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Riz Akhtar
Riz Akhtar

Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.

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Victorian Tesla electric car uptake soars in August

  • September 20, 2022
  • Riz Akhtar
EV uptake is starting to take off all around the country. In Victoria, Tesla is still dominating sales.
How one Victoria EV owner filed his odometer reading.
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  • 5 min
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The Victoria electric vehicle road tax is emerging as a new Robodebt fiasco

  • July 28, 2022
  • Bryce Gaton
The implementation of Victoria's "EV tax" has been a complete disaster, with multiple and idiotic debt notices issued - a bit like Robodebt.
Kath Davies and Chris Vanderstock
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  • 3 min
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Albanese government backs legal challenge to Victoria EV tax

  • July 18, 2022
  • Bridie Schmidt
Legal challenge aimed at striking down Victorian EV tax gets the backing of the federal government.
How one Victoria EV owner filed his odometer reading.
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  • 2 min
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Victoria’s controversial EV road user tax to increase from July 1

  • June 30, 2022
  • Sophie Vorrath
Victoria's ZLEV road user charge will increase by 0.1 cents per kilometre when the 2022-23 financial year ticks over on July 01, VicRoads has said.
New polling shows Australian's want locally made electric buses. (Photo Credit: Michael Mazengarb).
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  • 3 min
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Australians show strong support for switch to locally made electric buses

  • May 27, 2022
  • Michael Mazengarb
New research shows a vast majority of Australians support switching public transport networks to locally made electric buses.
How one Victoria EV owner filed his odometer reading.
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  • 2 min
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Victoria Liberals promise to drop “bat-shit crazy” EV road tax, if elected

  • April 19, 2022
  • Bryce Gaton
Liberal shadow minister says it will drop "bat-shit crazy" EV road tax if party wins November state election.
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  • 2 min
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Victorian Tesla electric car uptake more than doubles in first quarter 2022

  • April 12, 2022
  • Riz Akhtar
EV uptake in Victoria goes through significant shift in first quarter of 2022 - particularly in the case of market leader Tesla.
The Hyundai Ioniq is one of a handful of electric vehicles priced under $50,000 in Australia. Source: Jet Charge
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  • 3 min
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EV rebate topped up after first round exhausted well ahead of schedule

  • April 5, 2022
  • Sophie Vorrath
Victoria's EV rebate is in hot demand, with the initial allocation of 4,000 subsidies snapped up well ahead of schedule.
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  • 4 min
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How Tesla Model 3 uptake soared in Queensland, topping Victoria in 2021

  • February 18, 2022
  • Riz Akhtar
Queensland Tesla sales edged ahead of Victoria in 2021, but only one state introduced EV rebates. So how did incentives help uptake in Queensland?
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An electric weekend road trip report: The Grampians in an EV

  • November 18, 2021
  • Niranjan Gadkari
There are things about the Model 3 that aren’t perfect. But this road trip proved to me that if we just let it, an EV future can be a beautiful one.

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