Angus Whitley and Georgina Mckay, Bloomberg News A Volkswagen ID.4 electric Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) inside the VW Autostadt automobile delivery towers in Wolfsburg, Germany. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. and the electric-car industry generally thrive in the worldâs richest nations. Not so in Australia, where even tractors outsell EVs two to one. More than four decades after Mel Gibsonâs super-charged Ford Falcon roared across the country in Mad Max, the car-loving nation is defying a global shift to electrification. Battery-powered vehicles made up just 0.7% of Australiaâs new car sales in 2020, while in the U.K. and European Union, the figure soared to more than 10%.