Significant improvements to charging infrastructure and the
swift introduction of further planning controls will be required if
the new and ambitious electric vehicle sales targets of the NSW
Government are to be achieved.
On 18 June 2021, the NSW Government released its
forward-thinking Electric Vehicle Strategy
(EV Strategy) to support the
uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) throughout the
State. In 2020, EVs made up less than one per cent of new car sales
in NSW. By comparison, in Norway, the international market leader,
EVs made up 55 per cent of new vehicle sales in 2020.
The NSW EV Strategy contemplates that by 2030, EVs will make up
more than half of new car sales. Achieving this ambitious goal will
require not just economic and other incentives, but also
appropriately directive planning controls to support the delivery
of charging infrastructure for EVs.
