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Policy

Labor’s recharged EV policy a good ‘first step’

Labor has returned electric vehicles to the policy fray, unveiling a new strategy to drive uptake by cutting taxes and sending thousands of electric powered cars to the second-hand...

Electric vehicles are back on the Labor agenda

1 April 2021 | by Denham Sadler

Labor will again push for an increased uptake of electric vehicles at the upcoming election with a range of tax cuts, while the government has turned its attention to...

Electric vehicle tax is bad policy, denies reality

25 November 2020 | by Denham Sadler

A new tax in Victoria on the use of electric vehicles is a bad policy that will disincentive use of the technology and put Australia even further behind the...

Electric vehicles, made in South Australia

19 October 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Australia has an opportunity to be an exporter of electric vehicle technology and drive its modern manufacturing industry, according to ACE-Electric Vehicle Group managing director Greg McGarvie. This month’s...

Kim Carr gets back into car making

9 May 2019 | by James Riley

Kim Carr has doubled down on Labor’s support for the local electric vehicles sector, announcing a $57 million pledge to help build a new local automotive industry centred on...

Electric vehicles: Too little, too late

4 March 2019 | by James Riley

The government’s one-page commitment to develop an electric vehicles strategy, without any new policies, is “too little, too late” as Australia risks missing out on significant opportunities, according to...

Electric car policy ‘weak and shallow’

5 February 2019 | by James Riley

Senate committee’s recommendations for increasing the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia were “shallow and weak”, according to one of the independent senators involved in writing its report. The...

Gupta eyes an electric Lazarus

23 January 2018 | by James Riley

Just when you thought vehicle manufacturing in Australia had gone the way of the dodo, billionaire UK investor Sanjeev Gupta has popped up with a bid to buy some of...