Used Electric Cars Make Up a Growing Part of Australia's Online Car Market

Published 2026-10-25

Australian car buyers now have a large choice of electric vehicles online. Carsales.com.au, one of the country's best-known car marketplaces, lists more than 11,000 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). A BEV is a car that runs only on electricity from a battery and has no petrol engine.

About 6,500 of these listings are marked as used or demonstrator vehicles. A demonstrator, or demo car, is a new or nearly new vehicle that a dealer has used to show customers and is then sold, often at a lower price than a brand-new car. This means that a little more than half of the electric vehicles on the site are not brand-new.

A headline associated with this information also gives a figure of 4 per cent for the share of used electric vehicles. The available information does not explain how this percentage was calculated, so readers should be careful when comparing it with other numbers. The main fact is that the number of second-hand and demonstrator electric cars available to buy in Australia is large.

For people who are thinking about buying an electric car, these listings offer more options at different prices. Buyers may want to check the battery condition, the vehicle history and the warranty before they make a decision. As the market for electric vehicles continues to develop, the number of used models for sale in Australia is likely to remain an important part of the car market.

Sources: https://tech-insider.org/

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