GM vows to stop making petrol and diesel cars by 2035
General Motors looks to ditch petrol and diesel from all light-duty vehicle offerings by 2035, as it aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040.
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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.
Scott Morrison test drives an electric truck, but can’t find EV policy button
Scott Morrison drives an electric truck. Did it ruin his weekend?
Biden commits entire US government vehicle fleet to go electric
US president Joe Biden commits to transition largest government fleet in world to electric vehicles - all 645,000 of them.
EV policy and strategy in Australia: what has changed in 2020?
Your ready reckoner for EV policy in Australia - where it is at in 2020, and where it is going in 2021.
Elon Musk’s wealth grew by price of four Model 3 EVs per minute in 2020
Elon Musk's wealth has grown by the equivalent of the cost of more than four Model 3 electric vehicles a minute in 2020.
“Biggest change since Model T”: South Australia wants all new car sales to be electric by 2035
South Australia aims to make all new car sales fully electric by 2035 in what it says will be the biggest step change since the Model T.
Europe reaches one in 11 electric car sales, 30% are in Germany
Nearly one in ten new vehicles sold in Europe is a plug in electric vehicle, and one in three of these are sold in Germany.
Smoking around children is banned, so why not idling cars?
This is not a story about electric vehicles. It is a harsh reminder of the damage we’re doing to our children when we use internal combustion engine cars.
California approves $US28 million for zero and low-emission cars and trucks
California Air Resources Board approves $US28 million ($A37 million) in funding to support transition to cleaner vehicles.
No new initiatives in federal government’s EV strategy, but Comcar to trial electrics
A leaked discussion paper from the federal government on its electric vehicle strategy – which it dubs its “future fuels” strategy – contains no new initiatives to encourage the uptake…