Thought 2022 would be your year to go electric for your car? Well, it may not be just yet

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The price of electric vehicles in Australia will drop, but it could be several years before consumers can buy an EV for the same price as a petrol car.

In the past 10 years, the cost of batteries has dropped significantly, but the price of cars has shifted very little.

He predicted that, in about six or seven years, the bottom of the market new EVs would be priced around $25,000. "We are not encouraging manufacturers to bring their clean cars here and clean cars are more expensive." "Greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector are growing rapidly. So, in the production of electricity, we're seeing them come down, but transport is going in the opposite direction," she said.

 

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It will take a new Govt and new E.V policies before the manufacturers to bother to ship anything other than a token selection of vehicles.

2 unneeded fuel stations just opened in my regional town that already had 7. Not one has EV capabilities, including the original 7. You would think that it would be part of the deal.

We might have hit hit peak ABC with this article.

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EV is escalating in almost all developed nations except Australia.Morrison not a race government got us here

A nice start would be to remove the silly luxury car tax.

It could have been if this government wasn’t so backward thinking and corrupt LNPClimateCriminals LNPDisgrace

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