When introducing its plan to make electric vehicle drivers pay by the kilometre, the Victorian state government said it was about ensuring a fair contribution towards paying for road use, because they werenât paying the fuel excise.
The user-pays system will require drivers to keep a logbook of their travels from July that will then be used to calculate a charge of 2.5 cents/km to be paid when they renew their registration. Records will need to be kept for five years and people who fail to produce records may face charges.
Critics say introducing the policy when the take-up of electric vehicles in Victoria is currently just 0.7% will kill the market before it has the chance to become established.
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Thursday 15 April 2020
Moreland Council’s newest public electric vehicle charging hub at 13-15 Edward Street, Brunswick is attracting the highest number of charge sessions per month of any charging station in Australia.
The new charging hub, which opened in May 2020, brings Moreland’s total tally of public electric vehicle chargers to 16. Moreland has the highest number of free-to-use public EV chargers owned and operated by Council of any municipality in Victoria. All electricity used to charge vehicles is renewable, sourced from the Crowlands Wind Farm.
The popularity of electric vehicles in Moreland is rapidly growing. In 2018, Council’s network of public chargers saw less than 10 charging sessions per month. March 2021 saw 725 charging sessions across the network.
Not even Tesla can overcome Australiaâs hostility to electric cars
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Tesla and the electric-car industry generally thrive in the worldâs richest nations. Not so in Australia, where even tractors outsell EVs two to one.
More than four decades after Mel Gibsonâs super-charged Ford Falcon roared across the country in
Mad Max, the car-loving nation is defying a global shift to electrification. Battery-powered vehicles made up just 0.7 per cent of Australiaâs new car sales in 2020, while in the UK and European Union, the figure soared to more than 10 per cent.