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SORRYI HAVE TO POST THIS BUT, yes BUT?

WHEREIS AUSTRALIA IN THE WORLD REGARDING ELECTRIC VEHICLES. WE HAVE THE RESOURCESCHEAP, WHY DON’T WE USE THEM.

AREWE AFTER MONEY MORE THAT GETTING AHEAD?

NORWAY announcedits proposed ban on fossil fuel cars in 2016, planning to prohibit the sale ofall petrol and diesel vehicles by 2025.

The country introduced a‘polluter pays’ tax system that was designed to discourage the sale of newpetrol or diesel cars and increase the number of electric vehicles to 50,000.The system introduced fines for fossil fuel cars using toll roads and ferriesde

pendingon emission rates, whereas the services were free for zero or low emissioncars.

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FRANCE In July 2017, France announced plansto ban all petrol and diesel cars by 2040, in addition to phasing out oil andgas production. This forms part of the country’s goal of becomingcarbon-neutral by 2050.

France EnvironmentMinister Nicolas Hulot made the announcement following Volvo’s plans to stop sellingpetrol and diesel cars from 2019. Manufacturers will only be allowed to sellcars powered by electricity or renewable energy, including hybrid vehicles.

Paris laterauthorised a plan to eliminate all non-electric vehicles from the city by 2030.

support to assistin exchanging old petrol or diesel cars for a more environmentally friendlyalternative.

The UKoriginally announced plans to ban thesale of new petrol or diesel cars in July 2017 with a target date of 2040. Theplans were
confirmed to include hybrid vehicles in 2018 following increasingpressure of legal action from the EU over the illegal levels of air pollution.

The Road to Zero strategy was announced by UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling this month. It also includes other targets such as for half of all cars sold to be ultra-low emission by 2030.

When plans were firstannounced, plug-in vehicles made up less than 1% of total car sales in thecountry. By the first half of 2018, this grew to 2.2% of the UK’s total carsales.

There are currently onlyapproximately 17,000 charging points across up to 6,000 locations in the UK. Inorder tomeet the predicted growth of electricvehicles to one million by 2020, it has been estimated that charginginfrastructure across the UK will need to be increased six-fold.-

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The DUTCHGovernment confirmed in October 2017 that it is looking at plansto ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, stating that all new cars in theNetherlands must be emission-free.

Plans were initially broughtup in April 2016, considering an earlier target date of 2025 similarly toNorway. When plans were announced, 6.4% of the Netherlands’ cars were electric.

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GERMANY Bundesrat federalcouncil agreed to ban fossil fuel powered vehicles by 2030 in October 2016,when it also suggested for the European Commission to introduce an EU ban ondiesel and petrol vehicles. German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to theseplans in August 2017.

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INDIAis aimingto completely phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, introducingelectric cars ‘in a very big way’ according to Indian Power Minister PiyushGoyal. Government officials announced the plans in April 2017 in an effort tohelp lower the country’s air pollution levels.

Goyal set a target that from2030, the sale of all petrol or diesel cars will be banned. The governmentlater set a target of electric vehicles (EVs) making up 15% of all sales withinfive years, with 30% reached by 2030.

CHINA InSeptember 2017, China began planning a ban on the sale and production of fossilfuel vehicles. As the world’s biggest producer of motor vehicles, with 29million units manufactured in 2017, China’s ban could have an impact on theworldwide car market.

Despite there not being atimeline for the ban, China wants hybrid and electric vehicles to account forone-fifth of total car sales by 2025. Since September 2013, tax rebates havebeen available for various electric and hybrid cars, which are known as newenergy vehicles (NEV). This includes annual tax exemptions and subsidiestowards the cost of NEV purchases. In December 2017, a 10% rebate on the saleof NEVs was extended until 2020.

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TIAWAN’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced plans to phase outpetrol and diesel vehicles in December 2017 by reinforcing electric chargingfacilities. New sales of non-electric scooters and motorcycles will be bannedfrom 2035 and cars from 2040.

In 2018, the governmentstressed that the ban would not affect existing fossil fuel-powered vehicles,with it only enforced for new cars and motorcycles. It is estimated thatmotorcycles and scooters comprise two-thirds of the country’s registeredvehicles, which stands at more than 20 million.

The also announced plans toreplace all buses and government vehicles with electric models by 2030. Themeasures are being introduced as part of a red hazard reduction programme,which also aims to halve the number of ‘red alert’ dangerous air pollutionlevel warnings in 2019.

Electric buses were firstintroduced in October 2017, with a service that operated between Taipei Zoo andSongshan Rail Station. The government has planned to subsidise replacementbuses, providing up to $200,000 for each electric model.

JAPAN InJuly 2018, a Japanese working group involving the government’s ministry ofeconomy, trade and industry (METI) and manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda andNissan aimed for all new cars sold in Japan to be electric or hybrid by 2050.

“Japanesecarmakers Toyota and Nissan have both announced that they will stop sellingdiesel cars in Europe.”

As of January, thecountry ranks third in the world, after China and the US, for plug-in electricvehicle numbers, with more than 120,000 all-electric and 7.3 million hybridvehicles being sold in the past ten years. There are more than 23,000 chargingstations available across the country, which could overtake the 31,000 petrolstations. Regulations for installing charging points near fuel pumps areplanned to be relaxed.

Japanese carmakersToyota and Nissan have both announced that they will stop selling diesel carsin Europe. Toyota’s diesel cars accounted for 15% of sales in Europe last year,and it is aiming for a complete ban by 2022. Nissan is aiming to phase outpassenger diesel cars by 2021, but this will not affect commercial vehiclesor pick-up trucks.