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The automotive industry and advocacy groups have welcomed the Australian Government’s release of an impact paper on new fuel efficiency standards.

The 2022 study showed Australian electric cars already provided large cuts in emissions in 2019. The reduction was 30-40% compared to the overall on-road passenger vehicle fleet’s (life-cycle) emissions per kilometre in 2018. When renewables take over the electricity grid from which battery electric vehicles are charged, the cuts will be even bigger – around 75-80%.

Both the US Democrats and NZ Labour need to take hard looks at themselves. Failure is not inevitable. But there is now only one English-speaking centre-left democracy left in the world: that is the state of where we are now. 

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The Council of Trade Unions has completed its annual survey of workers and the mood is grim.

Too big, too heavy and too slow to change: road transport is way off track for net zero

Exclusive: Data shows huge jump in promotion and an 80% increase in sales of larger, more polluting vehicles bbringing calls for ban on ads