Given location and area, Australia has an unlimited capacity in sustainable electricity, yet the country lags behind the rest of the world in electric vehicle purchase. EV new vehicles sales in Australia in 2020 were 0.6%. In Norway this number is 54%, with the aim to be 100% by 2025. Why is this the case and what’s being done to change it? To find out some answers we are talking today to Ben Warren, National Manager of Electrification, Nissan Australia, and Gail Broadbent, a PhD candidate from the. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW. Today’s interview is hosted by Professor Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia.

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