EVs have reached their highest popularity in Australia yet, approaching ten percent of new cars with ICE vehicles falling below 70 for the first time the latest stats show.
The AAA’s quarterly EV Index compiles the overall pictures of the vehicle transition, from the FCAI and EV Council figures, including Tesla, and found full battery EVs took 9.70 per cent of up from the June quarter’s record of 9.31%.
Hybrids made up 16.52 per cent of September quarter new light vehicle sales, their second-highest total along PHEVs accounted for 4.12 per cent of the quarter’s sales, second-highest quarterly market share.
The statistics are also good news for the federal government’s NVES which shows steady growth across the alternative fuel sectors since it was announced in 2024, opening the market to new models.
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The three electrically boosted transmissions now make up almost one in three new vehicles with hydrogen alone the loser, with no new cars sold in the quarter and only two so far nationally in 2025.
The flexibility and higher range of hybrids vehicles means despite trailing EVs in 2023 they have now outsold EVs in nine consecutive quarters and they ow outsell ICE cars I the medium car segment.
PHEV sales had been growing strongly from a low base since the EV Index was launched in Q1 2023, recording only one quarter (Q1 2024) of declining sales and market share until their market share fell from 4.82% in Q1 2025 to 3.79% in Q2 2025. PHEVs’ market share rebounded to 4.12% in the September quarter.