Australia has to reach an EV market share for new cars of at least 50% in the next decade to achieve its 2035 emissions target, but without tougher measures that looks unlikely
If you want to give an absolute gift to the right wing you do this. Would lead to the mother of all culture wars.
This comment nails it, you would get the current centre-left wing government kicked out so fast it would be called a miracle election win, every bush turkey would be up in arms and every 4wd and ute driving tradie and talk back radio would explode
Australians aren’t afraid of change
Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now over 1.4kW.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we are near the top on solar battery installs as well, especially after the latest governments rebates
but forcing this through is silly and in the context of how little co2 we emit, pretty pointless
It’s inevitable there will be a landslide to EV’s once they hit 1000KM range, fast charge times and plenty of options for utes/4wds/tradies as all our top car sales are utes:
Model H12025 deliveries YTD change
Ford Ranger 28,311 -15.6%
Toyota HiLux 26,267 -7.9%
Toyota RAV4 24,034 -5.4%
Toyota Prado 15,583 +345.5%
Isuzu D-Max 14,065 -11.1%
Ford Everest 12,294 +9.0%
Mazda CX-511,991 +0.6%
Mitsubishi Outlander 11,399 -21.1%
Hyundai Kona 11,241 +25.6%
Kia Sportage 10,588 +0.8%
Tesla Model Y10,431 -16.7%
This comment nails it, you would get the current centre-left wing government kicked out so fast it would be called a miracle election win, every bush turkey would be up in arms and every 4wd and ute driving tradie and talk back radio would explode
Australians aren’t afraid of change
I wouldn’t be surprised if we are near the top on solar battery installs as well, especially after the latest governments rebates
but forcing this through is silly and in the context of how little co2 we emit, pretty pointless
It’s inevitable there will be a landslide to EV’s once they hit 1000KM range, fast charge times and plenty of options for utes/4wds/tradies as all our top car sales are utes:
Model H1 2025 deliveries YTD change Ford Ranger 28,311 -15.6% Toyota HiLux 26,267 -7.9% Toyota RAV4 24,034 -5.4% Toyota Prado 15,583 +345.5% Isuzu D-Max 14,065 -11.1% Ford Everest 12,294 +9.0% Mazda CX-5 11,991 +0.6% Mitsubishi Outlander 11,399 -21.1% Hyundai Kona 11,241 +25.6% Kia Sportage 10,588 +0.8% Tesla Model Y 10,431 -16.7%