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Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars

posted by martyb on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gotta-ban-them-all dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

An Australian Parliamentary committee has recommended that petrol and diesel cars be phased out in favour of electric vehicles in a report. This is not yet law but shows that the government is serious about reducing the dependency Australia has on oil and reducing greenhouse emissions.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:10AM (#825637)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Australia#Coal-fired_power [wikipedia.org]

            Historically it's not looking good for reducing pollution with ~90% of electricity *production* from fossil fuels, although electric cars would move emissions outside city centers:

    The main source of Australia's electricity generation is coal. In 2003, coal-fired plants produced 58.4% of the total capacity, followed by hydropower (19.1%, of which 17% is pumped storage), natural gas (13.5%), liquid/gas fossil fuel-switching plants (5.4%), oil products (2.9%), wind power (0.4%), biomass (0.2%) and solar (0.1%). In 2003, coal-fired power plants generated 77.2% of the country's total electricity production, followed by natural gas (13.8%), hydropower (7.0%), oil (1.0%), biomass (0.6%) and solar and wind combined (0.3%)

    Aus has started on renewables:

    In 2014, Australia's wind farms produced over 30% of the country's clean energy. Wind power supplied 4.2% of Australia's total electricity during the year. ...

    ... In 2014/15, PV accounted for 2.4% of Australia's electrical energy production. The installed PV capacity in Australia has increased 10-fold between 2009 and 2011, and quadrupled between 2011 and 2016.

    At least they have lots of desert to cover with photovoltaics. According to this, there is only one factory in Aus making PV cells, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaics_companies [wikipedia.org] It's a branch of BP Solar. If they are serious about changing to electric cars, I suggest the gov't start by jumpstarting the local solar cell industry, else they will be sending a lot of money out of the country.

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