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Australia Institute
The Government has today released its Future Fuels Discussion Paper, which contains no additional funding and little in the way of commitments to accelerate electric vehicle uptake.
Background
The Government promised an Electric Vehicle Strategy in 2018, and instead delivered a discussion paper that does not exclusively focus on electric vehicles
The only changes to the discussion paper compared to the leaked draft from December 2020 are justifications for the lack of government support
Transport remains a high polluting sector of the Australian economy and that will continue in the absence of any new government policy
“This is an all-talk no-action discussion paper. Joe Biden has done more for electric vehicles in one week than the Morrison government has done in eight years,” said Richie Merzian, climate & energy director at the Australia Institute.