MELBOURNE, Australia,
July 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As
the global climate crisis grows, experts in the automotive industry
are calling for governments to speed up the process of
transitioning to electric cars, says Total Auto Recyclers, experts
in car removal Melbourne-wide.
Hurrying along this process would make it easier for Australia to meet its emission reduction
targets as cars currently make up about 8% of Australia's emissions.
This push would involve a number of government measures,
including making public charging stations cheaper to use,
subsidising the cost of electric cars, and pledging to eventually
eliminate traditional vehicles by banning imports of petrol-powered
cars. All of these measures would work to get more motorists
driving and purchasing electric cars, which in turn would reduce
Australia's emissions output
significantly.
Experts from the automotive industry are not the only ones who
are calling for this change. Top economists from across the country
agree with the push to get electric cars on Australia's roads
sooner. Sixty-two of Australia's most distinguished economists were
polled on their opinion regarding this matter; 51 of those 62
economists - or 82% of the economists polled - revealed that
they were in support of boosting the number of electric cars on the
roads.
The 11 economists who were not in favour of this push stated
that it is simply because they would prefer to see a carbon tax
introduced in Australia. However,
the one thing all economists agreed on was that it is imperative
for the Australian government to start taking serious, drastic
action on carbon emissions, whatever the method. Some industry
experts have even suggested implementing a scheme similar to cash
for cars Melbourne that
residents could take advantage of if they are interested in
purchasing an electric car.
As compared to other countries around the world, Australia has been extremely slow to implement
measures that would increase electric vehicle uptake. Throughout
2020, only 0.7% of new car sales were electric vehicles. In
China, all-electric cars made up a
whopping 5% of new car sales; in the European Union, 3.5%.
Norway's government has pledged to
ban the sale of traditionally-powered cars by 2025; Ireland, Israel, Denmark and the
Netherlands have plans to implement the same laws by 2030;
and in California and Britain, by 2035.
With Australia having no
domestic car industry of its own, Total Auto Recyclers argue
that there should be nothing stopping the Australian government
from pushing for these measures to be implemented sooner. As there
are no industry policy concerns to keep in mind, Australia could theoretically get started on
the transition to an all-electric vehicle takeover immediately.
Auto recyclers, economists, and electric vehicle motorists
remain hopeful that the Australian government will begin to pay
greater concern to carbon emission reduction policies and take
action soon to get more motorists driving electric cars.
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