{"id":5428,"date":"2019-01-12T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T04:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/dev\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:12","slug":"nsw-takes-an-important-step-toward-cleaning-the-air-of-vehicle-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/nsw-takes-an-important-step-toward-cleaning-the-air-of-vehicle-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW takes an important step toward cleaning the air of vehicle pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5428\" class=\"elementor elementor-5428\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ff4e19 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ff4e19\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78e90fb\" data-id=\"78e90fb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea06fba elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ea06fba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12891\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7229048a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7229048a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-211fe579\" data-id=\"211fe579\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-771f3da6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"771f3da6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe New South Wales Government\u2019s new electric vehicle policy is an important step along the path to cleaning the state\u2019s air of vehicle pollution, according to the Electric Vehicle Council.\n\nThe new policy, announced today by NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance, includes $5 million dedicated to delivering new charging infrastructure and a 10 per cent target for electric vehicles in the NSW Government\u2019s passenger vehicle fleet by 2020\/21.\n\nElectric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari said the new policy was welcome.\n\n\u201cThe policy announced today by the NSW Government is desperately needed,\u201d Mr Jafari said.\n\n\u201cA mass switch to electric vehicles would improve the lives of every citizen and make New South Wales a better state.\n\n\u201cCost of living pressure would ease if we broke our dependence on imported petrol. Carbon emissions would drop. And if the smoke and noise of combustion engines was phased out, our cities would become healthy and beautiful places to live.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s why the electric vehicle industry welcomes this policy as an important first step. It is an affirmation from the state government that a mass move toward electric vehicles is coming and we\u2019re getting on with the job of making sure it happens here sooner rather than later.\n\n\u201cPlans like the one outlined today are an important nudge toward dislodging the boulder from the top of the mountain.\n\n\u201cOnce momentum swings in behind electric vehicles, the shift will come quickly and investment will flow.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s no sugar coating reality: Australia is the world\u2019s laggard when it comes to electric vehicle take up. And that\u2019s simply not good enough when you\u2019re talking about a smart state like New South Wales. We can do much better and we are eager to continue working with the NSW Government to deliver progress.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New South Wales Government\u2019s new electric vehicle policy is an important step along the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13465,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions\/13465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}