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Electric vehicles

July 2024

  • Vehicle-to-grid enabled electric vehicles used in ANU project

    Canberra trial shows EVs can provide backup power to grid in blackouts and emergencies

  • The image shows a woman charging an electric vehicle.

    Change by degrees
    Buying your first electric vehicle in Australia? Here’s what you should know

June 2024

  • Mike Casey

    The rural network
    Electrifying the farm: ‘It could add a couple of hundred thousand to our bottom line’

  • A Tesla Model Y charges at a EV charge station in Lane Cove on January 19, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

    One in four cars sold in May in Australia was an EV or hybrid vehicle, data shows

May 2024

  • A Tesla Model Y at an EV charging station in Sydney

    Change by degrees
    Price driven: electric cars have never been cheaper. Is it now time to buy an EV?

    Carmakers are scrambling as new EV models arrive amid a glut of supply – and Australian buyers are likely to benefit
  • A Volkswagen electric vehicles battery.

    Australia banks on batteries in plan to move away from ‘dig-and-ship’ economy

    Labor unveils strategy for local battery industry aimed at ending reliance on China and supporting transition to renewables ‘superpower’

    • Australia’s SUV obsession could wipe out emissions gains from EV sales and efficiency standards

    • They’re fast. Pedestrians are furious: ‘fat’ ebikes divide Australian beach suburbs

    • The Agenda
      Is the Coalition planning to overtake Labor and tax rich inner-city EV drivers?

      Paul Karp

April 2024

  • Electric vehicles charging batteries

    Australia’s skilled mechanics shortage forcing insurers to write off electric vehicles after minor accidents

    Lack of parts and outdated laws also contributing to long repair wait times and ballooning premiums
  • An electric charging station

    Australians choose hybrids over EVs as sales of conventional cars decline

    Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8%
  • Electric car and bike petrol bubbles

    One big chart
    EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

    Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022

March 2024

  • Nathan Mackie rides his ebike on the bike track next to Ruthven station

    Inequality reporting
    More Australians are looking to ditch their cars. But the alternatives haven’t quite arrived

  • The minister for Infrastructure Catherine King announces the vehicle efficiency standards today.

    Albanese government manages to unite automotive industry on fuel standards – almost

  • Cars and buses sit in traffic on Military Road during the morning commute in Sydney

    Labor unveils watered-down fuel efficiency standard that eases emission rules for large SUVs

  • Fire engine

    NSW announces compulsory training for firefighters to deal with electric vehicle incidents

  • ‘No longer a novelty’: massive rise in Australian EV sales, industry report finds

  • Full Story
    The fight to make EVs more affordable – Full Story podcast

  • Peak motorist body requests clarity on Albanese government’s proposed clean car policy

  • Greens call on Labor to drop changes to gas project consultations in return for support on vehicle emissions

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