Australia is not the UK. The Poms have teensy villages with skinny streets that a Ranger wouldn't fit in, the villages are a few km apart, the pub is walking distance from the terrace house. Poms in big cities pay a levy to go in there, so they avoid it.
We have bigger distances to travel, more farms that need big vehicles to cart stuff around, and the pub is a drive away, if you are allowed to drive home afterwards. We don't have the public transport infrastructure - get out of the major cities and there is a bus every 30 minutes that goes to a place that you don't need.
I am helping the averages along with 3 vehicles - 2 work vans and one personal car. But I also have 10Kw of solar to relieve me of paying for electricity.
A coal-fired or "nookular" base generator is still needed for nights when the wind doesn't blow.