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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Tory Shepherd

Coalition may rethink rules that push car-makers to create cheaper EVs and hybrids for Australians

Electric vehicle being charged
Shadow transport minister Bridget McKenzie says Labor’s vehicle emission standard, which was designed to encourage carmakers to release more green vehicles in Australia, ‘discriminates unfairly against everyday Australians’. Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

Australia’s love-hate relationship with fuel-guzzling utes and SUVs is now a looming election issue, after the Coalition indicated it may rethink Labor’s vehicle emission standard.

On Tuesday the shadow transport minister, Bridget McKenzie, called Labor’s vehicle emission standard “poorly designed” and said the Coalition will have “more to say” about it when the opposition releases its own transport policy before the election.

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