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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.

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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: 2) by Acabatag on Monday April 08 2019, @04:30AM

    by Acabatag (2885) on Monday April 08 2019, @04:30AM (#826073)

    The batteries are largely recycled now and

    Let's wait and see how that scales up. It's a small scale thing at present. When a large percentage of vehicles have huge masses of battery that need recycling, it might not be a clean-n-easy deal.

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