport and walkability, so easier to go car free or car light.
Interesting, does that lead to a significant less uptake to personal vehicles all up for inner suburbs then?
All I could find is this map: https://www.microburbs.com.au/heat-map/cars-per-household#151.21574744788342:-33.84319955763839:13 but I'm not sure where the data is sourced from. It does show lower car ownership in more central areas of Sydney.
And this, but it only splits by "greater metropolitan" type areas, which would obviously include outer suburbs: https://profile.id.com.au/australia/car-ownership?WebID=260
It does show there is slightly lower motor vehicle ownership in cities broadly, and I'd anecdotally expect that to be lower within inner suburbs.
And for Brisbane: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/where-in-brisbane-do-people-own-the-most-cars-search-for-your-suburb-20230712-p5dnou.html
indicates higher car ownership as you go further from the CBD, although it only compares 3 or more cars vs less than 3.
EDIT: Oh and this quote from the Brisbane Times article:
The top five suburbs with no cars were in the inner-city with more public transport and walking options – Brisbane City (40.4 per cent of homes had no vehicles), Bowen Hills (29.2 per cent), Fortitude Valley (28.7 per cent), Spring Hill (23.8 per cent) and South Brisbane (21.9 per cent).
Body Corporate will usually let you install a charger.
The bigger issue is if you live in the city, how much driving do you do? 50km each month? Someone who drives that far daily will benefit more from an EV
Yes, from my understanding EVs have way less maintenance than ICEs, so would be better considering the lack of travel.
Sure but any car will have low maintenance if you don't drive it much.
If you live in an apartment and own a car, you're parking it somewhere. Get chargers installed there.
It might mean talking to the local council about roadside chargers or talking to strata about installing a charger in the basement car park, but it's not an unsolvable problem. Though actually solving it might mean waiting until more voters are pressuring council.
One of my colleagues bought a model3 recently, he charges it in one of the charging bays in his apartment building.