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An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles

The Guardian Australia Donna Lu Assistant editor, climate, environment and science

30 Sept 2026 12:02 AEST Summary

Electric Vehicles Transport Climate change

From the report

A record 157,957 new EVs were sold nationally between January and June, according to the Electric Vehicle Council.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The Guardian Australia An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles plain
WAtoday One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 564-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 7.1 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, political diction and 2 more and 4 at zero

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 A story about politics, written without coded language Sourcing 76 unattributednamed sources Mood 55.5 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

Measured on The Guardian Australia’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

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Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The Guardian Australiaas they published this story	7.1

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The same event elsewhere

4 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

WAtoday One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads Niral 33.1 · loaded political 0 The Age One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads Niral 33.1 · loaded political 0 Brisbane Times One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads Niral 33.1 · loaded political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads Niral 33.1 · loaded political 0