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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

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Because if all we do is flood the market with BEVs – and New South Wales still has 75 per cent of its power generated by coal – all we have done is shift the emissions from the tailpipe to the power station.” 2024 Mitsubishi Triton. The federal government target is to have 82 per cent of Australia running on renewable energy by 2030.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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ºF) above pre-industrial levels as well as the long-term stabilization of greenhouse gases at a 350 ppm CO2 equivalent. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. AOSIS has called for nations to agree to limit warming to well below 1.5

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