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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Peak motorist body requests clarity on Albanese government’s proposed clean car policy

General view of traffic on the Warringah freeway in Sydney
The Albanese government’s preferred model for a national vehicle efficiency standard is expected to cut 369m tonnes of CO2 by 2050. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The nation’s peak motorist organisation has called on the Albanese government to release in full the modelling underpinning its proposed new laws aimed at removing the worst polluting cars from Australian roads and hastening the uptake of cleaner vehicles.

The Australian Automobile Association (AAA), in its submission responding to the government’s proposed national vehicle efficiency standard (NVES), reiterated it has long supported such a scheme. But it said Labor should “be more transparent” about how it arrived at the calculations supporting its preferred, more ambitious targets.

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