{"id":8187,"date":"2021-09-15T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:09","slug":"industry-leading-partnership-to-remove-electric-freight-vehicle-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/industry-leading-partnership-to-remove-electric-freight-vehicle-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry leading partnership to remove electric freight vehicle barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn industry leading partnership between the Australian Trucking Association and Electric Vehicle Council will work to remove barriers to electric freight vehicle uptake in Australia.\n\nAustralia has been falling behind in the global uptake of electric freight vehicles, lacking an electric trucks strategy and charging infrastructure. There is currently limited model availability and regulatory barriers.\n\n\u201cThe ATA and the EVC have a shared vision to accelerate the electrification of road transport, and we are thrilled to begin this important partnership,\u201d ATA CEO Michael Deegan said.\n\n\u201cTogether, we are leading the country to progress electric heavy vehicle uptake.\n\n\u201cThis is an important step forward in building Australia\u2019s sustainable heavy vehicle fleet.\u201d\n\nCEO of the Electric Vehicle Council, Behyad Jafari, said freight vehicles were an enormous piece of the electrification puzzle.\n\n\u201cAdvances in global electric freight vehicle technology are creating abundant opportunities for Australian trucking and the nation more broadly,\u201d Mr Jafari said\n\n\u201cThey can help us drive down emissions, increase efficiency, and make our air safer to breathe. But we can only capture those opportunities if we take a proactive approach to policy and that\u2019s why this partnership is so exciting.\u201d\n\nThe first initiative of the partnership will commence this week with a series of workshops that will bring together a high calibre of industry and productivity experts.\n\n\u201cThe workshops will outline the current challenges of electrification for the trucking industry, as well as identifying concrete objectives to move this issue forward,\u201d Mr Jafari said.\n\n\u201cOur workshop outcomes will also inform a policy paper that will outline the measures government must take to accelerate the electric freight market in Australia.\u201d\n\nMr Deegan said the first workshop will welcome truck manufacturers, and the second will bring together operators.\n\n\u201cThis will give us an industry level insight of what government needs to do to accelerate uptake in the three key areas of policy: regulatory, financial and charging,\u201d Mr Deegan said.\n\n\u201cWe know that charging infrastructure presents complex and broad challenges. For this reason, there is potential to hold a separate workshop on this next month.\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
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