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Alan Pears

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Electric cars and trucks can slash Australia’s $60 billion fossil fuel import bill

  • April 13, 2024
  • Alan Pears
Australians pay over $60 billion a year to import petroleum products, and tens of billions more for storing, distributing and selling them. Electric transport and sensible urban planning can reduce that.
LDV 3T60 electric ute with wind turbines
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  • 3 min
  • Electric Transport
  • Policy

Australian can do so much better road freight energy and emissions – just ask Ben Elton

  • December 21, 2023
  • Alan Pears
Light commercial vehicles generate 22 pct of all road transport carbon emissions and their emissions per kilometre for each tonne of freight carried are almost 20 times that of trucks.
Toyota BZ4X. Source: Toyota
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  • 4 min
  • Electric Cars
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Is Toyota really anti-EV, or is it playing a long game?

  • September 14, 2022
  • Alan Pears
Toyota has been critcised for being anti-EV. What is its real game though? You don’t become a big success by being stupid.
Nissan Vehicle to Home (V2H) system (
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  • 2 min
  • EV News

Electric vehicles and stationary energy – lets embrace the possibilities

  • October 9, 2019
  • Alan Pears
Emerging EV technology can provide both mobility and home energy for several days, and EV batteries can even ‘export’ electricity to other buildings or the grid.
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  • 2 min
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School children love electric vehicles, too

  • March 20, 2019
  • Alan Pears
My grandchildren were too young to go to the ‘school strike.' But they were able to experience the excitement and reality of a zero carbon future at the Electric Vehicle Expo.
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