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A $40 million program will cut the price of electric vehicle loans for some buyers in a new national scheme.

For decades, air conditioners, lights, TVs and fridges would be cut off multiple times a week – sometimes multiple times a day – in the tiny town of Jabiru. Now industry experts want the micro-grid replicated across Australia.

Automakers will be encouraged to bring more electric and low-emission vehicles to Australia after the government committed to placing a limit on car pollution.

Policy contains no new incentives to buy EVs but does aim to improve charging infrastructure

It is unusual for an industry to repeatedly ask to be regulated by the government — but that has been the case for car manufacturers for years. Now the motor industry says its latest figures show room for the government to be "ambitious" as it considers imposing a CO2 standard.

Chris Bowen is expected to introduce an EV and vehicle fuel efficiency standards policy this week

Australia is poised to become a green energy superpower, hosting about 40 per cent of globally announced new hydrogen projects, worth up to $300 billion.

Exclusive: funding requests, uncertain responsibilities and a failure to secure long-term contracts has critics asking if the fossil fuel-based venture is still a good deal

Deal between Labor government and Greens requires total emissions from big industrial sites to come down, not just be offset