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Electric Vehicles in Australia - Report
Governments around the world offer incentives to support electric vehicles. Australia does not. This paper examines how we can boost electric vehicle sales – in four proven, low-cost ways. There…
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into electric vehicles
While electric vehicles are associated with zero emissions it is often said that they are no “cleaner” than the electricity source. It is suggested that electric vehicles using high emissions-intense…
Polling - Electric vehicles in South Australia
The Australia Institute surveyed a representative sample of 616 South Australians about electric vehicles (EVs). Respondents were asked how likely it was that their next car would be an EV…
Select Committee on Electric Vehicles – General Submission
…sales. However technological and policy progress internationally is likely to see the global market grow significantly, with some predicting annual sales of 30 million electric vehicles in 2030. Electric vehicles…
Stop the Electric Vehicles Tax
A tax on electric vehicles has been announced by South Australia, Victoria and NSW will follow suit. All a new tax will do is strangle the electric vehicle market before…
Instead of taxing electric vehicles, heavy vehicles should pay more for the damage they cause
…road user charge paid by heavy vehicles has actually been reduced. Those who support a road user charge for electric vehicles are right to argue that someone has to pay…
Taxes on electric vehicles will slow Australia’s progress. It’s not complicated
…Australian tax rules treat vehicles that can carry more than one tonne of cargo quite differently than they treat other vehicles. But – to be clear – the vehicle doesn’t…
Senate Committee on Electric Vehicles Welcome Move
…the electric vehicles market, economic and environmental benefits will follow.” Read The Australia Institute’s report on electric vehicles: If you build it they will charge: Sparking Australia’s electric vehicle boom….
Australian subsidies give oil refineries the whole carrot farm while electric vehicles get the stick
…reducing demand through electric vehicle incentives. Not one cent. Three-quarters of Australia’s total liquid fuel demand is consumed by the transport sector. Transitioning transportation to run on domestically generated (and…