Looks like we are finally working towards a fuel efficiency standard.
Will be interesting to see what the final details are, especially the year at which manufacturers have to hit zero emissions, and if it’s going to be a linear change to get there or otherwise.
No doubt legacy parts of the industry will be busy lobbying for their own interests instead of the planet’s.
Here’s hoping that they don’t create something like the US, with a perverse incentive towards selling more light commercial vehicles instead of regular cars. I’d rather not end up with even more people running increasingly large dual cab utes as daily drivers.
About time this was done. We’re a small market but we deserve access to better vehicles.
I’d love additional incentives to promote small cars, as is done very successfully in Japan with kei cars.
But most of all I’d love better focus on transit and active transport to reduce the need for most car trips in the first place.
While the sentiment is good, the excecution is typical terrible, enabling manufacturers to do very little to address the problem while looking like they are doing a lot. Typical lazy “industry designed” guidelines.
Seems to be a lukewarm reception of this on Lemmy. I wonder if this is representative of the rest of Aus? Strange, emission standards in line with the rest of the world is a no brainer to me. Don’t thousands of Australians die each year related to poor emission standards? Yes old cars will be impacted eventually, but we need to start somewhere.
I very much doubt the fediverse is in anyway representative of mainstream Australia.
Yes the road toll from emissions is thought to be higher than from crashes. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/4498161/Expert-Position-Statement_Vehicle-emissions_FINAL.pdf
Not sure if that message resonates with the average land cruiser driver though.
I’m concerned about what happens to my 20 year old landcruiser in the next 5 years.
From the linked page:
Will a New Vehicle Efficiency Standard impact my existing car?
No.
I don’t mean from this bill, just in general they’re going to push old vehicles out of the market eventually
They certainly need to be banned from urban areas.
On the list of things i don’t want within a few km of my kids, diesel fumes are next on the list after pedos and just above organised religion.
