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Victoria’s controversial new electric vehicle tax has been slammed once again, this time by a coalition of 25 organisations with various interests in EV technology.
The group comprised of car manufacturers, infrastructure companies, industry groups and environmentalists penned an open letter to the Victorian government published as a full-page advertisement in Thursday’s edition of The Age.
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The Australian Industry Group (AIG) has called for a moratorium on the electric vehicle (EV) taxes that are set to be imposed in Victoria on July 1, asserting that the extra taxes will be detrimental to the future of EVs in Australia.
AIG CEO is not happy about the Victorian EV taxes
AIG chief executive
Innes Willox has slammed the proposal, suggesting the new taxes were like “putting the cart before the horse and should not be implemented until clean vehicles are better established and the taxes are better designed.”