FLICKING THE SWITCH

FRASER STRONACH

YOU may not have noticed but the Federal Government, yes, that’s ScoMo’s lot in Canberra, has recently released its Future Fuels Strategy: Discussion Paper, which sets out the government’s thinking on electric vehicles and invites submissions on the same. In the fashion that politicians so love, and crafted by bureaucrats in a way that only they know how, it uses many words to say little. However, there are some take-home messages, perhaps the key being that private buyers won’t receive a subsidy to make electric vehicles cheaper to buy. Predictably, this has been labelled a ‘do-nothing policy’ by those pushing for a faster uptake of EVs. The discussion paper, though, does suggest incentives for the uptake of EVs for business and industry, which is again predictable given the government’s political leaning. The…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2021

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