Electric vehicles
- Opinion
- Ethical living
My summer in Norway left me sad for Australia’s future
In the month I spend there, I learn that Norway is a country where the perks of clever policy abound. But it’s who pays for these perks that is so exasperating.
- Lucianne Tonti
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- Opinion
- Opinion
Yes, my electric car makes me feel morally superior. Even better is burning off at the lights
Well, what if I need to drive to Lake Eyre towing a large boat? There won’t be any chargers on the Oodnadatta Track. Australians are full of flimsy excuses on EVs.
- Doug Hendrie
Ban on e-bikes on trains a response over the top, cycling advocates say
Cycling advocates say fires on trains are a rare occurrence and the risk could be managed by enforcing quality standards on imported batteries and devices.
- Patrick Hatch
- Analysis
- China relations
China’s EVs are dirt cheap. Its policymakers are concerned
Electric vehicle makers are locked in a death spiral of cost-cutting. It is part of broader overcapacity problem troubling China’s manufacturing sector - one that has its leaders worried.
- Lisa Visentin
Fuel tax is in trouble, and there are calls for an alternative now
The federal government is being urged to confront how motorists should pay to use Australia’s roads before the growth in electric vehicles hollows out the $17 billion raised through fuel excise every year.
- Patrick Hatch
Tesla ordered to pay more than $US200m in Autopilot crash case
The decision by a Miami jury ends a four-year-long case remarkable not just in its outcome but that it even made it to trial.
- Bernard Condon and David Fischer
The country where 76 per cent of cars sold are electric
Subsidies, hydroelectricity and a manufacturing powerhouse neighbour are moving the cars into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else.
- Lydia DePillis and Bhadra Sharma
Parents of accused rider in fatal Edgewater crash have ‘absolutely no control’ over him, court told
The teenager allegedly crashed an off-road electric motorcycle into a pedestrian in Perth’s north on Saturday afternoon.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Power giant warns of ‘two-speed’ green shift which benefits only the rich
The household clean energy boom may create winners and losers, warns power distribution company Ausgrid.
- Nick Toscano
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump sparks a $6.4 billion wipeout for a US icon
Donald Trump said his tariffs would make the US car industry “great again”, but a different story is starting to emerge.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz