Plugged In: Vic taxes EVs as talk heats up to ban fossil fuel cars

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Bridie Schmidt

19 March 2021 12:49 PM

Plugged In is The Driven’s weekly wrap up of what happened over the past week in the local EV industry and community.

This week is marked by EV policy chaos in Australia, as Victoria begins making moves to tax EVs despite being condemned even by Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman. He is now calling for a stronger stance to support EVs, and even Coalition voters are calling for ban on petrol cars, says the Australia Institute.

“Tax on clean air:” Victoria wants EV road tax in place by July

Victoria to introduce EV road tax legislation on Wednesday, but the bill is likely to face opposition in the upper house.

“We have policy chaos:” Australians back ban on new petrol cars

Federal government urged to show leadership on EV policy as polling shows most Australians would support a ban on new petrol vehicle sales.

Federal Liberal MP calls for EV support, ban on fossil fuel cars by mid-2030s

Federal Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman calls for ban of new petrol and diesel car sales by mid-2030s, and stronger policies to encourage EV uptake, including dumping luxury car tax.

Kia in discussions to bring EV6 to Australia, e-Niro arriving soon

Kia says it wants to bring EV6 here as it prepares for arrival of e-Niro

Australia’s Tritium rolls out “plug and charge” to 50kW chargers

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St Baker funds e-mobility research fellowship at University of Queensland

Coal baron and evolving cleantech entrepreneur dips into the family fund to help establish a research fellowship to drive electric vehicle innovation.

The Driven Podcast: Why Australia’s big utilities are plugging into EVs

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Bridie Schmidt

Bridie Schmidt is associate editor for The Driven, sister site of Renew Economy. She has been writing about electric vehicles since 2018, and has a keen interest in the role that zero-emissions transport has to play in sustainability. She has participated in podcasts such as Download This Show with Marc Fennell and Shirtloads of Science with Karl Kruszelnicki and is co-organiser of the Northern Rivers Electric Vehicle Forum. Bridie also owns a Tesla Model Y and has it available for hire on evee.com.au.