On an electric car road trip around NSW, we found range anxiety (and the need for more chargers) is real (theconversation.com)
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Fast forward two years and the Morrison Government can no longer put off producing an EV policy of its own because 23 other countries have now promised to ban petrol and diesel cars in favour of EVs within 10 to 15 years. Those countries include the US, UK, Japan, most of Europe and China – that is, where our cars come from.
Alan Kohler: Electric vehicles will tow us forward, despite Scott Morrison (thenewdaily.com.au)
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An entirely electrified passenger vehicle sector would substantially reduce Australia’s emissions even if the electricity grid was entirely powered by coal, according to recent research which exposes more holes in the federal Coalition government’s Future Fuels Strategy.
The study, published by Transport Energy/Emission Research (TER), makes a detailed comparison of emissions from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). It finds that, even with Australia’s 2018 energy mix of around 80 per cent fuel (mostly coal) and 20 per cent renewables, transport emissions would fall by between 16 and 40 per cent if the fleet was fully electric.
For a grid that was 90 per cent renewably generated, an electrified passenger fleet would reduce transport emissions by 70-80 per cent. Even on an entirely fossil fuel-powered grid – an absurd prospect but an instructive thought experiment – an electrified passenger fleet would reduce emissions by between 5 and 29 per cent.
EVs smash petrol cars on emissions, even with a coal-powered grid (thedriven.io)