While committing to a fuel efficiency standard is an important step, a shift to clean cars alone won’t get us where we need to be
, the government has not set a date by which new petrol and diesel cars will no longer be able to be sold. The ministers instead emphasised the need to give drivers greater choicen.
One thing the strategy does make clear is that a fuel efficiency standard will not, on its own, reduce Australia’s emissions by much in the medium term. The government forecasts that the policy could lead to a 3m tonne annual cut in emissions by 2030, and 10m tonnes by 2035. The transition is complicated by the society-wide shift to driving bigger cars. SUVs now make up more than 50% of new car sales, and the price gap between petrol and electric SUVs is greater than for smaller cars. But this doesn’t mean significant change is not possible in a short space of time.
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