Only one in 100 second-hand vehicles for sale is electric and it could take three years for the situation to significantly improve, experts warn.
Greater government subsidies targeting fleets and second-hand vehicles may boost supply, they say, which could otherwise slow the wider uptake of zero-emission vehicles and cuts to transport pollution.
The modest number of second-hand electric vehicles in Australia comes despite soaring new car sales, with the transport technology breaking records in June and almost doubling this year.
CARS24 chief executive Olya Rudenko said finding used electric vehicles to buy in Australia was frustratingly rare.
“Out of 190,000 (second-hand car) listings, only 1800 are electric—that’s less than one per cent of used cars in Australia,” Rudenko said….