{"id":8028,"date":"2021-08-12T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:09","slug":"boost-to-australias-fast-charging-network-should-help-energise-ev-take-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/boost-to-australias-fast-charging-network-should-help-energise-ev-take-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost to Australia&#8217;s fast charging network should help energise EV take up"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8028\" class=\"elementor elementor-8028\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0c77d1b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0c77d1b\" 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-87b072f\" data-id=\"87b072f\" 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-2d8867d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2d8867d\" 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\/2-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12887\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2.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-722f0c1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"722f0c1\" 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-3f5875c9\" data-id=\"3f5875c9\" 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-6c62a0df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c62a0df\" 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 Electric Vehicle Council has welcomed a $24.55 million commitment announced today by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to expand Australia\u2019s fast charging network for electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThe funding will be distributed to five charging infrastructure companies \u2013&nbsp;Evie Networks, Ampol, Engie, Chargefox, and Electric Highways Tasmania. The companies will build\n\n127 fast-charging stations in NSW, 106 in Victoria, 86 in Queensland, 33 in WA, 29 is SA, 10 in Tasmania, nine in the ACT and three in the Northern Territory.\n\nElectric Vehicle Council chief executive Behyad Jafari said the charging infrastructure announcement was important on a number of levels.\n\n&#8220;Obviously these new fast charging stations will provide a practical benefit to EV drivers, but beyond that they will also have a powerful effect on consumer sentiment,&#8221; Mr Jafari said.\n\n&#8220;We know Australians are very interested in buying electric cars, but there is hesitancy about whether or not the government will back them with infrastructure and supportive regulation.\n\n&#8220;The highly visible construction of hundreds of new fast charging stations across the country should send a powerful message to consumers about the viability and practicality of making the switch to a zero-emission vehicle.\n\n&#8220;Mass electric vehicle uptake is strongly in Australia&#8217;s national interest, given it will clean the air of toxic pollutants, reduce our carbon emissions, and relive our dependence on foreign oil imports.\n\n&#8220;If the federal government wants to seize the benefits of accelerating EV uptake, it should support this fast charging initiatives through consumer incentives and introducing long-overdue fuel emission standards, akin to those enforced in the US and the EU.&#8221;\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 Electric Vehicle Council has welcomed a $24.55 million commitment announced today by the Australian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12887,"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-8028","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\/8028","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=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13075,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/13075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}