Thread: EV general discussion

More deluded journalists telling people to buy those crappy EV's to avoid the fuel price rises as a national security issue.

Keeping tax cuts for electric cars and reintroducing state-based rebates could help more Australians avoid rising petrol prices and should be treated as a national security issue.
Automotive groups issued the call to governments on Friday as fuel prices reached almost $4 a litre in some parts of Australia and conflict in the Middle East continued to strain worldwide oil supplies.
Encouraging more motorists to adopt electric vehicles would not only help to extend Australia’s fuel reserves, they say, but could also accelerate progress towards 2035 environmental targets.

Tax cut could help more drivers dodge petrol price hike

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Personally, I dislike subsidies for anything as we pay for them via our taxes. The current news "'More pain to come' as oil faces biggest weekly price surge since 1983"

$100 gallon hit may or many not be long term. The price jacking/clear rip off by Servos is painful for many. The usual ACCC warning to them AFTER they did it is as usual 'pathetic and toothless'

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Petrol and diesel are the new toilet paper. Not suggesting everyone can travel free in a silly little EV like mine. I was supposed to take a CFA pool car for the last weeks fun. Driving to get one was almost the same as taking my car. Given the only real cost I have is depreciation, tyre every 40,000 and ridiculously long service periods which has matched the new tyre changes I prefer the EV.

I hope for everyone else the oil prices settle a LOT. Given the political/war/bombing and more it may be a lot longer than some predict. Not my problem except for the boat.

Whoops my bad -brain fart as usual!

Honestly its everyone's problem as food and everything delivered is about to be price inflated yet again.

FYI the EV FBT discout isn't an outgoing.. it's just not putting the FBT or penalty tax on EV's for novated leases.

As I've said before.. it's actually less than the FBT gap - which is tradies lying on their tax and buying a DC ute for their wives to do the school run and go shopping with (and other dodgies). What messes with my head is they can tell you how much tax evasion there is but they don't actually seem able to stop it. Unlike the EV FBT discount it just doesn't ever seem to get a mention in the press.

From the ATO.

• FBT Gap (2022–23): $1.8 billion.
• EV FBT Exemption (2025–26): Estimated to cost the budget $1.35 billion.

I was pretty sure they were going to remove the EV deal immiently. They have said they are currently reviewing it. I'm quite confident that the current events will mean it's unlikely to be touched IMHO at least for the moment.

I expect all the EV's on the ground, and in the pipeline will be selling like hotcakes.