>I'm not overly keen on EVs personally. at present they're limited by inadequate infrastructure support and the early stage of charging technology.
So you're an EV denier????? (lol)
That's literally my position.
I question that the cost/ benefits of installing infrastructure make it worthwhile. It just seems like what is needed surpasses reasonable amounts of effort for no real reward.
You could, for example, remove all tariffs, taxes and duties on car parts and provide subsidies for the repair of existing vehicles. Remember, the carbon cost of manufacturing a vehicle is roughly equivalent to driving an older vehicle 40-60K km.. big savings can be had there if we can lower demand for new vehicles.
Increase taxes/costs on people who have larger classes of vehicles and commute with them under capacity (ie, if you have a large 4wd with 5 seats and you drive to work alone). Similarly, provide financial incentives for people carpooling or actually using the vehicle regularly to its seating capacity.
Provide incentives for people to use smaller transport, in particular motorcycles. Eg - If I didn't have to pay rego on the motorcycle I would use it pretty much exclusively for short trips, as it is now, there's no point registering when the chance of inclement weather for long stretches of time is higher.
Provide incentives for people who have older vehicles (sunk carbon cost) and disincentives for purchasing new vehicles.
The problem really is not ICE vehicles, it's the way we use and consume them (like everything, really).
Changing that behaviour would be significantly easier than entirely replacing our infrastructure with something else. Especially when we can't easily predict the actual costs of doing that.
