Electric vehicle experts and industry say a fuel efficiency standard will rapidly bring more EVs onto Australian roads, but they differ on how aggressive the government should pursue emissions reduction.
"It's like any new technology, the more iPhones that people had when iPhones came out, the more people that didn't have them wanted them, and this is exactly what we're going to see with a new technology like battery electric vehicles," Mr Akhtar said.
"We should have a target which is ambitious but achievable in the Australian context, given the distances we travel, given the infrastructure, given the lifestyle of people," Mr Weber said. He said achieving 10 or 20 per cent adoption rates was not the concern, but rather the last 40 per cent of people who would be slowest to shift to an EV, and that other lower emissions options needed to be available in the meantime.said it would require major developments before "late adopters" became the main concern.
Shadow Infrastructure and Transport Minister Bridget McKenzie said the government was delaying the issue.
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