AUTOMOBILES – AUSTRALIA – FUEL CONSUMPTION

Utes win big reprieve on emissions

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Original article by Phillip Coorey, Jacob Greber
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 26-Mar-24

The federal government’s revised fuel-efficiency standards for new vehicles were approved by cabinet on Monday. The changes follow consultation with the car industry, amid concerns that popular vehicles such as utes and SUVs could have been forced out of the Australian market under the original version of the National Vehicles Emissions Scheme. The scheme will impose annual emissions caps on small passenger cars and light commercial vehicles such as utes. However, heavy SUVs that use the same chassis and drivetrain as a ute will now be classified as light commercial vehicles; they were previously to have been classified as passenger vehicles, which would have attracted much stricter emissions caps.

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Australia’s high-polluting utes spark calls to change fuel efficiency laws

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Original article by Elias Visontay
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 5-Apr-23

Sales of SUVs and dual-cab utes have risen strongly in Australia over the last decade. The Toyota HiLux and the Ford Ranger are the nation’s biggest-selling utes, but the Climate Council notes in a new report that they are among the most expensive to run and have poor tailpipe CO2 emissions. Jennifer Rayner from the Climate Council has called for the introduction of fuel efficiency standards, which would incentivise car-makers to supply low- and zero-emissions vehicles to the Australian market.

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