Methodology · Australia

About this directory

Comparing battery-electric cars sold in Australia usually means a dozen browser tabs of manufacturer marketing copy, each using its own test cycle, its own definition of "usable" battery capacity, and its own idea of what counts as on sale. This directory puts that in one place — and instead of asking you to take any number on trust, it names the publisher behind every figure and is upfront about where the data is thin.

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285Variants tracked
56Brands checked
90.6%Core fields populated
5Source conflicts recorded

Why isn't there a single official Australian BEV dataset?

No open Australian dataset of battery-electric vehicle specifications exists. An audit of every candidate source — government and commercial — found each one either licence-gated, nonexistent, VIN-only, paywalled, or off-limits under its own terms of use.

Green Vehicle Guide
The only official per-model source, and it has a live data service — but access needs a signed third-party licence agreement, and even then it carries energy consumption and ADR figures, not battery capacity, DC charge rate or price. Licence-gated
data.gov.au
No vehicle-specification dataset exists. Its catalogue API was queried directly — there are datasets for EV charger locations, nothing about the cars themselves. Doesn't exist
Register of Approved Vehicles
A VIN-at-a-time lookup, with no bulk export and no API. Useful for one car's record; no use for building a list. VIN-only
VFACTS
The industry's own sales data, held behind a subscription — cut off even from the Electric Vehicle Council in 2024. Paywalled
ev-database.org
The richest EV specification data anywhere, but its terms explicitly prohibit automated collection. Bulk access is a paid commercial licence. Terms forbid it

That is the entire landscape: there is no open Australian dataset of battery-electric vehicle models. So this directory's primary source is each manufacturer's own Australian website — the authoritative public statement of what is actually sold here — with Australian motoring press filling documented gaps. That has a consequence worth stating plainly: the code behind this directory is open, but the data is mixed.

You don't have to trust the directory. You can check it.

Source licences

Specification figures are restated facts attributed to their publisher, not open-licensed data, and each record carries its licence in its provenance.

Figures are restated facts attributed to each publisher. This directory is not affiliated with any manufacturer. Check it out on GitHub.

What does "complete" mean in this directory?

Complete means every BEV variant offered new by a brand with an Australian distributor, at a stated snapshot date — including runout and announced models. Every brand with an Australian distributor was checked, including those that turned out to sell no BEV. Model coverage is the goal; per-field completeness is measured, not claimed.

56 brands checked · 6 with no BEV on sale · 5 source conflicts recorded

The provenance mix is worth stating plainly too: 76.6% of populated fields come from manufacturers, 23.4% from motoring press, and 0% from any government source.

Checked, no BEV on sale

Where are the data gaps?

Coverage isn't uniform across fields. Some specifications — brand, model, body type, availability — are published by every manufacturer and sit at 100%. Others, like published energy consumption or gross battery capacity, are the fields manufacturers most often leave out of their own marketing pages, so they're the ones most likely to show as unknown here rather than guessed at.

Least complete fields

What rules does the data obey?

A missing value is always recorded as unknown, never zero or an estimate. A few rules apply everywhere in this dataset, so a filtered list or a sorted column never quietly implies more than the sources actually say:

A missing value is always unknown

Never zero, and never an estimate carried over from an overseas-spec version of the same model.

Range figures are never merged across test cycles

WLTP, NEDC and CLTC produce different numbers for the same car — a Chinese-market CLTC figure isn't comparable to a European WLTP one, and is flagged as such.

Numeric filters exclude unknowns

Filtering to "under $50,000" will never quietly include a car whose price isn't published.

Sorting puts unknowns last

In both directions, so "cheapest first" never presents an unpriced car as free.

What does "range cycle" mean?

The laboratory test standard behind a claimed range figure. WLTP (Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure) is the standard used across Europe, the UK and increasingly Australia, and is the closest thing to a common yardstick in this dataset. NEDC is an older, more lenient European cycle that tends to overstate range compared to WLTP for the same car. CLTC is China's domestic cycle, also more generous than WLTP. WLTC and ADR 81/02 (Australia's own consumption test standard) round out the cycles seen here. Because the same car tested on two different cycles produces two different numbers, this directory always shows the cycle next to the figure and never merges them — see the rule above. Each name above links to every current vehicle tested on that cycle.

What does "V2L" stand for?

Short for vehicle-to-load: the ability to draw 240V AC power back out of the car's battery to run external gear — power tools, camping equipment, another EV, even a fridge during a blackout — usually through an adaptor at the charge port or a dedicated household-style outlet built into the car. It's recorded here as a plain yes/no because support varies widely between manufacturers and is frequently left off official spec sheets, so this directory has to confirm it from reviews and press coverage where a manufacturer's own page is silent. See every vehicle with V2L in the directory.

What bugs has the validator caught?

Two real defects, caught by a validator with ESLint-style severities that checks the data on every build — which says more than any feature description could:

1

A 12-seat Skywell van failed the seat-count check

The van was correct — the plausibility limit of 9 seats was wrong, because it was written with passenger cars in mind and the dataset also covers commercial vans.

2

A Denza charging-speed figure tripped the 1,500 kW ceiling

Not a transcription error — BYD genuinely publishes that figure for its FLASH Charging system. It's only reachable on a China-market connector, though, so the record now carries that caveat instead of implying it's available here.

3

The filter panel was impossible to open on a phone

A base CSS rule set the toggle to display: none after the media query meant to reveal it, so it lost the cascade at every screen size. Every automated test passed — only loading the page at 390 pixels wide caught it.

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