Giles Parkinson, Author at The Driven

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of The Driven, and also edits and founded the Renew Economy and One Step Off The Grid web sites. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, and owns a Tesla Model 3.

Policy

The scary climate assumptions driving Toyota’s go slow on electric cars

Toyota's go slow on the rollout of pure battery electric vehicles appears based on the assumption of a climate catastrophe.

1 min

The Driven Podcast: The Sunshine state’s plan to go electric

We talk to RACQ head of policy Rebecca Michael about the electric vehicle transition in Queensland.

4 min

Tesla warns new Australian rules will inflate cost of home chargers and slow transition to EVs

New standards for EV charging equipment could add thousands of dollars to the cost of home EV chargers, and erect yet another barrier to EVs in Australia.