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<postdate>2024-12-11 21:57:52</postdate>
<headline>EVs charge to registration milestone</headline>
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<caption>In less than five years, EV numbers in Canberra have grown from around 400 to 10,000. Photo: MicrosoftTeams</caption>
<p><strong>The ACT has reached a major milestone in the transition to battery electric vehicles (EVs), with more than </strong><strong>10,000 EVs registered in the ACT as of this week, says the ACT branch of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA).</strong></p>
<p>In less than five years, EV numbers in Canberra have grown from around 400 to 10,000. About three per cent of all registered vehicles are EVs.</p>
<p>â€œElectric vehicles are now firmly part of the Canberra landscape," says Paul Wayper, ACT branch advocacy lead.</p>
<p>"Whereas once you could count the number of EVs encountered on a trip, with about one in every 30 cars now being EVs, you can count them at the traffic lights."</p>
<p>He says new EV registrations in 2024 are growing about eight per cent faster than in 2023.</p>
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