Australia EV Market July 2026 Update: Sales, Brands, Models and News!

Let's put our first, uh, quick up on the screen.

So this is where Joy and I have been over the, uh, school holidays.

So in Brisbane recently, Joy and myself were invited to Volvo Trucks to have a look at their Aussie-made 100% electric trucks.

How good is this? Uh, you know, these things are heavy duty.

Uh, 540 kilowatt hour battery packs, can travel 300Ks of range, I think with, with a towing capacity of 50 tons.

That's with all 50 ton haulage.

Um, but yeah, it's, uh, it's pretty impressive, and yeah.

It looks like Knox will be the first customers as well.

So great to, uh, see the production up there in, uh, in Wacol, I think it's called, in Brisbane.

Uh, southwest Brisbane.

West of Brisbane.

Yeah.

[hands rub] So doing some good things there, Volvo Trucks.

So great.

Thank you very much for the invite to Volvo Trucks.

[lips smack] Uh, and we, of course, we missed, uh, the, uh, EV sales, um, numbers for this month.

Uh, we didn't have a live stream a couple weeks ago, but as you can see from the Driven article, uh, and several articles around town, 23.4% is a new Australian record for EV sales, um, in Australia, and that's on the back of a record of all car sales as well, uh, for the month of June 2026.

So Riz, phenomenal record, isn't it, really? Honestly, that's...

You cannot-

Yeah.

It's, it's, you know, we've seen over 30,000 sales now.

It'd be good to sort of get a consistency between 20 and 30,000 plus sales every month now.

Um, you know, there's some brands that are going out there and saying, "This is just a blip," particularly the legacy car makers, but I don't think it is.

Uh, I think the penny's dropped and people want cleaner, cheaper electric cars.

There's a few models we're talking about on the show tonight that are, I think, you know, milestone models in terms of pricing and the tech they deliver.