Electric Vehicles for Decarbonisation of the Transport Sector
Australia’s EV sales more than doubled in the first half of 2026. The Electric Vehicle Council’s tenth State of EVs report shows 157,957 new EVs sold, a 25.8% share of new-car sales by June and 196 models on offer. However, electric trucks, vans and several state governments still lag behind.
Electric trucking in Australia offers significant cost and environmental advantages over diesel, which accounts for 20% of the nation’s transport emissions. Electric B-Double prime movers cost about 30 cents per kilometer for electricity, a third of diesel’s cost. New Energy Transport is pioneering a fully outsourced, low-carbon transport solution to reduce freight costs by 20% on routes like Sydney-to-Canberra and, eventually, Sydney-to-Melbourne.
BYD’s Blade Battery 2.0 is a game-changer, offering a million-kilometer lifespan and 1,000 km range. With “Flash Charging” adding 400 km in just five minutes, the traditional advantages of petrol engines have vanished. As BYD supplies this tech to Tesla and Toyota, the shift from internal combustion to ultra-durable, rapid-charging EVs has become inevitable.
At Everything Electric UK 2025, pushed as both car and house, the house energy was very subdued. Most of the show where new EVs into UK. From Hyundai, to BYD, Geely, GWM, and Zeckr there are Chinese cars gallore. Octipus had a range of dozens of cars to suit lease with free charging.
Fuel costs of large trucks suggest electric class 8 trucks would be economic. Turns out labour costs is the major item. Will humanoid robots or autonomous vehicles reduce operating cost so much that autonomous trucks take over trucking.
Global electric truck sales are growing with sales in 2024 over 90,000 units and a year-on-year growth rate of almost 80%. Surge is largely driven by China, where sales more than doubled between 2023 and 2024, accounting for over 80% of global sales. China leads the way, but other markets increase electric truck adoption. With Tesla Semi soon to be produced, trucks will surge.
If California’s 340 billion light-duty vehicle miles went electric, consuming 200 watt-hours per mile, it would require an additional 68 TWh/year, 24% of 2023’s 281 TWh generation. There is 4 times unused natural gas capacity, currently not used. Charging during low-use night hours would utilize this excess, reducing pollution and improving efficiency, enhancing air quality and boost ROI on existing infrastructure.
Previously we outlined ten reasons hydrogen was dead for transportation, yet we see Stellantis flawed hydrogen strategy proposed by the CEO. Despite Carolos Tavares says in an online event that the cost of hydrogen mobility is ‘sky high’, just two months after introducing eight new H2 van models.
Bloomberg EV outlook forecasts for more than 1 year out should be ignored. Reviewing Vehicle Outlook Reports from 2016 to 2023 demonstrate straight line predictions, and not the exponential rise due to lower battery costs and EV giants BYD and Tesla on their 50% year on year growth projections.
Miners are changin their fleets of heavy equipement to EV truck – electric or some still trialling Hydrogen. Electric trucks will come – as miners go electric and autonomous
Carbon capture for the CO2 produced by fermenting corn into ethanol for E10 or E85 fuel for ICE cars is demonstrated to be 12-20 times less economic, and has 4 times more emissions.
Smartphone companies have moved into making Electric vehicles, teaming up with traditional car manufacturers. Xiaomi joins Huwaei, Foxconn, and Oppo in releasing an EV.
Electric buses costs have fallen in price. Charging is easier and cities globally are replacing dirty stinking diesel buses with clean zero emissions battery EV buses at 30% CAGR
Coastal shipping with swap out electric container batteris have always been proposed to decarbonise shipping. Now the first 2 by Cosco are in production. 36 batteris, 24 Tonne CO2 per day less emissions
Electric battery vehicles (BEV) continue their exponentional growth in Q1 2023 with some countries (Norway) over 90% and China, the largest car market globally over 30% new sales BEV
Toyota argues that for emissions reduction hybrids are more effective than battery electric vehicle as more can be manufactured as batteries are constrained. Greenwashing.
The top 20 Chinese EV manufactures incresased sales by 82% from 2021 to 2022 and most of these sales were domestic. As the domestic market increases, more of these will be exported to other countries
The Pipistrel electric plane is the first certified electric plane for pilot training with 80km range and 50 minutes flying time.
At the Fully Charged show in UK, the Chinese cars are coming. BYD, Geely, Great Wall, and SAIC all demonstrated new models addressing different market segments. Korean cars are already annouced.
The top 10 vehicles sales in the USA are driven by pick-up trucks – large vehicles that are perculiar to the USA markets. SUV are the more common vehicle in the rest of the world.
