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Baua Electric
JANUARY 8, 2024
Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We remain committed to an all-electric future,” says GM as it announces a rollback of its electrification plans. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition.
Baua Electric
MARCH 26, 2024
Automakers often bring their dirtiest cars to Australia, and don’t offer better and cleaner electric models in the country. The new emissions rules intend to change that, and to increase availability of EV options for the country. A bill containing the new auto emissions rules will be introduced in parliament this week.
EV Central
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
A survey commissioned by the electric vehicle maker Polestar has found 34 per cent of Australian drivers support a ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030. A 2035 ICE ban has been both strongly pushed and resisted and it’s not hard to figure out where an all-electric brand like Polestar stands on the issue. With just 1.5
EV Central
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
After years of waiting Australia will have a CO2 emissions standard by January 1 2025 officially encouraging the purchase of electric vehicles if an ambitious Albanese Labor government timetable comes to pass. In the same period, light commercial vehicles (LCVs) would drop 12.4 per cent per annum on average from 199g/km to 81g/km.
Cars That Think
MARCH 28, 2023
Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. And so goes the litany of contradictory statements about the transition to EVs: EVs will/will not collapse the electric grid. EVs will/will not cause massive unemployment among autoworkers.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2015
There have been and continue to be a number of market drivers forcing this evolution: concerns over health effects, congestion, consumption of petroleum-based fuels, climate change, an ever more rapidly increasing population and what appears to be an inexorable movement toward large-scale urbanization. Earlier post.).
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 23, 2022
The latest Edison Electric Institute projection is that only about 26.4 Greenpeace , agrees, and argues that sales of all diesel and petrol vehicles, including hybrids must end by 2030. There is also a push to make those who own SUVs pay a steep annual registration fee to discourage their ownership, as is happening in Washington, D.C.
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