Is Australia’s love affair with the hydrogen car over before it began? New data shows just five vehicles running on hydrogen fuel-cells were sold across the country last quarter.
Battery-powered electric vehicles, on the other hand, sold steadily. Australians bought 25,353 EVs in the three months to 30 June – 8% of the total. Hybrid cars were even more popular, with 46,727 sold.
It is far from what the then Morrison government envisaged in late 2021, when it released a long-delayed “future fuels” strategy that promoted hydrogen as a potential replacement for petrol cars alongside other cleaner alternatives.
A national hydrogen strategy two years earlier had gone further, championing the fuel’s “exciting possibilities” and arguing hydrogen cars could have advantages over EVs.
The numbers show Australians think otherwise. Alison Reeve, the deputy…
