One EV sold every 100 seconds as Australia catches up to the world

ABC News Nathan Morris

30 Sept 2026 14:02 AEST Summary

From the report

An electric car is being sold every 100 seconds in Australia, but there is still a long road ahead to decarbonise the country's transport sector.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News One EV sold every 100 seconds as Australia catches up to the world plain
WAtoday One EV sold every 100 seconds: More electric cars to hit Australia’s roads plain
The Guardian Australia An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles plain

Headline check

All three things this headline claims are in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 8.5 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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

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Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 70 unattributednamed sources Mood 50.9 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded 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 ABC News’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

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	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC Newsas they published this story	8.5	9	70	-0.1	50.9
The Guardian Australia	7.1	6	76	-0.2	55.5

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The same event elsewhere

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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 The Guardian Australia An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles Niral 7.1 · calm political 0