EV owners are saving upwards of 60 per cent on fuel compared to their old petrol cars. At $2.54 a litre for premium, that stops being a brochure stat and starts being a survival strategy.

We just had our first 1000 km round trip with our EV. We spent about 40€ on fast charging, and home charging was mostly free because it was from our solar panels, but would be equivalent to about 8€ for a full charge if we had to pay the night rate.
Then we topped the car while visiting, but that was with only a 6A cable, so not much was charged, let’s say about 3€.
So all in all about €51, despite fast chargers are a bit expensive compared to home charging. Also we arrived home with enough charge for more than 100km left on the battery.

With our old ICE car that would have been 155 € in gas/petrol.

So even using the “expensive” fast chargers our EV allowed us to drive at a third the cost of gas/petrol. But in everyday driving the savings are way bigger, even if we had to pay normal prices and didn’t have our solar panels. The savings are at least twice of using fast chargers.
But gas/petrol is also almost 50% more expensive here than the price they list for Australia.

Yeah, maybe the only country to consistently fail to meet it’s treaty obligations to keep a fuel reserve should be encouraging electrification rather than finding ways to tax them.

As an Australian, i had this discussion with a couple of conservative acquaintances 12 months ago when we bought our EV, about aren’t they concerned about super long supply chains being disrupted in regards oil, Australias happy go lucky approach to a strategic reserve and propping up a bunch of shitty countries by purchasing oil from them, let alone the terrible balance of trade issues.

Nope, zero concern, one even said he loved the smell of petrol too much.

i often wonder at the sheer stupidity of Australians and now sort of understand Donald Horne’s incredulity when he wrote his iconic book in 1964 about much the same thing.