Updated January 2026 with data up to December 2025.
Data source: Australian Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) Infrastructure and Transport Statistics Yearbook 2025, updated annually (augmented with FACI VFACTS data)
Passenger cars are an ever diminishing share of vehicle sales, with SUVs continuing to dominate.
In 2025, plug-in hybrids really took off, while pure battery electric vehicle sales grew more slowly.
The proportion of vehicle sales that were electric is lower than the proportion of net motor vehicle fleet growth being electric due to ongoing deregistration of older diesel and petrol vehicles. Also, about a third of vehicles sales are not passenger vehicles, and the EV share of passenger vehicles was undoubtedly higher than the EV share of all vehicles.
If you are after recent month data (and things have been changing dramatically in 2026 in many countries), see BEV Trajectories by LeRaffl who collects and charts sales data for Australia and many other countries. For useful detailed charts, search for Australian on this page.
