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Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together

  • Written by: Jake Whitehead, E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Australia has no clear strategy to decarbonise transport. That’s a problem, because without a plan, our take-up of clean technologies like electric cars, trucks and buses is slow. It’s stopping us from meeting our climate commitments. And it leaves us paying exorbitant prices for imported oil at the fuel pump, as well as in...

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