Australian Government climate target will require half of all new cars sold to be EVs by 2035

The Australian automotive industry has highlighted the challenges involved in meeting the federal government’s new 2035 climate change target, which will require half of all new cars sold to be electric vehicles (EVs) within the next decade.

The Climate Change Authority’s ‘2035 Targets Advice’ has called for a CO2 emissions reduction of between 62 and 70 per cent from 2005 levels over the next 10 years.

To meet the lower end of that ambitious reduction range, more than 20 times the number of electric passenger vehicles will need to be on the road than there are today – more than five million EVs that would otherwise have been petrol and diesel vehicles.

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The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI),