Figures show Australia’s electric vehicle revolution gaining pace

That year, sales tripled from 2216 to 6718 and a further 3226 electric cars were sold in the first six months of 2020, despite new car sales slumping 20 per cent because of COVID-19.

In Queensland, 450 full electric vehicles were sold in 2019 and about 180 in the first few months of 2020 before COVID-19.

Then quietly this week, the Queensland government completed adding 13 new electric vehicle charging stations to what it now calls Australia’s longest electric vehicle superhighway.

Since it was announced in August 2016 Queensland’s network of electric car charges along the 1900-kilometre coastline from Coolangatta to Cairns has progressively expanded north, south and west.

Today there are 31 EV chargers west to Toowoomba and between…