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by bashtoni 2 hours ago
Nearly 50% of vehicles sold in Australia in the last quarter were EVs or plug-in hybrids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-s...
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A record for EV sales in Norway was set in 2025: 95.9 percent of all new passenger cars sold were fully electric, up from 88.9 percent in 2024.
Yes, but Norway is a very rich country because of all the resources they can just extract from the ground. Australia.. wait, never mind.
Top 10 new passenger cars 2025

1. Tesla Model Y: 27 621

2. Volkswagen ID.4: 8 802

3. Toyota bZ4X: 7 274

4. Volkswagen ID.7: 6 976

5. Tesla Model 3: 6 608

6. Volkswagen ID.3: 5 572

7. Volvo EX40: 5 270

8. Volvo EX30(xc): 5 206

9. Skoda Enyaq: 4 836

10. Nissan Ariya: 4 565

Sweet free free sunshine down here.
Right. Australia is crazy sunny. You might intuitively expect there'd be more PV power closer to the equator but that's not how it works, Australia just doesn't have as much cloud as almost anywhere on Earth, especially places a bunch of people actually live - and so that's a lot more energy ("insolation") from the sun ready to harvest.
Yeah, also we have a lot of room we don’t care about and nobody goes there, so we just put solar panels out there.