{"id":63621,"date":"2022-07-21T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=63621"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T03:10:58","slug":"act-zev-strategy-mb2562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Driving EV Transition With New Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition.jpg\" alt=\"Electric vehicle transition in Canberra\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The road ahead for electric vehicle uptake in Canberra looks like an interesting journey under the ACT Government&#8217;s new Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Transport currently accounts for more than 64% of emissions in the Territory, with 70% of these emissions attributable to private vehicle use. Light vehicles make up 95% of the ACT fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, around 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/electric-vehicles\/\">electric cars<\/a> are registered in the ACT &#8211; a big jump from the 446 registered in 2020; but still a small fraction of the 320,805 registered light vehicles in the Territory.<\/p>\n<p>To reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2045, the ACT Government wants more zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs) on Canberra&#8217;s roads, faster. Yesterday it released a strategy for achieving 80-90% of new light vehicles sales in the Territory being ZEVs by the end of this decade.<\/p>\n<p>Among the actions in the Strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuation of stamp duty waivers, 2 years free vehicle registration and no-interest loans of up to $15,000 on new ZEVs through the Sustainable Household Scheme (SHS).<\/li>\n<li>Stamp duty waivers extended for used electric and hydrogen vehicles<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/#en-63621-1' id='enref-63621-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(63621)'>1<\/a><\/sup> purchased from the start of next month.<\/li>\n<li>EV charging infrastructure grants of $2,000 for apartment buildings.<\/li>\n<li>Expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/public\/\">public charging network<\/a> to at least 180 EV chargers by 2025; 70 to be delivered in 2022\/23.<\/li>\n<li>Regulations in place by 2023 requiring new multi-unit residential and commercial buildings to be &#8220;EV-ready&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Streamlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/\">EV charger<\/a> application processes for public land.<\/li>\n<li>100% of all newly leased Government vehicles to be ZEVs where possible (already implemented and will continue).<\/li>\n<li>Investigate opportunities to replace ACT Government heavy fleet vehicles with ZEVs.<\/li>\n<li>Phase-out of sales of light internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to commence by 2035.<\/li>\n<li>New ICE vehicles will be excluded from taxi and ride-share fleets by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Registration reform: instead of weight based charges, both emissions and distance-based charging will be considered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A formal ICE phase-out is a biggie and the ACT Government says it would be preferable for such a policy to adopted nationally. It will advocate for this with Federal, state and territory governments; noting its timing is consistent with a range of target phase-out dates set in the EU, Canada, the UK and some US states. Regardless of a formal phase-out, the ACT Government expects ZEV sales for new standard light vehicles will be close to 100% in the Territory by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Strategy, ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Climate Action <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmtedd.act.gov.au\/open_government\/inform\/act_government_media_releases\/barr\/2022\/nation-leading-action-to-drive-zero-emissions-vehicle-uptake-in-the-act\"> Andrew Barr said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It\u2019s important now for Australian jurisdictions to start preparing for a future private vehicle market that is predominantly ZEV. ZEVs are cheaper to run, more sustainable and easier to service. They are the vehicle of the future and we want to make sure that more Canberrans can access the benefits of ZEV ownership.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ACT&#8217;s Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy 2022 \u2013 30 can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechoices.act.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0006\/2038497\/2022_ZEV_Strategy.pdf\">viewed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road ahead for electric vehicle uptake in Canberra looks like an interesting journey under the ACT Government&#8217;s new Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":63622,"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-63621","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 v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ACT Driving EV Transition With New Strategy - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The road ahead for electric vehicle uptake in Canberra looks like an interesting journey under a new ACT Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACT Driving EV Transition With New Strategy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The road ahead for electric vehicle uptake in Canberra looks like an interesting journey under a new ACT Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-20T20:07:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-15T03:10:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"ACT Driving EV Transition With New Strategy\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-20T20:07:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-15T03:10:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/\"},\"wordCount\":497,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-zev-strategy-mb2562\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/act-ev-transition.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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