We’re lagging behind on the shift to electric vehicles and clean transport. Here’s what we need to do.
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Even if all passenger vehicles sold today were electric, it would take more than ten years for the Australian road fleet to be fully electric.
A new international report on climate change finds rapid changes could cut emissions from transportation by 80% to 90%. Three behavior change trends could bring big improvements.
Research shows people want government to restrict excess consumption through regulations, not just to rely on citizens to make better choices.
Petrol prices might not drop back to previous levels as stations look to recoup increasing business costs.
China is powering ahead with EV production, but Chinese EVs might not be ready to face the global market.
South Africa hasn’t achieved its policy objective of deregulating the fuel price because vested interests have opposed this, and the government doesn’t have the political will to implement the policy.
Australians are ready to embrace electric vehicles - but an emissions ceiling would speed up the transition dramatically.
Electric cars are hailed as the best way to cut transport emissions, but it’s an illusion to think we can reduce our environmental impact without changing the way we design and move about in cities.
Electric cars are expensive in Australia partly because European emission standards reward manufacturers for selling them there. There’s an obvious fix.
Electric vehicle sales are booming and coal power is dwindling, but structural obstacles to net zero remain.
A steadily-tightening emissions car ceiling of the kind common in other countries could save drivers money and do the bulk of the work needed to reach Australia’s first emissions target.
Electric cars are still more resilient to price shocks than vehicles running on fossil fuels.
China used to only make Soviet cars under licence. Now it’s taking on Tesla.
Some lithium-ion batteries can now propel a car 250 miles on a ten-minute charge.
Electric vehicles deserve government subsidies, but there are even better ways to build greener, less car-dependent cities.
Eight in ten of these surveyed by the Economic Society of Australia say it’s the role of government to smooth the transition.
With an average shelf life of nine years, the coming tsunami of waste EV batteries needs action now.
Transport is the one sector where Australia hasn’t reined in the growth in greenhouse gas emissions. Electric cars will cut emissions but still leave us with all the other problems of car use.
In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. It’s time for Australia to do it again.
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Professor of Environmental Geography, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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PhD candidate Faculty of Science UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University
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E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Director of Energy Lancaster and Professor of Physical Chemistry, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
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PhD Candidate in Energy Storage | Co-Founder at Relectrify, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy, Lancaster University
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Professeur senior d’analyse financière, d’audit et de risk management - Directrice de Programme pour le MSc in Fashion Design & Luxury Management- Responsable de la spécialisation MBA "Brand & Luxury Management", Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
