vehicle emissions Archives

Rachel Williamson is a science and business journalist, who focuses on climate change-related health and environmental issues.

Policy

Election stalemate likely to sink Coalition threats to dump NVES penalties

The Coalition will need to win the lower house and win over Teal and Greens senators in the upper house to make good on threats that it will hamstring the new vehicle emissions standards.

4 min

Why a shift to basing vehicle registration fees on emissions matters for Australia

Emissions-based registration fees are already in place in many other nations with much higher uptakes of electric vehicles. How could it help in Australia?

6 min

Australia is failing on all three vehicle pollution controls

What are vehicle greenhouse emission standards and why are they important?

Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese, Chris Bowen and Ed Husic visiting a Nissan Leaf electric car dealer

4 min

The road to new fuel efficiency rules is filled with potholes. Here’s how to avoid them

Without a robust set of mandatory transport emissions standards, Australia’s dependence on fossil fuels will deepen, and reaching our emissions reduction goals will become harder.

5 min

Football, meat pies, efficiency standards and electric utes: Can we have it all?

The calls for fuel-efficiency legislation may be increasing, but the devil is in the detail.

2 min

Most car makers fail to meet Australia’s voluntary emissions targets

Just one out of three carmakers have managed to achieve Australia's weak and still voluntary vehicle emissions targets.

4 min

How climate-friendly is an electric car? It all comes down to where you live

Where you live can make a huge difference to how climate-friendly your car is.

3 min

VW wants Australians to be “liberated” from traditional fossil fuel filling stations

Volkswagen Australia puts pressure on federal government - yet again - to bring Australia up to speed with global transition to electric mobility.

A Tesla electric car charging. Credit: Bridie Schmidt

4 min

Most Australian households are ready to buy an EV – and an emissions ceiling would help

Many people believe Australia’s shift to electric vehicles is stuck in the slow lane, but while federal policies are lacklustre, most Australians are ready for the shift.

Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite. Image credit: Lukas Coch

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“Putting handbrake on EV sales:” Federal Labor MP takes govt to task over poor policy

Federal Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite says government is "putting the handbrake" on EVs, becoming second federal MP in as many weeks to call for stronger policy to support a transition to electric vehicles,

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