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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Electric cars are not the only fix for green transport

EVs would need to make up 73 per cent of all new cars sold by 2030 to meet Australia's climate goals (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia can't rely entirely on electric vehicles to reduce transport emissions to safe levels and governments must pursue other ways to cut pollution from the sector.

Monash University's Climateworks Centre made the finding in modelling released on Tuesday that showed electric vehicles, both big and small, would need to make up 73 per cent of all new vehicles sold by 2030 to meet Australia's climate goals.

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