Master Plumbers Association of NSW CEO Nathaniel Smith has raised concerns over Labor’s strict new-car emissions standards that are set to come into effect in 2025.
Mr Smith’s comments come as the federal government has announced new laws that will mandate stringent emission standards for petrol and diesel-powered vehicles.
With utes and four-wheel drives to be the hardest hit.
The regulations are set to be aligned with ‘Euro 6d’ standards.
Mr Smith said he would like to see more consultations done by the government with the trade industry before the new emission stands come into place.
“I would like to see some more consultation; obviously, they consult with motor groups and manufacturers, but we’re the end user,” he told Sky News host Paul Murray.
“And there seems to be a push towards hybrid and electric vehicles in the future, and that won’t meet the needs of people who work in the maintenance industry – it’s a very spontaneous industry.
“You could be doing a job here which is light work changing some washers, and then you’re fixing a leak … so that could happen in one day and if eventually, you’re using an electric vehicle, when are you going to charge it.”
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This makes no sense, i drove 640km round trip half on dirt then fix a power failure. If i had a electric car i would have be there over night to recharge the battery as can't charge when there is no power. Why not make a rule for the inner city limits and another for the rest of the country.
All marketing to sell more cars as usual …
been going on since the early 70s gas crisis which was fake too…..
Well say goodbye to productivity in my game.
Say NO to global socialism.
Vote One Nation.
I did my apprenticeship with Master Plumbers bloody good organisation highly recommended
All this nonsense comes from the WEF!
If you vote labor/liberal are wings of the same bird. We need a total revamp, vote Bosi.
You boys clearly like your beer and pies!
Every tradie that has a diesel truck, machine and Ute should go to Canberra and not go to work until they hear us telling them to be fired.
The previous Government had it mandated to come in in 2027. Cleaner air is always a good thing.
Here’s a thought for reducing carbon emissions ….If some tradies were keep to the speed limit and not drive as if they’re in the Bathurst 1000, that’ll help!
This story assumes that there are no tradies in all of Europe?
If the car industry is not prepared to plan 12 months ahead it is because of the government?
The statistics suggest there are a similar number of people killed by pollution from cars as in car collisions.
So how much pollution is good?
So glad we are rid of the crazy labour govt in nz they bought in a ute tax which meant farmers were paying huge amounts for new utes and once again there were no electric utes. These leftist govts are so damaging and their idealistic brain farts do nothing but damage the economy and peoples livelihoods. You know what to do next election.
Boo hoo. Folks complained when Euro3 was proposed, then Euro4, then Euro5, and of course seat belts and unleaded petrol were ‘government interference’.
Australia & NZ are dumping grounds for inferior dirty vehicles. Why be proud of that? You’re being used, and yet some of you seem to love it. Don’t you want better fuel efficiency and cleaner air? No, you say – I want my Ford Ranger Raptor for the groceries!
Depreciation of EVs will continue because EVs will get cheaper, Goldman Sachs amongst others predict price parity in 2025. As for repairs and insurance costs for EVs, they are high at the moment because of the lack of experienced repairers and lack of third party suppliers, with increasing numbers of EVs on the road repairs and insurance will get cheaper. The other thing that will drive repair costs down is decreasing battery costs and better safer batteries like the Zeekr golden battery and the CATL 4c LFP battery.
When EVs reach price parity in 2025 depreciation will level off and ICE cars will then start to depreciate faster because they offer less value.
EVs will offer better value than ICE because with onboard V2G (Renault 5) a car that costs the same as an ICE car but has less maintenance and running costs and it also comes with a huge battery that can be used as a house battery, a campsite/worksite 240v supply and it can earn the owner an income with energy arbitrage.
Many Chinese manufacturers are very capable of making quality cars, after all they already make all the European, Japanese and US models locally. The Chinese now are more capable than the US (except Tesla) and Europeans as far as quality, capacity and price goes.
Only legacy automakers are scaling down production of EVs because they cannot make a compelling offer at a competitive price. They have given up, Tesla and the Chinese automakers have won. Yes some Chinese manufacturers will be culled but that's just because there's too many manufacturers there.
It won’t matter if legacy auto protests and lobby to extend the ICE ban because with price parity in 2025 Tesla and the Chinese automakers will just keep increasing their market share 25-30% year on year and will only accelerate with price parity.
