Fuel efficiency standards may boost sales of PHEVs. Unfortunately they don't deliver on electric range - turn on the ventilation & mine loses 1/3 of its range - and need daily charging or they're just a heavier hybrid.
For a national efficiency standard, I think they should be counted at their efficiency over, say, 300km, not the fairly short test currently used.
This reminds me so much of the long and painful saga to remove leaded petrol which damaged who knows how many young brains and outright raised mortality rates in heavily populated transport corridors.
Concurrently with efficiency, we need to update Australia's toxic vehicle emission standards, which are many years behind the rest of the developed world. The vehicles ar
Another factor in Australia that favours EVs: most trips are relatively short since major cities are too far apart for a car trip. In the UK, for example, most people don’t use their car for urban commutes and are more likely to use it to visit a neighbouring city.
Fuel efficiency standards may boost sales of PHEVs. Unfortunately they don't deliver on electric range - turn on the ventilation & mine loses 1/3 of its range - and need daily charging or they're just a heavier hybrid.
For a national efficiency standard, I think they should be counted at their efficiency over, say, 300km, not the fairly short test currently used.
This reminds me so much of the long and painful saga to remove leaded petrol which damaged who knows how many young brains and outright raised mortality rates in heavily populated transport corridors.
Concurrently with efficiency, we need to update Australia's toxic vehicle emission standards, which are many years behind the rest of the developed world. The vehicles ar
E sold elsewhere so supply is not an issue.
Another factor in Australia that favours EVs: most trips are relatively short since major cities are too far apart for a car trip. In the UK, for example, most people don’t use their car for urban commutes and are more likely to use it to visit a neighbouring city.