The number of electric cars on Australian roads has soared by 160 per cent in the past five years, fuelling concerns that a core part of the tax base will be eroded over the next decade without intervention.
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| Greg Walpole, with his electric vehicle. |
Technological change has hammered the $12.4 billion-a-year fuel tax, used to pay for roads around the country and paid for by motorists every time they fill up at the bowser.
The motor vehicle census, released on Friday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, shows the number of electric vehicles registered has increased by 159.2 per cent to 8334 between 2013 and 2018, while there are now more than 200,000 cars in dual-fuel category, which includes petrol-electric hybrids.
Read the story by Eryk Bagshaw from today’s Age - “Electric vehicles soar by 160 per cent, prompting push for road use tax.”
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