Hydrogen vehicles are not an option. Fuel costs are way too high and they will always cost 3-4X more than battery charging just due to the inherent inefficiencies. The charging infrastructure does not exist and costs at least 100X more than EV charging and every hydrogen car needs to use a bowser whereas 95% of EV charging is done at home. Hydrogen cars are more expensive, don’t perform as well and require much more maintenance. One hydrogen tanker can only carry enough fuel for 50 cars. Hydrogen leaks, it’s explosive, it’s difficult and expensive to store and transport. How do you or anybody for that matter still think this is a good idea? Green hydrogen will be in short supply for a long time and will be first used in the hard to abate sectors such as fertiliser, chemical feedstocks and shipping (see the Hydrogen Ladder), they will be very little left for cars.
Toyota and other OEMs are still selling cars but sales of EVs is increasing year on year, these increasing numbers of EVs will inevitably displace ICE sales. You can point to EV sales in the USA and Australia but they are just at the very beginning of the transition. Look to Europe and China.
You can knock Tesla but they are leading the way with innovative design and manufacturing technologies. Remember how impressed the Toyota engineers were when they tore down the model Y. Toyota and others are now talking about adopting the OTA updates, gigacasting and the unboxed production processes that Tesla is pioneering. Now Tesla is developing 48v electronics, LAN communications (instead of CANBUS) and steer by wire which all save time and money and produce a superior product.
This is an eye opening discussion of the auto manufacturing future. https://www.youtube.com/live/L8LN6Vnnyfo?si=uO9DaB0PXBQbYOR2
Euro 6 is adblue mahindra s11 comes out dual cab
I will still have my Dec 2006 built TD42 TI Patrol ute on the road after 2028 and they cannot do jack shit about it. These new rules are for the sale of NEW vehicles.
Bullshit story. Less power? Still more power than plumbers/tradies ever had. My current v6 Ute has more power than the old worked v8s. Smaller and less emissions does not mean underpowered……it means more efficient…ie;turbos, etc, not just cc’s. Zero interest in EV……but this is crocodile tears stuff….
I will not buy , or drive spontaneous firecrackers on wheels .
Australia's fucked
This contry isbecoming progressive alrigh progressively fucked bybthe goverment
Electric vehicles so popular they need make everything else unaffordable and outlawed just to get people to buy them 😂😂😂😂😂
the thought the loophole was adblue … new triton ute has it…
who voted for these people anyway … not me…
I’ve got a 6, no lack of power at all.
The clowns running the country – this dictatorship under labour. its going to kill this country. NOT everyone can afford a new EV not now, not ever… walk down the street and check the average age of cars. If this stupidity is mandated for all cars. No one gets to work. Great idea fools. Candles and horses are making a comeback.
Always late in a 2.8
Honestly the new utes coming in from overseas will have tradies having to get out and push these new beaut useless utes up a steep incline when the utes are loaded up and the power isnt enough to get them to the top.Bloody dumb idiot labour.Dont know how the real aussies live and work.Their party name Labour is an insult as they sit in their ivory towers and wouldnt have done a hard days yakka in their lives.Get a real job you idiots!
You idiots all voted for this, so suck it up
These are good standards. We have some of the dirtiest fuel in the developed world. BMW already runs Euro 6 in Australia. I don’t want labor in as much as you but this is good.
Single solution is we just dont work with these UN bodies and regulations and let out 30million strong workforce decide on consumer choices themselves instead of having energy initiatives destroy everything
One requirement I have is engine size of at least 4Ltr for work vehicle. The moden little rattle box wound out diesels we have atm are already rubbish I would hate to think what they come up with to meet the new standards
Albo is a retard. Just got voted cos people got sick of the libs. Try the Greens next time all of you who voted this retard for even more Euro brown nosing.
Can the next government reverse this stupid European decision ?
When are the entire Trade Union Groups going to wake up and realise that in these political times, their best interests are represented by the Liberal Party.
The rise of Woke-ism and the great resets being established under the United Nations and the World Economic Forum are rapidly destroying the free world nations.
Very few politicians now speak freely, most just "kowtowing" to the propaganda and subservient dogma of their scripts.