It might’ve saved Australians $5.9 billion in motoring prices, seen a a lot wider number of electrical autos (EV) in our short-supplied automobile market, and presumably left us with cheaper petrol, the Australia Institute’s Richie Merzian says.

But Australia stays one of many solely nations within the OECD with out gasoline effectivity requirements, one thing Merzian — the local weather and vitality program director on the assume tank — says has put our nationwide safety in jeopardy.

Opposition minister for small enterprise Sussan Ley was left red-faced this week after incorrectly stating “nobody on the earth is making an electrical ute”, persevering with that “even when they had been, it will be unaffordable”.