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Victoria and South Australia should think again about how they treat electric vehicles – The Age
To the dismay of environmentalists and innovators, it is the states that are putting obstacles in the path of positive change.
In the past 20 years, changes in the design of diesel and petrol-driven cars have made them increasingly fuel efficient, cutting revenue from fuel excise by some 30 per cent. With the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics now forecasting that 60 per cent of all new cars sold in Australia will be electric by 2046, the budgetary implications for Canberra are already looming large.
Yet in recent months it has been the Morrison government despite its poor record on energy policy…
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