We keep seeing doomist articles about how EV sales are dying and EV's are a failure, then we see these sorts of stories, it almost seems there is a small couterie of anti-EV die hards trying to kill EV adoption in Australia;
The tax perk supercharging EV sales
A discount intended to help sell electric cars has proved far more popular than the government expected.
Funny that, when you make EV's cost the same as ICE people go for EV's and see the benefit;
Several months after buying his Tesla Model 3 Performance, Jarrah Watson said having an EV had been “absolute game changer.”
“It’s zero maintenance, you basically never have to deal with a mechanic, and you’ve got the renewable energy aspect as well,” he said.
And that's a Tesla, probably one of the lowest quality production EV's out there. Should be interesting when this happens as well, a flood of second hand EV's hitting the market, if the battery lasts ten years you are still looking at 7 years before the battery might possible start becoming a problem, and for some reason many Australians rarely keep cars for that length of time, can't understand it myself, my current car is edging towards 17 years old and as long as it keeps running I see no reason to change it.
The success of the EV tax discount could flood the second-hand market with electric cars when the first tranche of three-year leases promoted by the program ends in July 2025.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/moto ... 4fe777d465