One of the most well-known electric vehicle brands, Tesla, has resigned from Australia’s car lobby.
The company wrote to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, saying it found the group’s claims about proposed New Vehicle Emissions Standards to be “demonstrably false”.
Tesla claims the chamber is misrepresenting how standards work and potential impacts on vehicle prices.
Electric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari said Australia is only one of two countries in the developed world “not to have these standards”.
Mr Jafari joined Sky News Australia to discuss Tesla resigning from Australia’s car lobby.
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Rubbish! If Car Maker A has 10 models, 7 might be full electric, and 2 might be hybrid and 1 is a 200g/k Diesel. They might never sell a single full electric, but the Diesel is 95% of their sales, and thev5% is the 2 hybrids. There is no way this massuve carbon tax will be waived on the 1 Diesel model, unless the 7 full electric models are selling, in the majority. Its a total scam, a fraud and how the regime plans to make most people walk!
Sky news managing to completely uninform us of the topic
LOOK LIKE AMERICA IS TRYIN TO FINANCIALLY BULLI AUSTRALIA USING ITS BUISINESSES.
WELL WHAT IS AUSTRALIA GONNA DO
ITS GOING TO TURN TO ITS BIGGEST TRADING PARTNER AND SAY
SCREW YOU AMERICA
SCREW YOUR ETHICS
SCREW YOUR PEOPLE
SCREW YOUR COMPANIES
AND GET STUFFED
They want to tax cars to oblivion. Bottom line
Even Elon Musk can't afford Australian standards. The Bowen/Albanese curse continues on. Perfect
So given how few models Ford, for example, have here and their top seller by a big margin is their Diesel Ute how are they going to meet these standards?
The guy basically doesn't want to state the flipping obvious. Total filthy slimy maggot.
We will get flooded by cheap chinese electric crap vehicles that will be catching on fire all over the place keep your older utte/4wd and just engine swap it much cheaper than a new vehicle isnt it.
Well no one except yuppies want a transgendered car. The average Aussie wants a petrol or diesel car which is far superior and practical.
Sorry I have to say this guys has no idea, car companies can make more cars available but if people keep buying what they like look at top ten, then the car companies will be hit with big fines and will have to pass them on. I have heard this electric council CEO speak before and seems unwilling to talk about or understand the lifecycle emissions that producing EVs makes. EVs with current battery technology produce millions of tonnes of CO2 each year moving to EVs is not the answer, we need better battery technology before this happens.
Let me get this straight. Australia doesn’t have a standards board but there are other countries they can look at and they still can’t get that right. Is this what it boils down to?
Tezzla?
The liebor government is so very incompetent and out of their depth in everything😡 All they are doing is screwing over the Australian people at every turn🤬
Everything is getting more and more expensive under yellbasleazy😤
"Toyota exceed their target and can sell credits" … that just has BS written all over it.
You can all go f yourselves. Control freak quasi fascists.
The elephant in the room is PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE for all car makers – fossil fuels or electric.
Ponzi scheme !!
Shifting the deck chairs on the titanic !!
You get an efficient car and I get a bigger more polluting car and this balances everything out. Companies with efficient cars can sell credits to companies with polluting cars and this balances everything out. So has anything actually changed
this idiot claiming they don't know how prices will be affected is lying. all they have to do is run the numbers on what sold last year and know how prices will be affected. anyone who says any different is so stupid they should not be commenting.
We are right hand drive so many of these vehicles are only manufactured in left hand drive and as our market is so small it would not be economically feasible to reengineer them
And that's not all, for the first 1000 customers, a free fire extinguisher and smoke alarm, plus, wait for it, an autographed photograph of Chris Bowen cuddling a Kangaroo Island koala, all free with every EV sold before Year Zero! Terms and conditions apply.
Say what? In on sentence he says it is completely unknown then it is not true? So is it completely unknown or not?
When a electric car manufacturer sais the government is lying about CO2 emissions you know there full of it.
Sky doesn't like Telsa because Tesla doesn't do paid adverts on the channels or papers.
EV EV baby🦭.