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Electric car sales tripled last year. Here's what we can do to keep them growing

  • Written by Gail Broadbent, PhD candidate Faculty of Science UNSW, UNSW

A total of 6718 electric vehicles were sold in Australia in 2019. That’s three times as many as in 2018, but it’s still small beer. More than a million fossil-fueled light vehicles (including SUVs and utes) were sold in the same period.

The sales figures were published in the wake of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement...

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