This is the earlist record of an EV reaching Cooktown (2017)
This was a great effort by Tesla owners to path the way I can only presume that Part of the QESH had been installed oterwise there would be a lot of overnite stays. He appears to have used powerpoints at Secondary Colleges.
Refer to entries via the link below on Tesla Owners Club forum
Queensland Electric Superhighway
State of EV chargers in 2018
The Queensland Government and Energy Queensland have teamed up to make it possible to drive an electric vehicle from Cairns to Coolangatta, a trip that is almost 1,800 km long.
Finished in early 2018, the project consisted of installing fast-charging stations in Bowen, Cairns, Carmila, Childers, Gatton, Hamilton, Gold Coast Airport (Coolangatta), Mackay, Marlborough, Maryborough, Miriam Vale, Rockhampton, Springfield, Sunshine Coast (Cooroy), Townsville, Toowoomba and Tully, with more chargers expected to come online in Helensvale after the Commonwealth Games.
This project and others like it has increased electric car adoption in Queensland from 600 registered vehicles in 2016, to 1300 in 2018, which is promising to say the least.
Electric vehicle (EV) adoption across the globe is steadily increasing, with just over 2 million EVs now in circulation; however, EV and Hybrid adoption rates in Australia have been much slower, with only 1,369 plug-in hybrid or fully electric vehicles being sold in 2016
New EV sales (Australia) in March 2023 is 12% of monthy sale of cars .
Article in The Guardian making predictions of the Australian sales of EVS (dated Thu 25 Jan 2018 04.00 AEDT )
The Department of Environment and Energy’s current prediction is that electric cars will be 15% of new vehicle sales by 2030.
The CSIRO predicts 20% by 2035, and the Australian Energy Market Operator predicts between 16% and 45% by 2036. Australians bought just 1,300 electric cars in 2016.
The government predicts that electric cars will be 15% of new vehicle sales by 2030.