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Does the National Electric Vehicle Strategy go the distance?

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The Future of Cars Under a Fuel Efficiency Standard

Australia's total annual emissions tend to be around 450 to 500 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. Fuel efficiency standards give them another really good incentive to bring those cars to the Australian market as opposed to overseas. In our modeling in 2021, we estimated that under a relatively ambitious standard, it would save consumers at least a couple hundred dollars a year just for the average driver.

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