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The federal government s outlook for electric vehicle sales is overly optimistic because it assumes numbers will spike before 2030 despite a lack of policy to drive uptake and new state taxes slugging clean cars, experts say.
In 2019 the Department of Energy predicted electric vehicles would comprise 19 per cent of new car sales by 2030. That figure increased to 26 per cent in last month s 2020 forecast, despite the federal government s delay releasing an electric vehicle policy and the introduction of new road user charges to tax clean cars in South Australia and Victoria.
Many major car manufacturers plan to phase out petrol and diesel engines and shift to electric.