Transition to Electric Vehicles

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Summary

Many European and Scandinavian countries are well advanced in the planning for, and uptake of electric vehicles especially passenger cars as a strategy to reduce carbon emissions. Australia is a relative laggard, but there are signs things are changing, with several makes of passenger car now available and public charging infrastructure slowly expanding. Governments at state and federal level are beginning to address the policy and financial aspects of transitioning away from fossil fuel powered vehicles.

Engineers nail climate risk

Create: 11/26/2019 - 09:41

A workshop of 120 engineers voted at the World Engineers Conference 2019 (WEC 2019) in Melbourne last week (Nov 20 - Nov 22) that there is a climate emergency.

The risk of dangerous climate change of 1 in 5, is almost one hundred thousand times higher than an acceptable engineering risk.

The possible consequences of climate change include extreme weather, severe water shortages, social breakdown and ecosystem collapse.

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