Here's why Aus can't get anywhere on EVs:
From my questions to the Dept of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources at #SenateEstimates
Minister Taylor's office directly told the Dept to effectively ditch the EV strategy & water it down to a ‘future fuels’ discussion paper. 1/
From my questions to the Dept of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources at #SenateEstimates
Minister Taylor's office directly told the Dept to effectively ditch the EV strategy & water it down to a ‘future fuels’ discussion paper. 1/
That's after consulting w/ 80 stakeholders & had a draft ready for an EV strategy! That wasn’t enough-looks like Taylor pushed the dept to commission dodgy figures that hugely misrepresent the benefits of shifting to EVs & cherry picked the worst figures from skewed modelling 2/
The modelling arbitrarily models over a five year timeframe, when the average car in Australia is owned for ten years - EVs really come into their own with the long term savings and emissions reductions. 3/
The Department told me they ‘didn’t have the data’ on how many EV owners charge their cars from solar panels or other renewable sources; by excluding that crucial data (or failing to find out), they skew the modelling further against EVs. 4/4
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