Australia's electric car strategy achieving "bare minimum": expert


By MattGossBai Xu
  • World
  • Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020

CANBERRA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Experts have described the Australian government's electric car strategy as the "bare minimum."

Richie Merzian, the climate and energy director at think tank The Australia Institute, said that the long-awaited "Future Fuels Strategy", which was initially due to be released in 2019, fails to incentivize purchasing electric vehicles.

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