Qld says Vic, SA jumping the gun on electric vehicle tax

“There’s nothing wrong with the idea necessarily, but the timing is the issue,” Mr Bailey said.

“The trouble is it sends the wrong signals to the market. You need electric vehicles to get enough momentum that their take-up won’t be slowed down by any extra levies.”

Mr Bailey said charges such as the ones in SA and Victoria were “inevitable” in the long term as the EV sector grew, but reiterated Queensland had no plans to introduce similar policies in the short term.

In Victoria motorists will be charged 2.5 cents a kilometre for electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles will be charged at 2 cents per kilometre, while South Australia has not finalised its tax but was likely to charge a similar rate.

Queensland, by contrast, has been backing…