Comments on: Electric Vehicles: What Will Happen With The Fuel Taxes? https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/electric-vehicles-what-will-happen-with-the-fuel-taxes/ News and views about cars in Australia Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.5 By: Barry Elfverson https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/electric-vehicles-what-will-happen-with-the-fuel-taxes/#comment-7115 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:09:48 +0000 http://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/?p=8796#comment-7115 It is interesting to read all the pros and cons of converting to electric cars, but nowhere do I ever see any comments regarding the costs associated with recharging these vehicles. If these vehicles cover say 400km per recharge and the average annual driving is 15-20,000km, then that e

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By: steve https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/electric-vehicles-what-will-happen-with-the-fuel-taxes/#comment-7105 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 01:19:53 +0000 http://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/?p=8796#comment-7105 Re your comments Gordon – do some more recent reading from Nissan, Audi, Jag and VW sites. Rapid charging to 80% is possible within an hour. Range varies greatly – up to over 400 klm and will only increase with battery technology. Our government will not want to see high taxes disappear with petrol cars, but the rest of the world will drag us along as well. 5 years will see the increase in EV market share and home charging will also increase, so just as coal fired power is being replaced via renewables, so to will EVs replace petrol. And as with all technologies, the uptake and progress is nearly always under estimated.

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By: Jason https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/electric-vehicles-what-will-happen-with-the-fuel-taxes/#comment-7104 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:39:25 +0000 http://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/?p=8796#comment-7104 Please put this into perspective. Currently there are about 8,000 pure electric vehicles registered in Australia. We purchase about 1 million vehicles per year. This is akin to scare mongering at this early stage, and be prepared as world wide there is a massive transition to electric vehicles.
Fuel tax is used for roads, but other taxes are used for health. Just changing to emission free vehicles is estimated to improve health, so money spent on health will not be as required and can be diverted to roads. That’s a long way in the future because 8,000 electric vehicles is not going to make much of a difference, it is when 800,000 vehicles are electric that we will see the difference.
Electricity can 100% be produced in Australia, oil is sourced (and importantly regulated) from overseas. All those wars we have spent $bil’s on over the past couple decades have all been fought to secure our oil supply. The Middle East will most likely always be a conflicted region, but take away our need for their oil and you take away our need to be part of that conflict. Savings on military budget can be used for roads.
Government should be about working out what’s better, what the trends are, and making decisions to help Australia get those solutions. Unfortunately it seems to be about in fighting and lining their own pockets. Short sighted politicians caused loss of our car manufacturing, was that a good outcome? Now short sighted politics is trying to scare monger the delay in renewables every and electric cars. I think history will look back at this society and judge it very selfish, short sighted and in a poor light.
Oh, by the way, one trend happening right now is the move to home generated (and stored) power. Have fun with that when the government taxes it because they are losing revenue from the sales of electricity and gas. Disruptive technology will cause all sorts of changes, we are currently right in the middle of such a change, how we handle it to the betterment of society is up to us.

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By: David Williams https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/electric-vehicles-what-will-happen-with-the-fuel-taxes/#comment-7103 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:53:17 +0000 http://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/?p=8796#comment-7103 Why tax the electricity? Just increase the Road Tax/Rego for the electric vehicle to make up the missing fuel excise & GST.

Regards
David

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