{"id":8075,"date":"2021-08-26T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:09","slug":"marshall-gov-should-slow-down-on-ev-announcements-ensure-it-gets-the-right-holistic-policy-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/marshall-gov-should-slow-down-on-ev-announcements-ensure-it-gets-the-right-holistic-policy-for-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Gov should slow down on EV announcements, ensure it gets the right holistic policy for SA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8075\" class=\"elementor elementor-8075\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8670db8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8670db8\" 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-670844e\" data-id=\"670844e\" 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-21cf062 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"21cf062\" 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\/9-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12894\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9.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-13029814 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13029814\" 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-1615fe39\" data-id=\"1615fe39\" 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-6fe943dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fe943dd\" 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 (EVC) is urging the South Australian Government to slow down and deliver a single coherent and complementary policy on the transition to electric vehicles to avoid confusion and wasted effort.\n\nToday the SA Treasurer, Rob Lucas, announced a plan to offer subsides to motorists who purchase new electric cars, while delaying the introduction of a special road user charge (RUC) on EVs by five years.\n\nEVC chief executive Behyad Jafari said while there were plenty of positive signals in the announcement today, the SA Government would be better served to think holistically about its EV strategy.\n\n&#8220;We&#8217;re grateful the SA Government has listened to experts and delayed the introduction of a special road user charge for EVs from coming into effect next year. That would have been disastrous for the transition to zero-emission vehicles in the state,&#8221; Mr Jafari said.\n\n&#8220;However, the retention of the policy still sends a very confusing signal to the market. There is nothing wrong with road user charges per se, but in the current form the SA policy singles out drivers who have elected to do the responsible thing by society by choosing a zero-emission car.\n\n&#8220;The SA Government has very sensibly been consulting on this issue and has invited submissions from stakeholders across the industry. Instead of moving ahead with a quick plan now, it would be preferable to slow down, examine the evidence presented, and develop a holistic plan.\n\n&#8220;The holistic plan laid out by the NSW Government, for example, will set that state up to benefit from the myriad benefits of a transition to EVs \u2013 cleaner air to breathe, reduced dependence on foreign oil, and lower carbon emissions. NSW will also attract the world&#8217;s best, and most affordable, electric cars for sale in the state.\n\n&#8220;South Australia can and should enjoy these same benefits. But to achieve this the SA Government should tap the brakes and really consider the evidence before announcing more elements of its EV approach.&#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 (EVC) is urging the South Australian Government to slow down and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12894,"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-8075","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\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13063,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/13063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}