AUTOMOBILES – ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS – AUSTRALIA

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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CLIMATE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Electric car sales boost

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Original article by Ben Potter
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 9 : 6-Sep-17

Electric cars accounted for just 1,200 of the more than one million new cars that were sold in Australia in 2016, The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Macquarie Leasing are hoping to boost interest in electric cars via a $A100 million leasing program. It is hoped that their partnership will reduce transport’s 93 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tonnes.

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AUSTRALIA. CLEAN ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION, MACQUARIE LEASING PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC, AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY

VW brushes off ACCC action as ‘no benefit’

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Original article by John Durie
The Australian – Page: ’32 : 2-Sep-16

Volkswagen has dismissed an action taken by the corporate watchdog as inconsequential. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission is seeking pecuniary penalties in relation to Volkswagen’s cheating in emissions testing. The company stated that the problem will soon be rectified through a voluntary recall. Necessary alterations will be made within 45 minutes, free of charge.

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VOLKSWAGEN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, CLAYTON UTZ