The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair says any freight company will take the deal of having new electric trucks subsidised by the Australian taxpayer for half the price.
“About 300 grand per truck; any kind of freight company will take that any day of the week,” he said.
“They distort the market by throwing $20 million at it.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced one-third of heavy vehicles operating out of Team Global Express’ Western Sydney facility will be electric.
Mr Albanese described the news as a ‘game changer’.
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Imagine if all cops car are changed into EVs lol
The boss is also a darling of the labor party….wanna buy a watch?
EV's are not green. They are powered by whatever is available probably coal, they contain batteries made using non renewable lithium sourced from some of the most dangerous mines in history, and when the battery service life has passed they become hazardous waste (assuming they haven't already self destructed in a toxic uncontrollable inferno , risking lives and property). Not green by any sensible definition.
Albo how about giving me half of an electric cat
These are only local delivery trucks not heavy trucks.
Havnt see anything more ridiculous in my entire life Using taxpayers money to prop up your EV’S
And yet people still vote for them
The Alice Springs charger will be destroyed quicker than a Captain Cook Statue
I don't think anyone would argue that small to light service vehicles might be practical in the inner city's but everywhere else they are a total waste of time and money and for a government to force people to buy them with taxpayer funded subsidies looks more like extortion than anything else.
I hope they factored in road repairs for ev fires. they burn for days.
And compensation for all the people who will get fired for being late for work due to ev road fires burning for days.
Or not able to get to work.
Oh Bowen you've done it again.
So much for free enterprise. There is definitely something wrong with the push to EVs.
Not if they want their freight delivered on time & not burnt in the spontaniously combustible truck.😂
COOL. Bigger Fires. I'll bring the Marshmallows. OR NOT.. That being said. Australia can't stop worldwide pollution. It will be brought here by the winds.
So, The ALP supports slave labor in the Congo for rare earth metals for ev batteries.
These minerals and metals are highly polluting when being refined.
Toxic to the water table causing irreparable damage.
What about the rest of the plastic in the cars that are really really bad for the environment.
Let's face it. This is a very clever money raking scam.
The hero pollies are very generous with taxpayers money virtue signalling fools
The stickers on the trucks should say "Powered by Coal, but paid for by You"
Albo's voice is almost as grating as Kelly Underwoods.
Interesting fact; most of Alice Springs and Tennant Creeks electricity, comes from Diesel and Gas generators! Get an EV in the red centre, and charge it at night, and you're buring much more Diesel, than if you were running a V8 Diesel vehicle! 🤣🤣🤣
yeah taking us down the drain imbecilic.
Albo & Bowen dumb & Dumber
All they do is piss our money up against wall!!
Oxygen thieves Labour Party
The problem with Labor is that all their schemes cost millions of dollars for no tangible benefits. It's all pie in the sky.
It wouldn't stand on its own merit so of course there has to be a sweetener at tax payers expense, if it was as good as they would have us believe there would be no need to subsidies, "simple"
I can't wait to see how these electric trucks handle going up the mountain ranges like the Toowoomba range and the great dividing range and across the red centre with 2 – 3 fully loaded trailers behind them, especially in the wet season.
Only place he is taking us is to hell in a hand basket!
It happens when stupid elects stupid……if it wasn't so sad it would be funny
3 ev buses caught fire in England this year alone all at same time burnig down 15 others parked along side them
Theirs a guy he put on his site these and all the others around the world at the moment
They just got handed 20 mil, of course they would, they could not give a rats !!
The CEO of the trucking company just happens to be ex-Aus Post CEO Christine Holgate. I guess it's gold watches all around since their truck fleet is now funded by taxpayers! I wonder how that company was selected out of all transport providers in the country for such a large taxpayer handout. Corruption at it's finest for Labor's mates. The parent company also owns ex-PWC government advisory firm bought for $1 after their recent scandal and fire sale. Share price up 6% following announcement too. No conflicts of interest to see here I'm sure.
They are designed to serve their new 15min cities. It is the department of climate change and not the department of infrastructure that is responsible for the charger rollout ??????
😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😂
All of them need to go out
60 Electric truck is a game changer ??? Yeah sure, with a $20 Million dollar government subsidy – and these are light trucks not heavy long distance trucks ! Just another Labor joke !
every EV charger has a diesel powered generator , They are taking us to oblivion
20m subsidy by labour.The so called trucks are what we call puddle jumpers…body trucks short haul and not b double or artics
But at least ALP more truthfull and don't deny Climate Boiling like LNP
Someone give them their hats.🤡🤡
The beta trotsky pushing the communist regime once again