An Australian New Vehicle Efficiency Standard—Frequently asked question

Here's hoping that they don't create something like the US, with a perverse incentive towards selling more light commercial vehicles instead of regular cars. I'd rather not end up with even more people running increasingly large dual cab utes as daily drivers.

About time this was done. We’re a small market but we deserve access to better vehicles.

I’d love additional incentives to promote small cars, as is done very successfully in Japan with kei cars.

But most of all I’d love better focus on transit and active transport to reduce the need for most car trips in the first place.

I'm concerned about what happens to my 20 year old landcruiser in the next 5 years.

While the sentiment is good, the excecution is typical terrible, enabling manufacturers to do very little to address the problem while looking like they are doing a lot. Typical lazy "industry designed" guidelines.

Seems to be a lukewarm reception of this on Lemmy. I wonder if this is representative of the rest of Aus? Strange, emission standards in line with the rest of the world is a no brainer to me. Don't thousands of Australians die each year related to poor emission standards? Yes old cars will be impacted eventually, but we need to start somewhere.