
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.

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 has been critcised for being anti-EV. What is its real game though? You don’t become a big success by being stupid.

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.

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.