Motorists in wealthy postcodes are more likely to have received a $5,540 subsidy for buying an electric car, new data shows.
Across Australia, fully electric vehicles have a minuscule 0.6 per cent market share.
But in New South Wales, the Coalition government is particularly keen to entice motorists into electric cars, ambitiously aiming for electric cars to comprise more than half of all sales in the state by 2031.
It is offering stamp duty exemptions for new and used electric vehicles worth up to $78,000 as part of its climate change plan.
That means they are spared paying up to $3,000 in charges that buyers of petrol and diesel cars still have to pay.
Motorists in wealthy postcodes are more likely to have received a $5,540 subsidy for buying an electric car, new data shows. For cars worth up to $68,750, there's a $3,000 rebate (pictured is a Tesla Model 3 selling from $59,900)
The policy also discriminates against tradies who don't have the choice of buying a fully-electric ute or van, with labourers and construction workers more likely to live in Sydney's western suburbs than the leafy north shore.
The first 25,000 motorists who buy an electric car, worth up to $68,750, since September 1, will also qualify for a $3,000 rebate, following the passage of legislation in October.
With a stamp duty exemption of $2,537.50 and that $3,000 rebate, they are getting back up to $5,540 from the taxpayers.
As of November 19, just 803 applications were received for the $3,000 rebate, with only 345 paid out so far, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment data showed.
Only 962 applications had been made for the stamp duty exemption, with 235 paid out.
One Nation's NSW leader Mark Latham, who asked a parliamentary question on notice, noted there was a a larger uptake for the subsidy in wealthier areas of Sydney's north shore and
