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\"\"The federal government has announced a huge boost to the federal battery rebate, while reviewing a much more modest EV tax break. Here’s why the government should be ramping up its support for EVs rather than cutting it.
\n<\/p>\n

Can The Battery Rebate Apply To EVs?<\/h2>\n

The federal battery rebate is going gangbusters, with the budget expanded from $2.3bn up to $7.2bn.<\/a> Right now there are phenomenal numbers of home batteries being installed. The Cheaper Home Batteries Program (CHBP) means we’re likely to have four gigawatt hours of installed storage by the end of 2025 and that’s a great news story.<\/p>\n

At the same time however, the federal government has committed to review the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) for high-end EVs, with predictable calls from some corners to end the exemption.<\/p>\n

The reality however is the federal government’s support for EVs isn’t too generous – it isn’t near generous enough. We should be expanding the battery rebate to cover EVs – if anything Australia would get more benefit from this than from support of home batteries, by weaning us off expensive imported petrol.<\/p>\n

Using an EV can easily cut your transport fuel bill by 75%, or even more with rooftop solar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The electricity to charge an EV costs a fraction of the fuel needed for a petrol car.<\/p><\/div>\n

Billions And Billions Of Dollars Are Going Overseas<\/h2>\n

While Australia is the world’s biggest lithium miner, 90% of the world’s lithium processing and thus battery cells come from one country – China.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact : BYD are a battery company that now builds cars. Their research and development branch has something like 9000 people with a doctorate qualification in chemistry, engineering, etc.
\nTo put it into context, BYD have more PhDs in China than Ford Motor Co has employees worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some people decry this battery buy up as a massive subsidy paid straight to China. We may have collectively spent $3 or $4bn on batteries in the last 6 months, but they’re warranted to last 10 years.<\/p>\n

However few people seem to grasp that Australia spends approximately $50-$60 billion every year<\/em> importing liquid transport fuels.<\/p>\n

With EVs, we could instead be relying on our own sunshine, and charging our cars with abundant solar energy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Repeatedly Setting Fire To Our Money<\/h2>\n

When headlines screech about the current accounts and national deficit, they conveniently ignore the money we spend importing oil simply to burn it.<\/p>\n

That’s not just for petrol cars, but the trucks, trains and planes that move most of our freight.<\/p>\n

You’ve seen the bumper stickers “Without Trucks, Australia Stops”. Well, think of the impact of electrifying 124,000 heavy vehicles. Without the diesel they currently run on, the country would grind to a halt, which is a security risk in addition to a financial expense.<\/p>\n

Trains, heavy trucks, light deliveries, farms, fire appliances, ambulances, emergency generators, all currently rely on diesel.<\/p>\n

We only have 2 oil refineries left onshore. They produce roughly 20% of our fuel but 86% of the oil they refine is also imported.<\/p>\n

This means we import over 90% of the fuel we use to get around this huge continent and even when you count the oil on ships in our coastal waters, there isn’t even a month’s coverage in the system.<\/a><\/p>\n

If there’s a naval blockade, stopping the boats will take on a whole new meaning as Australians go hungry, because transport logistics and our food system falls apart.<\/p>\n

Utes Are Popular Because They’re Subsidised<\/em><\/h2>\n

Dual-cab utes qualify as \u201celigible vehicles\u201d (load of one tonne+ or not primarily designed to carry passengers), so, they’re exempt from FBT for “minor, infrequent & irregular” private use.<\/p>\n

If the same family-friendly ute is used extensively for private purposes (school runs, weekend trips), FBT exemption shouldn’t apply in law, but in practice it is often treated leniently or willfully misunderstood.<\/p>\n

Businesses can claim instant asset write-off \/ temporary full expensing when in force, for work utes without being constrained by the lower \u201cpassenger car\u201d depreciation cap, because they’re classed as commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n

We should remove the subsidy for these grocery getting “trucks” and instead expand the incentive to all EVs not just basic models, then we’ll see improvements<\/a> in passenger safety, pedestrian safety, productivity, fuel prices, current account deficit, air quality, road conditions\/maintenance plus improve efficiency in the electrical grid and social outcomes.<\/a><\/p>\n

So Why Don’t We Encourage All<\/em> Batteries?<\/h2>\n

Going further than an expanded FBT exemption would be even better. As part of the renewable energy target, the CHBP mandates you must have solar installed, so it can’t be opened to cars. However supporting EV batteries on a similar kilowatt hour basis would be a game changer.<\/p>\n

Take a BYD Atto 3 as an average sized example, at 50kWh and $40,000 – applying a subsidy of $300\/kWh would chop $15,000 off the ticket price. With the existing federal rebate ceiling in place that discount would apply to most EVs.<\/p>\n

The outright cheapest Atto 1<\/a> at 30kWh and $24,000 would garner you $9000 off, a new car for just $15,000 out of pocket, cheaper even than my modest 10 year old EV.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Rewiring Australia, the average Aussie household spends up to $2700 every year at the petrol pump.<\/a> That money is lost to you and largely lost to Australia. It ends up with tax dodging multinationals, foreign flagged shipping, overseas refineries and at worst sponsors some extremist theocracies & warmongers.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Getting off Gasoline<\/h2>\n

Cars put out 16% of Australia\u2019s domestic emissions and represent 60% of a household\u2019s energy costs. Electrifying our vehicles is the single biggest impact a household can make.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going all-electric, and getting off gas, it makes more sense to get off gasoline1<\/a><\/sup> too.<\/p>\n

With vehicle-to-grid technology coming, these EV batteries can be used to prop up your mains electricity connection and reduce your bill, just like a stationary battery, but with fewer rules to make installation difficult.<\/a><\/p>\n

For more on the benefits of EV charging off solar, read our detailed guide.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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