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There’s another simple reason as a parent why you wouldn’t buy an EV
- Rebates for electric car sales disappeared in every state and territory except Western Australia in the last quarter, but counterintuitively, the smallest drop in BEV sales for this quarter was in WA.
- Today the Australian Automobile Association released its quarterly Electric Vehicle Index revealing EVs sales dropped 25% in the September quarter, down from 8.1% of total sales to in the quarter ending FY24 to 6.5%, the lowest level since 2022.
- Hybrid sales rose by 3.33% (from 46,727 to 48,282), and hybrid market share rose from 14.93% to 16.7%, while plug-in hybrid car sales jumped by 56.6% from a lower base, with their market share up from 1.49% to 2.53% on the June quarter.
- Had we bought the Volvo XC30, our son, based in Canberra, could have driven it, but couldn’t leave the ACT. Cross the border into NSW in the car and he faced a $603 fine and the loss of 7 demerit points, aka his licence.
- The rules around what EVs you can legally drive on your P plates are a mess, depending on what state or territory you live in.
- In the Northern Territory, Tasmania, Western Australia and ACT there are no vehicle restrictions for provisional drivers.
- The issue is the power-to-weight ratios – because EVs can accelerate quickly, they’re view like driving a Lamborghini or Ferrari.
- The result is you can get all of the Chinese BYD cars, most MG EVs, and Hyundai Kia or Kona EVs, or a single-motor Polestar 2, but the Polestar 3 sits at 139.3kW/t, so that’s not an SUV for kids.
- Teslas are out of the question, regardless of how you feel about Elon Musk, and even the SKODA Enyaq RS is banned, along with those dinky Smart EVs, but a $120,000, 3-tonne Kia EV9, which can still get you to 100km/h in 8.2 seconds with a single motor is ok, just the dual motor is bad.
- Which is probably why parents are giving up and buying a hybrid instead.
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