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Post by Phoebe on Jul 29, 2016 13:06:46 GMT 11
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Post by Feng on Jul 29, 2016 13:23:30 GMT 11
Looks like you need a subscription to read that article.
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Post by Phoebe on Jul 29, 2016 13:47:33 GMT 11
I managed to read it but when I went back I got that notice too. Wish I'd known that and I would have copied it onto a Word document and posted that. It's very interesting, it's about more than EVs in Western Sydney to be connected with new suburbs when new airport is built. It's about renewable energy in general - Frydenberg seems to have changed his tune which is very welcome  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 20:19:23 GMT 11
The government wants to fast-track electric cars and believes Western Sydney is the perfect region for their use.
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Push to fast track introduction of electric cars in Sydney’s west
DANIEL MEERS, National Political Reporter, The Daily Telegraph
July 28, 2016 10:00pm
Subscriber only
MALCOLM Turnbull’s new environment minister wants to fast-track the introduction of electric cars and believes Western Sydney is the perfect region for their use.
Josh Frydenberg has revealed government at all levels needs to look at how electric cars can play a “greater role” in modern cities. The Prime Minister has confirmed he wants almost 200,000 new homes in Western Sydney on the back of the Badgerys Creek Airport.
The government have a blueprint to use more renewable energy technologies as part of their creation of new cities across the nation.
The government have a blueprint to use more renewable energy technologies as part of their creation of new cities across the nation.
Mr Frydenberg said electric cars were becoming more mainstream across the globe.
“We need to look at how electric vehicles could play a greater role,’’ he said. “You could be driving around Western Sydney in one.”
The prices of electric vehicles have come down from six digits to around US$30,000.”
It is projected that 35 per cent of new cars purchased in the US by 2040 will be electric.
Mr Frydenberg, who was handed the new super portfolio of environment and energy in last week’s reshuffle, said new technologies are the key to future development.
Push for electric cars... Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg
“I think it’s inevitable that we will see greater use of renewables, which will modernise how we think,’’ he said.
“A building built before 2007 used 30 per cent more electricity than one built after 2010. The most efficient airconditioner in 2003 does not meet today’s minimum standards.
“That’s rapid change.”
Mr Frydenberg confirmed stabilising and reducing household electricity prices will be a priority of his tenure .
he Prime Minister has confirmed he wants almost 200,000 new homes in Western Sydney on the back of the Badgerys Creek Airport
He will host a COAG energy council meeting on August 19 to discuss strategies. The minister said the nation’s power prices were unstable because there wasn’t a co-ordinated approach to the issue.
“My job is to co-ordinate the state ministers and policies to get them as co-ordinated as possible,’’ Mr Frydenberg said.
It is the first time a federal Cabinet has merged the competing environment and energy portfolios, in a bid to streamline the transition from carbon-based energy to renewable energy.
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Post by EVangelist on Jul 29, 2016 23:53:54 GMT 11
The words are nice, but we need to see the action. Unfortunately, this is so often the source of the subsequent disillusionment and disappointment.
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Post by Phoebe on Jul 30, 2016 4:44:49 GMT 11
His words have changed. He was all 'coal, coal, coal' before. Changing his words is a promising start!
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Post by EVangelist on Jul 30, 2016 11:27:20 GMT 11
True, and that is certainly better than the alternative. Call me a cynic, but unfortunately I've seen too many times when politicians say what they think some people want to hear, and then proceed to do the exact opposite, or never actually had any real intention of doing what they said, it was just lip service. I am always prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt and hopefully be proved wrong. Time will tell in this case.
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Post by alison on Mar 2, 2017 11:59:52 GMT 11
(new to the site so sorry for the thread resurrection)
Have a look on PlugShare at what is (or more accurately isn't) available in South-Western Sydney. My nearest public charger is either Mittagong, Wollongong or Eastern Creek, all of which are right at the end of a Leaf's range especially as the battery ages.
I'm going to lobby our local council to get something into Picton to tempt drivers off the freeway onto the old Highway instead, to shop at local businesses. Mittagong have done this nicely at the visitor's info center, so at least the precedent is set.
Something in Campbelltown, Narellan, Liverpool would be great too, as well as stations that loads of country people drive to at the end of the lines like Macarthur and Leppington.
We will approach the Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living at Mount Annan to add our vote to them considering a charger.
I've never seen another EV out here sadly - closest I know of is one Outlander PHEV.
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Post by Feng on Mar 2, 2017 14:20:55 GMT 11
That would be a great place to plug in. I emailed the Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living a while ago and didn't get a reply so you might have to make phone calls or find a suitable contact before pitching the idea.
Went to Canberra earlier in the week in my girlfriend's diesel hatchback. Wished it could be done in my LEAF instead.
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Post by alison on Mar 7, 2017 15:07:05 GMT 11
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