Looks like we are finally working towards a fuel efficiency standard.
Will be interesting to see what the final details are, especially the year at which manufacturers have to hit zero emissions, and if it's going to be a linear change to get there or otherwise.
No doubt legacy parts of the industry will be busy lobbying for their own interests instead of the planet's.
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.
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.