{"id":29620,"date":"2019-04-17T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2019-04-17T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:10:16","slug":"australia-electric-cars-mb1017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-electric-cars-mb1017\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians Backing Electric Vehicles\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29621\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29621\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-vehicles-australia-1024x565.jpg\" alt=\"Electric cars in Australia\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-vehicles-australia-1024x565.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-vehicles-australia-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-vehicles-australia-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-vehicles-australia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/electric-car-refuel-current-ecology-734574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">stux<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Results from two recent polls indicate many Australians are on board with accelerating an electric vehicle revolution across the nation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Labor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billshorten.com.au\/a_strategy_for_a_cleaner_transport_future_monday_1_april_2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> its National Electric Vehicle (EV) policy; elements of which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A national electric vehicle target of 50 per cent of new car sales by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>A government electric vehicle target of 50 per cent of new purchases and leases of passenger vehicles by 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Provision of an upfront tax deduction to purchase electric vehicles for business purposes.<\/li>\n<li>All federally-funded road upgrades to incorporate electric vehicle charging infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labor&#8217;s EV policy may have the Coalition frothing at the mouth,\u00a0but it seems the Coalition is again out of touch with what Australians think &#8211; and even Labor may have underestimated the desire for EVs. The interest in electric cars is looking very much like the interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> in the early days, or more recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">solar batteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News.com.au <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/innovation\/motoring\/yougov-poll-shows-australians-support-labors-electric-car-policy\/news-story\/ffe093def10bed522463027a4e138bdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> a YouGov Galaxy online survey of 861 eligible voters taken between April 10 and 11 found 62 per cent of respondents either supported Labor\u2019s EV policy or thought it should go even further. Approximately 68 per cent either own or expect to buy an electric car in the future. Full results of the survey were yet to appear on the <a href=\"https:\/\/au.yougov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouGov site<\/a> at the time of publishing.<\/p>\n<h2>50% Support 100% EV New Car Sales By 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, The Australia Institute (TAI) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/P718%20Polling%20Brief%20-%20EVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published results<\/a> from a poll indicating half of voting Australians support shifting all sales of new vehicles to electric vehicles by 2025, with just 28% opposed.<\/p>\n<p>62% also supported a government-led program to an electrically charged transport system &#8211; including 55% of Coalition voters, 71% of Labor voters, 78% Greens voters, and 54% \u2018other\u2019 voters. Only 16% of respondents were opposed to this idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInstead of driving Australia backwards by preserving our gas-guzzlers, any future Government should look to the fine example of countries like Norway who already reached 50% of new car registrations as EVs in 2018 by using popular public incentives to accelerate electric vehicle uptake,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/content\/poll-one-two-voters-support-new-car-sales-100-ev-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> TAI Climate &amp; Energy Program Director Richie Merzian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Details of how Norway has achieved this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tai.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/P718%20NPC%20Driving%20Norse%20-%20EV%20Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found in this TAI report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our Nordic Policy Centre report shows with the right policy settings from Government, citizens are more than willing to purchase electric vehicles over a petrol car.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Australia Institute survey was conducted with 1,536 people between 20 February 2019 and 4 March 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev\/solar-electric-cars\/\">The Homeowner&#8217;s Guide To Solar Power And Electric Cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from two recent polls indicate many Australians are on board with accelerating an electric vehicle revolution across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":29621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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