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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Peter Hannam

Labor’s ‘quite ambitious’ electric vehicle strategy expected to be released this week

Cars lined up in a car park with people looking inside them
Electric vehicles at the Fully Charged Live expo in Sydney in March. Climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, is expected to soon announce an EV policy for Australia. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Australia’s long-awaited national electric vehicle strategy is expected to be released this week, finally detailing the introduction of pollution standards that should accelerate the uptake of electric cars.

Industry sources say the federal climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, will release the strategy ahead of an event in western Sydney on Wednesday.

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