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.

It’s taken Tesla just 10 years to end Ice Age for Big Auto and Big Oil

Tesla turns 10 as a listed company, and becomes the most value car company in the world as investors dial in the end of the ICE age for Big Oil and Big Auto.

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German new car registrations hit 30-year low, but electric car sales rise

German new car sales slump sharply in first half of the year, but electric vehicle sales have more than doubled.

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Wrong way, go back: a proposed new tax on electric vehicles is a bad idea

A road user tax on EVs would limit the economic, health and environmental benefits promised by electric vehicles which, together, far exceed any loss in fuel excise.

4 min

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm laments politics of EVs in Australia

Australian chair of Tesla, now world’s most valuable car company, laments politics of EVs in home country.

3 min

NSW review recommends road tax for electric vehicles, idea branded a “dud”

NSW financial review panel led by CSIRO chair recommends road user charges for EVs, but the idea is rejected as a very strange and dud idea.

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Australia’s luxury car tax threshold quietly lifted for electric vehicles

Luxury car tax on low and zero emissions cars in Australia is quietly relaxed, giving EVs bigger break than fossil fuel cars for first time in decade.

3 min

Solar synthetic fuels won’t save the internal combustion engine

Cars will have to be powered by renewable electricity. The choice is whether to switch to electric motors and charge by plug, or to keep the internal combustion alive by filling it with liquid sunlight.