Elon Musk
Business

Sinking in: Tesla EV sales are tanking in Australia

- March 10, 2025 3 MIN READ

While the Tesla CEO is busy rage-tweeting, Roman saluting, dialling into far-right German political rallies, cutting aid funding and sacking US government workers, sales of his car brand in Australia, as well as the rest of the world have gone over a cliff, with January’s poor results continuing in February. The plunge for Nasdaq-listed EV… Read more »

Climate Tech

A Canberra experiment using EVs for power after transmission lines were cut shows they have a role to play in grid emergencies

- July 10, 2024 4 MIN READ

Electric vehicles are an increasingly common sight on Australian roads. Each one cuts carbon emissions by half compared to fossil fuel vehicles, but increases household electricity use by 50%. This extra electricity demand could be a major strain on the grid unless the charging of vehicles is coordinated. But the large batteries in electric vehicles… Read more »

12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road, Victoria
Politics

Victorian Ombudsman rips into the state government over ‘unreasonable, inflexible’ EV road use charges

- September 27, 2023 3 MIN READ

As Victorian premier Daniel Andrews heads to the exit door this afternoon after nine years, one mess his successor will need to clean up is the government’s road-user charge for electric and hybrid vehicles, which has been branded unreasonable by state’s Ombudsman Deborah Glass. The government introduced the Zero and Low Emission Vehicles (ZLEV) Act… Read more »

Volvo electric vehicle
Motoring

EV sales are going gangbusters in Australia

- April 5, 2023 2 MIN READ

New car sales fell in March, down 3.9% on 12 months ago to 97,251, but the shift to electric vehicles is well and truly underway in Australia The monthly figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) reveal that battery electric vehicle sales grew by 19.5% on March 2022 figures along with plug-in-hybrid sales… Read more »

Evee, Slava Kozlovskii
Other tech

Australian electric car-sharing platform evee charges ahead with crowdfunding campaign on Birchal

- March 27, 2023 < 1 MIN READ

Electric car-sharing startup evee is raising capital via crowdfunding, as it looks to expand into the UK and EU markets.  Evee launched in 2016 and is now hoping to raise $1.6 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign on Birchal.  The company hit three million kilometres of electric vehicle (EV) sharing just days before kicking off… Read more »

Tesla
Other tech

Queensland researchers are investigating whether connecting Teslas to the grid could be used to power your neighbourhood

- November 17, 2021 2 MIN READ

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) will conduct a world-first global trial to see if the spare battery capacity in electric vehicles (EV) could support the local electricity grid, and potentially power homes. UQ has partnered with analytics platform Teslascope to recruit Tesla owners internationally to take part in the study examining car use and… Read more »

Nissan Leaf
Other tech

NSW will waive stamp duty on buying EVs and offer $3000 rebates – and wants the government fleet to be 100% electric by 2030

- June 20, 2021 3 MIN READ

Stamp duty waived on EVs priced under $78,000 from Sept 1 $3,000 rebate on 25,000 EVs priced under $68,750 $171 million for new charging infrastructure The NSW government will waive stamp duty for electric vehicles (EVs) costing less than $78,000 and offer $3,000 rebates to 25,000 people who buy a battery and hydrogen fuel cell… Read more »

electric vehicle
Other tech

Ending the sale of petrol-powered cars could be the next big light bulb moment for Australia

- May 29, 2021 4 MIN READ

In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind; so energy-inefficient they lost most of it as heat. “A normal light bulb is too hot to hold — that heat is wasted, and globally represents millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide that needn’t… Read more »