Automotive industry

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Electric cars won’t solve this. Michael Loke

Green cars? Electric vehicles are marketing a myth

By Catherine Simpson

“What is the value of zero?” asks the seductive commercial for the new Nissan Leaf (due to launch in Australia in April). Set against a montage of natural and man-made images of “0”, the Leaf advert asks…
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Future freeways could be very different places. johnsnape

The beginning of the end for automobility?

By Patrick Moriarty, Monash University

Car travel is becoming a victim of its own success. If we in the West had only kept cars for ourselves, automobility could have survived much longer. But we shared them with the rest of the world, and…
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Times have changed; the car industry needs to catch up. aussiefordadverts/Flickr

Australian car industry needs lower emissions, not handouts

By Anna Mortimore, Griffith University

The Australian Government has been bailing out automotive manufacturers since 1985. Both that year’s Button Plan and the 2008 Bracks Report recommended restructure and additional funding. But unless the…

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